the guy asking about the green light was colorblind, he had to cheat to get into the airborne and lie about it... my dad, who was colorblind, did the same thing to become a firefighter
I've seen that scene so many times, colorblind never occurred to me. I just thought it was a ritual or like an athlete does certain things like not touching lines on a field during warmup. Thanks for leaving that information/comment.
Not likely, to my recollection there are two lights, not one. So like traffic signals you don't need to be able to tell color as long as you know the position of which light is what. Top/green cleared to jump, Bottom/red for prepare to jump for example. It's common to use a dual light system today as well as it can be hard for even non-colorblind people to be able to discern color during night jumps as the entire cargo area is bathed in red light.
@@nicolivoldkif9096 well the special features and also maybe the book... but definitely the discs special features pointed out that he was color blind and had lied to get in
After this, they stopped calling them 'replacements' and called them 'reinforcements', as replacements caused a major drop in morale; since it reminded everyone that others had been killed or badly wounded.
This is not true, my friend. The huge camps of men just waiting to be assigned piecemeal to units requiring them have been called ‘repple-depples,” Replacement Depots. I served in the first Gulf War in ‘91 and, though they were not needed, they were still officially called Replacement Depots but had the rather gruesome nickname, ‘The Deadpool.’ This way predates Ryan Reynolds. Reinforcements are when an already formed unit is temporarily assigned or simply moved nearer to an embattled unit. If, let’s say, Easy Company was ordered to cover a mile of front line but it was determined that they would be attacked, some higher up officer might order, say, Alpha Company to reinforce their position. This means that Easy and Alpha would NOT mix their troops but Easy would shorten their lines to cover 1/2 of the mile and Alpha would cover the other 1/2 mile. Another scenario would be your infantry was having a hard time attacking, you might send some tanks to reinforce them and the tanks would go into the attack side by side with infantry but still not be a PART of the infantry unit.
The one thing with the 101st and 82nd Airborne, though, was they could not accept just ANY replacements. All soldiers assigned to either of these units HAD to have the requisite parachute training. A parachute-trained infantryman could go to a non-parachute unit (though this was a bit of a waste of the time/expense of training) but NOT vice-versa.
In the ‘91 Gulf War Saddam launched Scud missiles @ Saudi Arabia. The real irony is that the largest number of American troops he killed was when a Scud or piece of a Scud hit a Replacement Depot. He killed more US personnel WAITING to go into combat as replacements as he ever did combat troops already ASSIGNED to units in the field. It is an absolute INVERSION of what it’s supposed to be. Front-line combat is SUPPOSED to be hazardous duty, troops in Replacement Depots are SUPPOSED to be relatively safe.
A bridge too Far (1977) is a really good war film that depicts the Operation this episode is on but covers a lot more, including both the british and german viewpoints. Many cinematic greats such as Sean Connery, Michael Cane, Gene Hackman, and Anthony Hopkins star in the film. Totally worth watching.
I enjoyed Bridge Too Far (not to mention it actually has a REAL airdrop of hundreds of real paratroopers jumping from authentic C47s) but I felt the 'all star cast' detracted from the story; that and the 1970s special effects (super steady camera work, super bright blood stains; super propane gas explosions) kind of look less 'authentic' since BHD, SPR and BoB gave us the grainy desaturated look.
Got to remember that back then these war movies were all the rage, just like superhero movies are today, so that kind of 'all star cast' is going to be expected. Also these were pretty much american propaganda reels to push the 'good vs evil' narrative and thus were quite 'clean' in their depictions. You got to watch the non-hollywood films of this era to get a more realistic portrayal.
@@89Joe08 In 1975 the 20 year effort in South Vietnam just went up in smoke; I don't think 'patriotic war movies' were all the rage at the time; you can hear it in the narration of 'Bridge'...not to mention, a lot of British movie buffs (They did on IMDB-RIP) had lot of dislike for Richard Attenborough for his alleged biases against the British officer class in his movies
@@filthydisgustingape5354 You raise a valid point, I always forget the timeline of Vietnam. Perhaps a good example is Battle of the Bulge (1965) which definitely fits the bill of 'patriotic war movie' and just so happens to be smack in the middle of Vietnam.
