i marked “KIA” on the chests of those who’d been killed in action and “SWA” on the chest of those who’d been seriously wounded in action.>

- Sgt. Don Malarkey

Men of Easy Company

Private First Class, David Kenyon Webster

teaandbbc:

Band of Brothers Character Request: Requested by Anonymous: Buck Compton:

Some say Buck changed after he was shot in Holland, maybe. But I know something happened to him when he saw Toye and Guarnere. On the report it said Compton was being taken off the line due to a bad case of trench foot. It didn't say anything about him losing his friends... I guess he just couldn't take seeing his friends all torn up like that. Nobody thought less of him for it. 

Fiction: Sgt. Fransworth of ABLE Company, 501st PIR, delievering a message to Winters, Band of Brothers “Carentan”.

Reality: A trooper in the 505th PIR riding the horse he “found” down Cape Wool Street in Sainte-Mère-Église, June 1944

“Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.”

we few, we band of brothers

operationkino:

Old soldiers never die; they simply fade away.

History is full of wars that were fought for a hundred different reasons. But this war - our war. I have to believe that it’s all worthwhile. 

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