Band Of Brothers | Season 1 | Episode 9

Why We Fight

TV-MA | 58 MIN

Arriving in Germany to very little resistance, the men discover an abandoned Nazi concentration camp still filled with emaciated prisoners.

Two days before the Allied invasion of Normandy, Lts. Winters and Nixon reflect on the events that led Easy Company to D-Day.

D-Day. Due to German flak, the tense men of Easy Company are dropped all over the Normandy countryside.

On D-Day plus two, the scattered men of Easy Company regroup and prepare to take the town of Carentan.

Back in England, Easy Company's D-Day veterans heal and get acquainted with green replacement members.

Lt. Winters leads a contingent on a risky mission over a Dutch dike while the rest of Easy Company undertakes a rescue.

The men of Easy Company fend off frostbite, hunger and the enemy while holding the line in a forest outside of Bastogne.

After the winter, Easy Company must take the town of Foy despite an incompetent new commander.

Easy Company is ordered to send a patrol to take enemy prisoners in the Alsatian town of Haguenau.

Arriving in Germany to very little resistance, the men discover an abandoned Nazi concentration camp still filled with emaciated prisoners.

In the concluding episode, Winters leads Easy Company to take the Eagle's Nest -- Hitler's mountaintop fortress.