@@89Joe08 That doesn't really apply to "A Bridge Too Far" though. While it's told largely from the American and British points of view, the Germans are not portrayed as monsters in it. It's a pretty even handed account, largely because it's based on Cornelius Ryan's book of the same name.
The one scene before they jump where the officer says, “when the green light comes on, tap me on the leg!” That’s talked about in the book. It turns out that that officer was actually COLOR-BLIND. He couldn’t tell when the light shifted from red to green.
These are based on true events with real People. This series is based on a none fiction book you should read it's truly amazing what these men did for us.
This episode is inaccurate and wrongly portrays the events, particularly the British 44th Royal Tank Regiments actions. Stephen Ambrose didn't do his research properly.
That was an error for sure. But they got Hitlers death date wrong too. the scene where the germans are playing violin. apparently the script was written correctly but somewhere along the way in post it got changed. there's a youtube vid with a comment from a guy who claims to be the writer and he explains it.
No complaint from me, but the word you were looking for with Bull in the 'tube", was "culvert". Just a little help to people to whom English is not their native language but speak it very well.
Bull Randleman was reunited with the family he saved that night in the barn. It was highlighted in an episode featured in the show called Unsolved Mysteries about twenty years before this historical series was filmed.
You understand the concept with the replacements. It’s a problem as old as armies. Some armies throughout history take a unit of men and fight them until there are only a handful, then raise while new units. Other armies take a unit, like the 101st, fight it, then replace the lost, wounded and killed men with new recruits/replacements. This is what the US did. So, by this time in the war the 101st goes into battle with a mix of experienced veterans, usually promoted to be sergeants in charge of groups of raw recruits/replacements. So, the problem is that wounds and deaths to this type of mixed units is NOT evenly distributed. Wounds and deaths don’t happen to the veterans at the same rate as replacements. Veterans know how to survive in combat. They know when to run, when to get/stay down, when to advance and just countless other tricks you learn ONLY by being in combat. Replacements die & get wounded at a MUCH higher rate. The veterans all say, “I don’t speak to them or get to know them until they live awhile because I hate seeing them get killed.”
Realize that not only were many members of Easy Company still alive for the making of BoB but they actively participated in the making of the film. There is nothing new about having actual veterans be advisers to a film but it has been historically rare for ordinary soldiers to be advisers. I believe that is why the combat scenes seem so realistic. For example, in the real world men who are shot simply collapse like a sack of potatoes, and being hit seems to be almost happenstance.
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Wait until you see "The Pacific" ( you should at some point watch) also "The Fallen of WW11" is a film about how many people were lost from all countries.
Here is a good rule if your officers in the rear tell you to not cause to much unnecessary damage to property. Don't consider any damage you do unnecessary when in combat.
The chocolate scene. It's funny, because D-ration chocolate apparently tasted like boiled potato. Specifically made to taste funny so that soldiers wouldn't waste rations incase of an emergency :D
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Plus they added additives to keep it from melting.
Intelligence said there were no significant German armored or even mechanized forces in the area of Arnhem at the time. Intelligence was wrong and - as I recall - there were three (3) German armored divisions in the area being reconstituted after the retreat from Normandy.
There was no armour. There were two 1/3 strength SS panzer divisions (9th and 10th) refitting, but they had little equipment and no tanks. The tanks came in with other German units (army not SS) in the days that followed, so the intelligence was actually correct. The problem was the air commanders deciding to drop the paras in the afternoon and to not fly double missions the first day.
Another great reaction! I appreciate your thoughts and analysis of each episode. Thanks again! I also love your Star Wars stormtrooper art on the wall!
It did not happen quite like how it was portrayed here. The British 44th Royal Tank Regiment actually knocked out two Jagdpanzer IVs from this unit, Panzer Brigade 107, and gave as good as it got. Panzer Brigade 107 had to also withdraw from Nuenen after this battle due to the casualties suffered that day. The British 44th Royal Tank Regiment was a more experienced and battle hardened unit than the US 101st Airborne. It was at El Alamein, Tunisia, Sicily, Italy and all through Normandy. This episode is somewhat of an insult to their memory, thanks to Stephen Ambrose not researching this battle properly.
