Watching *BAND OF BROTHERS* For the First Time! (Episode 1-2)
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- This is our First Time Watching Reaction to the Band of Brothers (2001) Episodes 1 "Currahee" and 2 "Day of Days". During training, a conflict develops between Lt. Sobel and Lt. Winters, a subordinate officer who has gained the respect of the members of the 'Easy' E Company of the US 101st Airborne Division. On D-Day, thousands of paratroopers travel from England to France. One of Lt. Winters' soldiers is killed in action while leading an assault on a heavily entrenched German artillery position.
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It's not hard to tell who's who you just need to focus a little bit
I am sure it has been said already. The older men you see talking ahead of each episode are the Easy Company men who fought in WW2. There is a great documentary companion film that came with my box set for Band of Brothers called We Stand Alone Together. It is hard to watch and see these men come to tears at times remembering what they went through. But it is well worth it. I can't wait for you to see who is who at the end of the series. 😀 The whole show is based on the book Band of Brothers which recounts their tour of duty in WW2 in Europe. Some things, later, are found out to be different than what the book wrote but what they wrote at the time was what they remembered and what they thought happened to some soldiers that they lost touch with. Enjoy the series!! I will try not to let the proverbial cat out of the bag. Oh and when I was in the military there were some leaders who couldn't find their way out of a paper bag but were good teachers. And vice versa. There were some guys you could count on, in a pinch, to keep a steady calm demeanor and make good decisions when the crap was hitting the fan. Sobel was, as many thought, either a genius, or just a jerk. Many of the men from Toccoa didn't like him, but they all acknowledged that his harsh training got them ready and pulled them together as a unit. So there was lots of value in his being a jerk/genius. Schwimmer really did a great job in that role!
@@mikeymike1374 less talking more watching
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what ur watching are actual missions from the war n soldiers narrators in begging of show are easy company
Surprised you hadn't already done this one! Over 20 years and it's still (IMO) the best TV series on any topic ever made.
I'd say The Wire because it covers so many relevant topics with perfect realism aswell.
@@ollie-pn1ql Hard to choose between the two and would add The West Wing, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul and The Sopranos in the mix. Not sure a best can ever be decided, all are outstanding.
An amazing production. Great CGI and a perfect period piece everything looks and feels authentic.
Yeah this and season 1 of true detective are on another level for me
@@chriskehoe1394 The Wire and The Sopranos are definitely the best. Without a doubt.
The older men you're seeing are not actors. They are the men of Easy company who made it through. These are interviews conducted as later generations realized that if we didn't get their stories on record, these gems of bravery and character would be gone forever. They don't reveal their names until the end, but see if you can figure some of them out.
It's heartbreaking each "actor" lost in the movie represents a real buddy or comrade held long in the memories of these dear men. For many of the old soldiers, these interviews were therapeudic as they release emotions and relive memories kept private all these decades since the war. How do you go to war and not come back drastically different than who you were before?
the book and the show are pretty accurate i love this show , it started when i joined the blackwatch in 03 a Scottish regiment and they played this show a lot to convey the power of your buddy during war and basically to amp u up to go to war i suppose . it worked as i and we relied on our buddy's to keep me and us safe i know he will look after me and he knew I'm goanna look after him we had casualties but not a lot of deaths like the American's who we felt very bad for .i have no idea why I'm telling you this but its just all cumin to me 20 years later .
When this was made Easy Company was still having reunions. The men who were still alive at the time took the actors who played them to the places portrayed in the series. That must have been amazing to get insight into the experiences from the people who lived them!
True. i believe that the last E Company soldier passed just a couple of years ago. The men of Easy have made the big jump.
@@dawnfallon6812 I believe that was the last officer a few years ago, the one that shouts every order when they are talking of a replacement officer at Bastogne.
But the final solider of Easy company died last year I believe, maybe the year before.
A shame no man is left of this incredible story
a small detail is that winter's buddy, nixon, is an intelligence officer. his job makes him responsible for dispatching scouts and relaying intel to battalion command from the frontlines. this also means he will be near the front, but rarely commands troops or fight toe to toe with the enemy.
He actually went the whole war without firing his weapon despite having three combat jumps.
@@timothyburrows9622 No spoilers Timothy!
