BAND OF BROTHERS

A critique of the ten-part HBO miniseries

Robert Dietrich
HIST 358: United States in World War II
December 7, 2018
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Band of Brothers is a ten part miniseries produced by Home Box Office, Inc. and based

on the Stephen Ambrose book of the same name. The series follows E (Easy) Company, 2nd

Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, of the Army’s 101st Airborne Division from its

initial training at Camp Toccoa through the end of the World War II. The series premiered

September 9th, 2001 with new episodes released each week through November 4th, 2001. While

some take issue with various historical inaccuracies, this show is still worth viewing for at least

three reasons. First, rather than being just a list of names, locations, dates, and events, it is a

human story about a select group of men who served during World War II, showing the bonds

that form in training and combat. Second, many of the Easy Company men who were

interviewed for Ambrose’s book were brought on as consultants for the show,1 appeared in

interviews at the beginning of the episodes, and Edward “Babe” Heffron appearing in a cameo as

an older Dutchman at the liberation of Eindhoven.2 Third, the veterans “signed off” on each

episode, checking for authenticity rather than pure accuracy.3

John Orloff in his Task&Purpose article, “Why ‘Band of Brothers’ Lasts: A Perspective

From One of Its Writers,” states several of the reasons why he believes the show continues to be

watched, purchased, and remains relevant:

1. Richard Huff, “Actors & Vets Bond in 'Band of Brothers',” New York Daily News, last
updated September 9, 2001. https://www.nydailynews.com/archives/nydn-features/actors-vets-
bond-band-brothers-article-1.931799

2. Band of Brothers, produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, (2001, New York,
NY: Home Box Office, Inc., 2008), Blu-Ray.

3. Sandy MacDonald, “Miniseries put actors through bootcamp,” Daily News (Halifax,
NS), September 15, 2002.
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Universal truths about warfare were shown. Good leadership. Bad leadership. The
exhilaration of war. The horrors of war. Fought by men of honor, and men not so
honorable.4

What the Filmmakers Got Wrong

Throughout the show, there are several discrepancies between what is depicted and what

actually happened. This often happens in any dramatization of history as characters, timelines,

and events are condensed to tell a story rather than communicate accurate history. However,

some inaccuracies result from hasty research, frustrating historians, and leaving audiences with

inaccurate understandings of history. The following are five of the more notorious mistakes from

the show.

Episode 3, “Carentan,” follows Easy Company as they occupy the town of Carentan and

the show focuses on one soldier, Private Albert Blithe. Most of the narrative of the show is based

on interviews of the Easy Company veterans and Stephen Ambrose’s book. Near the end of the

episode, Private Blithe is depicted as volunteering for a reconnaissance mission, takes point and

gets shot in the neck by a sniper. The end of the episode reveals, “Albert Blithe never recovered

from the wounds he received in Normandy. He died in 1948.” However, in the special features of

the Blu-Ray edition, the following note appears regarding this episode:

Albert Blithe’s family came forward after the release of “Band of Brothers” to correct the
information provided about him. Instead of being shot in the neck as was reported, Blithe
was shot in the shoulder and fully recovered from his wounds. Blithe went on to have a
successful military career, fighting in the Korean War, completing over 600 parachute
jumps, and achieving the rank of Master Sergeant before his death in 1967.5

4. John Orloff, “Why ‘Band of Brothers’ Lasts: A Perspective From One of Its Writers,”
Task & Purpose, last updated August 3, 2018. https://taskandpurpose.com/band-brothers-lasts-
perspective-one-writers.

5. Band of Brothers, Episode 3, “Carentan,” directed by Mikael Salomon.

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Army records show that Master Sergeant Blithe earned the Silver Star, three Bronze Stars

and three Purple Hearts.6 His obituary states he also served in Korea and was, at the time of his

death, assigned to “an air equipment quartermaster company with the Eighth Army at the time of

his death.” 7 A letter from LTC Duane Stubbs to Albert Blithe’s wife indicated that he died from

complications resulting from a perforated ulcer.8

This mistake is a case of careless or incomplete research. Master Sergeant Blithe was

buried at Arlington National Cemetery and his records are easily accessible to researchers with

the pedigree of Stephen Ambrose and Hollywood writers who are ostensibly trying to “get it

right.”