@@jameswg13 I may add that Stephen Ambrose got the name of the British unit wrong, the date wrong, the tank type wrong and the number of British tanks lost wrong. Ambrose said it was the Hussars, the date was the 19th, the tanks were Cromwells and there were four lost, whereas the unit was the 44th RTR, the date was the 20th, the tanks were Shermans and just two were lost, the lead tank hit being commanded by Lt Benton, who survived although two of his crew (Nichols and Stothard) were killed.
Great reaction again. Just a couple things. First, the Americans didn’t kill civilians and children on purpose. It was either an accident or they showed they were actually on the side of the Germans (near the end of the war, a lot of German soldiers were actually young boys from the Hitler Youth). So that little boy was as safe as could be. Second, the scene in the barn with the other soldier actually did happen, but not as it did in the scene. Randleman did run into a barn for cover, but a German soldier followed him in. He killed him with his bayonet and then hid the body and covered himself with hay to hide until it was safe. They wanted to build the suspense and drama by incorporating the dropped cloth and such.
Not true.. There was good and bad on both sides. Do you know how many civilians and children were killed at hiroshima and Nagasaki? Also in Vietnam many American soldiers killed many civilians
Mark Morris I’m not necessarily disagreeing with you, but in point of fact I was specifically talking about WWII and I meant troops on the ground in Europe (I wasn’t bringing up the Pacific stuff because they’re not watching anything on the Pacific theater). Yes, you are 100% correct when you bring up the introduction of atomic weapons, where I believe the number of civilian casualties in total (directly and indirectly) topped 200,000 between the two cities...that number could be low, I haven’t studied or taught that topic in a few years. I apologize for the confusion. Normally I am much more thorough with my comments to avoid that. On occasion I fall into the writing trap of just expecting that people will know I mean this particular thing being reacted to. I try to stay on the direct subject being watched. That’s on me. Thanks for the help there.
This episode is very inaccurate and an insult to the British tankers. The British tank unit, 44th Royal Tank Regiment, was in real life a far more battle hardened and experienced than the US 101st Airborne and actually gave as good as it got that day. The German Panzer Brigade 107 also had to withdraw after this battle due to the casualties it suffered. It did NOT march forward on the advance after, as shown in the episode.
At the end of three you where talking about how no matter what side you where on they where still just Men and Boys just under different flags. Two things, One I had onw Grandfather that was in the Germen Navy and another that was flying Bombers for the American Army Air Core. Two, Real quick type in to a search bar, Time Magazine Man of the Year 1939. Yup, it takes all kinds.
Well if we're to talk about families fighting in different sides... the very nephew of Big Adolf (yep, the guy with a moustache, funny austrian accent and frustrated dreams as a painter) was fighting with the US Navy during WW2...
here and for such films ,the Americans think that they won the war and suffered the most, why don't they make films about the USSR,because they lost 20 million lives. after all, it was their children who were hanged and drowned by the Germans.
Philosophy of an Army. The Western Allies used the ‘replacement’ system. As men were killed and wounded, the Army sent new men to replace losses. The Russians tended to fight a unit to extinction, then make a new unit. Additional losses were much higher among replacements. That’s what the old men at the beginning were talking about. Veterans weren’t friendly with replacements because they knew they stood a higher chance of dying. Being a replacement was lonely until you lived a few days. Veteran infantry understood all the sights and s
Sounds and how to respond. Veterans would hear artillery coming in and scramble for cover. Replacements would stare at the sky for that split second that killed them. Veteran infantry just look around them constantly. They enter a farm yard and see three or four spots they can dive for cover. Replacements often die before they learn this. Look at the battle scenes. Easy takes fire and replacements ask, “What do we do?” “Stay put!” Then Bull comes yelling at them, “Get up, move!” When they start to retreat, the replacements ask the new officer, “What do we do?” He answers, “I’m not sure!” The officer is a replacement, too! He doesn’t know but, because he’s a lieutenant they’re trained to look to him. In the interviews, the men talk about how good the NCOs in Easy were. The NCOs do know when to move forward, when back and when to stay put. Good NCOs try to keep the replacements alive and still accomplish the mission.
