You all may have recalled the HBO Miniseries and book "Band of Brothers" based on the legendary WWII Airborne Infantry company of the 101st Airborne... One of the veterans of this story recently passed away at the age of 92... :'( You all may recall Captain Richard Winters of Easy Company 506th PIR 101st Airborne.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/01/10/obit.dick.winters/
For those of you WWII buffs that haven't seen it, I would recommend watching Band of Brothers or reading the book by Steven Ambrose. Also check out the recent mini series by HBO The Pacific. It is based on the campaign in pacific in WWII.