The depiction of First Lieutenant Norman Dike as an aloof, incompetent coward resulted

in some controversy not only from his family, but also from veterans who served with him. The

depiction of Lieutenant Dike was based on the recollections of Major Richard Winters and

Lieutenant Carwood Lipton. In the show, Lieutenant Dike was depicted as aloof in a

conversation with then First Sergeant Lipton, walking off in the middle of a conversation with

First Sergeant Lipton, going on “one of his walks.” Major Winters, in his memoir, Beyond Band

of Brothers, recalls the heavy shelling in Bastogne when he left Easy Company to “go for help,”

as well as Lieutenant Dike freezing up during the attack on Foy.9 The event is also portrayed in

the book Band of Brothers where Ambrose records Lieutenant Lipton’s recollection of the latter

6. Peter E. Burns, CAPT (USA), “Recommendation for Award: Blithe, Albert,”

Department of the Army, Form 638, May 8, 1958.

7. “MSGT. Albert Blithe,” Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, N.C.), Jan. 4, 1968.

8. LTC. Duane Stubbs, letter to Mrs. Sadie T. Blithe, December 18, 1967.

9. Dick Winters and Cole C. Kingseed, Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of
Major Dick Winters (New York, NY: Berkley Publishing Group, 2006), 193-95.
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event, writing, “Lieutenant Dike, in Lipton’s judgment, had “fallen apart.”10 However,

Lieutenant Dike had led in battle before, earning two Bronze stars for organizing and leading

“scattered groups of parachutists in the successful defense of an important road junction on the

vital Eindhoven-Arnhem Supply Route against superior and repeated attacks, while completely

surrounded.” His second Bronze Star award was received for personally removing “from an

exposed position, in full enemy view, three wounded members of his company, while under

intense small arms fire.”11 Those certainly are not the actions of a person who is either

incompetent or a coward. Furthermore, the man who was next to Dike in battle, Clancy Lyall

recalls that Dike’s inability to take action was due to having been shot in the shoulder while

attempting to take the attack in.12 Even Ambrose records that Dike’s action was going well until

he lost sight of first platoon after they stopped to take three Germans prisoners. Lyall also

heavily criticized both Richard Winters and the filmmakers for Dike’s portrayal. 13

As will be seen in the next section, the depiction of Herbert Sobel as a person that was

disliked by Easy Company was fair, because many of the men of Easy Company tried in vain to

reach out to him after the war, but he refused to communicate with them due to his bitterness

towards Easy Company. Bill Guarnere even went so far as to pay Sobel’s dues to the 101st

Airborne association trying to get him involved, but he refused. Ultimately, Herbert Sobel was

given opportunities by his fellow veterans, his family, and his friends, but died alone, divorced,

10. Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne
From Normandy to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest (New York, NY: Touchstone, 1992), 207-209.

11. Carlton D. Morse, ed. “Norman Dike,” Brown Alumni Monthly 17, no. 6 (1947), 16.

12. Larry Alexander, In the Footsteps of the Band of Brothers: A Return to Easy
Company’s Battlefields with Sergeant Forrest Guth (New York: NAL Caliber, 2010), 251-53.

13. Ambrose, Band of Brothers, 207-208.

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estranged from his children and his funeral was not well attended. Norman Dike, on the other

hand, was a man who clearly served with honor and distinction. He was well-liked by some, was

happily married, and has living children and grandchildren who respect him. Though Captain

Dike was dead by the time Ambrose’s book was published, Dike’s family still has to live with

the way he was portrayed by Richard Winters, Stephen Ambrose and most especially the

producers and writers of the miniseries, Band of Brothers. There were so many other composite

characters, it is frankly astonishing that Norman Dike’s name was not changed to protect his

family and memory.

