* ActorShipping: Given that the series has only about two female characters with speaking parts, there's rather a lot of same-sex ships. Creator/EionBailey (Webster) and Creator/RossMcCall (Liebgott) get a bit of it, due to playing the two translators. The most popular ship seems to be Creator/MichaelCudlitz and Creator/NealMcDonough, possibly because they were significantly older than most of the cast. Someone in the ten-year reunion interviews asked Cudlitz if he could fight Neal [[GuyOnGuyIsHot shirtless]]. James Madio gets shipped with lots of his cast members, after numerous stories about him on set were told. One in particular says he once bit Neal [=McDonough=] on the chest for no real reason.
* AdaptationalDisplacement: This series is based on the non-fiction book of the same name, which most people only find out after watching through the show or by doing research beforehand.
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation[[note]]This is referring entirely to the dramatised versions presented in the miniseries, as opposed to the real people.[[/note]]:
** The first episode does this with Sobel's TrainingFromHell. The real men regard the training as what made them as good as they were, and that he probably went so hard on them to prepare them for a war. David Schwimmer meanwhile feels that Sobel had a very tough upbringing due to rampant Anti-Semitism and that caused his harsh attitude. The episode shows that Sobel is devastated at losing Easy Company, but is that because of the blow to his ego? The cadence scene shows him getting very annoyed when the men sing to get themselves up the hill. Did he want them to fail? Or was he just jealous that they loved and respected Winters rather than him?
** Norman Dike is thought of as cowardly and lazy given how many losses Easy Company suffered under his leadership. But many real life figures like to point out that Dike was essentially thrust into a position he was not prepared for -- and his reaction is an entirely human one. But then again, the men's disdain of him is contrasted with someone like Lt Peacock -- who was liked despite his ineptitude because he was a NiceGuy -- and Lt Jones, who was in a similar position but earned the respect of the men quickly. The disdain for Dike is further contrasted with Buck Compton, who continues to hold the respect of his men even after leaving Easy Company due to battle fatigue. The scene where Dike talks to Lipton about personal things can be read as Dike either trying to get to know his men, or trying to look like he is. The show also has Dike 'break' under pressure during an attack, when that appeared to be a mistake in research, and instead of freezing under fire, he was actually severely wounded.
** "The Breaking Point" puts forth the idea that Ronald Speirs was encouraging his reputation as a MemeticBadass among the men. The scene where he offers Perconte, Webb and Christenson cigarettes could be him deliberately {{Troll}}ing them.
* AluminumChristmasTrees: The series invests a lot of effort in being very very accurate. But there are a few unbelievable but true events omitted or toned down to preserve suspension of disbelief:
** In episode 2, Buck Compton kills a German by hitting him with a well-timed grenade that explodes on impact. This actually happened -- except Compton's grenade hit him in the ''head.''
** Prior to WWII, Compton was a star athlete at UCLA, in both baseball and football. As demonstrated in the above mentioned episode, his baseball training came in handy. His marksmanship in throwing grenades (including the one that killed the German) was a large feature in the successful assault on the German 4-gun battery -- the main battle featured in episode 2. Compton took out one of the guns by himself, for which he was awarded a Silver Star for bravery.
** During D-day, Malarkey meets a captured German P.O.W. and finds out that the P.O.W. is actually a German American who went back to Germany to fight ''for'' the Nazis, and that the P.O.W. even lived on the other side of the city from him. In real life, they lived on the opposite sides of the same ''street''.
** Skip Muck and Don Malarkey were friends with Frederick "Fritz" Niland, a sergeant from another unit in the 101st and the inspiration for the title character in ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan''. The book notes that Fritz even came to say goodbye to them when he learned of his brothers' deaths and that he was consequently being sent home; no mention of Fritz or this incident are in the series.
** In "Crossroads", when Easy Company makes its final charge against the German positions, Winters reaches the embankment well ahead of the rest of the men due to a combination of a smoke grenade with an unexpectedly long fuse and a rigid interpretation of the order to, "Go on the red smoke." In reality, Winters simply ran so fast that he outpaced everyone else.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
** The opening theme. It manages to convey both WarIsHell and WarIsGlorious at the same time.
** The piece that plays during the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue. Be sure to have tissues on hand.
** The Beethoven piece that gets performed in the German village in Episode 9.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVVKCOB8eUA The Mission Begins.]]
