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"Day Of Days"
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The book is nonfiction. Every character in this was a real person. It’s all based on their memories
Even if Ambrose has a history of... embellishing his non-fiction.
YEah, calling it "sensationalized non-fiction" would be a bit more accurate. There were some things changed to fit the scope of the effort but not so much that it made it unbelievably different. One example would be that a couple of the not quite main characters were conglomerates of several different men but very very few of them. I believe all of the 'main' cast were singular men. OR something like "Oh this happened to this person in the show but it really happened to (unnamed E Company soldier)" As far as I recall there were only a couple of really derpy mistakes that are attributed to the men simply not knowing otherwise. I won't spell them out here for spoiler reasons but I think most of us who have seen it know what I'm talking about.
Edit: My brain forgot the non part of non-fiction.
@@masonblack3461yes some things were changed in the series from the books, such as on D Day Winters did not lead a small group.of men that were lost.
He was lost and did lose his rifle and gathered a few other paratroopers, but by the time they attacked that German patrol, Winters and his small group had hooked up with about 20 or 30 other paratroopers who were being commanded by a major. So Winters was not even the ranking officer and did not give the orders to fire on the German patrol, the Major did.
There was also never any animosity between Winters and Guarnere. Guarnere held Winters in very high esteem since training.
But the TV series was made and had surviving members of Easy Company consulting and each time an historic change was made, the consulting members of Easy Company men approved of it. Of they didn't then the change was not made.
The shows creators, Hanks and Spielberg, and the producers of the show respected the men the series was about so much that they were not going to make changes to the real events without their approval
You should be very careful with calling everything in a dramatization 'true'. Of course, the show itself tries really hard to give the impression of being a documentary with the interviews in the beginning so I don't blame you. But it's NOT a documentary. They embellish quite a lot and change stuff to add extra drama. It's also heavily based on the stories of the people involved with everything that it entails. It's not like they had unbiased reporters following them around. I do think it generally does a pretty good job of handling the war with the gravitas it should.
I'm pretty ambivalent about the scene with Speirs executing the prisoners. I think it's interesting that they actually included a scene with a main character committing a war crime, even though the person in question never has formally been formally accused of one. But the truth is that the soldiers were told to not take prisoners at all and committed a LOT of war crimes we don't get to see. You can argue about if it was necessary or not, but you should be aware that while a lot of things in the show are true, it's far from the whole truth.
@@Renoistic I read Winters book, Beyond Band of Brothers based on his personal memoirs. That question came up about Spiers rumor aboit shooting the prisoners when they started filming the series. Winters said he would personally contact Spiers about it because they had remained good friends after the war. Speirs said he was OK with it being put in the show.
When Winters was questioned if the events were true, he neither comfirmed or denied them
He did say of Spiers, who again Winters was friends with, that Spiers was one of the most brutal soldiers he knew, but in war you need soldiers like Spiers.
There were other things in Winters book, and Winters kept very detailed notes on the war, such as Libgott being Jewish was very cruel to the German prisoners they captured.
The hand signals at 13:15 meant: 1(a single) 42(machine gun), 25(yards), (throw)grenades.
fyi, you meant 13:15 I am sure...
@@SnaFubar_24 Thanks for catching that. I'll change it.
@@markh3271 no worries Mark, have a good one...
Finally... someone with basic military training explains these important (and Silent) hand signals. Thank. You !!
just to add. pointing fingers up gives 1 too 5 and pointing fingers down over your thumb, gives u 6 too 9. a closed fist is 10. This way you only need 1 hand and your other hand can hold on to your gun.
one fun fact for today for Lt. "Buck" Compton: maybe you noticed how his grenade throwing technique @13:41 is a little bit different - most of the guys threw the grenades with more of a lob while he used more direct approach... he was a star baseball player in UCLA (All-American in 1942, also a teammate of legendary Jackie Robinson) and I think it was a nice detail the show captured :)
Sobel being transferred from Easy company saved his life.
Malarkey, and that German prisoner of war from Oregon worked next door to each other but the writers didn’t think the audience would believe it.
General Taylor gave the orders to take no prisoners, the airborne guys couldn’t risk it. There was no way to handle them due to the beaches being invaded still.
The man killed asking where battalion headquarters is named Andrew Hill. His name isn’t mentioned but it should be remembered. A RUclips channel by the name of “the history underground” did a video about Andrew Hill, and the family who owned the land during the war still owns it and let them do a video about him on location to where he was killed. A really great video.
That one scene where the men are smoking on the world war 1 memorial is just something else.. millions lost during that war & millions more to die during the Second World War.
