Piano keys were her childhood, but the grasp of a pistol was her reality. Polish SOE Agent, Natia Filipska, has lurked among the rubble and the shadows of her occupied-Warsaw for years, ever since the war started and ripped her from the life that had guaranteed happiness and opportunity. The SOE took her in, as well as her two siblings, Klimeck and Ryzshard, arming them with a fighting spirit, and a chance at survival, at a life where they could avenge the ones that were taken. Being apart of the Cichociemni came next, Elite Polish Paratroopers, and it was their ticket home. Ever since her feet had then touched the ground, she had been fighting with her home and her people - the Polish Home Army. The Warsaw Uprising got her captured, and then being on the run nearly got her killed - her only ally was the pistol at her side. The Dutch Resistance of Eindhoven, Holland housed her, but it would never be her home. Upon liberation though, her path crossed with an Airborne Infantry - the 101st Airborne Division - the Screaming Eagles - American men. To ensure her safety back to Warsaw, Poland and her family, Easy Company and their men might be her only hope. But hope was lost long ago. ------------------------- " Well, I've been 'fraid of changin' 'Cause I've built my life around you But time makes you bolder Even children get older And I'm gettin' older, too...." - Landslide, Fleetwood Mac ---------- mature themes are held within the context of this story that may be triggering to some people: death, smoking, alcohol, killings, and severe depression, along with mental health issues. --------- band of brothers + oc's { October 2nd 2020 } UPDATES BEGIN - Fridays starting 10 - 2 - 20 started: 7/4/20 ended: 3/15/23 ------------------------ NEW COVER!!! done by ME!!! credits on words by @swedeandspicy

Florence Hilton is a British farm girl training as a front line nurse in 1942. However, the US scouts put an end to the plan and whisk her away to camp toccoa to become the first female combat medic, she endures the formidable Captain Sobel, D-day, Operation Market Garden, Bastogne and is one of the first to enter the Eagles Nest. Flo was just a farm girl in 1942 but by 1945 she will no longer be the same girl, she has lost so much but has gained her band of brothers

At 26, a cold and composed officer of the Women's Auxiliary Corps, Lieutenant Edith Sink is in control of her life. Within the parameters she has set, everything makes sense. Until the day Captain Richard Winters walks into her office. Winters/OC/Nixon

Madison Klein was only a young girl when the United States entered World War II. After her older brother signed up for the Marines and the boys she knew were going away, too, Madison became determined to help out anyway that she could. She signed up for the Nurse Corps, but she ends up serving with Easy Company, the men who will become her family for the rest of her days. REVISIONS COMPLETE AS OF 05/16/2022.

Ella Sawyer had not expected to end up with Easy Company when she had enlisted as a nurse. But who could have known that the Army decided to experiment with women in combat? Thrown into the world of soldiers and paratroopers, Ella quickly has to prove that strength can have many froms.

Katie Shaw and her bomb detection dog, Whiskey, have only ever known the inside of base camp and routine patrols. After returning from their first tour, the duo is deployed to Iraq where they will serve alongside the First Reconnaissance Battalion as they make their way into Baghdad during the first weeks of what will soon be known as "Operation Iraqi Freedom".

When the USA entered World War 2 after the attack on Pearl Harbor, thousands of men went to enlist in the Armed Forces. Half a year later, the Army announced that they were looking for female volunteers for a special program. And since it is an experimental unit, the Army decides to integrate them in another brand-new unit: The Airborne. Follow a group of extraordinary women who refuse to let anybody stop them from fighting for their country alongside the men. Read about the bonds they forge, the challenges they face and the experiences they gather.

After completing two years of service as regular infantry, First Sergeant Megan Bonti finally decides to request a transfer to be a part of the paratroops. She had just about had enough of her commanding officer underestimating her abilities and wanted something new. She had been one of the first qualified paratroops and thus decided to transfer to where her skills could be better used. When she first arrives at Toccoa, she isn't quite sure what she's in for. The men seem welcoming enough but are quite a rowdy bunch. Despite being their new senior NCO, they quickly take her under their wing and she's very much like a sister to them, dubbing her 'Angel' or 'Angel Eyes'. This does not go unnoticed by a certain Lt. Nixon who finds himself wanting to know more about this woman. #1 in - maybeoneday

In 1939 Evangeline Marquis de Lafayette McGuire has run out of options. Tired of hearing that people are dying and being told to stay in the kitchen, she jumps ship from Brooklyn to France to fight in the war. Liberating camps and saving soldiers, the papers name her the War Angel. Some believe she's a myth, a story made up by morphine filled soldiers, or nothing but a piece of american propaganda. but Richard Winters and the other men of Easy company are about to learn how real she is.

"Women don't belong in war" was something Margot Kessler and Antonia Winslow heard day in and day out, but never once did they let those words deter them from serving their country alongside the men. They were unbelievably strong and skilled beyond any shadow of a doubt; they were the sisters in a band of brothers.