I’m surprised no one has mentioned this yet but Ambrose, the author of the book, and the members of Easy made a mistake. Blithe did not die in 1946. He went on to have a long career in the military. He died in 1967 from a perforated ulcer. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
Re the tank running over the German soldier, I have read that there was a trench built underneath that was filled with soft foam. As the tank moved over, the stuntman was pressed down into the foam. It was still an incredibly risky stunt so that particular stuntman had quite a few zeros on the end of his paycheck.
Hi I will try. I want to let you know that Blith did survive and lived. Albert Blithe (June 25, 1923 - December 17, 1967) He went to serv in Korea and had a great and long service curare. As I mentioned before, you may want to do a refresher on history for ep 4 and 6. You can avoid spoilers by just getting the first 24 hers of Operation Market Garden (Ep 4) and Battle of the Bulge (Ep6) . Happy Holidays, bless and be well.
This episode is a masterclass in accents. The guy who plays Blithe, and a lot of the actors including the guy who plays Winters, are British, but you wouldn't know it from their voices.
This episode is the one where The Operations Room's videos showing the exact circumstances of Easy Company's battles really start to come in handy. I think that the Battle of Carentan and the Battle of Bloody Gulch as seen in this episode are the two battles that the makers of Band of Brothers had to stray from reality the most. A huge factor of the Carentan fight was the terrain of the battle, and it was not possible for the producers to come close to matching it...the Germans had flooded large areas behind the beaches and the town could only be reached across a small number of causeways. Then, there was no possibility for them to accurately portray anything but a tiny portion of Bloody Gulch, since the real battle had 60 Sherman tanks against 12 German tanks...and there just are not that many running Shermans or German tanks. That channel I told you about called The Operations Room has complete coverage of these battles so you can see the full reality of them. ✌💯🖖
I agree with Speir's assessment on what he told Blithe about excepting that you are already dead, simply because you are rid of the fear of dying, and now you can focus on doing what you were trained to do.
Didn't you listen to the real soldiers at the start? Everyone is afraid in war, you can't be rid of it, it's just how you convince yourself to keep moving into danger.
Oh, Bastogne (the Bulge) isn't for sometime, but here's a quick 1944 language update. Remember when Captain America chided Ironman for "language"? They were big into that. Take the word "drat"; it is because "darn" get people to clutch their pearls. "Damn" would make them faint.:) "Nuts" is basically like grabbing your crotch and yelling "Dez Nuts!"
The blindness thing was a case of hysterical blindness. The mind can do weird things under stress. Basically he panicked and thought he screwed everybody over because of it and his brain got that twisted and created a case of punishing itself by making him blind. When he was told that wasn't the case it essentially fixed itself. Like I said the brain does weird things sometimes and its not as uncommon as you might think
Bull was knocked over by the tank shell nearly hitting him. One of my high school teachers had been a tanker in the late 70s and early 80s. They were supposed to make sure the tank range was clear before they fired. However, a man was out on the range and somehow was not noticed until the tanks fired. One of the shells passed close enough to knock him off his feet and send him tumbling. Ended up spending some time in hospital.
My favorite reactors are those willing to give BoB a try even though it's outside of their normal interests. Even better when they learn to love it like I have for over 20 years now.
I don't want to get too deep into politics, but these kinds of things are why I get so bent out of shape when people claim women have it worse than men in war.
0:47 mark Love that scalawag drinking with him and listening to him tell stories , during the 50th anniversary for the Battle of the Bulge him & XXX took turns with me drinking beer and Prop blast trying to keep up with those 2 was tough lol. so Yes Speirs shot PW's and so did many others(on both sides) but none said anything esp to Ambrose when he was interviewing them for the book as they didn't fully trust him. i had a long talk with XXX from E/506 and then told me how he killed some PW's on D-Day (took him years to trust me to tell me about it) so at the 14:34 mark thats Marlaky & Moore on the motorcycle which they" found "near the beach in Normandy while they were getting ready to had back to England so they made a deal with the navy crew to bring it back they raced it down the beach onto the ship and used it around base and when they went on leave till Market Garden which you will see in another eps when it's taken from them.
