ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the Second World War based motion picture Saving Private Ryan and the television mini-series Band of Brothers. The award-winning movie Saving Private Ryan follows the trials of a squad of US soldiers that, shortly after helping to secure Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944, has volunteered to extract a missing US paratrooper whose three brothers have been killed in action in various war theaters. The famous opening scene in Saving Private Ryan depicts a landing craft transporting, in the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, US soldiers to that portion of Normandy’s Omaha Beach designated as Dog Green Sector. Based on the book by Ambrose, the television mini-series Band of Brothers follows the Second World War exploits of E Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the US 101st Airborne Division. The first episode of Band of Brothers, titled “Currahee,” introduces viewers to the paratroopers’ training regimen at Camp Taccoa, Georgia, in 1942.
