OUR FIRST TIME WATCHING BAND OF BROTHERS EP 6 | Bastogne
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- Опубликовано: 26 мар 2024
- It's the dead of winter, and Easy Company finds themselves in the Belgian forest attempting to fend off frostbite, hunger, and battle fatigue.
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Augusta Chiwy, the half-Congolese woman from the show, was a nurse in Brussels who came to visit her family in Bastogne for Christmas when the Germans attacked. She died in 2015 and is buried in Bastogne.
There was a documentary based about her, it was incredible.
Btw, I noticed that most people seem to instinctively think that it's his bones sticking out at 7:48, but it's actually shards of wood coming from the exploding trees, hence why the doc is saying it's not that bad.
From the previous episode (paraphrased). Lieutenant Rice: "Sir, if you goin there, you'll be surrounded!" Captain Winters: "We're Airborne. We're supposed to be surrounded."
The 2 nurses were Renée Lemaire who rescued 6 wounded from the bombed aid station but was killed trying to rescue a 7th (she was buried in a parachute out of which she wanted to make a wedding dress) and Augusta Chiwy who had a Belgian father and a Congolese mother (she lived to 2015).
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Please consider watching the pacific, same producers of band of brothers
Agreed. Much different in pacing, but focuses on the psychology and brutality of pacific combat.
The Black nurse shown passed away a few years ago. She had more to deal with the men of Easy Company than the other nurse. But ... the focus was on the other nurse, who worked hard as anyone there to save lives.
"Every boot is a nine"...it's an old Army joke.
Out in the field if you lost your boots like Toye did then you just grabbed whatever you could find and you made it fit. If it was too big you stuffed anything into the toes to take up space. If it was too small you cut some of the leather uppers to let your feet fit in. Basically "every boot fits." :)
Augusta Chiwy's participation was forgotten after the war when she went back to her life. Until historian Martin King happened onto her while researching the battle of the Bulge and brought her story to light. In 2011 she was made Knight of the Order of the Crown by the king of Belgium and was awarded the Civilian Award for Humanitarian Service by the US.
The nurses are based on real people, Renee Lamarie and Agusta Chiwy (called Anna in the show). They were both nurses visiting family in Bastogne when the Germans attacked and volunteered in the aid station set up by a unit of the 10th Armored Division. The aid station used by Easy Company was a different one, so it is unlikely Renee and Doc Roe actually met, but it's possible. During the Christmas Eve bombing raid, the aid station was hit. Accounts vary, but Renee was either killed outright or made a number of trips back in to rescue wounded, succumbing on her last trip. Agusta was either in a neighboring building or blown through a wall by the explosion, but survived. She lived to the age of 94, passing away in 2015. The writers chose to include them in the segment to honor their memory.
"There's a lot of sh*t and it's heading this way..." Well, it's here. Imagine being the only one in the middle of this chaos trying to save lives, while everyone around you is trying to end them...I dated a nurse once, it takes a certain kind of soul to do this, let alone in a war zone...
Exactly. The symbolism. Doc knew she would have wanted him to use her hair piece to help someone else.
Bastogne, dam. But here is some more facts. Winters felt that everyone look up to him as CO, so he kept his standards high as an example to his men by shaving even in those extreme conditions. The morphine syrette used in WW2 was strong, if you took 1 you're good if you took 2 you're dead. Also that part were it shows the supplies being dropped in the middle of the line between Easy and the Germans is a road now separating them. Toye had frostbite not trench foot, once I had to go up and down 2 mountains with trench foot, it wasn't fun. If the air force are our angels on our shoulders then the medics are the angels holding our hands when we need it the most. Merci Augusta et Renée les anges dont elles avaient besoin
Medics have to be next level brave. They don't carry weapons and have to run around on the battlefield in the midst of fire to get to people. Also, they accidentally shot at their own people during the drop because the Allied and German lines were hopelessly mixed up with all that snow in the forest. They were literally on top of each other.
