Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

by Stephen E. Ambrose

eating: powdered milk, powdered eggs, dehydrated apricots, dehydrated potatoes, horse meat, Brussels sprouts, turnips, and cabbage.

seven packs of cigarettes per week, plus three candy bars, one pack of gum, one cake of soap, one box of matches, one package of razor blades.

The realization that we were being fattened for the slaughter didn’t stop us from going back for seconds.”

I didn’t look that bad. Winters: You don’t have to be ashamed of it. Somebody shooting at you. Strohl: He’s saying I shit my pants. I never.

When they needed to relieve themselves, they went to the third floor, “where the toilet bowl was only half full.”

(many G.I.s noted that so far as they could tell the only people in the world who regarded a flush toilet and soft white toilet paper as a necessity were the Germans and the Americans),