How Band Of Brothers Changed Blithe’s Death (What Really Happened)

The Band of Brothers Albert Blithe death is a memorable part of the episode “Carentan” which focuses on the perspective of the Easy Company paratrooper, but the series makes an erroneous claim about his fate. After Blithe is shot in the neck toward the end of the episode, Band of Brothers‘ ending text states that he never recovered from his wounds and died in 1948 – but that date is actually off by about two decades. Even more surprisingly, the historical mistake in the Band of Brother Albert Blithe death originates from Stephen A. Ambrose’s nonfiction book of the same name, upon which the series is based.