![]() The Easy Company men all felt relieved of the sudden departure, not only because Sobels was very hard on them and they had to do hard work but also because they feared for their lives if they Commanded on the field of battle. Sobel rose in rank and became a captain, but just before the “big pirouette” on D-Day on Tuesday, June 6, 1944, his company was withdrawn and sent in spite of himself to a regiment in England where doctors, surgeons, chaplains, sappers… are trained to reinforce the airborne troops and also to replace the voids that would be created after the shock of the D-Day within the different units. Herbert Sobel had a practical mind, devoted to the army and more precisely to education, but did not really excel in the field, and his superiors quickly realized it. The Easy Company is sent to England some time before the Normandy landing, in order to pursue the training of the military forces destined for the invasion as part of “Operation Overlord” in Europe. The training songs of the soldiers of the Easy had the same melody as in the film but not exactly the same words. The training was for some soldiers harder than the fight (Sobel had them walk about 192 km between Toccoa and Atlanta).ĭuring the barbed-wire training, the soldiers had to crawl to the ground and the machine gunners were firing live bullets over their heads, so they had to be very careful not to risk being killed before they even met A German soldier on a battlefield in Europe. Band of Brothers Episode 1 The true story of the men of Easy Company, 506th PIR, 101st AirborneĮpisode 1 – Episode 2 – Episode 3 – Episode 4 – Episode 5 – Episode 6 – Episode 7 – Episode 8 – Episode 9 – Episode 10īetween 19, the Easy Company men of the 506th Airborne Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division trained on the grounds of Toccoa in Georgia under the command of First Lieutenant Herbert Sobel. ![]()
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