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Sep 15, 2017 · To help you in your upcomming trip to Bastogne I created a map on Google Maps. Now you can easily pinpoint the different sites and locations so you can visit them yourself! For those who don’t have the opportunity to visit Bastogne or Foy there’s a YouTube video I created.
- 5 Hatfield Aerodrome
- 4 North Weald Airfield
- 3 Hambleden
- 2 Home County Forests
- 1 Bernese Oberland, Switzerland
A Former British Aerospace Factory That Occupied Hertfordshire
The vast majority of Band of Brothers was filmed in Hatfield Aerodrome, a former British Aerospace factory that occupied a vast swath of land in the county of Hertfordshire, England. Spielberg and Hanks had previously used the location to shoot parts of Saving Private Ryan. The large open field was used to represent twelve different European towns, including Bastogne in Belgium, Eindhoven in The Netherlands and Carentan in France. The production team even constructed a fake forest to simulate...
The Planes Taking Off In North Weald Airfield Are CGI
Ironically, the D-Day airfield take-off scenes that punctuate Band of Brothers’ first episode could not be filmed at the Hatfield airfield. To capture the beginning of Easy Company’s journey into Normandy, the production used North Weald Airfield in the neighboring county of Essex. Fittingly, North Weald was an actual tactical location used by British planes in World War 2. However, the planes seen taking off from the airfield at the episode’s end are CGI.
Hambleden Was Used As A Replacement For Aldbourne
The vast majority of the training sequences from Band of Brothers episode one were shot in the aerodrome. However, a real village, Hambleden, was used for the scenes shot in the village of Aldbourne. Hambleden is in Buckinghamshire, another county neighboring Hertfordshire. The picturesque town also features in the 1968 British film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
The Location Was Also Used For Gladiator, Children of Men, and War Horse
Additional scenes of Band of Brothers had to be filmed in real forests, although the filmmakers did not stray far from Hertfordshire, shooting in two forests in the home counties. Surrey’s Bourne Woods was used for some of the training exercise scenes in episode one. Bourne Woods has served as a filming location for numerous high-profile films, including Gladiator, Children of Men and another Steven Spielberg project, War Horse. Ashdown Forest of East Sussex was used for a sequence in episode...
The Location Was Used For Scenes Set In Austria & Germany
For the scenes set in Austria and Germany, the Band of Brothers cast and crew went to the Bernese Oberland in Switzerland and the nearby hotel Giessbach. The Bernese area features prominently in Band of Brothers’ final episode, “Points.” Parts of the Bernese Grimsel Pass were used for the site of Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest. The Austrian town of Zell am See is represented by the Swiss village of Brienz and the grand hotel at which the main characters stay for episode 10 is, in reality, the hotel Gi...
The ‘Band of Brothers’ Story – Where it actually happened. The exploits of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion 506th P.I.R. are well known thanks to the book by the historian Stephen Ambrose and the HBO mini series. In the following pictures we wish to show you where in reality some of their famous actions in Normandy took place.
Bastogne, and the nearby village of Foy, and the forest around these towns, needed to be defended against the incoming German forces. It was the task of the 101 Airborne Easy Company (Band of Brothers) to defend this region, together with other allied companies.
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Where did Easy Company go after the Battle of Bastogne?
On 13 January 1945, the Fontaine Woods overlooking the village of Foy in Bastogne, was the frontline for the men of Company E. From this location on the edge of the woods, they launched their attack on Foy, to liberate it from German troops.
