BAND OF BROTHERS REACTION | PART 6 (Bastogne)
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Band of Brothers is an acclaimed 10-part television miniseries (first aired in 2001) about World War II, co-produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks. Much of the action of the mini-series centers on the exploits of Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, U.S. 101st Airborne Division and one of its early platoon leaders, Richard Winters. It is based on the book of the same name written by historian and biographer Stephen Ambrose.
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The other nurse with renee is Augusta Chiwy. She survived and renee was killed. Both are known as the angels of Bastogne
Renee survived the initial bombing she died going back in to save others when apart of the building collapsed on her
Smokey, the guy who got shot through the shoulder and paralyzed, later recovered. He came back to Bastogne on a tour of the battlefield when he was older and climbed down into a foxhole. When he came back up, he had a canteen cup that he'd retrieved. It was the same cup he'd been drinking coffee from when he was shot, and that foxhole was once his. It's one of my favorite stories from this series haha
Loving these reactions!
He was also the guy who gave the Purple Heart.
"This feels like the most despair filled episode"
Me: *Sweats Nervously*
"Oh baby, you ain't seen nothing yet!"
They are in for an awakening... the next few episodes RUIN ppl.
@@Thefree_mandecker Yeah it's been pretty warm and fuzzy so far.
Just wait until they get to the Pacific. They thought Heartbreak Ridge was rough, that show has no chill at all.
No one must tell them...they need to see it for themselves...crying is probably guaranteed though...
@@MandoWookie Heartbreak? With Eastwood?
The kid in Jurassic Park is in the next series, The Pacific. Plays Eugene Sledge, and his storyline is fucking HARROWING
Joseph Mazzello. Love The Pacific.
I never realized!!!
So damn good.
Band of Brothers captures how awful war is, even be if you're in the best unit of the overwhelming juggernaut of the western Europe invasion. The Pacific depicts being marooned on an island a thousand miles from civilization, and the absolute limits of human mental and physical endurance are tested
The book he wrote about his experience is brutally detailed. Eugene Sledge originally wrote it in a way of both telling his family about his experience and also coping with the trauma. His family actually convinced him to publish it. It's called "With The Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa"
The whole "nuts" reply to the Germans is actually a funny story. The General's scribe woke the General up to give him the message demanding their surrender. In his half awake and groggy state he said "what, the Germans want to surrender to us?!" The scribe told him "uhhhh no, they are demanding our surrender Sir" to which the General replied "Aw, NUTS!" and passed back out. The scribe literally returned that message to the Germans.
I also love how they described what nuts mean. The Germans were confused and asked what was the definition. I quote, “It means go to hell and any German who will try to take Bastogne will be killed.”
Not quite how it happened but close.
He didn’t pass out. They were discussing what to reply and couldn’t decide and another officer suggested to just reply with “nuts”.
I often wonder if that letter was the genesis of the phrase "nuts to that!"? It probably is, but who knows.
@@mr.osclasses5054 it's not where the phrase came from, but it certainly did help society relax in terms of using the phrase. Before ww2 "nuts" was listed as one of the words or phrases that Hollywood considered indecent (along with damn and hell) and generally avoided in movies. After ww2 they relaxed a little as they winds were considered more mainstream
Renee Lemaire is the name of the nurse who Doc Roe befriended. She was a real woman who was killed on Christmas Eve in a German air raid. She was a true hero: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9e_Lemaire
She was buried using a 101st parachute as her shroud in honor of her tireless service to the US soldiers in Bastonge during the Battle of the Bulge. Her grave is still there.
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thank you for that link Bob - God Bless her.
"her very presence among those wounded men seem to be an inspiration to those whose morale had declined from prolonged suffering."[5]
On December 24, 1944, around 8:30PM, Germans bombed the building where the aid station was located. According to a column in a Belgian newspaper, the aid station in the basement of the Sarma Store on rue de Neufchateau was demolished. Lemaire managed to evacuate six soldiers from the burning building, but died while attempting to save a seventh wounded.[6] Dr. Prior recovered her remains, and brought them back to her parents wrapped in a white parachute.[7]
@@luketimewalker I've watched Band if Brothers about 4 times over the years and I always wondered about that character. Eventually I was reading a book about the Battle of the Bulge and saw that she was a real person with a name, so off to Google I went to learn more. She sticks in my mind, for some reason. She's someone that every American should always remember. Someone who died helping them just because they needed help in a place that she didn't have to be.
I really love the addition of Winters having a shave despite the extreme cold, many soldiers and officers on the battlefield have mentioned that when you stop shaving it is the first sign of the erosion of discipline. A subtle but effective way of showing how Winters not only leads by example but maintains his discipline through-out the war.
My war diary - Day one - decided to grow a beard !
I read somewhere that he would also (although much less frequently) take off his uniform from the waist up and clean himself as best he could, no matter how cold, for the same reason. He never demanded any of his men did the same, he simply wanted to show discipline and keep morale up in doing so
A German soldier who was on the other side of the line at Bastogne was asked by members of Easy company many years later why they didn't just attack. He was asked because the Americans were outnumbered, freezing, and had little supplies (including ammunition). He responded with something along the lines of "No, no, no! You were the eagle heads!" He was referring to the crest on their uniforms meaning that the Germans paid attention to who their enemy was and held great respect for the men of the 101st and were afraid and unwilling to attack them when they had warm food in their bellies and deep foxholes.