When Easy jumped into Normandy they had the advantages of a unit raised and trained together. The men and officers knew each other by sight, by name, even by sound in the middle of the night. None had any experience in combat, though. Replacements can come to a unit and die before anyone even knows their name. Replacements feel lonely and left out but the unit’s leadership has learned valuable lessons up and down the leadership chain. Officers know the best way to design an attack and NCOs can teach the best way to dig a foxhole if the replacements can live long enough to learn it. Brand new units don’t know these things.
In the American Army there were rules about what happened to wounded men. In ‘BoB’ you keep seeing men ‘escaping’ from hospitals in their bandages trying to get back to their units. You might say, “Oh, how brave! How dedicated they are” They were, for sure, but there was a practical reason. After 30 days a wounded soldier would be reassigned to a random unit out of a Replacement Depot, called ‘Repple Depple,’ by the men. Wounded Easy men wanted to go back to Easy. In the time between leaving the hospital and arriving to Easy they were, technically, deserters, AWOL (Absent Without Leave). Officers and MPs generally were lenient if it actually appeared the soldier was headed toward his unit, not away. There’s a quick scene in this episode where ‘Popeye’ rejoins Easy riding in Sobel’s jeep. Sobel is depicted as a stickler for the rules and, technically, should have had Popeye arrested. A wounded man wanting to get back to his unit, one who’d jumped and fought in Normandy, generally speaking, would either be helped or, at least, pointed in the right direction and ignored.
Even Julius Caesar was known to favor mixing veteran legionnaires with recruits. Given the Army’s habit of studying everything, I’m sure they’ve looked at which system works better but I’ve never seen anything like that.
I imagine it isn't as entertaining for the ladies, but Band of Brothers is one of the best mini-series' I have ever seen, so you earned a subscription. Battlestar Galactica (which aired around the same time) is more gender-balanced, I think. This series seemed to know that 9/11 was going to happen and men were going to go to war. Battlestar Galactica seemed to be a reaction to the treachery of 9/11.
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My family was rescued that day in Eindhoven. Many thanks to the 101st.
I love hearing stories about this. Hopefully all is well with you
@@stevendiaz7633 all is well!
@@ToldYouSo18 you just never know
the guy asking about the green light was colorblind, he had to cheat to get into the airborne and lie about it... my dad, who was colorblind, did the same thing to become a firefighter
Yea I thought that but wasn't sure
I've seen that scene so many times, colorblind never occurred to me. I just thought it was a ritual or like an athlete does certain things like not touching lines on a field during warmup.
Thanks for leaving that information/comment.
I never thought about that!
Not likely, to my recollection there are two lights, not one. So like traffic signals you don't need to be able to tell color as long as you know the position of which light is what. Top/green cleared to jump, Bottom/red for prepare to jump for example. It's common to use a dual light system today as well as it can be hard for even non-colorblind people to be able to discern color during night jumps as the entire cargo area is bathed in red light.
@@nicolivoldkif9096 well the special features and also maybe the book... but definitely the discs special features pointed out that he was color blind and had lied to get in
After this, they stopped calling them 'replacements' and called them 'reinforcements', as replacements caused a major drop in morale; since it reminded everyone that others had been killed or badly wounded.
This is not true, my friend. The huge camps of men just waiting to be assigned piecemeal to units requiring them have been called ‘repple-depples,” Replacement Depots. I served in the first Gulf War in ‘91 and, though they were not needed, they were still officially called Replacement Depots but had the rather gruesome nickname, ‘The Deadpool.’ This way predates Ryan Reynolds. Reinforcements are when an already formed unit is temporarily assigned or simply moved nearer to an embattled unit. If, let’s say, Easy Company was ordered to cover a mile of front line but it was determined that they would be attacked, some higher up officer might order, say, Alpha Company to reinforce their position. This means that Easy and Alpha would NOT mix their troops but Easy would shorten their lines to cover 1/2 of the mile and Alpha would cover the other 1/2 mile. Another scenario would be your infantry was having a hard time attacking, you might send some tanks to reinforce them and the tanks would go into the attack side by side with infantry but still not be a PART of the infantry unit.
