The film playing during the cinema scene was Mr.The real Joe Liebgott was a barber by trade, and he actually did reportedly help shave the men's hair into mohawks for the jump. Private Joseph Liebgott is shown shaving another soldier's head in the beginning scene.This is the first American screen credit for Michael Fassbender, who played Private Burton Christenson.Aired two days before the 9/11 attacks.Schwimmer joked that his only friend on set was Simon Pegg - who played Sobel's right hand man 1st Sergeant William Evans. David Schwimmer, who played Captain Herbert Sobel was isolated from most of the other cast members during boot camp, to help generate a feeling of resentment among the men.You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven for many months.Īnd let us all beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking." "Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force: The story flashes back two years earlier. Later, while awaiting further announcements, 2nd Lieutenant Lewis Nixon and 1st Lieutenant Richard Winters chat and reminisce about their time together with Easy Company and their former commanding officer, Captain Herbert Sobel. Their commanding officer, 1st Lieutenant Thomas Meehan III, announces that their jump would be delayed due to unfavorable weather, much to the men's dismay. The opening scene starts at Upottery Airfield on June 5, 1944, with large masses of paratroopers from Easy Company making final preparations before their long-awaited jump at Normandy, France. Band of Brothers, official website Synopsis Winters (Damian Lewis), a junior officer who's earned the respect and admiration of the company. As training progresses, a rivalry flares between Sobel, whom the men despise, and Lt. go from green civilians to some of the Army's most elite soldiers. Sobel (David Schwimmer), members of the newly formed Easy Co. Ambrose’s acclaimed book of the same name.In Toccoa, Ga., 1942, a disparate group of young men begins voluntary training to become members of one of America's newest military regiments - the paratroopers. As an elite rifle company parachuting into Normandy early on D-Day morning, participants in the Battle of the Bulge, and witness to the horrors of war, the men of Easy knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear – and became the stuff of legend. Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men from paratrooper training in Georgia through the end of the war.
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