I'll add something about Doc Roe later on in the series, don't want to spoil anything!
The germans didn't really care about who they were fighting at that time. They had problems on their flanks, problems with fuel, indecicivenes and bad descisions from the lead including Hitler himself and the wrong weather. The Luftwaffe was barely existing anymore and for the german army to operate, they needed bad weather where the allies couldn't fly. I doubt that story.
@@TheAlja Jump to around 3:30 and the story gets going. I was in error, it was an officer that said it, not a regular soldier. ruclips.net/video/S4PSQ81pD18/видео.html
@@samanderson7745 love it, paratroopers on all sides seemed to have had the same effect, the fallschirmjagers who held the Gothic Line and who defended Monte Casino were known as 'The Green Devils'. Also, British airborne units that were deployed in the North African campaign fought against fallshirmjagers and Luftwaffe troops that guarded key airfields in the desert, they both had tremendous respect for each others fighting ability.
Respect
@@TheAlja Well, that's not entirely true. During WWII first special force between Canadian and Americans were formed and deployed. The Germans gave them a nickname "The Devil Brigade"
Dale Dye who plays Col Sink is a technical advisor for ton of war movies and series like Band of Brothers and the Pacific. He was in Saving Private Ryan and is a highly decorated Vietnam Veteran Marine
Platoon being a very major one. He also plays the Company commander in Platoon.
Also in Casualties Of War with Sean Penn, Michael J. Fox and few others. Under Siege. Dale Dye is a legend.
Yes. That documentary is titled “We stand alone together” and is an absolute must after you finish the series!
Absolutely
@@americandad8903 I was going to say the same. And anyone watching this needs to know this is representing REAL individuals. All the people "by name" are / were real people.
Followed by "The Pacific" and then "He has seen war"
THIS!
When I bought the box set the documentary came with it as a bonus dvd.
Just as a follow up, the man who was paralyzed from the shot through one shoulder and out the other actually recovered and gained the vast majority of his movement back, but he always had pretty bad pain in his back afterward.
And yes, Easy Company was one of those units that was basically at every major action on the western front of Europe.
He also apparently went to tour the forest later on in life, found his exact foxhole, climbed down into it, and came back out with the same coffee cup he dropped when he got shot.
There were many "major actions" that the 101st had no part in. They are just a very well documented unit thanks in most part to Steven Ambrose.
@@TheLanceUppercut Correct, and his name is Smokey.
@@TheLanceUppercut That's amazing.
Last bit is not accurate. The 101st did not take part in:
Operation Veritable
Operation Varsity
Battle of the Scheldt
Operation Grenade
Operation Plunder
Nordwind
Hurtgen Forest
Any action in Italy at all
Just to name a few famous major actions.
2:15 They were positioned as far as they was to keep Bastogne safe. The closer they would have positioned to Bastogne, the easier it would have been for the Germans to take it. Ground held - particularly given that they were cut off - is critical here.
4:35 Repositioning is ideal. That said, given that they were encircled, they really had nowhere else to go.
9:50 In WW2, medics were under the command of the company commander. Thus, the sergeant could only give Doc Roe a suggestion to stay back, rather than out-and-out order him to stay back.
Great reaction!
One of the officers in Easy Company, Lt. Foley, said that he recommended Doc Roe for the Silver Heart for his actions during the Battle of the Bulge - constantly checking up on the men, gathering supplies, all his usual medic duties and more on top.
you mean the silver star
@@dubfez_9256 As a civilian, I would have totally guessed a “Silver Heart” (if there was one) could have been awarded to a medic in recognition of their extraordinary efforts to preserve the lives of the men under their care. Kinda compliments the Purple Heart.
It’s not until you watch the whole series that you realise it is a very human story that covers every human emotion, courage, humour, desperation, cruelty, love. The best series I have ever watched.
Definitely in my top 5 all time favorite series
To me the thing with Buck in the theater was showing that he had the same thousand-yard stare that Winters had during his little PTSD flashback on the train in Paris. I felt like they used that episode to show those things back to back and that's a hint that Buck is going through something similar.
Yearh Buck was replying some scene in his head, his senses had shutdown.
16:56 my grandfather was in Bastogne. He was 509th gliders. He didn’t talk about the war much but he did tell us about hearing the tanks coming through the trees and how terrifying it was. He also said while in Bastogne they were told at one point to fire at will. My mother said if they ever complained about being cold he’d tell her and her siblings to put on some socks and be glad they had them and weren’t freezing to death in a fox hole. Apparently despite them always being on a tight budget my mom said he always made a point of taking them shopping for winter coats gloves hats etc that was one thing he always made damn sure they had new (important living in the snow belt in ny state). She only understood in later years why that probably was. Thank you for reacting to this. Everyone who does honors the memory of Easy company and the entire 101st. As an RN this episode is even more intense for me, I’ve had times where I haven’t had supplies etc to treat patients or have had patients suffering and in pain that I didn’t feel I was able to help adequately but I cannot imagine what they had to deal with. The nurses and medics… they had to have been hollow inside at the end. Also the other nurse was a very important person with just a tiny cameo her name was Augusta Chiwy, I think she was called Anna in Ambrose’s book. She was an immigrant from Burundi. She saved a lot of people and loved to be 94. Edit: adding this after you’re little bit about buck and long distance relationships at war… I said I’d never marry a soldier, met my husband through the Soldiers Angels program as his pen pal while he was on deployment in Iraq in ‘06, married 12 years this year lol. #life 😂
Thanks for your service . My Mom was a Nurse/Midwife during WW 2 while my Dad was in the Pacific as a medic.
