There are few companies in the 101st Airborne that achieved the status that the men of Easy Company would achieve during their World War II career. From the company's founding at Camp Toccoa, Georgia, the men of Easy Company were destined to influence the course of the war. They became legends in American military history with their acts of courage and heroism displayed in the face of the German army. From Normandy to Hitler's Eyrie, their fame grew with each major mission they accomplished. The generations that would follow respected the uniform they wore, and the camaraderie within the company became deeper than that of an ordinary soldier at war with his peers. Throughout the book, Stephen Ambrose points out that the men of Easy Company were given the most difficult missions of the war clearly because they were the elite, the best of the best to say. But he would go deeper into turning these men into brothers, a band of brothers. “At the height of its effectiveness, in Holland in October 1944 and in the Ardennes in January 1945, it was as good a rifle company as there was in the world.” From the beginning of Band of Brothers, author Stephen Ambrose argued positively that the men of Easy Company of the 101st Airborne were the best and most well-trained military company that entered World War II and exited it. Ambrose supports his thesis by writing about the company's formation at Camp Toccoa, Georgia, from July 1942. to December of that year. The men who joined Easy Company, founded in 1942, were promised extra pay, great exhilaration and the thrill of taking the war to the Nazis by jumping out of a plane as a paratrooper specials would have a...... middle of paper ......n An American soldier shot two German civilians, a British major, and seriously wounded a member of Easy Company before running away Cases like these were common and they would continue until the end of the war with the repatriation of the troops. The men of the Eastern Company came from very different places and circumstances. Each individual volunteered for personal reasons and was a stranger when they first arrived. In reality, the only thing the men had in common was the brotherhood they had developed in the late summer of 1942. However, once the war was over, the men of Easy had undeniably proven their worth. It didn't matter what task Easy completed, nor the odds or how outnumbered they were by the enemy; their elite training, ability to take on the most difficult missions and ability to complete them successfully would be what generations would honor them for years to come.