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Patrol at Hagenau |
"The Last Patrol" is the 8th Episode of Band of Brothers. It follows the perspective of Private Webster as he recounts this episode of how the members of Easy Company, who have had a psycholigical toll at Bastogne, go on a patrol at Hagenau for POWs.
Plot
The episode begins in the French town of Hagenau, where PFC. David Kenyon Webster returns to Easy Company which is going to the town by trucks. Webster then recognizes T/4. George Luz, but Luz doesn't remember Webster at the first sight.
Webster then walks over to his old outfit, Easy Company's 1st Platoon, but Lieutenant Jack E. Foley don't know who Webster is, so he explains. Webster wonders where Cpl. Donald B. Hoobler, his old friend, is. Webster isn't given any answer. Then PFC. Roy W. Cobb and SSgt. John W. Martin tells Webster to go and report to the 2nd Platoon, and finds T/5. Joseph T. "Joe" Liebgott, SSgt. Donald G. Malarkey and Private Eugene Jackson on the 2nd Platoon truck.
Liebgott says that Malarkey is going to be promoted to 2nd Lieutenant, but he means 1stSgt. Carwood Lipton. Webster is setting himself on the truck, and Liebgott thinks Webster loved his hospital, because the 101st Airborne Division left Holland for four months ago.
Webster says he was at the replacement depot, and Liebgott says that he surely tried to help them at Bastogne, which Webster don't know how he possibly could have done that. Liebgott says that PFC. Robert E. "Popeye" Wynn found a way from the hospital, and SSgt. William J. "Bill" Guarnere. "Anyway, where's Guarnere? Is he still platoon sergeant?" Webster asks. "No", Jackson answers, "he got hit". The truck stops and they have arrived to Hagenau, and Jackson explains to Webster that Guarnere's foot was blown off at Foy.