During training the regular soldier derided the medics, which a lot of them were conscientious objectors, as coward who would not fight. In combat that all changed. They all admired the medics. Comments like "the medic we had was the bravest guy I have ever known" were not uncommon
Stephen Ambrose attended an Easy Company reunion in New Orleans, where he lived. He had been invited and in listening to the stories he took them to write "Band of Brothers". These stories are largely true...adapted or changed in some form to make it all work for a 10-episode season...and largely in chronological order. What makes these stories come to the fore is that Winters kept accurate records of the action plus Ambrose combining the various viewpoints of the soldiers to the same event to get the story accurate. Other Army units did amazing things in the war but this series is meant to be a representation to honor all of those men who fought.
MAGNIFICENT - thank u, never know about the inception of this masterpiece
This is where the series really starts to blossom. The next 4 episodes are simply masterpieces that everything up till now worked towards.
If you want another awesome war film, check out We We’re Soldiers….
Amazingly this whole episode was shot INSIDE a huge studio.
Our senior medic was named SGT Strange. And like everyone else, we called the medics Doc. So our medic was...Doc Strange.
And interestingly, all the forest scenes were shot in a studio, where they brought in big cooling units and sprayed water vapor to create the snow, the freezing breath and the fog. All was indoors during filming.
Yup. It was Pinewood Studios in England, the largest movie studio in the world. LOTR, Star Wars, James Bond, any movies that require huge spaces with green screens are all shot there.
"They'll just keep doing it. They know where you are." - Two folks realize the horror of constant bombardment.
The sarcastic, "I'm real sorry, Frank!" Always gets a good-sized chuckle out of me, no matter how many times I have watched this series.
Hey guys, love your reactions especially Arianas'! I can identify with "DOC ROE", I was a Combat Medic in the 101st Airborne, during First Gulf War. My 2 friends and I joined together and we went to Ranger School, only one of us made it, I broke my tibia in 2nd month of selection, and my other buddy kinda washed out. They said I could start selection over but I wasn't having any of that!! I have worked in Newark and also NYC as a Para and Flight Medic, I have loved the job but it can wear on you after time!! There are good and bad calls, I have noticed as the years go on how I have become desensitized to tragedy. If someone dies that I have known, I try and put on a sad face, but inside it really doesn't affect me, not like other people!
In one way this is good because you do not want a medic over you working on you who cant think clinically and put aside emotion, being able to make correct unemotional clinical decisions is I believe most important, or at least what I would want!!
Your really going to like the next episode! Speirs is GREAT!!
Diogenes don't read my next comment, cause spoilers
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@Irish Medic don't you feel that what Buck Compton goes through when his very own buddies get mangled, is an exception to that ? Or is it because he was already on the verge of PTSD, with the DearJohn letter and all ?
Thank you for your service brother.
Dude. Bastogne was an intersection of a bunch of roads. That was where they were. The Germans had them surrounded .. they had NO place to retreat to. They HAD to deny the Germans the roads.
Ok DUDE
From Wikipedia: The siege of Bastogne (French pronunciation: [bas.tɔɲ] roughly Ba-STOY-nyer, rather than BAS-tone) was an engagement in December 1944 between American and German forces at the Belgian town of Bastogne, as part of the larger Battle of the Bulge. The goal of the German offensive was the harbor at Antwerp. In order to reach it before the Allies could regroup and bring their superior air power to bear, German mechanized forces had to seize the roadways through eastern Belgium. Because all seven main roads in the densely wooded Ardennes highlands converged on Bastogne (Bastnach in German), just a few miles away from the border with neighboring Luxembourg, control of its crossroads was vital to the German attack. The siege was from 20 to 27 December, until the besieged American forces were relieved by elements of General George Patton's Third Army.
My first child was born when i was on my way to Vietnam. Each regiment had a chaplain and he would travel around to each company. I was a Navy Hospital Corpsman (Medic) in Vietnam (3 Tours). I had 4months of basic medical training and two months of combat medical training when I was assigned to the Marines. The army medical training is similar. According to the Geneva Conventions Medics are not to carry offensive weapons. During times not in combat the medic is supposed give first aid lessons to his whole platoon frequently. So anyone can take over if the medic is killed. They can carry a pistol for their own protection and the protection of the one they are working on. Those two medics in the same fox hole should never be close to each other during combat (That’s one of the first things you learn). One of my tours in Vietnam I was on a ship in the Mekong Delta. Me and another corpsman were the only medical personnel on board. We were taught that during combat conditions we were to be on opposite ends of the ship. The 2 corpsmen we replaced were together during a fire fight and they both got killed.. You never remember all the ones that you have treated but you never forget the ones you can’t save.