* BetterOnDVD: Since the miniseries is essentially a ten hour long {{War Movie|s}}, it's a lot easier to keep track of the large cast and {{Call Back}}s when watching all the episodes back-to-back.
* BrokenBase:
** A minor one. Fans can't agree whether the POV character in Episode 1 is Sobel, whose training and leadership are the focus, or Winters, who actually appears throughout the entire episode and has the flashback back to Toccoa in the first scene.
** Sobel in general tends to provoke a lot of debate over his martinet-style approach, and whether it was justified as a way of training the men for the hardships of war or whether that was just a happy byproduct of his petty bullying and spiteful incompetence. For what it's worth, many of the men of Easy Company do credit Sobel with preparing them for war with his methods, though they generally have little else of warmth to say about him and this could be the result of a certain degree of NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead (Sobel had been dead for five years prior to the publication of the book the series is based on, had blinded himself in a suicide attempt twenty years prior, and was removed from his post prior to leading the men into actual danger, thus making it natural that his former subordinates might be willing to retroactively moderate their criticisms to a point).
* CastTheExpert: One of many instances of Dale Dye, who plays Col. Sink, getting a part in a movie or show for which he was originally hired as a military consultant.
* CatharsisFactor: "The Breaking Point" is one of the harshest hours of the series, yet ends with Speirs taking command and running through the town ''twice'' without a scratch to show for it.
* CreepyAwesome: Speirs's mannerisms are incredibly disconcerting, such as the way he applies his combat paint (three vertical stripes on each cheek), the way he wears his helmet (pulled down so the shadow from the brim covers his eyes), and his stare (wide-eyed, never breaking eye contact, and unblinking). These make him incredibly awesome, and his actor doubly so.
* DracoInLeatherPants: To a lesser extent, Sobel of all people. Despite his jerkass tendencies and incompetence, he's often given some admiration for his training abilities, even by the vets who served under him who attributed it to their survival. This despite the fact that any competent drill instructor could have done just as good a job at it, while not severely compromising the morale and fighting ability of their unit to the point where every single NCO up and mutinies just before a major offensive as Sobel did. It tends to be forgotten in the rush to defend Sobel on the grounds of his training abilities that his job was not solely to train his men, it was to ''lead'' them, and in that respect he failed disastrously by any metric you might care to mention no matter how good a training officer he ended up being. A fair amount of this may be a combination of his being played by Creator/DavidSchwimmer and his undeniably tragic real-life circumstances; in a fit of depression, he tried to kill himself later in life, but missed and ended up [[AlasPoorScrappy blinding himself for the last 20 years of his life]], ending his life in poverty dying of malnutrition in a VA-run hospital.
* EnsembleDarkhorse:
** Doc Roe is one of the top favorites, despite minimal appearances outside his one POV episode. He was also barely mentioned in the original book. His actor Shane Taylor even expressed surprise at the amount of fans he had, as he took a hiatus from acting for several years. His episode is also ranked as one of the best out of the series.
** Speirs actually appears far less than you'd expect, not really joining Easy Company until Episode 7. You wouldn't know it from the amount of fans he has. It helps that he's a MemeticBadass in and out of universe.
** Liebgott and Malarkey, especially after the heartbreak both characters have to go through. In Malarkey's case, his actor Scott Grimes was a recognizable enough name from ''Series/PartyOfFive'' and a music career.
** George Luz was one in real life too (since he had 1600 people attending his funeral). Since he provides about 85% of the funny moments, it's understandable.
** Christenson, Miller, and Janovec have a lot of fans thanks to the RetroactiveRecognition of the actors [[Creator/MichaelFassbender who]] [[Creator/JamesMcAvoy played]] [[Creator/TomHardy them]].
** Shifty Powers has quite the number of fans on Tumblr as well, due to his endearing, soft-spoken nature and incredible marksmanship skills.
** See OneSceneWonder below for the minor characters.
** Out of the actors themselves, James Madio (Frank Perconte) after numerous stories about him on set surfaced. When the ten year reunion interviews were organised, Madio was one of the first interviewed and then got brought back for a second -- after the rest of the cast had so many good things to say about him. Likewise while filming, the role of Perconte was originally very small. But Madio's performance impressed them enough to give him more lines -- which explains the character's extended screen time in Episode 9.
