- Easy Company takes on German troops in the French town of Carentan, and the battle takes its toll on one soldier who is badly traumatized by the experience.
- Easy Company's next objective is to take the town of Carenten where they engage in street to street fighting with a doggedly determined enemy. The fighting is hard and there are many casualties. Having pushed the Germans out, Easy Company now has to hold the position and soon face a counter-attack from German forces, including artillery and tanks. For Pvt. Albert Blythe, the pressure and stress pushes him to the breaking point. He even suffers from hysterical blindness but soon recovers with a few words of encouragement from Winters. After 36 days in battle, Easy Company is finally relieved and get to return to their base in England.—garykmcd
- Episode Three, entitled Carentan, explores Easy Company's participation in the Battle of Carentan. This battle commenced on June 8th, 1944 and will continue until the 506th is relieved by the 83rd Infantry Division and Tanks of the 2nd Armored Division on June 27th.
In the opening scene, an Easy Company member, Private Albert Blithe (Marc Warren), stands alone in a field, staring at the sky in a daze, most likely shock. He is found by his fellow soldiers who take him to a rallying point near the French village of Carentan. The men muster up for an operation that will liberate Carentan, which is heavily fortified by the German army.
Easy Company approaches Carentan and are fired upon by the Germans. Initially pinned down in ditches along a road leading there, they manage to advance and take out armed positions. The German army opens fire with heavy artillery and many of Easy Company's men are killed or severely wounded. As Lieutenant Winters (Damian Lewis) organizes the operation, he is hit by in the leg by a ricocheted bullet. While Blithe joins his comrades in the battle, he suddenly becomes blinded. His sight returns not long after.
Easy Company is ordered to the outskirts of Carentan to secure a larger perimeter. As they approach a large gully, they are engaged by a German armored unit. There is ample cover for both sides and a stalemate begins. Blithe, still in shock, cowers in a foxhole. He is lectured by Lieutenant Speirs (Matthew Settle) about bravery in combat. When the battle starts up the next morning, Easy Company sees the German unit being reinforced by several tanks. The battle (called "Bloody Gulch") becomes even more furious and desperate for Easy Company, but they manage to hold the line. Lieutenant Welsh and another private are able to take out a German tank with a bazooka and Winters is able to stir Blithe into combat. As the German armor advances the American 2nd Armored Division arrives and engages the Germans, who are routed. Blithe approaches the German line and finds the body of a soldier he shot; he takes the edelweiss flower from the dead man's coat and keeps it.
Another patrol is organized, and a volunteer is needed to inspect a nearby house. Blithe volunteers and is hit and wounded by a sniper. Blithe is taken to a hospital in England and finds himself, though catatonic, in the same ward as Popeye Wynn (Nicholas Aaron). Blithe, along with another soldier, is awarded the Purple Heart. It is July 13, 1944 when 506th returns to England, where they enjoy Rest & Recouperation Leave. Sergeant Malarkey (Scott Grimes) and another soldier are riding toward the village of Aldbourne on a stolen German Army motorcycle. While they are on leave, Easy Company celebrates at a small banquet, where they meet Private Edward "Babe" Heffron (Robin Laing), who will join them for the rest of the war. Sergeant Lipton (Donnie Wahlberg) walks in and announces that their leave has been cut short and they will be returning to France, where they will prepare for the Battle of Eindhoven, which was scheduled for September 17, 1944.
Malarkey goes to a small house where a woman living there does laundry for the Army. Malarkey picks up his own and stops when she tells him that several of the 101st's other members had never picked up their laundry. Malarkey realizes that the bundles belong to men who were killed in combat as far back as D-Day, so he takes them to turn them in to the Supply Tent so that the deceased persons property can be sent to their family, and their Army property can be cleared from their record.
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