17th Airborne the Bulge to the Rhine (1990)

This is the story of five soldiers, members of the 681st Glider Field Artillery Battalion of the 17th Airborne, five young men who went to war because there was a job to do. They represent hundreds of thousands of anonymous GI's who answered the call and fought and struggled and suffered and survived. They confronted the grim reality of ground combat, the sickening fear, the loss of buddies, and death. Thrown into combat during the Battle of the Bulge on Christmas Day 1944 and then in March 1945 were dropped over the Rhine in gliders as part of Operation Varsity, these young men fought their way across Germany, tree to tree, farmhouse to farmhouse, foot by foot, right to the end of the war. They were a true Band of Brothers. Soldiers interviewed were Capt. Robert Harrsch, Sgt. Walter Byrd, Jack Fisher, Carl Arend, and Stanley Polniak.