@@timothyburrows9622 so a spoiler here.
@Timothy Burrows OMG Tim! How could you!
It seems they're not reacting to comments so maybe not reading them yet. Which is wise...
So, important context: This whole thing is a true story. All the men in this show were real people. All the events in this series really happened.
They'll get to know at the end.
More or less. There are some key inaccuracies (events surrounding Blithe, Dyke and Webster for example)
@@notthestatusquo7683 everything shown dor Blythe was accurate, unfortunately the text Wasn't
Webster yeah he wasn't on tha mission he was across the river on a machine gun.
and Dyke, I remember a lot less about
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While Dyke was arguably, a bad officer, he froze during the assault on Foy because he was badly wounded.
He actually received a few metals during Normandy for exceptional bravery, in retrieving some of his wounded men. It’s possible that he just was completely battle fatigued during The Battle of the Bulge.
@@kingdancekiller is there any stories from men about how he got those medals, cause I know Popular officers who had higher ups who liked them and wanted them to advance tended to sometimes be given medals... Tho it could also very well be true but based on what I have seen about Dyke he fits the archetype
The actors are portraying the real guys from the 101st airborne Company E that you see interviewed. Based on the book by Steven Ambrose who gathered all the memoires from the men in Easy Company. You will know all their names at the end.
I was going to say this, but, I see you have it covered. Carry on.
@@buddystewart2020 smartly,,,lol
Just spoil them...
@@TuffMcAwesome they already finished this most reaction channels have stuff on patreon for months before you see it on youtube
Gets easier as it goes on. Less to remember.
Band of Brothers is one of the most influential, emotional and empowering TV shows in history and everyone in every generation needs to watch it.
Did you know that masters of the air the third band of brothers tv show is coming out in mid spring 2023
@@mrrodeo6330 Is there an actual release date announced? I've been looking forward to it, but haven't seen a date yet.
Hopefully they eventually make a fourth miniseries, about the Navy. They'll have covered the Army with Band of Brothers, the Marines with The Pacific, and the (Army) Air Force with Masters of Air. I think the obvious choice would be an aircraft carrier for the Navy. The USS Enterprise was a legendary ship in WW2 that participated in most of the major carrier battles in the Pacific and would be a good choice of subject. They could cover the naval aviators, the sailors, and so on, across basically the whole of WW2, and perhaps tell some stories from some of its escort ships at times. Heck, some of the Enterprise's aircrews were even there at Pearl Harbor even though the ship itself was not.
@@fakecubed my best bet its going to be released this next month may
I believe several of the men of Easy company, while not agreeing with all of Sobel's training methods, and certainly not trusting his capacity as a leader in combat, still credited him for the harsh physical standards he set for Easy company, saying that that was one factor that helped them endure and survive the many trials of war.
They tried to reach out to him after the war. Get him involved in the reunions. Sobel refused. He was embittered by the whole thing. In some ways you can say that losing Easy ruined Sobel.
In the book they credit Soebel. The men all said they wouldn't have survived if he wasnt so tough on them during training.
@@dawnfallon6812But event probably saved his life as Plane/stick #66 went down.
I say this every time because it's the honest truth. This is in some ways my favorite episode, perhaps because of the innocence. Capt. Sobel and Army noodles with ketchup were their most pressing threats, while knowing what horror lies ahead of them. Be prepared to learn, laugh, grow and suffer with these characters. The second episode...is when the sh*t gets real. "We're not lost private, we're in Normandy." Shows Winters' confidence amidst the chaos already. Currahee! ♠
This is a show every young person in this country hell even the world needs to watch. too much time has passed and people are forgetting.
@@tonygonzales3206 I always say this should be required viewing in High School. Maybe not so much The Pacific (little too brutal for school) but definitely Band of Brothers
@@tonygonzales3206 Yes unfortunately most all of those who were there have now passed away and it has almost passed from living memory and will soon be a relic of the past like the Civil War.
Did you see the YT short on the life of the real Sobel? Pretty fascinating.
@@JWW301 Pretty much worthless person.
My Great Uncle (Elijah Whytsell) was in Easy Company. He passed in 2016, but man, he had some stories! He was injured by a mortar in what would have been the "Crossroads" episode and sent back to England to heal up.
