Carentan (E03)

D-Day Plus 2. Scattered Easy members run into Pt. Albert Blithe, and head to a village to regroup. There, Lt. Harry Welsh delivers Easy's next orders: take Carentan, the only town where armored vehicles from Omaha and Utah beaches can link up. On D-Day Plus 3, Winters briefs the men, and Easy heads into Carentan, encountering fierce resistance from Germans holed up in buildings. The town is eventually secured, although Winters gets hit above his ankle by ricochet gunfire. Recovered from a case of "hysterical blindness," Blithe admits to Easy's Ronald Speirs he slept in a ditch on D-Day, and never really fought. "You need to accept that you're already dead," replies Speirs. Winters tells his men the Germans are planning a counter-attack; during watch that night, Talbert is stabbed after awakening a jittery George Smith, who mistakes him for a German. During the next day's skirmish, Blithe finds his trigger finger, and even volunteers to be lead scout checking out a farmhouse. It's a decision he will regret, especially after Winters arrives to tell the men they're being pulled off the front line and are going back to England — at least temporarily. (Home Box Office)