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Private James Francis Ryan was one of four sons of William and Margaret Ryan. The other brothers were Daniel, Peter and Sean. All four enlisted in the US Army in the same company of the 29th Infantry Division for a period of time. However, the four brothers were reassigned to different units following the loss of the Sullivan Brothers in November of 1942. James, the youngest of the brothers, qualified as a paratrooper with the 101st Airborne Division and participated in Operation Overlord on June 6, 1944. All three brothers of Pvt James F. Ryan were killed in action within a couple of weeks of one another.
Source: On-line Encylopedia of Saving Private Ryan- www.sproe.com
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∙ 8y agoPrivate James Ryan in Saving Private Ryan had 3 brothers killed in the line of duty. Cpt. Miller and his squad were ordered to find Ryan to send Ryan home to his grieving mother. Miller lost his life saving Ryan.
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∙ 16y agoHe was the last surviving of four brothers
That is the premise for the entire movie, bring back the remaining son so Mrs Ryan does not lose her entire family in the war.
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∙ 12y agoThree, there were 4 in all.
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Was paul walker in saving private Ryan?
yes he was in my opinion i don't think that it was fair as he lost 3 brothers so he should have been saved but then again many more soldiers have lost more than just 3 brothers so its really not a question that can be answered.
In which war is the film saving private Ryan set?
Stephen Ambose wrote the book "A Band of Brothers" which is a historical docmentary the tells the about what happened to a small company in an Airborne regiment. Tom Hanks made this into a TV series. In the book it mentions that one paratrooper had lost two brothers so the Army ordered him back home since he was the sole-surviving heir. Tom Hanks and Spielberg discussed this bit of history and imagined how difficult it would be to locate a paratrooper who could have landed anywhere on the entire Normandy area. Even though the real incident did not require a search team, they formed a story around a team that was sent to locate the one paratrooper. They filled in the story to include details of the characters and based it on totally fictious people. Added August 2011: Whilst some of the above is correct, in fact Saving Private Ryan came before band of Brothers and it was during the filming of Saving Private Ryan that hanks and Spielberg discovered they were both interested in a TV series based on the days after the DDay landings, they decided to collaborate on Band of Brothers as Hanks already had the rights to the book. Saving Private Ryan is a totally fictional story written specially for the film BUT there was in fact some inspiration and this is where the story gets complicated: The Niland brothers are said to have been the inspiration as many of them died during WW2 and 2 are burried in the same cemetary that we see in Saving Private Ryan; side by side above Gold Beach. Then there are the Sullivan brothers all 5 of whom were killed when their boat was torpedoed (one is said to have survived the sinking but was killed in a shark attack shortly after).
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