Was he the one who went down on the road, or who that guy was playing to be?
@Duality333 He wasn't listed in any credits or talked to for the series because most of them didn't know if he was alive or not except Webster, who was also wounded there and they were buddies. After he healed up (in England), he was put on a diesel tug transporting German POWs across the channel since he was in the merchant marines before he enlisted. It's neat to read his name in all of this and to have him mentioned in numerous books by E members tho!
In all the reactions that I have watched, the one guy that I don’t hear a lot of people talk about is Donnie Walburg. His portrayal of Lipton is great; especially in the later episodes. He shows how difficult leadership can be and yet is humble enough to not realize it when you ARE that leader.
Poor guy is the one that always has to give the bad news, too. I agree, I love his character.
Agreed.
Definitely one of the unsung heroes of the show. I loved that he's the main character of the best episode (The Breaking Point).
I've always been a fan of Donnie.
And this was one of his earliest roles as an actor. He did a nice job.
43:44 Fun fact: Lipton actually admitted in his post-action report that climbing the tree was not a good idea whatsoever.
Sure, he had a good vantage point to look down on the area. However, when he fired his first shots, the Germans spotted him and began firing at his position. When the tree branches around him were getting ripped apart, he described that it was a terrible decision to begin with.
Dos Cavazos: "we haven't seen Friends"
Me: Your weekend passes have been revoked!
😂😂😂😂😂 I've never laughed so hard in my life
Band of brothers is in the pantheon of best tv show ever. So glad you're reacting to it. To be fair with Sobel even if he was tough and unfair and he was pushing easy to make himself looks good, pushing them make them an outstanding company. Regardless of him knowing or not the true extant of their task ahead.
He's such a controversial figure. I think the show did him justice.
@@WaywardVet His family disagrees. They felt like the vets' hatred of him was partly justified because he was indeed way too severe, but partly born out of antisemitism. At least the antisemitism is shown in BoB, so I guess that's them throwing Sobel a bone.
@@pabloc8808 of course I could see his family being upset. But I think the show was fair all things considered . He was hard on them during training but it did spark a bound early in easy before the baptism of fire.
@Pablo C:
The fact that nobody went to Sobel's funeral (not even his own family) tells you everything you need to know about the type of person he was.
@@Rocket1377 Or it tells that he was neglected by his family. It happens a lot to elderly folk
4:15 Friends ran from 1994 to 2004. Band of Brothers was released in 2001, so David Schwimmer filmed for BoB in between filming Friends seasons.
11:00 From what I understand, basic training is intended to keep in as many people as possible. It's in the specialist forces (airborne, SEALs, Delta, etc.) where the training is intended to weed out as many people as possible.
35:15 That was the plane of Lt. Meehan, Easy's CO. I believe a monument was raised on the crash site.
35:45 If you're in an environment where everyone and their pet dog is shooting at you - which is what happened here - and blasting holes into you're plane, you're not gonna circle back. :-P As for fighters, night fighters were not common at this time, and Allied night fighters were usually sent out to support the Allied nighttime bomber raids that take place during this time, so the transport aircraft were unescorted.
38:15 Joe Toye listed down all of the equipment he carried at the end of Episode 1. The loadout for a paratrooper was around 100 lbs., in general, and if a paratrooper landed with all that weight on his body, he would likely break his legs, no matter how good the landing. This was why the leg bag carried most of a paratrooper's equipment, including his weapons, and was roped to the paratrooper, so it would dangle beneath him when he jumped.
41:30 The German infantryman's parents likely emigrated from Germany and then returned with their family.
44:28 Buck Compton played baseball (as well as football) while at UCLA. In real life, the distance from him to the soldier was around the distance from home plate to second base, and Compton timed the throw so that the grenade blew up *right on the German soldier's freakin' head*. Skills came in handy.
46:35 It worked. In reality, the gun's barrel would have bulged out slightly, and that kind of damage is enough to keep an artillery gun from firing accurately.
Great reactions! Good for picking this one up, it's a real ride. 😀
These men have already been through basic training, the officers and NCOs have already been in the army for some time. They volunteered for airborne and it's Sobel's job to weed out the unfit. They can quit or be washed out at anytime and sent back to the regular army up until they deploy. Out of 5400 volunteers, only 1800 will make it into the airborne.