** Matt Hickey who played Private O'Keefe was surprised that his character was so remembered -- despite appearing mostly in the 9th episode and only having one scene in the 10th.
* EstrogenBrigade:
** Doc Roe has quite the collection of female fans. When people were organising the ten-year-reunion interviews, a huge number of fans were inquiring about his actor Shane Taylor. In the actual interview, they comment that most of them were female. It's discussed in other interviews too, theorising that it must be down to the Cajun accent. It also helps that he's known to be one of the friendliest and affable cast members at reunions and conventions. The fact that his arc in the episode which centres on him is basically about him trying desperately to remain effective at saving the lives of his comrades in the face of relentless bleakness and death turns him into a massive Woobie is probably also a factor.
** Skip Muck is beloved by female fans too. Quite impressive for a supporting character who only has minimal lines [[spoiler: and is killed off in the seventh episode]]. According to Malarkey's book, he was quite the NiceGuy in real life too. Probably doesn't hurt that he's played by Richard Speight Jr. (aka the Archangel Gabriel from ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', another adored character).
* FanNickname: Most fans affectionately refer to Lipton as "Mama Lip," thanks to his TeamMom tendencies, along with his caring and gentle nature towards the men of Easy.
* FriendlyFandoms:
** Weirdly enough with ''{{Series/Supernatural}}'' of all things. There are more crossover fan fictions than you'd expect. It's even more surprising, given that the only connection the two shows have is that Richard Speight Jr stars in both -- and in minor roles at that. Though, as mentioned directly above, Muck was well-loved, and Gabriel, his character on ''{{Series/Supernatural}}'' was a huge EnsembleDarkHorse.
** With fans of the other HBO war series ''Series/ThePacific'' and ''Series/GenerationKill''. Naturally there's a great deal of overlap between fans of all three.
* GeniusBonus:
** Approaching Bertchesgarten, Webster is seen writing in his journal. His journals were a large source of the information that was used by Ambrose to write ''Band Of Brothers''.
** Eagle-eyed viewers may notice that in "Day of Days", the German prisoners Speirs shoots are in Wehrmacht uniforms, whereas in "Carentan" when some members of Easy Company are retelling the story, the prisoners are almost entirely SS. A subtle sign of how, even in the space of less than a week, the rumors surrounding Speirs have already taken on a life of their own.
* HarsherInHindsight:
** InUniverse example: In the ninth episode, Janovec is reading a newspaper as the Company is being transported by truck. Luz asks what the paper is about. Janovec replies that the paper details the reason why they [America] are fighting the war is because "The Germans are bad... very bad", which Luz finds quite amusing. Later, the Company discovers a concentration camp and find out just how bad the Germans were.
** The opening interviews in the very first episode, "Currahee," feature one of the men saying "Well, our country was attacked. It's different -- it wasn't like Korea or Vietnam; we was attacked. And, you know, it was a feeling that, uh, maybe we're just dumb country people, where I come from, but a lot of us volunteered." That episode premiered on 9 September 2001. Promos were actually pulled post 9/11 due to the combat violence shown and how it might upset people.
** The year after the show aired, Stephen Ambrose, the author of the book the series was based upon, was embroiled in a large plagiarism scandal implicating almost his entire academic career.
** In the first episode, Muck comments that their fellow countrymen fighting in the Pacific Theater have it easier than them since they'll be on tropical islands with native girls feeding them coconuts. Then ''Series/ThePacific'' came out and showed what the fighting against the Japanese was actually like. The real Bill Guarnere is [[http://www.nj.com/entertainment/tv/index.ssf/2010/03/hbos_the_pacific_behind-the-sc.html on record]] saying that what the Marines went through was ''worse'' than anything Easy did.
** Now that all of the men who served in Easy Company have passed on, the ending of the finale episode where it speaks of many of the men in the present tense takes on a bittersweet feeling.
* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct:
** The general reaction to Creator/DavidSchwimmer being cast as Sobel was QuestionableCasting -- which went away within a few minutes of Sobel's first scene.
** At the time, most people felt that the only reason Creator/ColinHanks was cast as Lt. Henry Jones was because [[Creator/TomHanks his dad]] was one of the series producers. However, he managed to prove himself as well.
