For the first four months of 1942, American, Filipino, and Japanese soldiers fought America's first key land battle of World War II: the battle for the tiny Philippine peninsula of Bataan. It ended together with the single largest defeat in American military history. This was only the beginning. Until the Japanese surrendered ...
As good a rifle company as any in the world, Simple Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, kept getting the tough assignments -- responsible for everything from parachuting into France early D-Day morning to the capture of Hitler's Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden. In Band of Brothers, Ambrose tells of the men in this brave unit who ...