A recommendation: try to forget about where you’ve seen this actor or that actor before, or who’s a cool character and who isn’t. It’s a dramatized version of events, but it’s based on the real stories of the real people. The soldiers portrayed are based on real people, often directly in actual name and actual experiences. So leave the tv series logic behind, and don’t try to guess what’ll happen based on what makes sense for a show or character, because that doesn’t apply here.
Excellent advice. I hate it when reactors start playing games and yakking about inconsequential stuff, like who played what character in another film. They end up missing so much and make for poor reactions.
All the guys at the start of each episode are real Easy Company veterans, and every episode is based on what really took place.
yeah this is a major spoiler. they don't tell you who those guys are until the last episode for effect.
DAWG, spoilers. Wtf.
It's not fucking spoilers to say something that is pretty obvious and was common knowledge when the show came out, it would be spoilers to reveal the names of the men at the start however as that is left as a surprise at the end.
@@Oxley016 wrong. It’s spoilers. Stop seething.
@@Nunofurbiznus How are the events of WW2, which ended 78 years ago, or the fact that easy company veterans are a part of the show based on the story of Easy Company, considered spoilers? This stuff is history, history that most people know when starting this show and also most people figure out that the old people at the start are real veterans.
Maybe you didn't figure this stuff out when you watched it and are surprised when you find out other people did know. That isn't our fault.
43:50 For anyone interested in learning, this is what Buck said with his hand signals.
He signs a "1, 4, 2," and then "2, 5, closed fist" and pointed.
What he said was, "MG42, 25 meters, throw grenades that way."
This was so that Malarkey and Guarnere could gauge how far to lob their grenades with Buck.
An MG42 was a machine gun used by the German military. Fun fact, that type of weapon design is actually used as a blaster prop in Star Wars Episode 4: A New Hope when Luke, Han and Chewie go rescue Princess Leia.
Also fun fact: the German MG 3 currently in use today was derived from the MG 42
41:20 I live in Eugene, Oregon. It's pretty crazy because when this moment came on as my family watched the series, we were blown away when Oregon got a shoutout.
Personal fun fact: I live ten minutes from Malarkey's home actually. A lot of people salute his home and pay a lot of respects to his family every time we pass by on the way to and from work.
This wasn't basic training, it was training to be a member of the 101st Airborne Division. Easy Company was a part of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. 500 men tried to be an officer in this regiment, only 148 succeeded. 5,300 men tried to be enlisted members, only 1,800 succeeded.
What happens is, you get so caught up in reacting that you forget that you heard these guys names or where you saw them before. It's just hard to concentrate and absorb details while you're discussing the previous scene. A fine line you have to draw.
Agreed. They keep saying they have a hard time knowing who is who, but keep talking so they miss a lot. They need to pay attention and talk less.
The men being interviewed at the beginning of each episode, are the real mean of Easy Company. This series is 99% factual. Based on the memoirs of these men.
Well done on the reactions. But. This series is about to get real. So worth it in the end.
You have desecrated one of the finest tv series ever produced with your interminable chitchat.
I must agree. I have watched MANY reactions videos to this series, and these two miss more important characters, moments, and details than anyone I have ever watched. Stopped with these two after this episode, they clearly don't get it.
41:30
The craziest part about that German dude that was from Oregon is that he and Malarkey actually worked across the street from one another. They changed it in the show because they thought the audience wouldn’t believe it.
Many combat veterans who have been in real combats and have had bullets flying near their heads, have said that these are some of the most realistic combat scenes they have ever seen in a movie.
41:07. Per IMDB. "Donald Malarkey is seen meeting an American-born German POW who had lived in Oregon, Malarkey's home state, but whose family had returned to Germany before the war. That incident actually happened, but with one crucial difference, in the film, Malarkey hadn't known the man back in Oregon. In real-life, the two had actually worked across the street from each other for years."
yes, the old men at the beginning of each episode are the actual survivors of Easy Company. You don't know who they are until the end of Episode 10.
I think this is better than Saving Private Ryan.
I prefer Shaving Ryan’s Privates
@@alexfilma16 😂
47:36 Yes, that was Hall. He was the one at the beginning of the episode that landed near Winters. He was technically with Able company but decided to join Easy as a tagalong in order to help them out. He supplied the TNT that helped destroy the German artillery.