Here's hoping you found some solace - you sound like you did.
Cheers from France
God Bless you and thank you for your service . My dad in WW 2 as a medic.
This episode shows how the Army determined they needed MASH units. Everything they discuss after the episode are factors that are answered by having mobile surgical hospitals.
I didn't know that, very interesting
Bastogne was at the junction of several major roadways. It had to be held to temporarily stop and slow the German offensive. The allies need the time to reorganize forces.
Renee was a real person, so was the African nurse. She rescued several GI's before the Church collapsed killing her.
Bastogne is on an intersection of several roads. The 101st plus parts of other divisions and regiments had to hold that town. It was vital to the German counter offensive. As you heard in the start of the episode the Division's medical unit was captured by the Germans when they finally surrounded the town.
The men on the line had to hold, there is no going back. Sure the line flexed every now and then, but to pull back is to further compromise the defense of the whole Division.
The General in the beginning was the 101st artillery commander, acting as Division commander. Taylor was on leave for the holidays when shit hit the fan. Remember the 101st was pulled of the line for R&R.
The machine gunner who was shot had the bullet enter his shoulder and run along his back hitting his spine. He was paralyzed from the wound, but recovered later.
There were actually several nurses called the Angels of Bastogne. Two who worked with U.S. Army physician John Prior treating the wounded. Renée Lemaire, and Augusta Chiwy who was Congolese via her mother.
Accounts state Lemaire managed to evacuate six soldiers from the burning building, but died while attempting to save a seventh wounded from a building that was bombed.
Chiwy attended to civilian and military casualties with her uncle, a doctor, until 21 December, when she volunteered to serve as a nurse at the first-aid station of the 20th Armored Infantry Battalion. Chiwy worked at the aid station in the Rue Neufchateau, and even donned an Army uniform in order to go out into the field to collect the wounded while under fire.
Chiwy was in an adjacent building with Dr. Prior when the bomb struck and Lemaire died. Chiwy lived to be 94 and passed in 2015.
Fassbender was firing the 30 caliber belt fed machine gun from on top of the logs and yelled "pull back" when Julian was shot in the neck
The gangrene could develop due to frostbite, so you were right about that.
The Kid from Jurassic park is in The Pacific when You guys get to it.
This is definitely my favourite episode. Shows how bad the medics had it, having to literally run from soldier to soldier and beg for their personal supplies because they had nothing. And how valued the medics were by everyone else, showing how pretty much everyone was worried about him and tried to keep him out of trouble. Doc Roe specifically, he's only mentioned briefly in the book, but Lt. Foley said about him that: "He was there when he was needed and how he got 'there' you often wondered. He never received recognition for his bravery, his heroic servicing of the wounded." And they portrayed that perfectly in this episode.
I loved your comment about Babe when you asked "was he the kid from Jurassic Park?" because I asked the same thing when I was first watching the series many years ago. The answer is no, HOWEVER, when you watch The Pacific, the guy who plays Eugene Sledge in that IIIISSSS the one who was in Jurassic Park!
Winter of 79 I'm 15 Shoveling snow to help my elderly neighbors. I got frostbite in my fingers and toes. I was lucky, they saved my digits. But I still have some residual damage that will always be with me. The pain was so intense I was nearly physically ill. Medics said if I had waited even 20/30 minutes more I would have lost 8 toes and 7 fingers. I make sure now to have the best stuff that I can afford to keep warm. Every time I see this episode it takes me back to 79. Been in worse winters since but now I am prepared.
You got to keep them little things warm and Dry. Thankfully, gloves and boots are better now than they were then. I can't even imagine what these brave men had to go through.
You're exactly right: Easy Company's experience reads like a list all of the key battles in the European theater: Overlord in Normandy, Market Garden in Holland, Battle of the Bulge in Bastogne... and it continues.
My 1 Uncle was shot out of the sky on D-Day but lived with a hole through his face , in the neck and out the cheek. Another one was manning a 75mm as they watched the shells bounce off the German Tanks.
The US troops were completely taken by surprise and completely confused by Germany launching a winter offensive. None of the higher up brass thought this could happen.
More like they knew it could happen, but were convinced it wouldn't. Some of the higher ups had gotten complacent, relying on the fact that the Brits had broken German radio codes, so they got used to basically reading the german mail. But before Bastogne, Hitler had an extra bout of paranoia, and had all communications done by letters by hand, excluding commanders he thought were traitors, and not telling all the troops involved what was actually going on.
That plus the fact that the Allies estimated that the Germans didnt have the troops or fuel to launch a major offensive also made them relax.
That Germans didn't have the fuel to do it. They did it anyway. Of course they hadnt let that stop them in 1941 when they invaded the Soviet Union either.
German logistics seems to run on 'eh it will sort itself out, attack' . You dont wait for supplies before you attack, you attack and hope the supplies will arrive before you fail.
Also, the medical logistics were even so dire as the 101st's hospital battalion was one of the 1st units the Germans captured during the opening stages of their Ardennes offensive.
