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The title of the book and series comes from the St Crispin's Day Speech in William Shakespeare's play Henry V, delivered by King Henry before the Battle of Agincourt. Excerpts from interviews with some of the survivors are used as preludes to the episodes, but they are not identified by name until the end of the finale. The characters portrayed are based on members of Easy Company. The series took some literary license, adapting history for dramatic effect and series structure. The events are based on Ambrose's research and recorded interviews with Easy Company veterans. The series dramatizes the history of 'Easy' Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, of the 101st Airborne Division, from jump training in the United States through its participation in major actions in Europe, up until Japan's capitulation and the end of World War II. The series won Emmy and Golden Globe awards in 2001 for best miniseries. Episodes first aired on HBO, starting on September 9, 2001. It was created by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, who also served as executive producers, and who had collaborated on the 1998 World War II film Saving Private Ryan. Ambrose's 1992 non-fiction book of the same name. Television Distribution (television)Д«and of Brothers is a 2001 American war drama miniseries based on historian Stephen E. He will be given a military burial at Calvary Cemetery.Warner Bros. Mauser was preceded in death by his wife, Irene.ДЄ funeral service is scheduled for Wednesday in Omaha. Mauser had been fighting pancreatic cancer, Zahn said. I did what I was told, and letвЂ™s leave it at that.' 'DonвЂ™t call me a hero,' Mauser told the Lincoln Journal Star in a 2009 interview. He preferred to stay out of the limelight. 'He enjoyed movies, and he absolutely loved вЂ™Band of Brothers,вЂ™' she said, adding that her father put the DVD on often.ДЄfter his actions became known, Mauser reunited with some of his Army buddies and made a few public appearances. Mauser, who was a watch repairman, worked hard and 'prided himself on providing for his family,' Fowler said. Besides being 'extremely humble,' Fowler said, her father was also sensitive about talking about the war in front of his wife, who had relatives injured in the conflict.

Zahn said Mauser kept his service a secret, even from his relatives. Mauser was not among the soldiers portrayed in the miniseries. Its producers included actor Tom Hanks and director Steven Spielberg.

The miniseries followed Easy Company from its training in Georgia to the warвЂ™s end in 1945. Winters, of Hershey, Pa., died earlier this month at age 92. Historian Stephen Ambrose interviewed Easy Company leader Dick Winters for the 1992 book 'Band of Brothers,' upon which the HBO miniseries that began airing in September 2001 was based. The 101st also helped defend Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge. He was assigned to Company E, 506th Regiment - Easy Company - which participated in the D-Day invasion of France and the follow-up Operation Market Garden. 18, 1916 in LaSalle, Ill., he was drafted in 1942 and volunteered for the 101st Airborne Division. Mauser, 94, was the oldest living member of Easy Company, which is often better known now as the 'Band of Brothers.'Д«orn Dec. He met Mauser during a 2009 Honor Flight trip to Washington, D.C., to see the World War II memorial. 'He said, вЂ™I know all those places,вЂ™' Fowler said.Д«ut before that, 'he never talked about it for years and years and years,' said Terry Zahn, president of the Midwest chapter of the 101st Airborne Division Association. Mauser, who died Friday, told his family that some of the things in the miniseries, like the locations of buildings, werenвЂ™t quite what he remembered from being there in person. His role came to light only after a friend loaned him a copy of the HBO miniseries 'Band of Brothers,' said his daughter, Laurie Fowler of Omaha. (AP) - A member of the 'Band of Brothers' who fought in some of World War IIвЂ™s fiercest European battles, Ed Mauser shunned the limelight and kept his service with the Army unit a secret, even from some of his family.

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