Hopefully you all can do “the pacific” after this
Real life. Real people. Real events. The older men are the veterans of that unit!
My grandpa, tailgunner trainer and drummer/percussionist for the Air Force band during WWII, said he never understood practicing something you had to do right every time from the first time. Meaning "jumping out of a perfectly good airplane." He was a character! God bless his soul.
*Sees a character for the 37th time in one episode*
"Now who is this new guy?"
They focus on different soldiers throughout the episodes. They don't focus specifically on one solder, but in totality. So, you get greater depth with the group the interplay is good among various characters. And the pre show interviews are with the real soldiers who survived. And the guy playing the General throughout the series was a real soldier he is a retired Colonel or Major I forget which.
I think you mean Dale Dye, who played Col. Robert Sink. Dale Dye is a retired Marine Corps Captain.
Easy Company's story is engraved in my mind so hard, that when they first served us spagetti during Basic training I instinctively became nervous and it took a few seconds to realize why :D Much love from Hungary!
Always glad to see a new Band of Brothers reaction. This series was the best television I have ever seen.
Sobel is an incredibly sad story of a human being. He was Doctrinally proficient, but Tactically incompetent. Graduate of Culver Military Academy, he had high aspirations for himself. Winters characterized him as "Just plain mean" but to his family he was a different man, for a time at least. He eventually made it to Lt Colonel in the Army Reserves. Later in life everything fell apart. Sobel eventually was divorced and lost all contact with his sons. In 1970 he attempted suicide and failed. Only succeeding in severing his optic nerves and rendering him permanently blind. He lived the last 17 years of his life in a VA nursing home until his death in 1987. No funeral services were held for him. This show chose a very small aspect of this man's life to characterize his entire existence. Take what you see here with a grain of salt. The book this show was built upon was written based on fading and selective memories of the people involved, and it is fraught with factual errors. Sobel's story is just one instance of that. Don't get me wrong, it's and absolutely fantastic story and show, but it is limited to the information that Ambrose had, and what the men knew. Not all information was available at the time.
I didn't know all those details about Sobel. I knew he never attended an Easy Co reunion. 100% agree with the errors in the story. It wasn't intentional, and it doesn't make me love the series any less, but it's worth being aware of. Some of the errors are glaring, some maybe not. I'm sure the crowd will point out the obvious ones, like with Blithe.
@Buddy Stewart I think for the most part the Blithe info is pretty quick to get corrected. It's just unfortunate that the story of such an integral character is glossed over. The original E Co members do owe a significant amount of their tenacity and resilience to Sobel, and, by proxy the replacements as well. Winter's said he was never certain if the E Co men were so close because of Sobel, or in spite of him. Either way, it worked.
Ah. I wasn't going to say it. But yeah. I think they gave him a fair shake by never bringing up his post-war life. They show that he was disliked, but leave out that chapter of his life completely. Like, he did serve and helped mold them, but they allow him to fade out rather than gloat over it.
Unpopular opinion but most of the information was known and should have been researched by Ambrose, he is a historian and could have easily checked military records to confirm dates, deathes, etc. That being said, I love the show and learning more about Easy Company.
@@kelly9876 I get your point. But you also have to understand that Ambrose first published the book in 1992. Google wasn't exactly a thing back then. I've no doubt that he researched it to the best of his abilities at the time, given the resources at his disposal. It wasn't until Hanks and Playtone adopted the story to film that the blanks began to get filled in. We've learned a great deal about these men since the book was first published.
Pay attention to all the interviews. It is VERY important as the series goes on.
My brother and sister used to watch this series during their history class.
The soldier who lost his leg bag is famous bc his bag was found 50 years later in a farm field and someone spent a few years finding the guy it belonged to the soldier in this show
Garnier (spl?) got the nickname "Wild Bill" because he was so aggressive when they hit Normandy. The leg bag was a British idea to tie a duffle bag to one leg packed with supplies. Most of them were lost in the first second of the jump because they were jumping into the propwash, and they were flying too fast. I guess a lot of them stowed their rifle and extra ammo in them. The average weight of the loaded bag was 90 to 100 pounds.
band of brothers is criminally underrated it's a masterpiece.