@@MandoWookie Well, more like you attack and steal the supplies you need from the enemy. The Germans had hoped they would be able to capture allied fuel dumps. This worked very well for them the first time they launched an offensive through the Ardennes in 1940, as the Maginot line was very well supplied. Unfortunately for them, and somewhat ironically, the Allies at this point were having a very hard time getting fuel and other supplies to the front, and there just wasn't that much available to be captured in the first place. What little was near the front mostly got destroyed by allied units before they retreated. The allies supply problem ironically wound up being very beneficial in stopping the German offensive.
This strategy was kind of a necessity for the Germans though. People like to marvel at the ahead-of-their-time weapons the Germans fielded during the war - heavy tanks, jet fighters, rockets, advanced submarines, even guided weapons. But for all that advanced tech, their army was woefully deficient behind the front lines. They had very few trucks. They relied on rail to move supplies in bulk, and then it was largely horse drawn wagons to move stuff beyond the end of the line. This is why we have that scene later on in Episode 9 with Webster going on his little tirade at the surrendering Germans. "Say hello to Ford, and General fuckin Motors, you had horses what were you thinking!?"
@@MrWigglesWorth Yeah. Also the newest and 'best' German tanks had trouble with the terrain, and had reliability problems. Ironically the King Tiger was designed as a breakthrough tank for just such an offensive, but the tank commanders didnt want it, they were too unmanageable, but were overruled. So they stuck them at the rear so they wouldn't block the roads for the other units when they either broke down or ran out of fuel.
Similar to the situation the Allies had with their armor during Market Garden.
Except Patton.
I've watched so many people react to this mini series. I gotta say I like ur reactions the best. Keep it up.
My great uncle bill lemieux fought in the battle of Bastogne. He was a radio man in the 101st. He was shot by a sniper in the right bicep running for a farm house. The bullet was wooden one because the Germans were running out of supplies too. It festered and ended his time in the war. After the war ended he spent the rest of his enlistment playing the trumpet in the army band. He was an amazing man and always had a smile on his face. I miss him dearly. RIP uncle bill.
The two nurses were real people. They are known as the Angels of Bastogne.
Renée Lemaire was a nurse who was visiting her parents in Bastogne for Christmas 1944. Her fiancé, a Jewish man, had been arrested by the gestapo in Brussels earlier in the year. When the German advance surrounded Bastogne, Renée volunteered at the US Army aid station. On Christmas Eve 1944, the Germans bombed the town of Bastogne. The building that the aid station was located in was hit by a bomb. Renée was not inside when the bomb hit. She managed to rescue 6 people from the building. She went back in to get more people, but the building collapsed, and she was killed. Her body was recovered, and the Airborne returned Renée to her parents wrapped in a parachute.
Augusta Chiwy (Anna) was also a trained nurse who was visiting her parents in Bastogne for Christmas 1944. She too volunteered at the American Aid station, and even went out into the field to tend wounded soldiers near the front lines. During the Christmas Eve bombing, Augusta was in the basement of the building adjacent to the aid station. She was knocked through a wall by the explosion, but survived with only minor injuries. She would continue to practice nursing after the war, married a Belgian soldier, had two children, and passed away in 2015. In 2011, Augusta was appointed Knight of the Order of the Crown by the Belgian Minister of Defence, and was awarded the Civilian Award for Humanitarian Services by the US Army.
There’s no formal record of Doc Roe ever meeting Augusta or Renée, but it’s possible they crossed paths during the siege of Bastogne.
The detrimental effect military service/absence has on relationships is so pervasive, they have songs about it: "Jody Calls".
It is also a meme that the girlfriend cheats while you are overseas.
In terms of WW2 it also happened the other way around, as over 100.000 women in Central Europe found a US/UK male
It's worth noting here that during those German armored pushes into their lines, in reality, the 101st had a few bazooka teams dispersed along the line to repel the German half-tracks, armored cars and panzers. These bazookas combined with mortar-fire and armor-piercing rounds from machine guns would have been just enough to repel these armored thrusts. They also had some 105mm artillery support with a daily ammunition limit and a few Sherman tanks plus M10 Tank Destroyers that were attached to Easy and the other companies from the supporting American armored divisions that were caught with them in the encirclement. These tanks were having to move all around the line constantly in order to meet the German armor as they appeared. The supporting tanks also had to be very careful with their ammunition. I'm guessing they could not show all of this in the series due to budget/logistics, plus they wanted to focus on the desperate situation that the infantry were facing.
Well done ! Answered on point !
This episode, from the perspective of the medic and the nurse, hit me just as hard as the "Why We Fight" episode. As brutal and visceral as this episode is to watch it shows just how dedicated some people can be to just try and help put things back together, and it's really hard to watch both of them slowly breakdown throughout the course of it all. Everyone played a part and I feel the medics had to see it all. Amazing series.
Recently the actor for Doc Roe was interviewed on the HBO Band of Brothers podcast and he’s actually an English actor. He said you’ll notice his character never interacts with the other men and share their jokes, he also calls them by their real name so that he doesn’t get to know them as friends so that he can stay detached from them since he may have to treat them when they’re mortally wounded.
Living in that area rest assure that everyone here keep on having major respect and recognition for everyone involved in that battle. There is a fantastic museum in Bastogne where a lot of american come everyday of the year. Now to see the Foxholes you have to pay but until 2 years ago you could go in those woods for free and see them. And be assured that when its winter its freaking cold out here as Bastogne is on a crest. Winds blows from everywhere also.
