The artillery shelling that Easy Company endured in this episode included air bursts in the trees. The special effects to make this realistic were quite complicated and were detailed in a complete article about the series in TV Guide at the time of its original airing.
At 58 minutes a producers board can be seen. It reads 166 Signal Photo Co. Det. A LT Jones Subject 88 gun Location Foy Photog. Roll Sgt. Hausman Roll #6. Date 11 Jan 45.
Only this episode's director, David Frankel, and Mikael Salomon would helm more than one episode in the series.
Around 1:02, Donnie Wahlberg tells James Madio to "hang tough." Wahlberg was a founding member of the pop group New Kids on the Block, whose second album, "Hangin' Tough," was released in 1988 and went multi-platinum. The title track was also a hit single.
Neil McDonough worked with Steven Spielberg on Minority Report (2002).