I love this mini series and its companion mini-series "The Pacific!" I am also really looking forward to another upcoming WW2 Mini series "Masters of the Air!"
The way the "Colonel Sink," played by Capt. Dale Dye "OooRah," handles "Sobel" is so beyond text book perfect. Those men put their asses on the line to help him correct a mistake and he sternly chastised their major infraction while listening to what they had to say. Universal. "This is the way." Very "Armorer" of him.
30:10 that plane was the company HQ plane, aboard which two men named in this story were : Lt Thomas Mehan and Sgt William Evans
38:47 - No we understand the reason for walking "12 miles on a Friday night in pitch dark and not drink from your canteen"
This series is based off the book by Stephen Ambrose, who interviewed the surviving members of Easy Company. This show is one of my all time favorites and I am thrilled you two are reacting to it.
It is without exaggeration that I can say this is one of the best TV series ever made. You're in for an experience.
So one thing to keep in mind, these aren't just 'Characters'. Like with Sobel you said 'he's such a cool character...' That was a real man not a character, and with the exception of a few, every single actor in the show is portraying a real person who actually went to war(Unlike the fictitious account in Saving Private Ryan), some of whom you meat during the interview sections (whose identities will be revealed at the end so as not to spoil deaths and survivals). But these were real people who actually went through these events and many of them didn't make it home.
tbf, it sounds like Sobel got done really dirty by this show
@@Me-ui1zy Not only by the show, he doesn't get off well in Ambrose's book, too - up to the point that his son actually spoke out against it.
Although many of the guys actually credited their survival in part to Sobel's harsh training and they were thankful for that, most of that gets swept under the rug to further emphasize the "the guys vs the useless officer" storyline.
What’s crazy is Tony in the sopranos was literally watching this whole show throughout the show. He would sit and eat his ice cream while watching another hbo original.
Great to go on this ride with ya .. .. Love this Spielberg/Hanks/WW2 Trilogy and reminds us how much we owe the Greatest Generation .. ..
Wait till you see the Bonus Footage of the cast going through Basic training .. ..
Both sides occaisionally executed prisoners when they were in no position to keep them prisoner. This was to prevent what you saw happen in SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, but on a larger scale.
My great grandfather was a pilot (Torpedo Squadron Seventy-Five)in WW2.
My grandpa was a tunnel rat aka (a short guy with no fear that goes into random Vietnamese under ground tunnels with just a flashlight and a pistol).
They both did their duty to make our country great!
Thank god for badass Americans!
Also they told me no man should see what they have seen!
Much love Dos Cavazos!
Hope this mean the Pacific is coming after this
One of the most memorable television series of all time. I'm glad y'all took this trail. ♥
I really love how this pairs with Saving Private Ryan, with the shared reference of the misdrops over Normandie by the Airborne troops, etc. Also at the end of the first episode as our boys are flying over the English channel, below you see the massive invasion fleet steaming towards Normandie. On one of those boats at this moment, Tom Hanks' character and the rest of his men (yes, I know they are fictional) are saying their prayers..
@@dudermcdudeface3674 Yeees, and I did in the OP. 😊
Fun Fact: While the characters of Saving Private Ryan are fiction, the premise is real. It's actually mentioned in the book 'Band of Brothers' as a trooper from a different outfit who was quickly located and trucked to the beach for extraction.
The allure of 'Band of Brothers' is that they went just about everywhere in Europe during the final year of the war. So their story is the story from Overlord to the final collapse of Germany, with all of the highs and lows. Because of that, I place it higher than 'Ryan' in terms of the story being told.
In high school my friends and I were made to watch this show for History class, true story, we spent a week and a half watching the entire series.
As a veteran, this is one of the best movies on WW2 that I have seen. Hope enjoy and get a greater appreciation of what these men did.. Keep up the good work 👏 you two
This series is my all time favorite, makes you love and feel for the characters. The introductories are the best and hit you in the feels!
What you have to remember is Europe had been at war for 3 years before the Japanese bombed Pearl harbour, so the American in the German army wasn't the enemy at the time as America was still neutral. I find it extremely interesting they put that part in mainly for Spears backstory, but the German foreign legions from many allied countries are an often overlooked uncommonly known part no one really talks about much.
