This mini series follows Easy Company, 506th regiment of the 101st Airborne Division. Easy company is led by Dick Winters and the series follows Easy company through their perilous missions of World war II from training in the US through to parachuting into Normandy early on D-Day, liberating Holland and ending with the capture of Hitler’s Eagles Nest Berchtesgardten. Throughout the series the actual soldiers from the 506 PIR reminisce about there times in Europe during the war. The series shows the true horrors of war. Each episode has a particular theme from how soldiers deal with fear in war through to what makes a good leader.