Richard Winters in uniform, smiling, in 1943 — Unknown author · Public domain

Albert Blithe in fatigues at Camp Toccoa — US Army · Public domain

Lynn Compton standing in uniform — US Army · Public domain

Lewis Nixon in an army uniform and cap — US Army · Public domain

To

Band of Brothers

Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry · HBO, 2001 · ten episodes

Made in hangars in Hertfordshire. Lived from a mountain in Georgia to a lake in Austria. Here is where each of them is now.

Click once in the dark

The view from the top of Currahee over wooded hills — On the summit of Currahee Mountain, Toccoa, 2019. Authority12345 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Three miles up.Three miles down.

Toccoa, Georgia · 1942

The US Army trained the first paratroopers of its airborne infantry regiments at Camp Toccoa in 1942. Runners still go to the top of the 1,735-foot mountain and back: three miles up and three miles down.

Three miles up and three miles down. Go early, take water and check locally that the way to the top is open.

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Rows of wooden army huts below a wooded hill — Camp Toccoa, Georgia, about 1942. Unknown author · Public domain

A brick railway depot building with a canopy — The Currahee Military Museum in Toccoa’s old railway depot, 2012. Dsdugan · CC0

A stable from Aldbourne is in Toccoa.

In its Brenda J. Carlan Hall stands a six-stall stable from Aldbourne, England, where soldiers of Company E, 2nd Battalion, 506th PIR were housed. The museum holds extensive information on the regiments that trained at Camp Toccoa.

Monday to Saturday, 10am–4pm. Adults $15, students $10; children up to eight and active military free.

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Wiltshire, September 1943 to May 1944

The village on screen
is not the village.

Showing Aldbourne, Wiltshire: where Easy Company was billeted.

A white-painted village inn on a square — The Crown, Aldbourne, lit up at night, 2020. Colin Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0

Aldbourne, Wiltshire

Aldbourne hosted several units in the war, the most famous the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne, Easy Company among them.

A company command post was in the half basement of The Crown. Officers kept other ranks out of the Blue Boar, though the landlord let them in at the back.

Dick Winters lodged with Francis and Louie May Barnes in a room above their shop, which he shared with Harry Welsh.

Most of the regiment left in the last week of May 1944. The series was not filmed in Aldbourne.

The Crown and the Blue Boar face the square and the green. The Heritage Centre next to the Crown closed for the season on 10 October; out of season it opens by request.

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A sloping village green lined with houses — The green at Aldbourne, 2022. Gordon Hatton · CC BY-SA 2.0

A village pub facing a green — The Blue Boar, Aldbourne, 2021. Stephen McKay · CC BY-SA 2.0

P.S.

A small sentry box memorial by a lane — The sentry box memorial at the old RAF Upottery airfield, Smeatharpe, 2019. Mike Searle · CC BY-SA 2.0

Upottery, the night of 5 June

Upottery, also known as Smeatharpe, was home to the 439th Troop Carrier Group, which flew Easy Company into Normandy. A heritage centre in wartime huts, run by the South West Airfields Heritage Trust, remembers the men who left the airfield on the night of 5 June 1944.

The heritage centre is in the wartime huts by the old airfield; check its opening before you travel.

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Normandy · the night of 5 to 6 June 1944

Friend or foe?

The 101st jumped into Normandy carrying brass toy crickets. One click asked who was there. Two clicks back meant a friend. Ask the dark.

On the cricket

No answer yet
No answer yet
No answer yet
No answer yet

Silence. Press the cricket once.

Michelin Guide

Domaine Utah Beach – Le Grand Hard

14 La Rivière, Sainte-Marie-du-Mont

Nineteen rooms in the renovated Norman buildings of a farm at Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, with a small spa and the Chez Arsène restaurant, which serves the estate’s own beef. Not a filming location. Pictured: the memorial at Brécourt nearby.

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Hatfield, Hertfordshire · April to about December 2000

Strike the flats.

Six places from the story, painted on canvas. Knock each one down to read what it really was.

0 of 6 flats struck.

Still standing.
Still standing.
Still standing.
Still standing.
Still standing.
Still standing.

A long low aluminium hangar with a glazed front — The listed flight test hangar at the old Hatfield aerodrome, December 2025. Bikeboy · CC BY-SA 2.0

What is left at Hatfield

The series was made at the former British Aerospace aerodrome in Hatfield, about 30 miles outside London; the crew called it Hatfield Studios, and it had a backlot. Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg brought Band of Brothers to Hertfordshire, and most of it was filmed at the former aerodrome.

The flight test hangar, built in 1952–3 for the de Havilland Comet, is listed Grade II*.

The sets are gone. See the listed flight test hangar from Comet Way; it is private property in daily use.

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Shallow hollows among tall pines in a wood — Foxholes in the Bois Jacques, 2015. Bel Adone · Public domain

Holland and Belgium · September 1944 to January 1945

A bridge, a wood
and a tree.