The one thing with the 101st and 82nd Airborne, though, was they could not accept just ANY replacements. All soldiers assigned to either of these units HAD to have the requisite parachute training. A parachute-trained infantryman could go to a non-parachute unit (though this was a bit of a waste of the time/expense of training) but NOT vice-versa.
In the ‘91 Gulf War Saddam launched Scud missiles @ Saudi Arabia. The real irony is that the largest number of American troops he killed was when a Scud or piece of a Scud hit a Replacement Depot. He killed more US personnel WAITING to go into combat as replacements as he ever did combat troops already ASSIGNED to units in the field. It is an absolute INVERSION of what it’s supposed to be. Front-line combat is SUPPOSED to be hazardous duty, troops in Replacement Depots are SUPPOSED to be relatively safe.
Watch the movie ‘Fury’ for examples of this.
@@MrSmithla I’m talking about WWII and that’s why they called this episode the replacements.
At 3:57 you will see a cameo of the real Babe Heffron from Easy Company (old guy wearing beret) in the lower left corner of the frame.
wow, ive watched band of brother maybe 20 or more times and never realized that was Heffron in that scene. good eye
Jason Weston I was just about to comment that 😂
I'll be damned! I never caught that one!
A bridge too Far (1977) is a really good war film that depicts the Operation this episode is on but covers a lot more, including both the british and german viewpoints. Many cinematic greats such as Sean Connery, Michael Cane, Gene Hackman, and Anthony Hopkins star in the film. Totally worth watching.
I enjoyed Bridge Too Far (not to mention it actually has a REAL airdrop of hundreds of real paratroopers jumping from authentic C47s) but I felt the 'all star cast' detracted from the story; that and the 1970s special effects (super steady camera work, super bright blood stains; super propane gas explosions) kind of look less 'authentic' since BHD, SPR and BoB gave us the grainy desaturated look.
Got to remember that back then these war movies were all the rage, just like superhero movies are today, so that kind of 'all star cast' is going to be expected.
Also these were pretty much american propaganda reels to push the 'good vs evil' narrative and thus were quite 'clean' in their depictions.
You got to watch the non-hollywood films of this era to get a more realistic portrayal.
@@89Joe08 In 1975 the 20 year effort in South Vietnam just went up in smoke; I don't think 'patriotic war movies' were all the rage at the time; you can hear it in the narration of 'Bridge'...not to mention, a lot of British movie buffs (They did on IMDB-RIP) had lot of dislike for Richard Attenborough for his alleged biases against the British officer class in his movies
@@filthydisgustingape5354 You raise a valid point, I always forget the timeline of Vietnam. Perhaps a good example is Battle of the Bulge (1965) which definitely fits the bill of 'patriotic war movie' and just so happens to be smack in the middle of Vietnam.
@@89Joe08 That doesn't really apply to "A Bridge Too Far" though. While it's told largely from the American and British points of view, the Germans are not portrayed as monsters in it. It's a pretty even handed account, largely because it's based on Cornelius Ryan's book of the same name.
Many good young actors starts carier in this tv show : Tom Hardy, Michael Fasbender , James McAvoy ;)
Simon Pegg even makes an appearance.
The one scene before they jump where the officer says, “when the green light comes on, tap me on the leg!” That’s talked about in the book. It turns out that that officer was actually COLOR-BLIND. He couldn’t tell when the light shifted from red to green.
You guys should react to “The Fallen of World War II”, a short video about the war that puts the deaths and casualties of the war into perspective.
These are based on true events with real People. This series is based on a none fiction book you should read it's truly amazing what these men did for us.
This episode is inaccurate and a bit of an insult to the British 44th Royal Tank Regiment.
Please remember that these are essentially re-enactments of actual events. Very little "Hollywood" here.
This episode is inaccurate and wrongly portrays the events, particularly the British 44th Royal Tank Regiments actions.
Stephen Ambrose didn't do his research properly.
FYI Blithe’s death was exaggerated. He lived longer than that. It’s the single biggest mistake of the show
It was actually a mistake in the book first as this series is based largely off the book by Stephen Ambrose.
That was an error for sure. But they got Hitlers death date wrong too. the scene where the germans are playing violin. apparently the script was written correctly but somewhere along the way in post it got changed. there's a youtube vid with a comment from a guy who claims to be the writer and he explains it.
