"Why We Fight" is the ninth episode of television miniseries Band of Brothers. The episode was directed by David Frankel and written by John Orloff. It first aired on October 28, 2001 on HBO.
With major combat all but over, the episode follows Easy Company in the last days of the war, as attention passes from combat to creature comforts and thoughts of home. The episode also focuses on Captain Lewis Nixon, whose service on loan to the 17th Airb...
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"Why We Fight" is the ninth episode of television miniseries Band of Brothers. The episode was directed by David Frankel and written by John Orloff. It first aired on October 28, 2001 on HBO.
With major combat all but over, the episode follows Easy Company in the last days of the war, as attention passes from combat to creature comforts and thoughts of home. The episode also focuses on Captain Lewis Nixon, whose service on loan to the 17th Airborne during Operation Varsity gives him more combat jumps than most other 101st troopers (though ironically, he has never fired his weapon in combat). Replacement Private Patrick O'Keefe's eagerness for battle highlights the war weariness of Easy Company's veteran survivors, and the necessity of the sacrifices Easy Company has made in four years of war is highlighted by the discovery of Kaufering concentration camp near Landsberg.
The latter half of the episode focuses on the discovery of a Nazi concentration camp on a routine patrol....
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