** Creator/RossMcCall was mainly known for bit parts in TV shows and small movies beforehand. He credits the miniseries with helping him start a career over in America. In real life many people expressed shock at discovering he was actually British -- his FakeAmerican accent being just that convincing.
** Creator/JamesMadio was coming off a SoBadItsGood sitcom called ''Series/USAHigh''. Needless to say people who were used to seeing him as Bobby Lazzarini were pleasantly surprised at his ReasonYouSuckSpeech to O'Keefe in Episode 9.
** Creator/DamianLewis's most notable job before getting cast in this was as an ''infomercial host''. Dick Winters became his career defining role.
** To a lesser extent, Donnie Wahlberg. He had gotten a lot of positive attention for his OneSceneWonder role in ''Film/TheSixthSense'' but he was still best known for Music/NewKidsOnTheBlock. Given that his POV episode is the biggest WHAMEpisode of the series, it definitely had this effect. In fact, his next role in ''Boomtown'' was written for him after the producer saw him in this.
* HeartwarmingInHindsight:
** A strange example. In Blithe's episode, he's shown getting over his trauma and fighting heroically before his injury. The show claims he died in 1948 but it was later revealed that he had managed to live another twenty years and serve in Korea too.
** The part in Episode 6 where Eugene has a HeroicBSOD and takes a while to tend to Welsh's burns. It's a CallBack to when Eugene chewed Winters out for his WorstAid on Moose. What's notable is that Winters ''doesn't'' yell at Eugene in retaliation, immediately realises the stress he's under and tells him to go to the aid station and get a hot meal.
** Scenes of the men bonding can be extra heartwarming with the knowledge that the actors were like that with each other in real life.
** Col Sink's RousingSpeech to the men in the first episode. Watch the Ron Livingston Video Diaries and you'll see that the speech parallels one that Captain Dale Dye gave to the actors for real after they'd successfully completed boot camp.
** The final episode reveals that Lewis Nixon eventually found happiness with a woman named Grace. Again on the first part of the Ron Livingston Video Diaries, the real Grace appears to give Ron her approval.
** During one of the interview segments, Shifty Powers says that the Americans might've been friends with their fellow German soldiers were it not for the war. 2021 saw the release of the book ''Saving My Enemy'', which details how several of the Easy Company veterans, particularly Don Malarkey, befriended German army veteran Fritz Engelbert decades after the war when they met at an event to commemorate the anniversary of Bastogne.
* HilariousInHindsight:
** Both Creator/JamesMcAvoy and Creator/MichaelFassbender have small roles in different episodes. Yep, this stars both [[Film/XMenFirstClass Professor X and Magneto]] before they were famous. In a dark bit of coincidental irony, Fassbender can be seen among the soldiers who discover the Concentration Camp. On a lighter note, Fassbender's character doesn't speak German -- when in real life he's half German and fluent in the language. Likewise, Fassbender has said that he went in originally to read for the role of Speirs. If he had gotten the part, his role as Magneto would be all the more hilarious.
** Rick Gomez's role as Luz is this to ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' fans. Not too long after this series, he would go onto voice two characters in different games. Both of them soldiers (Zack in the Compilation of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' and Gippal in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2''). Gippal especially is the wisecracker of his BandOfBrothers in the former Crimson Squad.
** Creator/EionBailey plays a Harvard student of Literature, who went on to become a writer. Fast forward to ''Series/OnceUponATime'' when he's once again playing a writer who carries around a manual typewriter with him -- and actually ''is'' a storybook character ([[spoiler:Pinocchio]]). What's more is that the real life Webster wrote a book about sharks and Bailey's character in ''Once Upon A Time'' nearly gets eaten by a whale.
** A meta example. James Madio (Perconte) and Rick Gomez (Luz) bonded a lot in the ten day boot camp. During filming they then discovered that their characters had been best friends in real life too.
** Creator/RossMcCall (Liebgott) ended up engaged to Creator/JenniferLoveHewitt for a while. Fellow cast member Creator/ScottGrimes (Malarkey) had previously starred alongside Hewitt on ''Series/PartyOfFive'' and tried to date her -- unsuccessfully. That's not to mention that he lived with Creator/MatthewSettle for a while too -- who played a RomanticFalseLead of Hewitt in ''Film/IStillKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer''.