Wow, I didn't know that about the "German" prisoner and I've seen these scenes a million times
@@VPorthoyou’d be surprised by the amount of Americans that actually served for the Waffen SS. There’s a small video on here that talks about it, and names upwards to 30-40 known American born people who fought for the Nazi’s. Most were Americans who lived in Europe during the time of war broke out and served in different foreign SS legions such as Latvia, Denmark, and even France.
@@jakesanchez7235 very few were in the Waffen SS. You had to be born in Germany
and part of the Nazi party to be in the SS. They were put in the German military, not the SS.
@@martinklaus2203 not you didn’t, there was literal SS units from different countries. Some from Finland, Spain had the blue division, Ukraine had their own division, Denmark had their own division, France had an SS division, Belgium had their own SS unit, Belarus, Croatia, Albania, Estonia, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Russia, Sweden , all countries who had volunteers who served in the SS. Please don’t try to correct me when you’re wrong yourself.
@@jakesanchez7235 they weren’t SS. They were regular German Army.
There are a couple of things the producers changed because the real stories are SO unbelievable.
The first is that the German Prisoner the Malarkey was talking with WASN’T 100 miles away from his home town. They actually worked across the street from each other and I think they actually had met before the war.
Absolutely crazy.
And it highlights another little-known point that quite a few Americans did actually fight for the other side. A lot of them were only one or two generations removed from people who immigrated from Axic countries like Germany, Italy, etc.
The white powder they are putting on the wounds throughout the series is sulfanilamide, or sulfa. It's an antibiotic that every GI was issued in first-aid kits and told to apply to any open wound. It prevented a lot of deaths caused by infection, which historically was a major cause of casualties/death in warfare.
I thought it was powdered morphine.
Well, you learn something new every day. 😁
@@RolandDeschain1 Still used up through the early 1950s in some forms! My grandmother had to take sulfadiazine for an infection after she gave birth to my uncle.
I thought it was some sort of hemostatic agent being applied.
@@RolandDeschain1morphine was used but supplied in syrettes, like airline toothpaste tubes with a needle attached. Stick it in, squeeze and mark the casualty so the next person to treat him doesn't overdose him.
They use autojectors these days, which are like epipens but with morphine rather than epinephrine/adrenaline.
Hemostatic agents developed waaaaaayyyyy beyond the Second World War.@@TealJosh
I swear nothing is as pure and authentic as when Kiss starts sobbing and Haylo hides her eyes 🥰 Love your reactions
Just prepare for why we fight
I was in the British army in Germany in the 1970s at honor garrison Belson concentration camp was about a mile away
Yes, these men were real men, this is their real story. My grandfather was from central Pennsylvania, he joined the 82nd airborne in early 42, after some training, he was assigned as the 3rd enlisted man to help form the 101st Airborne. He knew Major Dick Winters personally, the man you know as Lt. Winters. My grandfather went through the entire war with them, in a company in the 506th PIR. These men, like millions of others in uniform, made sacrifices you should learn to truly honor. They fought real threats to the world, many never coming home. The sacrifices they made lay the foundation of the relative peace the world has known since. Yes, we have regional conflicts globally still, and yes, the rise of terrorism is a very serious concern, but the Third Reich and the Empire of Japan were weilding global naval and land forces power that truly put the entire world at great risk of falling in to complete darkness. These men, including my grandfather's, answered the call to defeat this threat.
They are called "The Greatest Generation", and for good reason. They ran toward the danger, from great naval battles in the Pacific to the invasion of Europe, they were the tip of the spear.
Your generation, as all of our generations, have it within us to do this if needed. Be proud to be American, we may not be perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but as these men and their journey are about to show you, peace is our highest aspiration. We will will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it, we will not now or ever, surrender for it. We, are Americans.
God Bless and enjoy Easy Companies story. Those interviews at the beginning of each episode, yes, those are real members of Easy Company.
The last episode will show you who is who at the time of the production of this mini series.
You spoiled some of the show!! :D
@@mestupkid211986 But really none of the story... Just how the episodes will work....
