June 6, 2019 marks the 75th Anniversary of D-Day.

(CNN) If you ever want to know what it takes to put together one of the most impressive casts ever assembled for a television miniseries, it would be worth digging through Meg Liberman's archives.

By her admission, she kept "every piece of paper" from her time casting HBO's "Band of Brothers," the award-winning miniseries about Easy Company, a group of tight-knit soldiers from the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division, and follows their stories before, during and after D-Day.

She has the impressively specific character breakdowns she was given. ("Perconte, from Joliet, Illinois. Son of Chicago mafia. A real joker, compulsive, hygienic, uses only Philips toothpaste from home.") She has photos of the men who inspired those characters. She has video from the auditions that Steven Spielberg filmed himself because he didn't like the static feel of their first set-up.

The collection of mementos is Liberman's reminder of what she calls "the best job I've ever had."

She won awards for the gig, sure (including an Emmy). But her fondness for the project stems from something much deeper.

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