Its the word "rescued" that the men of the 101st objected too. To a man they would agree they needed relief, additional troops, supplies and the wounded to be evacuated. That being said their job was to hold the town and prevent the Germans from gaining use of the roads. They did their job, keeping, the kept the germans out of the town and bogged down for nearly 10 days until the 3rd army was able to break through and relieve.
I seriously can’t fathom the bitter cold these men had to endure during the battle of bulge. I personally hate the cold so these men were crazy tough.
My grandfather said Korea was insanely cold as well, he was a replacement in the 1st marine division after they came back from the Chosin reservoir area.
I still can’t believe that Richard winters was only 26 years old when he was leading these men. I’m older than him at this time in my life and still blows my mind a 26 year can be so mature like that lol
I shared this on another reaction but the nurse depicted in episode 6 is Renee Lemaire, whose parents lived in Bastogne and she went to visit them in December '44 from Brussels. She wasn't able to leave due to the German forces surrounding them and she and another nurse (Augusta Chiwy) volunteered at the aid station. When the aid station was bombed, Renee was able to help 6 soldiers out of the building but was killed when she went back to attempt to rescue another wounded soldier. This series doesn't pull any punches, and it stays pretty close to the actual facts, making it much more difficult to watch. It is not easy to follow the men of Easy, but I believe it is necessary in order to honor the sacrifices that so many made.
I watched The Longest Day, when I was much younger and I begin to understand what we now call ptsd and the fact every soldier in WW2 dealt with it, in their own way. I then rewatched many war movies from different eras and different perspective dealing with it. And yes, the medics dealt with the mental stresses of war as much, if not more than regular soldiers.
This is the episode I've been waiting for you to see.. It's really rough. looking forward to seeing how you guys cope.
if i remember correctly the planes fired on them because they used red smoke which is normally used to mark enemy positions as they were out of the correct color for supply drops which is green.
Tank tactics are: “Tanks always deployed with infantry to support” so if you kill the infantry surrounding the tanks, the tanks retreat and that is exactly what happened in the battle of Bastogne.
4:09 that's a great point. It seems kinda obvious now that you've said it, but somehow, I never really realized that before. A very deliberate narrative choice.
This is a great channel. I love how chill you both are, keep doing what you're doing.
The speech about Christmas is one of the most famous in WW2...and not only did you guys complain about it, you didn't even show the best part!! General McAuliffe replying to the Germans "Nuts" went down in history as the biggest dis in the war.
They have no concept of history it's honestly scary. I think it's because they hate the u.s so our history doesn't matter. Not to realize africa was being taken over as well during this war lol
The Operation Room channel has several video on battles involving Easy Company, and a whole series on the battle of the Bulge.
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. They don't just say you're a medic. There are not enough men that volunteer to be a medic. Tests are taken while you are in training. If your test shows an aptitude for medicine, then they ask you to volunteer or just send you to school to be a medic. If you are not good at it they send you back to infantry. Most medics that have been in combat can do the job as well as or better than some doctors or nurses.
According to the Geneva Conventions medics are not to carry offensive weapons. I never carried a weapon. During times not in combat the medic is supposed give first aid lessons to his whole platoon frequently. So, anyone can take over basic first aid 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 on the Co Chien River in the Mekong Delta. Me and another corpsman were the only medical personnel on board. Being the only medical person onboard I did everything medical. If you were on a ship or with the Marines, you were called Doc. 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.
Pretty sure you guys are also from Philly. Before he passed in 2013, you could catch Edward "Babe" Heffron sometimes in a diner in south Philly still.
Great reaction, buckle up more to come in episode 7 and 9. Most of all no matter where you stand politically none of that would be possible without all that these men did...never forget!!!
“I was just about to say that” whatever dude 😂
This episode is a tuff watch. The snow depth in the episode looked to be only about and inch or so. In real life, it was about 8 to 10 inches deep adding to the misery.