No complaint from me, but the word you were looking for with Bull in the 'tube", was "culvert". Just a little help to people to whom English is not their native language but speak it very well.
Thanks :D
Later check out “Kilo Two Bravo” it’s a movie. Perfect score on rotten tomatoes and I also trained several of the real soldiers. Great movie
Bull Randleman was reunited with the family he saved that night in the barn. It was highlighted in an episode featured in the show called Unsolved Mysteries about twenty years before this historical series was filmed.
Is there a video of the reunion, I’d like to see it but haven’t been able to find anything on it not even an article
@@Rednecgamer65 unsolved mysteries has the full episode on hulu.
@@joshuanelson8594 thanks
i cry every time i hear the theme
Its beautiful. One of the best ever
3:59 that old man in the corner is the real Edward Heffron!
You understand the concept with the replacements. It’s a problem as old as armies. Some armies throughout history take a unit of men and fight them until there are only a handful, then raise while new units. Other armies take a unit, like the 101st, fight it, then replace the lost, wounded and killed men with new recruits/replacements. This is what the US did. So, by this time in the war the 101st goes into battle with a mix of experienced veterans, usually promoted to be sergeants in charge of groups of raw recruits/replacements. So, the problem is that wounds and deaths to this type of mixed units is NOT evenly distributed. Wounds and deaths don’t happen to the veterans at the same rate as replacements. Veterans know how to survive in combat. They know when to run, when to get/stay down, when to advance and just countless other tricks you learn ONLY by being in combat. Replacements die & get wounded at a MUCH higher rate. The veterans all say, “I don’t speak to them or get to know them until they live awhile because I hate seeing them get killed.”
there is a foocking tiger!!.
where?
BOOOOM!!!
read this, my first thought was Apocalypse Now. ;)
my great grandpa served with the 101st but he didn't like to talk about his experiences, this series really makes me see why...
Realize that not only were many members of Easy Company still alive for the making of BoB but they actively participated in the making of the film. There is nothing new about having actual veterans be advisers to a film but it has been historically rare for ordinary soldiers to be advisers. I believe that is why the combat scenes seem so realistic. For example, in the real world men who are shot simply collapse like a sack of potatoes, and being hit seems to be almost happenstance.
Wait until you see "The Pacific" ( you should at some point watch) also "The Fallen of WW11" is a film about how many people were lost from all countries.
Here is a good rule if your officers in the rear tell you to not cause to much unnecessary damage to property. Don't consider any damage you do unnecessary when in combat.
Hope you guys heeded my warning and got handkerchiefs! The hardest part comes in the next few episodes.
The Battle of the Bulge. So good, but difficult to watch.
The chocolate scene. It's funny, because D-ration chocolate apparently tasted like boiled potato.
Specifically made to taste funny so that soldiers wouldn't waste rations incase of an emergency :D
Plus they added additives to keep it from melting.
Intelligence said there were no significant German armored or even mechanized forces in the area of Arnhem at the time. Intelligence was wrong and - as I recall - there were three (3) German armored divisions in the area being reconstituted after the retreat from Normandy.
There was no armour. There were two 1/3 strength SS panzer divisions (9th and 10th) refitting, but they had little equipment and no tanks.
The tanks came in with other German units (army not SS) in the days that followed, so the intelligence was actually correct.
The problem was the air commanders deciding to drop the paras in the afternoon and to not fly double missions the first day.
Love watching ellie!! 😂
Yea who wouldn’t. She’s gorgeous
If you get a little shell-shocked from the battles in Band of Brothers or have nightmares, it is completely normal.
When the tank got hit, a piece of metal blew off and hit the sargeant in the shoulder.
That British tank commander was probably following ROE (rules of engagement). Brass aren’t always practical and issue bad orders.
Those replacements who survived are now veterans.
14:25 well now, that phone call better have been important, Larry.
Another great reaction! I appreciate your thoughts and analysis of each episode. Thanks again! I also love your Star Wars stormtrooper art on the wall!
It wasn't Hollywood drama If I remember correctly that little fight happened
Correct.