Episode nine, “Why We Fight,” depicts the discovery of the Kaufering subcamp of

Dachau by an Easy Company patrol consisting of Sergeant Burton Christenson, Sergeant George

Luz, Sergeant Frank Perconte, Sergeant Denver Randleman, and Private Patrick O'Keefe.14

While the writers may have chosen to portray this as a composite event because Nazi

concentration camps are an important part of World War II history, the concentration camp was

actually discovered by 134th Ordnance Maintenance Battalion of the 12th Armored Division the

day before the 101st Airborne arrived in Landsberg.15

For a show that got so many facts correct, it is hard to understand why they would rewrite

history this way. The show depicts the 101st arriving in an unoccupied Landsberg when in fact,

the town had already been occupied by the 12th Armored Division and others. Stephen

Ambrose’s book also does not claim that Easy Company or any element of the 101st discovered

the camp. This particular error takes credit away from the unit responsible for the discovery.

14. Band of Brothers, Episode 9, “Why We Fight,” directed by David Frankel.

15. Ken Bradstreet, “The Death Camps,” 12th Armored Division, Vol I (Paducah, KY:
Turner Publishing CO., 1987), 115-121.
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The discussion of who arrived in Berchtesgaden first seems to have been somewhat of a

controversial subject in World War II history, with the French 2nd Armored Battalion, the

American 101st Airborne and the American 3rd Infantry Division all claiming the honor. Both

Ambrose’s book and the show Band of Brothers assert that the 101st Airborne was the first into

Berchtesgaden with “Easy Company in the lead” and then to Hitler’s Kehlsteinhaus, also known

as the “Eagle’s Nest.”16, 17 The book records that Easy Company arrived in Berchtesgaden on

May 5th, 1945, but a number of sources show that 7th Infantry Regiment of the 3rd Infantry

Division had arrived in Berchtesgaden the day before.18

Some of the confusion likely arose from the fact that General Eisenhower promised to

allow the French 2nd Armored and American 101st to take the town first and the 101st just simply

getting better publicity. The simple fact was that Major General John O’Daniel’s 3rd Infantry

Division was in a better position to take the town and Major General O’Daniel directed the 7th

Infantry Regiment, “the Cottonbalers” to do so.19 After taking the town, 3rd Infantry Division

was ordered to Salzburg. So, when the 101st Airborne Division arrived the next day to an empty

town, they believed they had arrived first and the memoirs and interviews of members of the

101st bear this out. However, Both General Eisenhower and Major General Maxwell Taylor, both

wrote in their post-war memoirs that the Cottonbalers of the 7th Infantry Regimant, 3rd Infantry

Division had gotten to Berchtesgaden first.20

16. Ambrose, Band of Brothers, 266.

17. Band of Brothers, Episode 10, “Points,” directed by Mikael Salomon.

18. John C. McManus, “The Last Great Prize,” World War II 20, no. 2 (2005), 56.

19. Ibid., 51.

20. Ibid., 56.

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This error is almost excusable on the part of the writers and producers of the show

because it is based on Stephen Ambrose research and his interviews with the men of Easy

Company. However, it is not excusable on the part of Ambrose who claimed to know President

Eisenhower very well. Perhaps in the 1980s when Ambrose was conducting his research and

collecting interviews from Easy Company the information on Berchtesgaden was not readily

available. However, by the time production began on Band of Brothers much of the information

had been digitized and simply consulting with other World War II historians might have cleared

this up. Just as with the 12th Armored Division not being given the credit for discovering the

Kaufering subcamp in the show, the Cottonbalers of the 3rd Infantry Division deserve the credit

for entering Berchtesgaden first.

