Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT The final episode of the 2001 war miniseries Band of Brothers offers a bittersweet ending that is only fitting for real-life soldiers at the end of a real-life war. The series, created by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, tells the true stories of World War II's Easy Company, 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, U.S. Army. Band of Brothers first originated as a book by Stephen A.
Lewis Nixon struggled with alcoholism and failed marriages post-war, but eventually fell in love with a Japanese-American woman and traveled the world. Buck Compton had a flourishing career after the war, going from being a police officer with the LAPD to retiring as Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal in 1990.
Ultimately, this surplus of alcohol led to plenty of festivities and celebrations among the solider, but also some serious danger. In the Band of Brothers finale, a soldier from a different company drank way too much and accidentally shot Easy Company's Charles Grant in the head. Though Grant survives, it is a horrifying blow that never should have happened. When Easy Company eventually found Grant's shooter, they beat him up for what he had done.