It did not happen quite like how it was portrayed here. The British 44th Royal Tank Regiment actually knocked out two Jagdpanzer IVs from this unit, Panzer Brigade 107, and gave as good as it got. Panzer Brigade 107 had to also withdraw from Nuenen after this battle due to the casualties suffered that day.
The British 44th Royal Tank Regiment was a more experienced and battle hardened unit than the US 101st Airborne. It was at El Alamein, Tunisia, Sicily, Italy and all through Normandy. This episode is somewhat of an insult to their memory, thanks to Stephen Ambrose not researching this battle properly.
@@lyndoncmp5751 was on about the bull randleman segment
@@jameswg13 Fair enough. Thought you meant the whole fight in Nuenen.
@@jameswg13 I may add that Stephen Ambrose got the name of the British unit wrong, the date wrong, the tank type wrong and the number of British tanks lost wrong.
Ambrose said it was the Hussars, the date was the 19th, the tanks were Cromwells and there were four lost, whereas the unit was the 44th RTR, the date was the 20th, the tanks were Shermans and just two were lost, the lead tank hit being commanded by Lt Benton, who survived although two of his crew (Nichols and Stothard) were killed.
James Mcavoy!
Great reaction again. Just a couple things. First, the Americans didn’t kill civilians and children on purpose. It was either an accident or they showed they were actually on the side of the Germans (near the end of the war, a lot of German soldiers were actually young boys from the Hitler Youth). So that little boy was as safe as could be.
Second, the scene in the barn with the other soldier actually did happen, but not as it did in the scene. Randleman did run into a barn for cover, but a German soldier followed him in. He killed him with his bayonet and then hid the body and covered himself with hay to hide until it was safe. They wanted to build the suspense and drama by incorporating the dropped cloth and such.
Not true.. There was good and bad on both sides. Do you know how many civilians and children were killed at hiroshima and Nagasaki? Also in Vietnam many American soldiers killed many civilians
Mark Morris I’m not necessarily disagreeing with you, but in point of fact I was specifically talking about WWII and I meant troops on the ground in Europe (I wasn’t bringing up the Pacific stuff because they’re not watching anything on the Pacific theater).
Yes, you are 100% correct when you bring up the introduction of atomic weapons, where I believe the number of civilian casualties in total (directly and indirectly) topped 200,000 between the two cities...that number could be low, I haven’t studied or taught that topic in a few years.
I apologize for the confusion. Normally I am much more thorough with my comments to avoid that. On occasion I fall into the writing trap of just expecting that people will know I mean this particular thing being reacted to. I try to stay on the direct subject being watched. That’s on me. Thanks for the help there.
This episode is very inaccurate and an insult to the British tankers. The British tank unit, 44th Royal Tank Regiment, was in real life a far more battle hardened and experienced than the US 101st Airborne and actually gave as good as it got that day. The German Panzer Brigade 107 also had to withdraw after this battle due to the casualties it suffered. It did NOT march forward on the advance after, as shown in the episode.
That's how all American movies are. They show themselves as superior to everyone else.
At the end of three you where talking about how no matter what side you where on they where still just Men and Boys just under different flags. Two things, One I had onw Grandfather that was in the Germen Navy and another that was flying Bombers for the American Army Air Core. Two, Real quick type in to a search bar, Time Magazine Man of the Year 1939. Yup, it takes all kinds.
Well if we're to talk about families fighting in different sides... the very nephew of Big Adolf (yep, the guy with a moustache, funny austrian accent and frustrated dreams as a painter) was fighting with the US Navy during WW2...
here and for such films ,the Americans think that they won the war and suffered the most, why don't they make films about the USSR,because they lost 20 million lives. after all, it was their children who were hanged and drowned by the Germans.
Just wait until episode 9, that's the one that breaks everyone.
Market Garden was an overambitious cluster fuck of a mission.
I watch to see Elly. She's so adorable!
