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The American war drama miniseries Band of Brothers, developed and executive produced by [{Tom Hanks]], premiered on HBO on September 9, 2001 and concluded on November 4, 2001. Centered on the stories of Easy Company in the 506th Infantry Regiment, the miniseries chronicled their involvement in World War II, starting from their training through D-Day and Bastogne. Each episode followed an individual soldier's point of view, specifically Richard Winters.

Richard Winters
Maj. Richard D. "Dick" Winters (January 21, 1918 - January 2, 2011), played by Damian Lewis.

Winters starts off at the rank of First Lieutenant, serving under Capt. Herbert Sobel. Despite finding Sobel frustrating, Winters followed his orders as instructed. Once shipping out to England, Sobel's inadequacies as Captain became evident to the company. Winters was charged by Sobel for failing to follow a lawful order. This event resulted in Winters challenging the charge and several members of the company (including Carwood Lipton and Bill Guarnere) threatening to resign if Sobel was kept as leader of Easy Company. It was eventually decided to transfer Sobel to teach at a jump school. Command of Easy Company was handed to 1st Lieutenant Thomas Meehan, who led the company during the invasion of Normandy.

Winters found himself alone once landing in Normandy, eventually catching up to some of his company. Unbeknownst to them at the time, the plane Meehan was on was shot down, killing him and everyone on board, leading Winters to become Easy's new CO. He leads a group of his men in destroying German artillery Brécourt.

Winters then led the charge into Carentan