The final major inaccuracy also takes place in episode 10, “Points.” Early in the episode,

a German Colonel is depicted surrendering to Major Winters and then offers his sidearm rather

than “lay it on the desk of a clerk.”21 This is not recorded in either Richard Winters’ memoir

Beyond Band of Brothers or Stephen Ambrose’s book Band of Brothers. Richard Winters

discusses an event in his memoirs, Beyond Band of Brothers that bears some similarities. Winters

writes of a German prisoner of war who was also a Major, had fought against the 101st at

Bastogne, and whom Winters clearly respected. The day after they discovered they had fought

against each other at Bastogne, “[the German Major] presented me his pistol as a token of

friendship between us and as a formal surrender to his captor. He did so on his own volition

rather than leaving his pistol on a desk in some office.” Richard Winters also notes that he kept

the pistol. It seems from watching this episode that the writers were attempting to emphasize the

21. Band of Brothers, Episode 10, “Points,” directed by Mikael Salomon.

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mutual respect the German and American soldiers had for each other once the fighting was

finished. As Winters wrote:

This is the way wars ought to end. Let the generals and politicians participate in elaborate
ceremonies. At the soldier level, a peaceful transfer of weapons, a smart salute or some
other gesture of respect—that’s the way it should be for soldiers who had faced the
bullets.22

At the same time, anybody who watches the companion documentary We Stand Alone

Together will plainly see that the film got it wrong as Richard Winters relates what actually

happened and shows the firearm given to him by the German Major.23

What the Filmmakers Got Right

When filmmakers tell history, unless the film is a documentary, the primary purpose is to

tell an entertaining story and the secondary purpose is to inform. Because of that, there will often

be a disclaimer that events, names, places, etc. have been changed for dramatic purpose or to

protect the innocent. The miniseries, Band of Brothers is no different. However, the disclaimer

comes at the end of the credits instead of as a title page at the beginning of the film. The

disclaimer at the end of the credits of each episode reads, “This film is a true story. Certain

characters & events have been altered for dramatic purposes.” This is the risk a viewer runs

when going to Hollywood for history. In spite of alterations for “dramatic purposes,” there are a

lot of events that filmmakers got right. This section discusses five of those events.

As mentioned in the section above, regarding the portrayal of Norman Dike, the men of

Easy Company almost unanimously disliked Captain Herbert Sobel. He was a martinet, which is

22. Dick Winters and Cole C. Kingseed, Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of
Major Dick Winters (New York, NY: Berkley Publishing Group, 2006), 248.

23. We Stand Alone Together, directed by Mark Cowen (2001, New York, NY: Home
Box Office, Inc., 2008), Blu-Ray.
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expected in the military, but he was also petty, cruel, and had no friends except First Sergeant

William Evans who worked with Sobel to play the men against each other much like the Spartan

agoge.24 Sobel was also accurately depicted as being a terrible field officer in training, his

“chickenshit” behavior resulting in First Lieutenant Winters’ reassignment, the mutiny of the

Non-Commissioned Officers, and his ultimate reassignment to Chilton Foliat as an instructor.25

The miniseries also accurately depicts one of the many pranks played on Captain Sobel—Private

George Luz imitating Major Matthew Horton, instructing Captain Sobel to cut a barbed wire

fence and the resultant tongue-lashing he received from Lt. Col. Robert Strayer.26

It is important for audiences to know not only that Sobel was hated by his men, but that

his petty and tyrannical behavior actually produced, as Colonel Robert Sink says in the show,

“…one of the finest companies of soldiers… ever seen.” Many of the men who trained at Toccoa

with Captain Sobel conceded the fact that Sobel’s style and strict discipline, as Toccoa veteran

Robert Strohl recalled, “made E Company.”27

Episode 2, “Day of Days,” depicts the jump into Normandy.28 While there are some

minor technical discrepancies it authentically depicts the chaos of the jumps. The planes were

flying too fast and the pilots dropped their sticks at the wrong time meaning that the soldiers

