My father was in Easy Company, the real Band of Brothers. These are the two photographs his parents took the day he came home. Oakland, 1945.Aug 3 ⋅ PatChristensonSon ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting ⋅ #1945
Michael Fassbender's first major role was playing my father in Band of Brothers. This is him on location during filming.Aug 7 ⋅ PatChristensonSon ⋅ r/popculturechat
Michael Fassbender's first major role was playing my father. He died before the casting and never knew.Aug 14 ⋅ PatChristensonSon ⋅ r/FIlm
Michael Fassbender's first major role was playing my father in Band of Brothers. This is him on location filming the Eagle's Nest episode, 2001. My father died before the casting and never knew.Aug 7 ⋅ PatChristensonSon ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting ⋅ #2001
You have seen this moment a hundred times in Band of Brothers. This is one of the real ones. My father is on the right. 1944.Jul 28 ⋅ PatChristensonSon ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool ⋅ #1944
Michael Fassbender's first big role was playing my father in Band of Brothers. Dad died before it was cast and never knew.Jul 30 ⋅ PatChristensonSon ⋅ r/moviecritic
My father, back left with no helmet, looking like James Dean in a Dutch street. Easy Company of Band of Brothers, Holland 1944Aug 10 ⋅ PatChristensonSon ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool ⋅ #1944
My father Pat Christenson, right, was a machine gunner with Easy Company, the Band of Brothers, and was known among the men as their resident artist, 1944.Aug 11 ⋅ PatChristensonSon ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1944
My father was Easy Company, 506th PIR. The Band of Brothers. I served in the Army National Guard. We were both sergeants. He never talked about the worst of it, he drew it instead.Jul 28 ⋅ PatChristensonSon ⋅ r/army
My father came home from Easy Company, the real Band of Brothers, in 1945. Two photographs, minutes apart. Every one of us remembers our own version of this day.Aug 5 ⋅ PatChristensonSon ⋅ r/army ⋅ #1945
My father jumping from a C-47 with Easy Company — and the drawing he made of it afterwardJul 29 ⋅ PatChristensonSon ⋅ r/WWIIplanes ⋅ #47
T/Sgt. Burton Pat Christenson, Easy Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne, one of the men of Band of Brothers, home in Oakland after Normandy, Holland and Bastogne, December 1945Aug 19 ⋅ PatChristensonSon ⋅ r/RareHistoricalPhotos ⋅ #1945
Easy Company's headquarters C-47 came apart in the air over Normandy on D-Day. A paratrooper who watched it from his parachute drew it from memory forty years later.Aug 5 ⋅ PatChristensonSon ⋅ r/WWIIplanes ⋅ #47
The paratrooper who drew this is in the picture. T/Sgt. Pat Christenson, Easy Company, 506th PIR, coming down onto a German 20mm gun position on D-Day. Body:Aug 6 ⋅ PatChristensonSon ⋅ r/BattlePaintings
My father was Easy Company, Band of Brothers. He rewrote Twas the Night Before Christmas about Bastogne, and sent a card to those men every Christmas for the rest of his life.Aug 14 ⋅ PatChristensonSon ⋅ r/army
The real Easy Company paratrooper later portrayed in Band of Brothers came home from the war looking like this. 1945.Aug 1 ⋅ PatChristensonSon ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool ⋅ #1945
Title: My father was Easy Company, the real Band of Brothers. I was Army National Guard. Two sergeants, same last name, and this is him on the day he got home.Aug 5 ⋅ PatChristensonSon ⋅ r/nationalguard
Title: T/Sgt. Pat Christenson of Easy Company, 506th PIR, resting in a Dutch street during the Holland campaign, 1944Aug 10 ⋅ PatChristensonSon ⋅ r/wwiipics ⋅ #1944
