During training, a rivalry blazes up between Lt Sobel and Lt Winters, a junior officer who has earned the respect of the men in the US 101st Airborne Division's `Easy' E Company.
Thousands of paratroopers cross the English Channel to France on D-Day. Lt Winters leads an attack on a fortified German artillery position, and one of his men falls in battle.
The uncomfortable truth rings true for Easy Company as they battle on against the Germans, their injuries and their own fears.
A fresh group of paratroopers join Easy Company shortly before they drop into German-occupied Holland. They are forced to retreat when met by a superior force, and the Allied plan to enter Germany through Holland before Christmas fails.
Winters is promoted to Battalion Executive Officer after leading a dangerous mission on a Dutch dike, and an ill-equipped Easy Company race to help hold the Allied line in the Ardennes forest.
It's the dead of winter, and Easy Company find themselves in the Belgian forest attempting to fend-off frostbite, hunger and battle fatigue.
Tom Hardy
Pfc. John Janovec
Damian Lewis
Maj. Richard D. Winters
Ron Livingston
Capt. Lewis Nixon
Rick Gomez
Sgt. George Luz
Scott Grimes
T Sgt. Donald Malarkey