17 September 1944
The bridge at Son
The memorial garden by the canal bridge at Son, 2011. Alex P. Kok · CC BY-SA 3.0 NL
On 17 September 1944 more than 4,500 paratroopers of the 502nd and 506th landed on the heath north of Son; the 506th had to take the bridge over the Wilhelmina Canal and push on to Eindhoven. As they reached it, the bridge was blown up in front of them. British engineers built a Bailey bridge through the night.
A road bridge over the Wilhelmina Canal with a memorial garden beside it. Use the footpath.
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Winter 1944–45
The Bastogne woods
The Easy Company monument near Foy, 2011. Didi52327 · CC BY-SA 3.0
The Bois Jacques, 2015. Bel Adone · Public domain
A monument to the men of E Company was inaugurated in 2005 by the old Bastogne–Gouvy railway, now a cycle route, at the crossroads between Bizory and Foy. Its left plaque names 14 men of Easy Company; the right one tells the story of the fighting in two languages.
A wood by the old railway, now a cycle route. Keep to the paths and leave the hollows as they are.
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16 January 1945
A tree at Rachamps
The church of Saint-Lambert, Rachamps, 2016. Grentidez · CC BY-SA 4.0
Easy Company stayed in Rachamps after liberating it on 16 January 1945. Their memorial, on the grass in front of the church wall, was installed on 21 September 2002, when Bill Guarnere and Babe Heffron planted a tree.
A small village north of Bastogne. The memorial is on the green in front of the church wall.
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Wagon Léo

Place Mac Auliffe 52, Bastogne

Hotel, restaurant and bistro on the main square of Bastogne, its rooms decorated on a travel theme. A short drive from the Bois Jacques and Rachamps. Not a filming location. Pictured: the Easy Company monument.

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A low walled cemetery enclosure on open heath — The concentration camp cemetery at Hurlach, 2021. Treck08 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Hurlach, Bavaria · 28 April 1945

Hurlach

The 101st Airborne reached Kaufering IV, one of 11 camps in the Kaufering complex, on 28 April 1945, a day after the 12th Armored Division. In 1998 the division was recognised as a liberating unit by the US Army’s Center of Military History and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.

The camp cemetery lies on the Hurlach heath, west of Augsburger Straße. The names and origins of the Jewish victims buried there are not known.

A cemetery. Come quietly, keep to the paths and leave it as you find it.

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A stone house on a rocky mountain top — The Kehlsteinhaus on its summit, 2005. Tage Olsin · CC BY-SA 2.0

Berchtesgaden · 5 May 1945

The Kehlsteinhaus

The 101st reached Berchtesgaden on the morning of 5 May 1945, with the 2nd Battalion, 506th, in the lead; the next morning the French went up to the Eagle’s Nest.

A golden brass lift inside the mountain rises 124 metres to the house, 1,834 metres above sea level. Allied bombing did not damage it, and it was spared being blown up after the war.

Only by the Kehlstein bus from Salzbergstraße 45, then the lift. The schedule runs daily 8.55am–4pm to 8 November 2026, weather permitting.

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A stone portal into the mountain with bronze doors — The tunnel portal to the lift, 2004. F.hilbert · CC BY-SA 4.0

Zell am See · May 1945

The lake

After Berchtesgaden the 2nd Battalion was ordered to Zell am See in Austria, about 30 miles away, for occupation duty. The last episode is called “Points”.

A lakeside town; the Stadtplatz is the old centre.

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Adjusted Service Rating card

Points to go home

0 of 85 · Not yet.

Months in the Army1 point each
Months overseas1 point each
Campaigns5 points each
Medals for merit or valour5 points each
Purple Hearts5 points each
Dependent children (up to three)12 points each

The Army’s own sum, as the National WWII Museum sets it out. Try a man who joined in 1942 and went overseas in 1943.

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Easy Company

As they were.

Head-and-shoulders portrait of Dick Winters in uniform — Dick Winters as a major, probably at the end of the war, about 1945. Unknown author · Public domain

And later.

Dick Winters, seated, handing over a folder at a ceremony — Dick Winters presents his papers to the Army Heritage and Education Center, Carlisle, September 2004. Army Heritage and Education Center · Public domain

Three elderly veterans in caps sitting side by side — Forrest Guth, Clancy Lyall and Amos “Buck” Taylor of Easy Company, 2008. Maj. Carol McClelland · Public domain

Don Malarkey, in a cap, with soldiers in front of an armoured truck — Don Malarkey with soldiers of the 129th Transportation Company, 2008. Maj. Carol McClelland · Public domain

Stephen Ambrose speaking at a microphone — Stephen Ambrose at the National Press Club, 15 August 2001. Jim Wallace (Smithsonian Institution) · CC BY 2.0

Ten episodes on HBO in the autumn of 2001, from “Currahee” to “Points”, from Stephen E. Ambrose’s book and the men’s own interviews, journals and letters. Damian Lewis played Winters; Ron Livingston played Nixon.

On the series

Two clicks back.

A friend. Here is every place, by country.

Where it is now

15 places you can visit, from Georgia to Austria. Two of them, Hatfield and Hambleden, are where the series was made; the rest are where the men were. The manor and field at Brécourt are private: the memorial is by the road.

Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.

General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Three miles up and three miles down. Go early, take water and check locally that the way to the top is open.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Monday to Saturday, 10am–4pm. Adults $15, students $10; children up to eight and active military free.

On the summit of Currahee Mountain, Toccoa, 2019. Authority12345 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Toccoa, Stephens County, Georgia
Currahee Mountain
The US Army trained the first paratroopers of its airborne infantry regiments at Camp Toccoa in 1942.
Three miles up and three miles down. Go early, take water and check locally that the way to the top is open.
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The Currahee Military Museum in Toccoa’s old railway depot, 2012. Dsdugan · CC0
160 N. Alexander St., Toccoa, Georgia
Currahee Military Museum
The museum holds extensive information on the regiments that trained at Camp Toccoa.
Monday to Saturday, 10am–4pm. Adults $15, students $10; children up to eight and active military free.
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