24. Ambrose, Band of Brothers, 23-27.

25. Ibid., 50-54.

26. Ibid., 47.

27. Ibid., 27.

28. Band of Brothers, Episode 2, “Day of Days,” directed by Richard Loncraine.

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missed their landing areas by miles.29 There were aspects of the airborne landings that were not

clearly depicted. In addition to flying too fast, most of the planes were flying too low for safe

drops and many soldiers barely had their chute open before hitting the ground hard.30 Many of

the men were bruised all over for weeks because of it. Additionally, in the chaos, other terrifying

things happened that were not depicted, like soldiers getting caught by the wing of another plane

in the flight.31 Obviously there is only so much that can be shown in a one hour episode that

depicts the actions of a single company over the period of an entire day. An entire episode could

have been dedicated to the jumps alone and still would not have been able to do the entire event

justice while still trying to tell a human story. What audiences will come away with is that the

Airborne Divisions that parachuted into France on the morning of January 6th, 1944 overcame

unimaginable obstacles—things they could not have possibly prepared for—to carry out their

mission.

At the end of the same episode, the Brécourt Manor Assault, led by First Lieutenant

Richard Winters is another event that is accurately depicted.32 After arriving in Le Gran Chemin,

Lieutenant Winters was given the task of destroying a German 105mm artillery battery. He was

given a general location, but no briefing, had to put together a hodgepodge team of men he could

find from various companies, reconnoiter the objective, come up with a plan and execute it all on

the fly. While the three hour timeline is compressed to just a few minutes with some added

29. Stephen Ambrose, D-Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II (New
York, NY: Simon&Schuster, 1994), 196-224.

30. Ibid., 203.

31. Ibid., 200.

32. Band of Brothers, Episode 2, “Day of Days,” directed by Richard Loncraine

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dialogue to editorialize the scene and dramatic alterations, the major elements and order of the

major events of the attack as remembered by the veterans and recorded in the after action reports

are accurately depicted.33, 34

The importance of this event in history is that disabling the 105mm guns made the

Normandy D-Day landings—which were already difficult—a little less difficult. It is also

important for audiences to see how American forces were taught and required to think on the

spot often with little or no direction other than “take care of it.” In fact, Richard Winters credited

his training with being able to set up the attack for success the way he did.35 While the beginning

of the episode clearly depicted the chaos of the battle, this event also depicts how surreal battle

can be with Warrant Officer Andrew Hill (not named in the show, but named in Ambrose’s

book) getting shot in the head after asking directions to regimental headquarters.36 There are also

depictions of the heroics of the men that led to fifteen medal for valorous action as well as three

purple hearts.

The audience also gets to witness some really miraculous events. First, the small team of

23 people was outnumbered by elite German paratroopers by more than two-to-one with only

four killed and two wounded, while killing fifteen Germans, wounding countless others, and

taking twelve prisoners.37 Second, Corporal Joe Toye survived a direct hit by a German hand

33. Winters and Kingseed, 89-94.

34. Ambrose, Band of Brothers, 79-83.

35. Ibid., 84.

36. Ibid., 82.

37. Ibid., 84.

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grenade and multiple people survived a grenade fumbled by Lieutenant Lynn “Buck”

Compton.38

While the depiction of Norman Dike was misleading, the rest of the assault on the town

of Foy was accurately depicted in episode 7, “Breaking Point.”39 After Lieutenant Dike stopped

the assault and either would not or could not answer, Captain Winters almost went forward to

take the attack in. The show uses Colonel Sink to narrate what was going on in Winters’ head as

he thought better of taking the attack in himself, considering his leadership position as Battalion

XO. Captain Winters then noticed First Lieutenant Ronald Speirs and sent him in to relieve

Lieutenant Dike. After taking Easy Company into Foy, Lieutenant Speirs sprinted across the

town to hook up with I Company.40

This scene was used to depict the difference between good leaders, bad leaders, and the

opinion of the men regarding good leaders. While the depiction of Norman Dike is questionable,

what is not questionable is the respect the men had for Lieutenant Speirs and the relief they felt

at having a good leader. This scene is especially important for those who have never served in

combat, especially those who have never served in the military or first responder community at

all. When a civilian has a bad leader, the company may lose business, lose money, and waste

time, but at the end of the day, you get to go home. In combat and in the first responder

community, bad leaders get the “good guys” killed.