Anyone who picks up a history book can see the final outcome. I was merely relaying to these young ladies the spirit of the series based on my own inter-actions with one of my grandfather's, who happened to see this series before his passing. Interestingly enough, 1 of the members of Easy Company actually says where he is from in the series, episode 5, it is my home town, in western new york, my grandfather knew this man. It's one of the reasons after the war he didn't return to the coal mines in Central PA and moved to the Buffalo/Niagara Falls region to work in the chemical plant industry. Neither 1 of my grandfather's spoke of what happened to them in WW2 until their death beds. When ever asked, both gave the same answer, don't ever ask me again. Both were in the European Theater, 1 101st, 1 3rd army under Patton. But both, respectively, told their stories to myself and 3 of my uncles, each one of us had served in combat zones, my 3 uncles in Vietnam, myself in Desert Shield/Storm. We were the only ones they spoke with on it, they asked the rest of the family, including their wives, to leave the room as they did so. That's a true life events in my life. I will not pass down what they spoke on to anyone. My uncles didn't either. It is the burden some of us carry, to be the sounding board for those that need it. My Grandfather's were both pillars of strength, as were my uncles. I honor them every day, as I hope my children, and my grandchildren will, without having to put a uniform on.
Come on, buddy. Let them find out on their own.
Wow, you guys are good at catching details! I've never seen anyone notice/remember that Toye was the one saying "I could use some brass knuckles."
Also the first ive seen to notice that buck was bumped and didn’t just fumble the grenade on his own.
@@benjaminkirk4678 And they caught when the pilots of the plane that went up in flames mentioned Lt. Meehan. I've only seen a couple other reactions where they knew it was his plane when he and those men are brought up as missing. Gotta say I love how invested they are, even super attentive reactors usually miss one or two of the things they have consistently caught.
@@benjaminkirk4678 I've watched this so many times and still didn't realize that, but it makes way more sense. it would have been really weird for Buck to just fumble the grenade given that he was a star athlete at UCLA, an all-american in baseball and actual teammate of Jackie Robinson
The comment sections on BoB reactions are always the best, so much respect for everything about this series. Glad to follow y’all along.
Please never change Ladies, you are awesome. Love your reactions.
Edit: Just wanted to add, The old Englishman that Winters "captured" in the first episode would have been a WW 1 veteran and would have seen his fair share of war himself and would have probably been in the "Home Guard" in the early years of the war.
Those planes that carried the paratroops from England to Normandy are C-47s. There were slightly more than 800 of them that went over for the first lift. During the war, there were thousands built. After the war, many were used by civilian companies until they were good only for scrap metal. A few years ago, as one was being prepared to be scrapped, it was discovered to be "That's All Brother". That's All Brother was the actual C-47 that led all of the others to Normandy. Once that was confirmed, the CAF (Commemorative Air Force) purchased it and completely refurbished it back to its configuration on June 6, 1944. That's All Brother can be seen at air shows now. What a remarkable coincidence that it was found almost eighty years after WWII and in time to be restored.
Something to keep in mind while watching the rest of the series. These first two episodes of BoB were both released 2 days before the attacks on 9/11. The next ep was the first to air after the attacks. We watched these first episodes in an entirely different world than the one we are in now in.
I still think about this every time I see the first episode in particular - "We were attacked. It was different... our country was attacked..."
Prophetic.
"Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops," Eisenhower wrote. "My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower Supreme Allied Commander. This was his other speech. D-Day was never a guarantee..
The German from Eugene, Oregon actually worked across the street from Malarkey. The producers didn't think that the audience would believe that so they made it a hundred miles.
My Uncle ( SSgt Louis B - Shorty - Flores of Louisiana) was there with these guys, although not portrayed in the movie, he knew them all. Growing up, i always wanted to know about his war experience...but he never gave details. Finally, after I was grown he told me, "if you want to know what it was like little Jim, read this book Band of Brothers". Of course, I immediately did. Not long after, the series came out, and I was happy to report to him that it was very true to the book. He was glad, but he never watched it. He made it all the way through with no major injuries. And fyi, he held Winters in high regard, even carried a radio for him sometimes.
My Uncle was one best guys I ever knew...and favorite humans.
Yep it’s real. The interviews at the beginning were the actual soldiers. You are in for a ride. Buckle up.
Let them find out from the show - not comments.
@@Ladco77 I thought it was pretty obvious, that the people at the beginning were actual soldiers. I had no intentions of revealing anything else.
@@Ladco77 You can't spoil them, they already had the season filmed before uploading.
I mean they knew they were real WW2 veterans, I'm just not sure if they knew the show was specifically about them, vs just generic depictions
The series was based on Stephen Ambrose's "Band of Brothers" and on subsequent interviews with the veterans of E Company/506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. Ambrose is one of the finest historians of the twentieth century. Everyone involved put a ton of effort into getting their facts straight -- with a few missteps, but only one of any significance. (Somebody is sure to point it out later for your benefit.) Trust what you're seeing is accurate not only historically, but also in terms of actual combat, and the spirit of the men involved.
It's not TOTALLY accurate - Ambrose has been contested often on details here and there - but it's pretty damn close.
