Welcome back to the HBO official Band of Brothers podcast.

This is Roger Bennett, I say Flash, you say Thunder, episode 10.

Yes, the final instalment of Band of Brothers, the man of easy company, have run couragey,

plummeted through the flat-filled skies of Normandy, liberated Eindhoven,

survived that hellscape of baston, and fought the way through France, into Germany,

we now find him in Austria, where Dick Winters and Lewis Knicks and finally Britisher Topic,

they never dared even ask themselves during the battle to liberate Europe.

With no enemy left to fight, the downtime means this is an episode featuring

board men with access to too many lethal weapons, too much alcohol and excess free time,

a dangerous, dangerous cocktail that combined with the threat of redeployment to the Pacific theatre

for those without the requisite points to go home means there's a dark cloud hanging over the

sunny Austrian countryside. The enemy had surrendered, but somehow men were still dying.

Young men wanted to be home with their families by now, who'd served with distinction since

before Normandy were stuck here because they didn't have the points. A weight that is lifted

in a final, glorious set piece, when Major Winters interrupts that company baseball game

to break news, they will force the Men of Easy Company to begin to confront an entirely new challenge.

This morning, President Truman received the unconditional surrender from the Japanese.

War is over.

Regardless of points, medals or wounds, each man in the 101st Airborne will be going home.

Each of us would be forever connected by our shared experience and each would have to rejoin

the world as best he could. And so we learn what would become of each of our heroes,

where and how they lived out their lives.

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