A young soldier lied about his age to get into combat (he's only 16) and wants to prove he's worthy of staying with Easy Company.; Adolf Hitler gives a solid gold eagle to the leader of his finest desert Panzer regiment. A lone American soldier ends up with the eagle by accident and has to fight off the German attempts to recover it.; Jim Lucas, a lone Marine on a Pacific island, awaiting a final Japanese attack, writes a note to his son Eddie Lucas and puts it in a canteen and throws it in the ocean. As fate would have it, his son was on a landing craft on the other side of the island that is hit by a mine. The only survivor is Eddie Lucas, who finds the canteen with his name on it and goes on a one-man rampage that reunites him with his father.; A summary of the 75th Infantry Division's winter offensive in Germany in early 1944.