LOTS of somebodies will point it out. :)
None of the Easy men are left. But if by chance you get to meet a WWII vet you should stop and let them know how much you appreciate their service.
You are entering a very complicated relationship with Ronald Speirs.
@@FOXHOUND1871 Most inaccuracies are caused by basing his work entirely on the accounts of the men involved and not paying any particular to the official records. And there is nothing wrong with that, this was meant to be a collective memoir in a way, not really a deeply researched historical document.
My paternal grandfather was actually one of the guys who was asked/encouraged to go back to Germany to serve before the US was involved in the war. Both sides of my family are ethnically German, and my grandfather was a 2nd generation immigrant; it caused a big fight and a rift in the family when he decided he wasn't going to leave Texas to join the Wehrmacht. I'm not going to pretend like it was some grand political disagreement to make him sound better - he simply thought he was a little too old since he was already in his late 20s, and he had just recently gotten a good paying job working as a roughneck in the oil field.
From what I've heard, it caused arguments so bad that eventually he never spoke to one of his grandmothers ever again because she was so upset that he wouldn't drop everything and disrupt his life to go back and join up. Eventually his draft number came up in the US right at the end of the war, but he was processed in so late that he never had to serve.
All of the main characters are based on real people and all events are based on real events.
The explosions during the beginning airdrop were anti-aircraft guns firing flak. Large area of effect explosions to take out aircraft. Doesn't need a direct hit, just needs to be close.
You said that Hall’s death meant something. It doesn’t matter how a soldier died. Every one of them died in the pursuit of an allied victory and it meant something. Every one of their sacrifices was equally tragic and heroic.
So, for the Germans in France, days of rain, cloud, fog were like vacation days. Allied planes wouldn’t fly, moving around was marginally safer and easier.
There were a series of storm fronts lashing Normandy on, I believe. Both sides kept accurate weather reporting. The invasion was SCHEDULED for June 5, 1944 but the bad weather postponed it for 24 hours.
To June 6.
June 6 was Lucie Rommel’s Birthday. She lived in Bavaria. About 8 or so hours from her husband’s HQ. She hadn’t seen much of him for many long months.
The Field Marshal saw a lovely pair of blue silk shoes in Paris, got a pair in Lucie’s size, paid, wrapped them up and, when he saw the horrid (actually good for Germany) forecast, he decided to surprise his wife for her birthday and off he went….
Remember he found out his brother died just before they jumped girls, he was angry.
um, phrasing . . .
Um, what?@@Lugnut64052
7:10 THIS!! it's one of the things i loved about this show bc not only is the story based off of Easy Company, but the way it's shot makes it feel like you're there with THEM, which only makes it feel even more real and that's something i kept noticing throughout the show.
Please don't take this wrong, but it does an old heart good to see the younger generations showing so much heartfelt emotions regarding those who so willingly laid down their lives for our freedom. Thank you.
I have watched this series countless times, watched even more reactions to it, but Kiss saying "ain't nobody flying horses" at 6:59 has to be the best comment I have ever heard
The powder at 16:00 is a hemostatic agent, which slows down bleeding.
While relatively crude hemostatics like Fibrin did exist by WW2, the powder seen is far more likely to be Sulfa powder, the wound antibiotic of choice for the US military during the war.
11:11 There were a lot of stories about Ronald Spiers. The story I know of is that after the drop into Normandy, Spiers linked up with two other troopers and moved towards their objective. They encountered three German soldiers and overpowered them, making them prisoner. Spiers then told the other two men that they could not take any prisoners. The reason being that to guard these men would mean they would abandon their orders and objectives for the invasion. These three captured German soldiers were shot because they could not take them prisoner and could not allow them to warn the enemy of the impending attack. This story grew, through scuttlebutt, into the other stories.
One of the biggest pleasures of this show is spotting so many young British actors years before they became stars. We've already seen Simon Pegg, but later we will see the likes of Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy and Tom Hardy in a memorable role in the last few episodes.
Even 'Hall' in this is the guy who played Moriarty on SHERLOCK.
13:12 the hand signals are 1-4-2-2-5. That means a single (1) MG42 (German machine gun) 25 yards away. He then mimmicks a grenade throw.
And yeah, those German machine guns are no joke. In fact, the German military still continues to use a modernized version of the same machine gun they used here.
I'm pretty sure they were referred to as "Hitler's buzzsaw".
Accurate description of the sound they made and damage they inflicted.
@@kampfer3146 Yes, the Allies called it Hitler’s Buzzsaw for good reason. No other infantry machine gun could fire that fast. The closest you could even get to that fire rate were aircraft machine guns like the Vickers K or the AN/M2 Browning.