In the final episode, “Points,” after meeting with Major General Elbridge Chapman,

Major Winters finds out he will be remaining in Austria, the scene cuts to the Austrian country

38. Ibid., 81; Winters and Kingseed, 91.

39. Band of Brothers, Episode 7, “Breaking Point,” directed by David Frankel.

40. Ambrose, Band of Brothers, 207-212.

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side and we hear Major Winters, in voice over say, “So I would be staying in Austria for the time

being waiting for orders and trying to watch over soldiers who had no enemy to fight.” Sergeant

Wayne Sisk, Corporal Joseph Liebgott, and Private David Webster are sitting in a jeep

discussing whether or not the man in the house they are parked in front of was a Nazi who

worked in one of the concentration camps. Webb is unsure of the accusation, but Liebgott who

was mistakenly depicted as being Jewish (either because of his name or to make a personal

connection to the Holocaust) is incensed that anyone would try to defend any German after what

they saw and Landsberg. They proceed inside and Liebgott accuses the man of having been in

charge of one of the work camps (“Sie sind der Kommandant des Arbeitslagers.”). The man

denies having been a work camp commander, Liebgott interrogates him and shoots him only

wounding him and the man flees. Sergeant Sisk shoots the man in the back as he runs away.41

In Stephen Ambrose’s book, Band of Brothers, he tells of German officials hiding out in

the hills because they were afraid of being charged with war crimes. Ambrose then narrates an

event similar to what the show depicted. The difference is that the book has a different roster.

Private Donald Moone was the objector instead of Private Webster who was not there and the

team was led by a fourth man, First Sergeant John Lynch. The book also says that it was Captain

Speirs who had conducted the investigation and concluded that the man was indeed a Nazi work

camp commander and ordered the men to “eliminate him.”42

In spite of the differences between Ambrose’s depiction and the show, this is a mostly

accurate depiction of an actual event as well as a summary for many summary executions that

likely took place based on questionable evidence. Donald Speirs noted that he had little problem

41. Band of Brothers, episode 10, “Points,” directed by Mikael Salomon.

42. Ambrose, Band of Brothers, 276-277.

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with summary executions.43 It is likely that the writers and producers decided to change the

roster by adding Webster and removing both Moone and Lynch because audiences would be

familiar with Webster, and Moone and Lynch had not appeared in the show before.

Conclusions

Hollywood is not university and it is not an academic environment. Hollywood seeks to

tell entertaining stories that will hopefully make money. Even when producers and writers seek

to make a film that is historically accurate, when a person goes to the movies or television and

watches a dramatized version of historical events, they are going to be misinformed. It is that

simple. History is also dynamic, the facts as they happened obviously do not change. However,

new information comes to light that cause what was thought to be true to be reevaluated and

reinterpreted. Thus, even when movie researchers get something right, that information may be

found to be wrong just a few years later.

In spite of errors in research or accuracy, many films have important stories to tell. Band

of Brothers is such a film which, for the most part, gets it right and tells many important stories.

Each episode focuses on a different character and their perspective of the war. The show gives

lessons in good leadership and bad. It tells of the friendships that were formed in training and

solidified combat. It shows the inhumanity and horror of war, the attempt to regain humanity in

peace, and the struggles some men had even when they were out of the fight. There is humor and

sadness, heroics and cowardice. In ten and a half hours, the show does not tell every story, but it

does tell every kind of story that can happen in war. In the end, Band of Brothers is not a story

about World War II or even war. Rather, it is a human story of the men who fought for each

other, killed for each other, and sometimes gave their lives for each other. That the miniseries,

43. Ibid., 286.

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along with Saving Private Ryan and HBO’s second World War II miniseries, The Pacific have

kindled an interest in World War II among the general public and will likely continue to do so

for generations to come is simply icing on the cake.

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