Trivia

The first episode was released September 9, 2001.

Richard Winters supplied Tom Hanks with a four-volume set of his notes. These looseleaf books contained personal memories, photographs, maps and letters from other Easy company men. The script was based on these pages.
--Source: Biggest Brother: The Life Of Major Dick Winters, Page 258

At the Hatfield Aerodrome in Hertfordshire (UK), twelve different towns were constructed on the large open field, including the towns of Bastogne, Belgium; Eindhoven, Netherlands; and Carentan, France.

Band of Brothers was the most expensive television miniseries ever made by HBO or any other television network. The budget was approximately $125 million, which comes to an average of $12.5 million per episode,

The dummies were modeled after auto crash test dummies, so they had the proper weight and dimensions, and their joints behaved like human joints. When the dummy took a hit, the electromagnet was released and the dummy crumpled as a human would.

Five kitchens ran simultaneously to feed the concurrent film units.

The 10-part miniseries features 500 speaking roles.

One important special effects innovation was the use of human dummies on electromagnetic bases, which could be posed in any position, holding weapons and gear.

The forest set, recreating the Bois Jacques in Bastogne, was built in an airplane hanger using real trees, as well as 250 trees created by the special effects department.

One-third of a million pounds of recycled paper were used to create the snow for the forest set - the largest ever used in a production - and it took four weeks to dress the entire set. The total budget for the miniseries was $120,000,000. Of that, construction costs were $17,000,000.

All of the insignia are either originals or exact replicas, down to an identical stitch count on the "screaming eagle" patch, and "wings" pins cast from original molds.

2,000 German and American uniforms were purchased or manufactured.

All of the 1,200 civilian costumes were authentic vintage clothing.

The wardrobe department hired the Corcoran Boot Co. to manufacture 500 pairs of paratrooper jump boots to the original Army specifications.

The village (Carentan), which became 11 different European cities and villages, was 12 acres - the size of nine American football fields.

By the third episode of shooting, the special effects department had used more pyrotechnics than were used in the entire production of Saving Private Ryan (1998).

The art department reconstructed four World War II-era tanks, using the frames of Soviet T-34 tanks from WW II and British Army Personnel Carriers as the foundations.

The actors endured a grueling ten day boot camp where they learned the basics, from how to wear a uniform and stand at attention, to sophisticated field tactics and parachute jump training. The average day was 16 hours long, beginning at 5:00 a.m., rain or shine, with strenuous calisthenics and a three-to-five-mile run, followed by hours of tactical training, including weapons handling and jump preparation.

The Hatfield Aerodrome in Hertfordshire, previously host to part of the Saving Private Ryan (1998) shoot, became the principal location, and sets of the English, Dutch and French sites, including a river and massive dykes, were created there.

Hatfield offered 1,000 acres of open space as well as empty airplane hangars - perfect for indoor sets and construction needs - as well as office space.

Almost all the main actors were cast because of their close physical resemblance to the real-life soldiers they were portraying.

More than 2,000 extras worked on the miniseries during the course of production

Around 700 authentic weapons and almost 400 rubber prop weapons were used in production

A heavy day of filming required up to 14,000 rounds of ammunition