Movie Description:
PART 5 CROSSROADS Winters leads a risky mission on a Dutch dike, resulting in a resounding victory, for which he is promoted toBattalion Executive Officer. Dissatisfied with his new, largely administrative job, Winters is concernedabout the leadership of the threecompanies he now commands. After a weekend pass to Paris, news arrives of a massive Axis effort in the Ardennes Forest,threatening to break the Alliedlines. Easy Co. races in to hold the line, ill-equipped for the bitterly coldweather and theentrenched battle ahead.PART 6 BASTOGNE In the dead of winter, in the forest outside of Bastogne, Belgium, the men ofEasy Company struggle to hold the line alone while fending off frostbite andhunger, having arrived with no winter clothes and little supplies and ammunition. Medic Eugene Roe is overwhelmed, on edge and close to combatexhaustion when he finds friendship witha Belgian nurse. Easy Co. spends a miserable Christmas in the trenches, andreceives the news that the Germanarmy`s demand for surrender wasmet withGen. McAuliffe`s defiant answer: "Nuts!"