The thing with speirs and the prisoners is a dramatization. The reality was speirs did kill pows but more like 4-7 rather than 20, and it wasn’t as malicious as the show made it seem though I’m not justifying it. What happened was on d-day with the misdrops he linked up with a couple guys and at some point they took pows but they hadn’t hooked up with any larger forces and had no way to secure the prisoners and with Germans actively executing American paratroopers pows they executed the pows. The first time each man with speirs took part, the second time speirs acted alone. The USA soldier speirs shot was drunk and pulled his weapon on speirs and speirs acted in self defense. Blithe didn’t die until the 60’s, the show got that wrong.
true, Speir's did kill him and there were wittiness so it was deemed justified , The Trooper he killed was listed as KIA as he was a Veteran trooper as not to bring any shame on him
Yeah the Blithe story told here isn't what happened to him. It's one of the most egregious fuck ups in the show, but it's one that was corroborated, accidentally, by a few folks. Otherwise, I do want to say that shell shock, "hysterical blindness" etc are all real phenomena that affect soldiers.
Albert Blithe lived and fought in Korea warning a bronze star and silver star for parachuting into a battalion on Chinese he died in the 60s winters has called him courageous and he was afraid just like anyone else and this was exaggerated in the show
On D Day there were orders not to take German prisoners. If Speirs gunned down those prisoners he was following orders. They were poorly supplied and outnumbered behind German lines, what could they realistically do with prisoners?
Winters must have disobeyed orders then. Actually the Airborne took quite a few prisoners on D-Day even before the link up as we saw at Bricourt Manor.
There were no such orders and no orders like that would have been legal to give. Speirs did kill those german prisoners and admitted it to several people later in life. Even winters later admitted it was a war crime and that had it happened today he'd have been prosecuted for it, and that the reason everybody looked the other way on the shooting when he did it was because he was a competent combat officer and wouldn't think twice about killing the enemy. Doesn't make it right but thats the mentality behind it
@@JS-wp4gs There were such orders. Those orders are why Joachim Peiper of the SS was not executed by the Allies after the war for Malmedy. War is a dirty business
he was supposed to be awake on watch he fell asleep while his comrades where already sleeping he was lucky it was one of the other paratroopers and not the enemy they all would have been killed
I obviously won't say who but one of the guys in the intro interviews isn't in the show in a meaningful way. He was either cut or never meant to be shown. There are a few guys like that in these, so don't spend too too much time thinking about piecing people together. Though I'm sure you can find Guarnere fairly easy thanks to his accent lol
Remember in the first episode when Sobel was going through the men’s gear and complained about one soldier who had a lot of love letters? That was the same guy who handed Sobel the map when the fence was cut. He was also the guy who was injured by the artillery blast in this episode, the one Liebgott helped. He is the guy in the peach salmon colored shirt from the intro. He survived his wounds and became a teacher. Ed Tipper, an amazing guy.
I’m surprised no one has mentioned this yet but Ambrose, the author of the book, and the members of Easy made a mistake. Blithe did not die in 1946. He went on to have a long career in the military. He died in 1967 from a perforated ulcer. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
Full interview winters explaining more about what really happened ruclips.net/video/h_OTElGeoD0/видео.html
Re the tank running over the German soldier, I have read that there was a trench built underneath that was filled with soft foam. As the tank moved over, the stuntman was pressed down into the foam. It was still an incredibly risky stunt so that particular stuntman had quite a few zeros on the end of his paycheck.
I'm surprised that they even bothered to risk it. You know that would have been a HUGE lawsuit if anything went wrong.
