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Band of Brothers Episode 6
🕑 Added 2024-04-04 22:35:32 +0000 UTCComments
Macilmoyle
The two nurses featured were based on Renee Lemaire and Augusta Chiwy, the “Angels of Bastogne”. Renee was killed after rescuing six wounded men from a burning building and going back for a seventh. Augusta survived the war and died in 2015. There’s no evidence that Eugene and Renee actually met, but the scriptwriters included the nurses in tribute to them.
Macilmoyle
23:30 It wasn’t bone sticking through his leg, but wood fragments from artillery bursts in the trees.