"I'm glad I'm not in Bastogne."
My maternal grandfather (long since deceased) was Finnish and served in the Winter War against the Soviet Union during WWII. When I was a kid and we would visit him and his family, I always such a hard time sleeping because he would have the heating cranked up to max, and he'd be wearing a full pyjamas, wool socks and a wool sweater in his bed. I never realized it at the time, but as I grew up - I think maybe it was this exact line in the show that made it click for me (I watched the show when it came out) - I understood his reasons. He never talked about it, but I think he had done his lifetime share of freezing, and decided never to be the least bit cold ever again.
The Nurse Renee Lemaire volunteered for US aid Station in Bastogne. Due to her saving life's the soldiers nicknamed her "Angel of Bastogne" She was killed during a German Air strike on 24.12.1944
Her body was recovered by several paratroopers and they honored her by wrapping her in a parachute and carried her on foot to her parents who lived nearby.
The other one that was of African decent, her dad was Belgian, augusta chiwy, was blown into the wall but survived. Supposedly, she had a crush on the American doctor. She also was said to have donned an American uniform to go closer to the front to treat the soldiers. She is known as the forgotten Angel of Bastogne. Some did call them the Angels, but most forgot the black one for some reason!
Just in case anyone might be interested, History professor Jared Frederick has a series on RUclips called "Reel History." He did a review of The Band of Brothers, and The Pacific. Not only does he comment on the series, he also have a lot of background information about the people depicted in the series both before and after the war.
top notch channel. been subscribed for quite some time. love all his facts for all the series. I think he also recently released some Reel History merch too with some band of brothers merch.
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“Ah shit I got blood all over my trousers...”
“I’m real sorry, Frank!”
Omg I died laughing just like you guys.
Yeah great line. all the guys are so snappy.
11:44 Look where the medic inserts the morphine, that's the guy in the beginning that said he was saved.
I knew you were military the second you said, "suppressing fire." Glad to see you.
I asked in a comment section for an earlier episode, whether or not he had served. No answer yet, but what seals the deal for me is that bit about writing the T on the soldier's forehead + time it was applied.
Renee Lemaire is the famous Belgian nurse in this episode. She was in Africa in the Congo treating sick people there when she went home to Belgium to see her family for Christmas and got trapped in Bastogne. Many nurses Ive spoken to that have seen this episode all say "I wonder if im that good of a nurse?" I know one actually did volunteer for war duty because if you want to know how good of a nurse you are... go to a battlefield"
My favorite episode and one I'm always happy to see people reach. The story of a medic trying to do his best in this brutal winter wasteland is so interesting and cool.
Also you guys made a super interesting comment regarding Buck's mental state from sitting in the theater being related to his girlfriend/wife breaking things off with him, never thought about that before!
I've watched the series before so I knew what was coming. I actually watched the reaction to episode 7 before watching the reaction to this one, the truth is that I was avoiding this episode, but I liked the reaction to episode 7 so much that I had to come back, put on my big boy pants and watch this episode. For me the hardest episodes psychologically were this one and the one with Blithe.
Y'all are outstanding. I really enjoyed watch your "reactions" an commentary. I have been a WWII student for 50 years. Thank you for your understanding. Good luck to you both.
In the movie Fury, LeBeouf took his inspiration from the character he plays, though the name is changed. The cast was trained by a WWII tank crew that had served in the same tank in the war. The gunner in that crew was religious. During the training LeBeouf was converted.
I'm a civilian paramedic. This is one of my favorite depictions of what it's like emotionally to do this job.
There's a lot of truth in what the nurse says when she talking to the medic.
A pilot was wounded during a six hour mission. He applied his own tourniquet which was on for nearly five hours, he didn't lose his leg. After the first hour he released the tourniquet for a few minutes to allow for blood flow then he retied it.
@13:33 @The Cold. I had two grandfathers and a member of my hunting club who were veterans of the Ardennes. All three could NOT stand the cold. My paternal grandfather and hunting buddy would keep the woodburning stove in our camp roaring during our stays at camp during the PA hunting season that we would have windows and doors open with temps in the teens and '20s outside. Neither wanted any of us to experience what it was like to sleep in the cold. I spoke to another vet of the Bulge who said that on the mornings each year when he would wake up to the first snowfall of the winter, he would get physically ill at the sight of it. If you were cold watching it, imagine what those poor bastards in the fox holes must have felt.
"Its pissin that hurts!" Guess he shoulda skipped that trip to Lulu's
I’ve always just assumed he had a UTI because he probably wasn’t drinking much water in the cold and I don’t think they had the time at this point in the war to go out have a little fun, but I could be wrong.
@@lawrencezimmerman8769 im just kinda referencing the episode before this one where he asks them if he knows of a places called Lulu's and they all say no but you can kinda see Harry smirking in the background like its a little more than just a bar. so it could be a UTI or the other infections associated with that. or it could be Chlamydia. i think the show kinda set up the 2nd option. and i guess Bill even said there was things he wish the show didnt mention in regards to him
@@MrEd8846 Yeah I totally forgot about that being mentioned in an earlier episode. My bad, good call!
