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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.
Synopsis
David Webster has finally returned to the field after being injured in Holland. However, his fellow soldiers have suffered a great deal without him and resent him for failing to return sooner like other soldiers did. Another soldier, Lieutenant Travers, is also struggling to be accepted, quickly prevented from taking part in what may be the last field operation for the company . Using the officer, Bourke may be able to rekindle his lost friendships and grant the replacement officer's wish of seeing combat.
Plot
The episode begins in the French town of CFRAM, where PFC. David Webster returns to Easy Company which is going to the town by trucks. Webster then recognizes T/4. Kevin Macken, but Macken 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 1st Sgt. Carwood Lipton. Webster is setting himself on the truck, and Liebgott thinks Webster loved his hospital, because the 101st Airborne Division left Holland 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. "Yeah, where is Guarnere? Is he still your 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.
Trivia
- Forrest Guth's role in the patrol as the interpreter in Hagenau was replaced by David Kenyon Webster. In reality, Webster was not on that patrol, but was involved in the patrol assigned to cover the patrol from across the river with an M1919 Browning.