* HoYay: There seems to be a, presumably unintentional, undertone of this in Winters' interactions with a young Frenchman on the Paris Metro in the episode "Crossroads". It's especially noticeable when the young man snaps off a smart salute and Winters turns away with a knowing smirk on his face.
* IronWoobie:
** Bill Guarnere who finds out the day before the jump into Normandy that his brother has been killed.
** David Kenyon Webster. According to Creator/EionBailey, Webster enlisted despite being a Harvard student, out of a sense of duty. He didn't want any special privileges from being a [[WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant WASP]] but still had to endure those taunts anyway. He didn't let that deter him and earned their respect.
* JerksAreWorseThanVillains: It doesn't get much more villainous than original recipe Nazis, but in this series they're not given any individual characterization; they're just the opposing force in the war. [[TheNeidermeyer Captain Sobel]], on the other hand, is a grade-A HateSink despite being Easy Company's commanding officer. He revokes weekend pass for the entire company for a few minor uniform infractions, he makes one soldier repeat a 12-mile march for the crime of ''drinking from his canteen,'' he interrupts a spaghetti dinner to make the company run Currahee (a 6 mile trail up and down a mountain) with full stomachs, causing many of them to vomit, and he tries to impose Article 15 punishment on Winters for the crime of not reporting when summoned, despite the fact that Winters never received the message. Winters finally has enough of his shit and requests trial by court martial, leaving Sobel gobsmacked.
* JerkassWoobie:
** Sobel could be considered one in RealLife, according to Website/TheOtherWiki. He was a DrillSergeantNasty who proved himself wholly incompetent in the field, but eventually tried to commit suicide by shooting himself in the temple. The bullet severed both optic nerves, permanently blinding him before exiting the other temple, and he lived for another twenty years. Worse yet, when he finally did die, no one came to his funeral. No one from Easy Company, not his ex-wife, and none of his children. The only person to show him any concern was Guarnere, who paid his membership dues into a veterans group composed of Easy Company vets, but otherwise had nothing to do with the man. Even worse is the manner of his death: malnutrition in a VA assisted-living facility. The reason he was buried without a service is because the VA didn't actually contact his children until after he was buried.
** Perconte snapping at O'Keefe in Episode 9 is a pretty dickish moment for the character. But it just goes to show how horribly he's been affected by the war, and how he just wants to go home (which he hasn't seen in two years). The fact that he clearly looks [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone horrified at what he's just said]] seals the deal.
* LoveToHate: Sobel is an absolutely colossal jerk and an incompetent one to boot who every solider under his command detests and sees rightly as a petty bully who isn't fit to lead. But David Schwimmer does a fantastic job at making him loathsome and entertaining in equal measure that he's riveting to watch and even surprisingly sympathetic at times.
* MemeticBadass: Speirs. The stories about just how many Germans he gunned down after giving them cigarettes and various other exploits get more fantastical with each telling.
* MemeticMutation: "Say hello to Ford and General Fucking Motors, you stupid fascist pigs! Look at you. You have horses! What were you thinking?" [[note]]"Why We Fight" has a scene where Webster taunts surrendered German soldiers, and this snippet from his dialogue gained popularity as a meme mocking [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wehraboo Wehraboos]] by pointing out how terrible Axis logistics was compared to that of the Allies.[[/note]]
* NarmCharm: Is it a little much that the last we see of these bonafide, All-American war heroes is them laughing and playing ''baseball'', America's pastime, as Winters tells the audience in voiceover about their lives after the war? Yes. After everything we just watched them go through, is it heartwarming to see them having such wholesome fun? Yes.
* NeverLiveItDown: Eugene Roe is frequently remembered for his OOCIsSeriousBusiness moment where he yells at Winters and Welsh for their WorstAid. You'd think it was his only scene -- and it doesn't even happen in his POV episode.
* OneSceneWonder:
** Father/Captain John Maloney makes a short yet memorable appearance in episode 3 "Carentan", and later a similarly short one in "Bastogne".
** From the fourth episode, the blonde Dutch girl in the red dress who excitedly starts kissing the soldiers when they arrive in her town. She just looks so giddy to see them.
** The British man on the bike who gets "captured" in the first episode.
** The unnamed German MP at the crossroads in the last episode. Summed up rather succinctly by Janovec's reaction.
--->'''German MP:''' It is the end of my second war.\\
'''Janovec:''' ''Jesus!''
