On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 19:40:33 -0400, John H.
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On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 17:01:59 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 16:23:55 -0400, John H.
wrote:

On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 16:12:53 -0400, Wayne.B wrote:

On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 15:54:10 -0400, John H.
wrote:

On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 15:38:06 -0400, Wayne.B wrote:

On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 00:51:53 -0400, wrote:

I binge watched Band of Brothers a few days ago and now I am watching
Captain Winters be a stock broker on Billions. Same guy, different
suit.

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Great series. My dad was in the same unit as Winters.

http://www.band-of-brothers.nl/artikel/vet_vet_Jack_Foley.htm

Scroll down to the bottom picture.

And a Captain no less. There are a lot of captains in 'Easy Company', any idea why that is?

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No idea at all. My dad was a doctor, perhaps some of the others also.
He was a surgeon at the field hospital in Bastogne featured in episode
6.

There was a major also. Maybe the battalion staff was standing with the company for the photo.

The Major (Winters) was the star of the TV show and actually the XO of
the 506th but he was CO of Easy for most of the European campaign.
I agree that picture seems to be heavy on officers and I don't see a
lot of the names used in the TV show that is fairly accurate from what
I understand. Maybe most of the enlisted guys were working when they
took the picture.
A company is typically around 100 guys isn't it?

Yup, normally. I assume they lost a bunch, but that still seems mighty small to be called a company.

They actually ran the numbers toward the end of episode 10. I just
don't remember what they were but I do agree that does not look like
the whole company and there are more officers in the picture than it
takes to run a company, even with the doctors.
Since they had a bunch of Easy company guys commenting on the show and
Winters was the main advisor, I do think it is fairly accurate.
You can stream the whole thing on Amazon. It is worth the 10 hours and
a whole lot better than anything on regular TV.