The creative team at Whizz Films have spent over three years meticulously researching this story.
They were privileged to gain an exclusive and extraordinary insight into the experiences of the few
remaining members of 3/506th P.I.R, 101st Airborne Division. Although originally intended as an episodic television series, the producers have now decided to make two films, 'The Forgotten Battalion' part1, which starts with the men volunteering for the newly formed 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. The film then follows them through their unique training at Toccoa and finally through to D-Day and the battle for Normandy.

'The Forgotten Battalion' part 2, picks up the story with the Battalion returning to Ramsbury, their base in England, to re-group, re-equip and prepare for the jump into Holland to help liberate the dutch town of Eindhoven. We then follow 3/506th in it's struggle to secure 'Hells Highway' and 'The Bloody Muddy Island'. With Holland now secure the Regiment is rushed into Belgium and to the hell that was Bastogne and then finally we follow 3/506th as it is dispatched into the heart of Nazi Germany, to Berchtesgaden and the ultimate prize, 'The Eagles nest', Hitler's alpine retreat.

With the first film scheduled for release late 2008 to coincide with the book, the Producers said "We soon realised very early on during the production phase that the required format for a one off television show was going to be too restrictive, to try to tell such an epic story like this in a short format was unrealistic, so we took the decision to make two films and distribute them on DVD".

Film-maker John Sushams, Produces, Directs and Photographs 'The Forgotten Battalion' drawing on over twenty five years experience in programme making. Historian Ian Gardner extracts previously undisclosed stories from the contributors using his extensive knowledge of the period and his special relationship with the contributors and composer and musician Nick Dodd scores and produces a beautiful and moving soundtrack.

Filmed in High Definition these are the frank and moving testimonies of a special band of men.