One of the things that interests me a lot about world war 2 is how this is the war were experimenting really took off. The way that the battle field was changing constantly and the different weapons on the front lines was causing for the military to find new solutions for different problems. One of the solutions was the invention of paratroopers, these where the mean who just couple hours before the Normandy landings, flew over the beaches and parachuted down to capture key strategic brides road and other objectives. To this day paratroopers are being used by the army, being in the front lines of Afghanistan they are a key group of elite soldiers whose origin can be traced back to the beginnings of World War 2.
To this day you can find documentary’s of these men during World War 2. One of these is the HBO mini series Band of Brothers. The documentary follows Easy Co. through the entire war from D-Day to Bastogne and to the end of the war where they were the first to get to the famous Hitler’s Eagles Nest, the personal retreat for Hitler during the war given to him by his officials for his 50th birthday.