Hi I will try. I want to let you know that Blith did survive and lived. Albert Blithe (June 25, 1923 - December 17, 1967) He went to serv in Korea and had a great and long service curare. As I mentioned before, you may want to do a refresher on history for ep 4 and 6. You can avoid spoilers by just getting the first 24 hers of Operation Market Garden (Ep 4) and Battle of the Bulge (Ep6) . Happy Holidays, bless and be well.
ruclips.net/video/vfhcwvsUkBY/видео.html
Full interview includes blithe and spears killings being true along with more ruclips.net/video/h_OTElGeoD0/видео.html
This episode is a masterclass in accents. The guy who plays Blithe, and a lot of the actors including the guy who plays Winters, are British, but you wouldn't know it from their voices.
For me one of the best performances in this series and characters is Rick Warden as Harry Welsh - his humor, his humanity...just very well done.
It’s a shame Harry wasn’t featured more.
I like your commentary and especially that you are looking at history and learning. Look forward to more!
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Overwhelming fear can cause temporary blindness.. it’s like all of his fight or flight responses are short circuiting
This episode is the one where The Operations Room's videos showing the exact circumstances of Easy Company's battles really start to come in handy. I think that the Battle of Carentan and the Battle of Bloody Gulch as seen in this episode are the two battles that the makers of Band of Brothers had to stray from reality the most. A huge factor of the Carentan fight was the terrain of the battle, and it was not possible for the producers to come close to matching it...the Germans had flooded large areas behind the beaches and the town could only be reached across a small number of causeways. Then, there was no possibility for them to accurately portray anything but a tiny portion of Bloody Gulch, since the real battle had 60 Sherman tanks against 12 German tanks...and there just are not that many running Shermans or German tanks. That channel I told you about called The Operations Room has complete coverage of these battles so you can see the full reality of them. ✌💯🖖
Great reaction. I subscribed because you're reacting to this, my favorite series ever
I agree with Speir's assessment on what he told Blithe about excepting that you are already dead, simply because you are rid of the fear of dying, and now you can focus on doing what you were trained to do.
Didn't you listen to the real soldiers at the start? Everyone is afraid in war, you can't be rid of it, it's just how you convince yourself to keep moving into danger.
Possibly a case of hysterical blindness - caused by stress. Short term shut down of the brain/optic nerve
People who don't know fear are scary. Spears was one of those.
Oh, Bastogne (the Bulge) isn't for sometime, but here's a quick 1944 language update. Remember when Captain America chided Ironman for "language"? They were big into that. Take the word "drat"; it is because "darn" get people to clutch their pearls. "Damn" would make them faint.:) "Nuts" is basically like grabbing your crotch and yelling "Dez Nuts!"
The blindness thing was a case of hysterical blindness. The mind can do weird things under stress. Basically he panicked and thought he screwed everybody over because of it and his brain got that twisted and created a case of punishing itself by making him blind. When he was told that wasn't the case it essentially fixed itself. Like I said the brain does weird things sometimes and its not as uncommon as you might think
Bull was knocked over by the tank shell nearly hitting him. One of my high school teachers had been a tanker in the late 70s and early 80s. They were supposed to make sure the tank range was clear before they fired. However, a man was out on the range and somehow was not noticed until the tanks fired. One of the shells passed close enough to knock him off his feet and send him tumbling. Ended up spending some time in hospital.
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My favorite reactors are those willing to give BoB a try even though it's outside of their normal interests. Even better when they learn to love it like I have for over 20 years now.
Private Blithe actually survived his wound and WW2.
He was decorated in the Korean war.
The rest of Easy Company never met Blithe after that day, so they just assumed he had died.
I don't want to get too deep into politics, but these kinds of things are why I get so bent out of shape when people claim women have it worse than men in war.
Love it that you are watching this.
2 most dangerous positions front and back.
0:47 mark Love that scalawag drinking with him and listening to him tell stories , during the 50th anniversary for the Battle of the Bulge him & XXX took turns with me drinking beer and Prop blast trying to keep up with those 2 was tough lol. so Yes Speirs shot PW's and so did many others(on both sides) but none said anything esp to Ambrose when he was interviewing them for the book as they didn't fully trust him. i had a long talk with XXX from E/506 and then told me how he killed some PW's on D-Day (took him years to trust me to tell me about it) so at the 14:34 mark thats Marlaky & Moore on the motorcycle which they" found "near the beach in Normandy while they were getting ready to had back to England so they made a deal with the navy crew to bring it back they raced it down the beach onto the ship and used it around base and when they went on leave till Market Garden which you will see in another eps when it's taken from them.
