Band of Brothers: Part eight

The Last Patrol

February 9, 1945 Haguenau, France. 101^st airborne have been famous by what they did at the battle of the Bastogne. Newspaper calls them “the battle bastard from the Bastogne.” They have been through the hell on earth and now pulling them to Haguenau. The heaven on earth.

Captain Winters receive an order from Colonel Sink to make a patrol crossing the river. The mission is to capture prisoner from the German observation post. The patrol is about 15 men and all of them are the rest of the original Easy Company.

After briefing at lately afternoon, the patrol team prepare their equipment for that mission. In that patrol they succeed to capture a prisoner but they lost one man who hit by his own grenade. After the firs patrol succeeds, Colonel Sink wants the second. But the patrol’s never happen, Captain Nixon wrote a false report and the regiment accepts it.

When Easy Company is pulled out from Haguenau Captain Winters got his promotion to be a Major.

By the time they left Haguenau, Easy Company’s European Campaign had taken them from England to France, Holland and Belgium.

Soon they will be entering Germany.

To be continue…….