For those who will come to Europe Belgium, you HAVE to visit the museums in Bastogne. But my first recommandation is The Hystorical Centre with a big monument for those who has fallen. You also can walk in the forrest where the battle was, and you will find many (remade) foxholes and smaller monuments.
If I go to Belgium I'm going to bruge
@@Diegesis not much about WW2, but from Brugge you can go to Ieper. That’s a 20-30 minutes drive.There is a memorial from WW1 .
This segment is an example of the bravery of the young American soldiers. My heart goes out for these brave boys.
Colonel Sink is Dale Dye. The real deal, he trained the actors in their boot camp and has been an movie military advisor for a long time.
I was a Medic myself and I Loved that Band Of Brothers dedicated an episode to combat Doc's.
The ones at Bastogne were known as the"Bastards of Bastogne". My uncle was a machine gunner that was there. Never really talked about it. They went through hell.
I was helping my Uncle fix a roof and he just started to sweat and had a flashback. He had the stare and spewed out about 10 minutes of material. I don't think he knew I was there.
We never spoke of it again.
My great Uncle was in Bastogne. He talked of sleeping under a freshly killed German in his fox hole to try to keep from freezing to death. He lost his best friend in the Ardennes during the battle of the bulge.
At the 24:00 mark, he finds the same cloth that she had worn on her head to cover her hair and puts it in his pocket to remember her. He later uses that same cloth to bandage Heffron's hand.
Soldiers carry memories. Everything else has to serve a purpose.
“Nuts” or “Nuts to you” was considered a polite way to tell someone you didn’t like to go to hell.
I’ve actually seen that letter in a museum.
6 and 8 are the most emotional for me personally. Bastogne hits hard every time. Doc Roe was also my favorite character for a long time too. Glad to see you’re enjoying the series :)
That was the key position where crossroads met so it was a very strategic town and not something you give up, or move back.
The documentary that is already mentioned is excellent and a great recommendation. I would also recommend watching the Making of band of brothers it will give you a great insight into how they filmed the episodes and this episode in particular. Great reaction and it's great you honour these veterans.
the lemon powder is part of their rations. It was meant to mixed with water to make lemonade.
yeah arianna called that. makes sense.
Did you guys notice when the combat patrol went out, the men were still under fire, but the first one back was the Lieutenant, who simply waited til his men got back, and then only showed interest in pulling back? This is the imfamous Lt Dike.
He was also the one in the previous episode who was merely whinging about the situation until Winters told him he should be organising and preparing for the deployment.
THANK YOU guys for your reaction and hard work. I appreciate this so much. One of the best movie reaction channels out there.
The nurse Rene wasn't in the church during the bombing, but she ran back in after and saved 6 people before it clasped on top of her and killed her, she got some awards for her bravery for saving those 6.
Stephen Ambrose was actually neighbors with one of the Easy Co. guys. He was inspired by their conversations to decide to write Band of Brothers.
The way they filmed this episode is so cool.
They're in a big hangar. The snow is paper, and the trees that explode are like cork and foam.
There's a whole mini doc about it. Definitely worth a watch.
Been to Belgium (Ardennes) a few times, motorbike vacation. When we rode through Bastogne, I had to think about this TV show.
How we follow the story of Doc Roe, makes me think of the movie "Home of the Brave" where Samuel L Jackson perfectly plays the Mission Surgeon of US Military. When he is back home, his son giving him sh*t and saying "Read a newspaper." Responding with "I don't need to, i was there!" One of the strongest moments in Cinema to me and very true.
the nurse is btw also historicly accurate, i forgot her name but she got a statue in the city and is revered as local hero who died carrying out patients out of a burning building, she managed to drag out 11 people before the building collapsed and killed her
Patton's 3rd armored division changed course and fought north for 95 miles in a blizzard to relieve the troops at Bastogne.
The author Stephen Ambrose wrote a European theatre history book from the US soldiers perspective, drawing on extensive interviews, the book was Citizen Soldiers. During the writing of this book Ambrose noted that one group of 101st Airborne veterans had seen a lot of unique circumstances and combat, with many veterans still alive, in contact with each other and willing to be interviewed, this was Easy Cpy 501st. As a result he took the extensive interview material and research he'd done on the wider project and narrowed it down into a follow-up book Band of Brothers: Easy Cpy 501st. During the preparation and filming into Saving Private Ryan Spielberg and Hanks drew extensively on Ambrose's historical works, he is one of the premier historians on the US soldiers lived experience during WW2. After completing Saving Private Ryan the movie makers also noted that a unique opportunity was presented to do a WW2 mini-series while many of the veterans were still alive to contribute and comment, naturally Band of Brothers and Easy Cpy presented a perfect framework for this. The then success of BoB leads to another mini-series, The Pacific, which covers the Pacific theatre and war against Japan, but this is drawn from different historical works and is more disjointed as it is harder to follow a "single" unit in the Pacific island hopping campaigns. Finally there is a third WW2 related mini-series due out in the next year to 18 months called Masters of the Air (I think is the final series name), this will cover the Air War of 1943-5 in Europe, basically a historically based (mainly off a book of the same name) mini-series which will have (at least) similar content and feel to the movie Memphis Belle.
The scene where the town is being bombed and there a jeep on fire passing by is a homage to actual footage from Bastogne…It’s wild.