The man that was run over by the tank? He was laying on a grass mat over a hole. When the tread made contact it pushed him into the hole unharmed.
The thing with speirs and the prisoners is a dramatization. The reality was speirs did kill pows but more like 4-7 rather than 20, and it wasn’t as malicious as the show made it seem though I’m not justifying it. What happened was on d-day with the misdrops he linked up with a couple guys and at some point they took pows but they hadn’t hooked up with any larger forces and had no way to secure the prisoners and with Germans actively executing American paratroopers pows they executed the pows. The first time each man with speirs took part, the second time speirs acted alone. The USA soldier speirs shot was drunk and pulled his weapon on speirs and speirs acted in self defense.
Blithe didn’t die until the 60’s, the show got that wrong.
Winters confirming the killings ruclips.net/video/h_OTElGeoD0/видео.html
true, Speir's did kill him and there were wittiness so it was deemed justified , The Trooper he killed was listed as KIA as he was a Veteran trooper as not to bring any shame on him
Yeah the Blithe story told here isn't what happened to him. It's one of the most egregious fuck ups in the show, but it's one that was corroborated, accidentally, by a few folks. Otherwise, I do want to say that shell shock, "hysterical blindness" etc are all real phenomena that affect soldiers.
Albert Blithe lived and fought in Korea warning a bronze star and silver star for parachuting into a battalion on Chinese he died in the 60s winters has called him courageous and he was afraid just like anyone else and this was exaggerated in the show
ruclips.net/video/vfhcwvsUkBY/видео.html
On D Day there were orders not to take German prisoners. If Speirs gunned down those prisoners he was following orders. They were poorly supplied and outnumbered behind German lines, what could they realistically do with prisoners?
Full interview of winters he talks about it and it being true ruclips.net/video/h_OTElGeoD0/видео.html
Winters must have disobeyed orders then. Actually the Airborne took quite a few prisoners on D-Day even before the link up as we saw at Bricourt Manor.
There were no such orders and no orders like that would have been legal to give. Speirs did kill those german prisoners and admitted it to several people later in life. Even winters later admitted it was a war crime and that had it happened today he'd have been prosecuted for it, and that the reason everybody looked the other way on the shooting when he did it was because he was a competent combat officer and wouldn't think twice about killing the enemy. Doesn't make it right but thats the mentality behind it
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There were such orders. Those orders are why Joachim Peiper of the SS was not executed by the Allies after the war for Malmedy. War is a dirty business
lt Meehan died in the 2nd episode the plane that was consumed by fire
he was supposed to be awake on watch he fell asleep while his comrades where already sleeping he was lucky it was one of the other paratroopers and not the enemy they all would have been killed
I obviously won't say who but one of the guys in the intro interviews isn't in the show in a meaningful way. He was either cut or never meant to be shown. There are a few guys like that in these, so don't spend too too much time thinking about piecing people together. Though I'm sure you can find Guarnere fairly easy thanks to his accent lol
The author of this book made an error with Blythe. He was later exposed for engaging in plagiarism.
You take turns sleeping and watching overnight he might have been guy on watch waking his replacement.
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Remember in the first episode when Sobel was going through the men’s gear and complained about one soldier who had a lot of love letters? That was the same guy who handed Sobel the map when the fence was cut. He was also the guy who was injured by the artillery blast in this episode, the one Liebgott helped. He is the guy in the peach salmon colored shirt from the intro. He survived his wounds and became a teacher. Ed Tipper, an amazing guy.
Stop spoiling!
@@gravitypronepart2201 That isn't a spoiler
When I told you they made 1 major screw up, here it is. Blythe lived died of old age in the '90s or something
Winters correcting the record ruclips.net/video/h_OTElGeoD0/видео.html
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