The US was not neutral- anymore than we're neutral now re Russia and Ukraine. America was supplying the Allies with materiel and intelligence as early as '39. US just hadn't officially declared war until after Pearl Harbor.
@@kkpenney444 more like early 1941. Neutrality act forbade the US from doing anything. The OSS (which would become the CIA) didn’t even exist until they went to war.
At the time this was filmed, 2000-2001, this was the most expensive thing ever shot for TV. It had a budget of around $120 million. "Currahee", ker-a-HEE, is a Cherokee word that means "stands alone". It was the name of a mountain in Toccoa, Georgia, and, was adopted as the motto of the 101st Airborne.
Sobel was NOT just a petty man. As Gen. Patton used to say, "A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood." Everything he did was done for the benefit of his men. Unfortunately, while he was an excellent training officer, and, instructor, he was a piss-poor commander.
My late father. who was in a medical unit followed the 506th into Austria & Germany & the concentration camps. It helps to understand this series if one knows WW2, history, & t he military in general. These actors are depicting real people/soldiers thrown into historical circumstance circumstances
This is from the book by Stephen Ambrose, who interviewed as many from Easy Company that he could find, and then turned into this Mini-Series. The interviews are with the real mean of Easy and taken from a separate documentary on their journey. The reveals are at the end of Ep. 10. What they did was extraordinary.
When that guy said he wanted to go to the Pacific, I'm like NO YOU DON"T
So the mountain that they run in this show, Currahee, is the same exact mountain my high school football team would run on the last day of our summer camp here in Toccoa, GA. I’ve been to the top multiple times, and even found old medals hidden under a rock on the top. Admired for a while, and left them there.
Curahee Mountain is something you can visit, it’s just outside of Toccoa, GA near the SC line and about 30 miles south of where I live, I’ve been a few times. After seeing this series it’s much more awe inspiring to visit.
And these men had already been through basic training. Had they quit paratrooper school they would have just been sent back to a regular army unit. They volunteered for the paratroopers in the army.
Super excited for you guys to watch this! Beyond being a great series it is also a reminder of how badass these dudes were and how war pushed even them to the limit. When you're done there was a short documentary made about them that includes a lot of the interviews you see in the show that I think you would enjoy.
Ya that documentary was amazing. Really felt personal with them by the end of it. Pretty wild what they have lived through.
You are 1 sick person
Such a great series, glad to see you guys branching out into different things.
One of my favorite lines i took to heart when being in a leadership position "never put yourself in a position to take from these men"
Normally in the army, soldiers are trained to work and fight together, but it's different for paratroopers. When you jump out of a plane, there's no telling where you'll land. You may end up all alone. So each paratrooper needs to be able to do everything on his own.
Hence, "We stand alone."
Yes !!! finally, you watch this amazing show, get ready, by the end you will know and love every man of Easy company. The story is based on a book that gathered Easy Company men's stories about their campaign in Europe .... enjoy the show !!!
The planes dropped off the paratroopers and then headed back to England. Those big guns were shelling the beach, so while Saving Private Ryan was fictional, there were real guys trying to cross the beach with all of those machine guns plus big shells landing everywhere. Winters and his guys took out a group of those big guns that were shelling the beach. The infamous leg bag had guns, ammo, any special equipment they needed (like TNT), food and water rations, all kinds of stuff, basically everything that Joe Toy was complaining about having to carry at the beginning of Episode 1.
The infamous leg bag. It was a major factor in the wide dispersal of paratroopers on D-Day. When the British provided the leg bags, they were told to have a 60 pound limit. But when the Americans learned that they might have to hold a position for nearly 24 hours without support, they packed in extra and went up to around 180 pounds. This excess weight necessitated that the plane fly at a higher speed to maintain lift. No matter how fast the paratroopers got out the door they would end up dispersed and end up without the bag when the line snapped from the extra stress.
Thank you both for checking out this series. It is so cool watching your first reactions 20 years later, and all of your questions and first confusions about who’s who, the lingo, what’s going on, did this really happen, were mine when I watched it for the first time. It is so hard to believe it was 20 year olds that the world depended on to defending freedom with their lives and willingly going thru that.