Renee Lemaire was one of two Belgian nurses who volunteered to work at the aid station during the siege. She was killed on Christmas Eve 1944 while trying to save men from the burning station. The other nurse was Augusta Chiwy who survived the war and lived to 94 years old.
This episode is hits kind of close to me. My grandfather was a Pharmacists First mate in the Coast Guard was part of the invasion on DDay and served most of his time in France. When deployed on a battlefield they can be medics, but they mostly help at aid stations and such. He never talked about the war to anyone in the family with the exception of my cousin (and even then it was a small amount of information), but being around those stations affected him so much that he always hated hospitals and refused to step foot in one. The only time he stepped foot in one was once after the war when my grandmother was really sick and was hospitalized. He later went on to use the GI bill to go to a better college and then became a teacher and then a principal for a number of years, but his experiences in the war always affected him I'm told.
This was Bastogne, during the Battle of the Bulge. There WAS NO place to fall back to. They were surrounded. They had to hold where they were, or be overrun. This was the 101st Airborne's finest hour.
The reason they had as wide a perimeter as they had was to keep their artillery safe. The job of the 101st was mostly to spot the Germans and hold them up if they attacked. Bastogne contained Part of an armored division (who would be sent to help) and a LOT of howitzers (McCaulif and company grabbed every artillery unit that passed through, there was about 2-3 times as much artillery as there "should" have been). Of course that meant they needed ammunition, but THAT could be dropped in when the weather cleared (which was another reason to hold as much ground as possible).
This is my favorite episode, and Doc Roe is my favorite character.
Best conversation between the two of you of any reaction videos on RUclips!
The restaurant I used to cater for several years ago hosted some of these men at the local American Legion for a chicken fry potluck type thing. I got to talk to and meet the Kansas chapter of survivors. One of my favorite experiences to this day
That barn fire comparison is spot on, great way to think of it for the medics, ty for the insight!
"While it was unclear if Roe had met with the nurse, a nurse called Renee Bernadette Emilie Lemaire was indeed working in an aid station in Bastogne at the time. Lemaire volunteered her services at the battalion aid station on 21st December 1944. She helped tend to over 150 seriously wounded patients per day without adequate rest or food, and offered great assistance. Lemaire was killed during the Christmas Eve bombardment when a bomb made a direct hit on the aid station. She was wrapped in a parachute and buried in Bastogne by the soldiers.
According to Wikipedia, she managed to save six soldiers from the burning building but perished when she returned to try and save a seventh."
There's subtle events that I think occur in these episodes. Doc is examining Joe Toye's feet for Trench Foot, he recommends keeping feet dry & loosing boots every so often. Jump forward, Joe needs boots, Doc gets him "new" boots and says "Tell him there size 9". Now question is did Doc deliberately grab bigger size boots so that Joe couldn't lace them up tight to help (Without Joe knowing) with Trench Foot Problem
Story from a man in the 101st, he saw another soldier jump on a tank and get a grenade in the hatch when it passed by his hole. The same soldier was killed 2 days later by a Sniper
The Battle of the Bulge. Probably the finest hour for the United States military in this or any war. It took incalculable courage to hold out for so many weeks without any hope of relief or resupply.
there is a reason if i can recall correctly that they didnt shrink their perimeter . . they had a town at there back essentially that they were circled around. . they had to keep the perimeter line far enough out so the germans couldnt get close enough to start shelling and attacking the town. . which was also the closest thing they had to an aid station
oh that makes sense
Yeah the lines they were holding were the only defendable areas they had. If they fell back they would have been in worse positions, until they were in the town itself. They did have the slight benefit of the fact the Germans didnt have the resources to do an all out assault against multiple points in the line, because they lacked fuel. They had counted on capturing Bastogne the first day, but between the units already there and the 101st arriving as quick as they did, they got delayed. Essentially as soon as they didnt capture it, the German commanders knew they had already lost the offensive, but couldn't back down without Hitler accusing them of being 'defeatist' and basically traitors. So they kept throwing what attacks they could against the town when they could get the supplies together, hoping the Americans would break before a counterattack forced them back. Because if they got Bastogne, the Allies would have just as much trouble getting them out they had taking it. Much like the other critical town, Foy, that they did take, and will be shown in the next episode.
Bastogne was a hell hole, freezing cold, they had no equipment suited for the cold. And they were up against 3 SS Panzer divisions (they were the elite soldiers of the Wehrmacht). So all in all, to hold out after all of that they really deserved the Presidential Unit Citation and the Belgian Croix de Guerre.
Please do the last 4 episodes soon. I really enjoy your reaction to this series and I really anticipate it.
That’s Carwood Lipton in the beginning. Also. My grandfather was in Bastogne! And he used to say when he was younger about the winter. “It’s far better in Boston than Bastogne”! And the reason they stayed in the position they did. Was to let the enemy know they weren’t afraid and it was basically a show of strength. If they went farther away from the tree line, the enemy may have thought they retreated and entered the forrest. Our men were greatly outnumbered. So by staying in view of the enemy, it made the enemy believe their were far more men and equipment than there actually was. Point is. And some of you reading this will know what this means “Retreat!? Hell, we just got here!”
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