** The absolutely nonchalant Sherman tank gunman from "Carentan", followed shortly by a German soldier who gets hit and falls into the path of a retreating tank and gets squashed by the tracks.
* PeripheryDemographic: Despite being aimed at middle aged men, the series has a huge amount of female fans -- some of whom are drawn by the appeal of numerous men in uniform (if the amount of {{Shipping}} videos on Youtube are anything to go by). Additionally it's not uncommon to find younger fans who are interested in the history -- and indeed may have been introduced to it by seeing it in school.
* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: How the Easy Company men come to see Lt. Henry Jones after he acquits himself well on his first patrol and the chaos that follows it.
* RetroactiveRecognition: The series features a ''ton'' of actors who weren't well known at the time, but went on to great careers of their own across movies, television, and video games. These days, it can be hard to believe that at the time, the biggest name in the cast was Creator/DavidSchwimmer.
* SpecialEffectsFailure: During the Carentan battle, one of the windows wobbles when a soldier bumps into it, showing it's plastic not glass.
* SpiritualSuccessor: The show can essentially be considered a series-long version of ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'', except focussing on a US paratrooper company instead of an infantry unit and spread out over the soldiers' experiences from training to the end of the war rather than just D-Day and its immediate aftermath. It was produced by Creator/StevenSpielberg and Creator/TomHanks, who directed and starred in the earlier film.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: [[spoiler: Julian's]] death in "Bastogne" would have been more meaningful had they gone with the real life account of how he and Babe had been friends who went through basic training together instead of him being a replacement who was partnered with Babe during the battle. What makes this especially strange is that Babe still says they both promised they would see the other's mother if they were killed -- so for all intents and purposes they act as if they were long friends in spite of the throwaway line about [[spoiler:Julian]] being a replacement.
* ToughActToFollow: This miniseries was critically acclaimed and is one of the highest rated shows on IMDB -- with fans continuing to grow over the years. A SpiritualSuccessor in ''Series/ThePacific'' -- chronicling the exploits in the Pacific Theatre -- didn't make as much of an impact.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: An odd example since it is a period piece. But the interview segments date it to 2001. For example in the first episode, one of the real veterans tries to rationalise why so many people enlisted voluntarily - saying "our country was attacked". The September 11th attacks happened two days after the episode premiered. The WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue speaks about the men who were still alive at the time of filming but have since passed on. What's more is that there are a few historical mistakes that come from testimony among the men - such as Joe Liebgott being Jewish (he was Catholic in real life) and Albert Blithe dying in 1948 (he lived until 1967) - which shows the miniseries was made in a pre-internet age when information like that would be harder to find. Then of course, there's the fact that with the death of Bradford Freeman in 2022, no members of Easy Company are alive to the present day.
* VindicatedByReruns: While the miniseries was critically acclaimed from the beginning and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries, its viewership was rather low due to the events of 9/11 and HBO halting its entire marketing campaign as a result. Reruns and home video releases allowed it to reach more viewers and become one of the most popular miniseries of all time.
* TheWoobie:
** Most fans can agree on Malarkey, particularly during and after episode 7, when [[spoiler:two of his best friends lose limbs during an artillery barrage, two more are killed in another barrage, and a fifth suffers a nervous breakdown as a result.]] Doc Roe is also a common woobie for the fans after seeing Episode 6, which brutally depicts what a combat medic would have gone through in the war.
** Luz, too. [[spoiler: He actually has to ''see'' his best friends get blown to bits.]] It's entirely possible he's something of a StepfordSmiler afterwards, cracking jokes because it's all he can do to not fall apart.
** Pvt. Blithe has a mental breakdown, is not seen by the company for a long time. He finally gets over it and is shot for his trouble. Furthermore, he makes it to Master Sergeant by the Korean War, but is not given credit by the show for the accomplishment because he was believed dead (he never showed up to the reunions), and none of the Easy Company members thought to try and contact him before his death. All the surviving Easy Company members felt '''''horrible''''' about the situation when they learned AFTER the show aired in 2001, almost forty years after he died.
** Liebgott for being the only Jew in the company and having to see what the Germans did to his people. It becomes even harsher when one learns that the real life Liebgott was a child of first generation German immigrants and that he was made to convert to Roman Catholicism during his childhood by his parents to hide his Jewish ancestry.
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