Almost universally, the men who served in the real Easy Company credit Herbert Sobel with turning them into an iron-hard elite unit. They also pretty much universally say that had he remained in command of Easy Company, they likely would have been wiped out to a man in their first serious fight.
David Schwimmer's performance as Sobel is excellent and arguably underrated. He's so good that you quickly stop thinking of him as Ross (if you've watched Friends) and start thinking of him as Sobel.
wow seems like yesterday I was 6 watching this show. Every Veterans Day for years we would watch the whole series as a family.
Winters and Nixon start the series as second lieutenants and both are promoted to first lieutenant in the days before the jump - alongside Sobel being promoted to Captain for having the best trained company of the battalion.
A second lieutenant commands a platoon (around 30 men) while a first lieutenant is the captain's "right arm" and secondary commander of a company, which is usually made of 3 platoons.
Band of brothers was a historical book written by Stephen Ambrose. It basically a biography of the men of Easy company during the war. All of the older men in the beginning are the actual soldiers in Easy company and who the characters are playing.
My dad showed this to me and I was hooked from scene 1. What an amazing story.
My Uncle wasn't portrayed in the show, but he was with them, and even carried a radio for Winters sometimes. He told me to read " Band of Brothers" because that was what it was really like. He never saw the show, but I did, and it was true to the book.
My Uncle thought quite highly of Winters, by the way.
I love the Band of Brothers so much. I always watch it over and over whenever I can. You guys are going to love it too.
Episode 1 takes place after Pearl Harbor. The camp at Toccoa, Georgia, was just for airborne training most of the soldiers who were trained there, and already gone through basic training, and a few of them had already seen combat in North Africa.
The “We stand alone” is the company moto; “we stand alone; together” is the full thing… not helping men stumbling is I think for two things: they’re testing their abilities, and also training them not to stop when a man falls. In combat men will fall and you must keep moving or you will get hit too.
The veterans in the start are real. They have my deepest respect.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who had a hard time keeping track of who everybody was at first!
Tom Hanks actually was in it. He played kind of an "extra" role as one of the British paratroopers in the scene where the British officer is toasting to "Curahee."
Beat me to it. I'm also 80% sure Tom Hanks is the executing French officer in the 9th episode "Why We Fight" as the 101st pass in their jeeps/transports vehicles. You can watch this scene if you search for "Band of Brothers: French soldiers execute Germans"
The actor who portrayed Guarnere was spot on. I saw a documentary about him a while back and he acted the same way as you see the actor do his character in the series. Sgt. Guarnere pass away in 2014.
I am SO excited that you guys decided to watch this! It is ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!!
Here's some food for thought. Airborne troops were inserted behind the enemy's defensive line via parachutes and gliders. In the planning of the D-Day invasion, it was anticipated that the paratroops would suffer 50% losses and that the glider troops would suffer 75% losses. Imagine sending troops into battle expecting ahead of time that that many would be cut down.
Brecourt Manor is still taught as a text book example on how to storm a fortified area, the TV show got that bit right for sure
i just started watching your reaction and saw the first few minutes. An acronymn used in the US military boot camp is D.O.R. or Drop On Request. I hope you enjoy the rest of the series.
All the men talking at the beginning of the episode are the real life Easy Company who fought in ww2. And everything you see once the dramatization starts is very true to real life events. Hanks and Spielberg essentially made and wrote this whole show based off of a book about these Paratrooper's experiences throughout the war.
The German "stick" grenade was known as an offensive grenade. It was a blast-type instead of fragmentation like the US "pineapple" grenade, therefore in the open it was less lethal as the blast was not confined. It was devastating in an enclosed space like a room or a tank.
You guys are in for a treat. This is still to this day the best miniseries I've ever seen.
The men of Easy company did collectively agree: Although he wasn't a great leader in the field, they all agreed on one thing. His training helped them survive countless situations.
Others may have already said this but you should understand this is not a “story” - it’s not a made up movie. This has a documentary style at the beginning because this is a true story and the guys being interviewed at the beginning are the actual guys who did the things portrayed in each episode. Most everything portrayed in this series actually happened.
“Make sure it’s unloaded.” Good man 👍🏽
This show made me a better man and im slowly but surely working my way through all their books. Im reading biggest brother and already finished the band of brothers book and brothers in battle which hands down was my favorite so far.