@Mair & Sophie If you haven't happened to check yet, the name of the town is pronounced like this
"Bast" (sounds like "mast" but with a B) tonge (same sound as "stone" minus the S)
Bas-tone is the sound written phonetically is how you say "Bastogne"
Which a town in Belgium and was a six way intersection of roads,
the north eastern ones leading back to Germany through thick forest,
others go to Netherlands and France,
one directly to Paris, making it a critical juncture of control because vehicles,
troops move fastest and safest on roads once they are cleared of enemy,
and make for a defensive point trap if the enemy tries to take them.
I hope this helped.
PREPARE CUZ THE NEXT THREE EPISODES ARE GOING TO BE TOUGH!!
like fish rock. Bass stone.
The Battle of the Bulge was a German last ditch effort with a goal of retaking Antwerp because the allies were using it to resupply the front lines. The reason the Germans wanted Bastogne is because it was a crossroad that led in like five different directions. The Germans had tanks, and tanks move better and faster on roads. The other thing is, Eugene Roe was a medic, the Germans shot medics if they saw them, THAT is why they left them back when on a combat patrol, they didn't want anything to happen to him. The reason the Germans killed medics any chance they got is because it meant many more allied soldiers would die without a combat medic. As someone else also pointed out, they were being shelled by artillery, you can't shoot back at that unless you have your own artillery or go on the offense and overtake the artillery position, which they eventually did when they took the town of Foy. By digging in and holding Bastogne, it screwed up the German battle plan for the Bulge operation, they were on a very tight timetable due to lack of things like gas.
Better connectivity to the men and these events this time around. U did talk over a few parts that were important, but better. The next episode has a lot packed in it. Listen to the dialog, lots of questions get answered and a great understanding of why these guys are held in such high honor.
The reason those planes were shooting was to warn them to get out of the way for the supplies. They were all US planes, they just understood that falling crates could kill people.
The 101st was sent in there with next to nothing and told that their mission was to hold the line against the German counter offensive until relieved. Which is exactly what they did. Saying Patton came to their rescue carries the implication that the 101st was mucking about and got themselves into trouble they couldn’t handle and they needed saving. Nope they did the mission that they were ordered to do and they held the line against the Germans until reinforcements came to relieve them. On a side note I had a relative who was a tanker in the war. He landed at Normandy, and later helped to break the encirclement of the 101st in the battle of the bulge, and later participated in the liberation of a concentration camp. That’s damn near all I know about his experiences because that’s about all he ever had to say on the subject. You could see it in his eyes though, war is a helluva thing.
Those fellas were tougher than Tarzan’s feet.
Well he swung around so his feet probably were smooth.
@@johnbeans2000 Your comment shows up as posted before the one you replied to, for me at least.
YOU'RE A WIZARD, HARRY!
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Having served in Germany in the Army I can kinda relate. One time, my unit commander decided to try to get some brownie points by having us deploy out on an exercise 3 days before the rest of the division would arrive. Spent 3 extra days set up in the yard of a civilian, in about a foot of snow! It sucked, and was total BS.
At the siege of Bastogne it got as cold as -20. 4/5 out American soldiers killed died from exposure (freezing to death)
Not tryina hate but the way he pronounced Bastogne at the beginning of the video had me crying
one of the best reaction pages on yt rn! yall should watch The Pacific on HBO next!
Trench foot and frost bite on top of that
“This is about to be bad”. Just wait till the next episode, it’s gonna really get you. The title even lets you know it’s gonna be baaaaad.
The full episode did not upload on Patreon, it’s cutoff.
yes we were still expected to be clean shaven in a combat zone. part of being a soldier.
Also it prevents diseases. Facial hair can catch lice, bacteria, and cause viruses in that condition. It serves a functional purpose to be hygienic on the field.
