War has played a key role in the history of the United States, from the nation's founding

right down to the present. War made the U.S. independent, kept it together, increased its

size, and established it as a global superpower. Understanding America's wars is essential for understanding American history.

Welcome to Key Battles of American History,

a podcast in which we discuss American history through the lens of the most important battles of America's wars.

Here is your host, James Early.

Thank you. your host, James Early. Hello and welcome back to Key Battles of American History.

In this episode, Sean and I will continue our series of in-depth discussions of the epic

award-winning 2001 HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. Today we're going to

break down episode two, Day of Days for you. And before we really get going into the plot and

into our analysis, I want to mention that since the last episode that we recorded, Band of Brothers

and the Pacific, its companion series, also HBO,

also very good. They have both come out on Netflix. We're recording this in late September

of 2023, and I believe this episode is going to come out in sometime in November, I think,

a couple months. So I imagine by the time you hear this episode, it'll still be on Netflix. So if you're a Netflix person, you can watch the entire series for free and the Pacific as well. So there's your public service announcement. Netflix did not pay me to make that statement. But just wanted to make sure everybody knows that.

And it is still available on Max. It is still available on Mac.

It's still on HBO Max.

Okay.

And you can still purchase it on Amazon if you want to.

Yeah.

Or you can buy it on DVD.

Yeah.

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