A rivalry blazes between Lt. Sobel and a junior officer who has earned the respect of the men in Easy Company.
Easy Company sustains casualties while waging battle in Normandy; Pvt. Blithe has trouble adjusting to combat; the company returns to England.
A fresh group of paratroopers joins Easy Company shortly before it parachutes into German-occupied Holland; the company has to retreat when it meets a superior force.
Winters leads a dangerous mission on a Dutch dike; although ill-equipped, Easy Company races to help hold the Allied line in the Ardennes Forest.
Easy Company spends Christmas in the trenches while trying to hold the line in the forest outside Bastogne, Belgium.
After taking Bastogne, Belgium, the company moves on to the town of Foy, where many lives are lost as a result of Lt. Dike's incompetence.
Lt. Jones leads a patrol across a river to take enemy prisoners, but the loss of a paratrooper leads Winters to refuse to send another patrol the next night.
Easy Company enters Germany and discovers an abandoned Nazi concentration camp occupied by emaciated prisoners, just as the local citizens learn that Hitler is dead.
After capturing Eagle's Nest, Hitler's mountaintop fortress, the men of Easy Company face deployment to the Pacific.