Winters also felt it served as a good example to the men and that officers were expected to present themselves as well as possible...and he didn't like having facial hair himself!
@@3twelve206 yea i did this in real life
@@Kidfrankey You did nothing close to WW2.
@@robtintelnot9107 no shit?
If you guys Google the Battle of the Bulge you can read up on exactly what was going on in the area during this episode!!
They were basically surrounded by the Germans!!
Even though the Germans had them surrounded we know from the 101st it wasn't the allies that needed rescuing, it was the Germans that needed rescuing.
@@wolverine9787 EXACTLY!!! And believe it or not you hit the nail on the head because I saw a video and it's available on RUclips somewhere if you just Google search Major Winters and "Hang Tough"! So a pretty old Major Winters was presented with a painting of himself and others at Bastogne! The gentleman that presented the painting told Winters a story of when he was visiting the area of Bastogne and there was also a German veteran very old man that was part of the German troops that was surrounding the 101st, also visiting the area! The German guy was asked why they didn't just attack and overtake since they had them surrounded!! I don't remember the exact words but the German man elluded to the eagle patch that the 101st wore and that they knew the eagle patch soldiers were VERY tough!! So that's why they didn't attack!!
Pretty cool story if you ask me, an absolutely true!!!
Remember its based on true facts. The nurse was a real person who was killed on Christmas day during a bombing raid. Thats why they showed it.
Also the Black nurse from the Congo was a real person. I believe she survived the war.
if you think this episode of BAND OF BROTHERS is good, I recommend watching Hacksaw Ridge next!
non combatants was also necessary in WW2!
6:32 the reason they didn’t shoot at the Germans was because they literally couldn’t see them. The German artillery shelling Easy Company is not only out of sight, but also outside of firearms range. You literally can’t shoot back at them because there’s nothing to shoot at.
Great reaction.
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Medics in battle are often targeted more than soldiers for the care they can give. They are supposed to be a 'safe zone' in war. They rarely are.
dont know how it was in Europe but the Japanese would go out of their wat to target Medics
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The Germans spent a lot of time and resources trying to take Bastogne. That is why they kept attacking from all sides and bombarded the town itself.
Officers and medics are prime targets. During Vietnam, a medic had a life expectancy of about 15 minutes in the bush. My husband was a combat medic with the Marines. Whrn they were deploying to Vietnam, he wasn't going to wear any corpsman identification and carry his gun because his men knew who he was. Fortunately, they were turned around because the drawdown was starting in Vietnam.
Germans did not usually shoot medics. I read of an incident where a British medic was shot in the midst of battle and the German and British officers called for a cease fire, and the German officer apologized for the shooting of the medic and they collected their respective wounded before re-starting the battle. Now the Japanese... they regarded medics as prime targets.
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Solders were required to keep shaven because it prevents diseases. Beards can catch lice, bacteria, and viruses.
Good hygiene serves as a survival function for soldiers
I was of the impression that the plane shooting was a German plane following the Allied planes, but I still don't really know. I couldn't see the markings on the plane.
Looks like a P-47 to me (USAAF).
It was the US, they thought Easy were the Germans. It was unfortunately a common mistake.
@@wolverine9787 oh wow I don't know why i didn't think of that
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I will never understand the selfishness of women who broke up with their boyfriends and husbands via Dear John letters, knowing they were out there fighting and suffering for their country. I don't care if you met somebody else; suck it up and wait to tell them until they make it home, instead of snatching away their sense of hope and support.
Pronounced "BassStone"
I'm sure this has already been said but:
it's "Bah-stone", same way cologne is 'cah-lone'. French gonna French lol.
Winters shaves to keep up the appearance of being 'put together' for his men's morale.
bass stone
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How can they defeat tanks? 13:24 old training film that has the answer ruclips.net/video/taHFUKKKmJM/видео.htmlsi=WoXfLBS3xjuIWu9f
he dk what an ambush is clearly..