While the show is centered around Easy Company, it also shows viewers how the Allies, as a whole, came together making a united effort, and offered a united front to bring the Nazi regime and Hitler’s plans and propaganda to an end, for the greater good.
In a division where each soldier was not only mindful of their own lives but also responsible for their comrades' lives, Band Of Brothers depicts how Easy Company battled together and pulled through together as a unit despite the adversities they faced. The show is a visceral and emotional rendition and watching experience, and although it’s a dramatized account of Easy Company and the war, it’s your front-row seat to the action, bravery, sacrifices, horrors, and atrocities of WWII.īand Of Brothers isn’t just a visually appealing take on WWII, although it has some remarkable cinematography it’s also a complete, vivid & factual account of how Easy Company and their fellow companies coped with the horrific conditions of war.įrom their physical strains and obstacles and the psychological and mental aspects of battling the ruthless Germans in deadly encounters that could have cost them their lives, the show depicts how they, as a unit, coped with the severe conditions they were thrown into. 'Buck' Compton, whose military heroics were chronicled in the 2001 HBO miniseries 'Band of Brothers,' died Saturday at his daughters home in Burlington, Wash., after suffering a heart attack in January, the Los Angeles Times reports. HBO’s take on Easy Company’s story is based on Stephen E. In 1947 he joined the Air Force Reserve, serving in the Office of Special Investigations and eventually Judge Advocate General Corps before retiring as a lieutenant colonel in 1970.Based on actual events, Band Of Brothers reflects on the heroics and the long and grueling journey Easy Company had while fighting for the Allies against the Germans.įrom freeing several townships from Nazi occupation to the deadly trenches that were under siege by German mortars, machine guns, and the fields that saw battle proceed with tanks, bombs, and mines and all the arduous moments they faced on their journey of liberating Europe from German control, Band Of Brothers provides a first-hand account of just how brave, diligent, tactful and heroic the members of Easy Company were during the greatest battle of the 20th century, WWII. In real life, while I was hollering for the medic, trying to figure out what to do, I remember two distinct thoughts: How are we going to help the wounded guys?…Maybe this is the time the Germans are really going to get us all.”
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Compton wrote in his autobiography, “…although I was affected by the horrors of Bastogne, I do not believe I was clinically shell shocked, as the series portrays me. In January 1945, Compton left Easy Company for another assignment.Īccording to Band of Brothers, though ostensibly evacuated for severe trench foot, his transfer was due in part to combat fatigue, culminating when Compton witnessed two of his closest friends, Joe Toye and William Guarnere, being badly maimed by artillery fire resulting in each losing a leg.
After a partial recovery, he returned to Easy Company in time for the siege in the frozen Ardennes that became known as the Battle of the Bulge. Compton dejó la Compañía Easy por otra asignación. The bullet traveled sideways, through one side of the buttocks and out the other side. Later in 1944, Compton was shot through the buttocks while participating in Operation Market Garden, the Allies’ ill-fated attempt to seize a number of bridges in the Netherlands and cross the Rhine River into Germany. During the battle, he threw a grenade, that was said to have no arc, and hit the German soldier on the back of the helmet. Episode two (“Day of Days”) of the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers depicts this assault. Compton was awarded the Silver Star for his action in disabling the guns. Lynn Davis 'Buck' Compton fue un juez del Tribunal de apelación del Estado de California, que se hizo famoso por ser el fiscal que acusó a Sirhan Sirhan en el juicio de asesinato de Robert F. During the company’s action at Brécourt Manor, Compton and others, under the leadership of Lieutenant Richard Winters, assaulted a German battery of four 105 mm howitzers firing on Utah Beach, disabling the guns and routing the enemy. In December 1943, Lynn Compton joined the Army and was assigned to E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment in the 101st Airborne Division prior to Operation Overlord.
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