Berchtesgaden

This episode presents the latest movements of the Easy Company and its men in Europe.

The Easy is sent to capture the "Eagle nest" of Hitler at the top of the Kehlstein mountain in Berchtesgaden, southern Germany, in Bavaria. The roads are blocked by obstacles set up by the last followers of Hitler. Members of the E-Company were involved in the opening of these roads.

The 3rd battalion of the 506th regiment arrived in the town of Berchtesgaden by a different route than that taken by the Easy and went fired at by two 88 mm guns on their right flank. During this attack, Nick Kozovsky of the 3rd battalion HQ and Claude Rankin, H Company, were killed. William C. Knox, I Company, is injured. Des soldats de la Compagnie H ont attaqué les servants allemands des canons et les ont poursuivit. Soldiers from C Company attacked the servants of the German guns and have moved on.

The Easy but was not the first unit to enter Berchtesgaden and the Berghof complex. A battalion of the 3rd U.S. infantry division arrived in Berchtesgaden followed by the second French armored division led by General Leclerc then followed by the first battalion of the 506th led by C Company.

Les soldats Français, sous les ordres du général Leclerc, sont les premiers à pénétrer dans le Nid d'Aigle d'Hitler au sommet de la montagne Kehlstein, suivis par la Compagnie C et des membres du 321st GFA Battalion. French soldiers under the command of General Leclerc, are the first to enter the "Eagle nest" of Hitler on the Kehlstein mountaintop, followed by C Company and members of the 321st GFA battalion.

End of war

Every American soldier during the war earned points which allowed, to return home. These points were "won" while being wounded at combat or simply as a function of time spent on the front.

This episode shows that even if the war was over in Europe (VE-day - Victory in Europe - has been proclaimed by the Allies after the surrender of the German army in early May 1945), it continued in the Pacific for the Americans and Winters has established a training programf or his men if the Easy would be sent to fight against Japanese troops.

The end of the episode is as follows: the men of Easy, in the middle of the beautiful landscape of the Austrian Alps, play baseball. Winters then announced them the unconditional surrender of the Japanese in the Pacific. For Americans, for those men who fought the war more than a year, far from home, the war was over and they could resume their life where it stopped in 1941.