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You understand, the name ‘Replacements,’ means an entire
Philosophy of an Army. The Western Allies used the ‘replacement’ system. As men were killed and wounded, the Army sent new men to replace losses. The Russians tended to fight a unit to extinction, then make a new unit. Additional losses were much higher among replacements. That’s what the old men at the beginning were talking about. Veterans weren’t friendly with replacements because they knew they stood a higher chance of dying. Being a replacement was lonely until you lived a few days. Veteran infantry understood all the sights and s
Sounds and how to respond. Veterans would hear artillery coming in and scramble for cover. Replacements would stare at the sky for that split second that killed them. Veteran infantry just look around them constantly. They enter a farm yard and see three or four spots they can dive for cover. Replacements often die before they learn this. Look at the battle scenes. Easy takes fire and replacements ask, “What do we do?” “Stay put!” Then Bull comes yelling at them, “Get up, move!” When they start to retreat, the replacements ask the new officer, “What do we do?” He answers, “I’m not sure!” The officer is a replacement, too! He doesn’t know but, because he’s a lieutenant they’re trained to look to him. In the interviews, the men talk about how good the NCOs in Easy were. The NCOs do know when to move forward, when back and when to stay put. Good NCOs try to keep the replacements alive and still accomplish the mission.
When Easy jumped into Normandy they had the advantages of a unit raised and trained together. The men and officers knew each other by sight, by name, even by sound in the middle of the night. None had any experience in combat, though. Replacements can come to a unit and die before anyone even knows their name. Replacements feel lonely and left out but the unit’s leadership has learned valuable lessons up and down the leadership chain. Officers know the best way to design an attack and NCOs can teach the best way to dig a foxhole if the replacements can live long enough to learn it. Brand new units don’t know these things.
In the American Army there were rules about what happened to wounded men. In ‘BoB’ you keep seeing men ‘escaping’ from hospitals in their bandages trying to get back to their units. You might say, “Oh, how brave! How dedicated they are” They were, for sure, but there was a practical reason. After 30 days a wounded soldier would be reassigned to a random unit out of a Replacement Depot, called ‘Repple Depple,’ by the men. Wounded Easy men wanted to go back to Easy. In the time between leaving the hospital and arriving to Easy they were, technically, deserters, AWOL (Absent Without Leave). Officers and MPs generally were lenient if it actually appeared the soldier was headed toward his unit, not away. There’s a quick scene in this episode where ‘Popeye’ rejoins Easy riding in Sobel’s jeep. Sobel is depicted as a stickler for the rules and, technically, should have had Popeye arrested. A wounded man wanting to get back to his unit, one who’d jumped and fought in Normandy, generally speaking, would either be helped or, at least, pointed in the right direction and ignored.
Even Julius Caesar was known to favor mixing veteran legionnaires with recruits. Given the Army’s habit of studying everything, I’m sure they’ve looked at which system works better but I’ve never seen anything like that.
Where do you guys come from. I'm from Maine in America.
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good to see ellie back :D
She never left :D
I really like your channel,I like your reactions. Please later check out "FURY" movie.
it's Samwise
I imagine it isn't as entertaining for the ladies, but Band of Brothers is one of the best mini-series' I have ever seen, so you earned a subscription. Battlestar Galactica (which aired around the same time) is more gender-balanced, I think. This series seemed to know that 9/11 was going to happen and men were going to go to war. Battlestar Galactica seemed to be a reaction to the treachery of 9/11.
this market garden campaign was a disaster
No more a disaster than the other campaigns that same autumn, like Patton in the Lorraine and Hodges in the Hurtgen Forest.
Hi! Please react to Orphan Black!
Love your vids but just leave the clips on, turn it on and off kinda ruins the whole flow. Or is it cos of copyright reasons?
copyright issues. Otherwise the video gets blocked instantly. However we have the full reaction on Patreon :)
Very nice reaction
I have a request
Can you watch all gamestorys from battlefield V. I now you watch the last Tiger...i ask for it last time.
But the other ons are very good too
Ask me for the name of the gamestory
And
Can you watch the complete game story from Modern Warfare 2 remastered? If you want to now something to the game ask me ^^
Thank you from Germany
Movie vids, I like these better, but you didn't put in the scene of him actually later goring the guy and the disturbed look on the daughters face.
Full reaction is on Patreon, we can't put all because of copyright issues
Reac to Bioshock 1 and 2 trailer
Been waiting for this!
Девушка , вы прекрасно красивы ! Желаю вам всего хорошего ... я , просто влюбился ...
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Sargent wanted his leg tapped because he is colorblind and cant see difference from red and green if anyone who was wondering.