I’ve fired one. They are devestating machine guns. I was even surprised at the size of the grouping when firing in short bursts.
The Canadian Forces use a modernized version as well. Well more of a weapon based off of the 42.
@@HammerJammer81last time I checked, Canadians used their version of the FN MAG, which uses the same action as the American M1918 BAR, just flipped upside down to accommodate the belt-fed design.
By comparison, the German MG3 is literally just an MG42 converted to 7.62 NATO. In fact, German Bundswehr soldiers have stated that some of the parts on their MG3s have 1940s markings on them.
@@edm240b9 The feed and trigger being from the MG42.
What's kinda funny is that Buck Compton said "What the hell do you know about cooking your Irish?" to Malarky in the truck at the end.
Neal McDonough is, himself, a 2nd generation Irishman born from two Irish parents that immigrated here from Ireland.
16:00 "some sort of powder disinfectant" is exactly right. It's called "sulfa powder" and it was a standard part of every paratrooper's first aid kit, along with a tube of morphine, a bandage dressing, a tourniquet, and a packet of sulfa tablets. You'll see these used throughout the show.
Well, this is when the sh*t gets real. "We're not lost Private...we're in Normandy." This one line displays Winter's ability to instill confidence in his men, even unarmed in the face of all adversity. And this soldier wasn't even a member of Easy Company. Currahee ♠
Its worth mentioning that allied command was expecting far, far heavier casualties during the airborne drop than actually happened. Intelligence implied there had been a full redeployment of several german divisions to the area days before the invasion (there wasn't, intelligence was sketchy on it) so it was generally assumed they were sending the airborne troops to their deaths as a distraction to draw reinforcements away from the beaches and protect the seaborne landings as much as possible. They were expecting at least 70% KIA if not higher and had essentially written the entire airborne force off as acceptable losses and a necessary sacrifice to ensure a successful landing. Nobody knew that at the time obviously but it shows what they were assumed to be jumping into and the risk they were taking by signing up for the airborne
This is mostly before Tom hanks has lead his men onto the beaches. In fact if you remember the scene where the squad are messing with the dog tags they were all airborne dog tags of fallen soldiers.
At the very end of the episode, there's almost a slide that talks about the decorations awarded at Brécourt Manor. You were talking over it. 1LT Richard Winters received the Distinguished Service Cross, the second highest award in the United States for gallantry in action. The reality is there had been a decision to only consider one Medal of Honor per division for actions on D-Day, and that had already been awarded to the 101st. There is no doubt from any military historian I've ever read that 1LT (later Major) Richard Winters should have received the Medal of Honor. If memory serves, there was action in Congress to upgrade his DSC prior to his passing. Band of Brothers certainly helped with the history of Easy Company and Dick Winters, but he was a no doubt hero and absolutely deserved a blue ribbon around his neck! I would have saluted that DSC as though it were an MOH had I ever had the opportunity!
The series is based on the book Band of Brothers written by the historian Stephen Ambrose. The author originally came across Easy Company 506th writing an earlier book collecting reminisces of veterans during the North West European campaign in WW2. He noted that Easy Company 506th had an unusual number of veterans alive, who stayed close and in touch and who had fought in many very significant battles and seen many important things. So he wrote another book focussing solely on that unit - Band of Brothers.
It is important to remember that as a historical work, you need to recognise the weaknesses of the book and thus also the series. They are largely based on the recollections of men who survived incredibly chaotic and stressful situations something like 50 years after the actual events. You will notice at times during the rest of the series that people who have done additional research will correct or explain things in the comments that simply put the old veterans forgot, perceived differently or never thought to mention. However, for the authenticity of the experience of the War, I think Band of Brothers is second to none - it is an extraordinary compilation of memories and deserves its revered status entirely.
Years ago, I attended church with a gentleman who was in the 101st Airborne and jumped into Normandy on D-Day. He recalled seeing tracer rounds zipping between his legs as he parachuted in.
It's good to see younger children. Younger people understand the sacrifices that these men gave.
That moment when you realized these men were real, that this is their actual story, and they went through all of this, and you broke down in tears…that was very touching to this old guy’s heart. I’m glad you watched these, and connected with the struggles and sacrifices of these heroes.
The white powder was Sulfonamide (Sulfa) and it was an antibacterial agent
23 years ago...remmeber watching this the first time..best show ever made..
Nah. There is even better out there. Lol. Unless you live under a rock.
@@WheresWaldo05 not many, this is sure at the top... unless you live under a rock.
@@lumbeeman01 Squid Game is way way better than band of brothers. Band of brothers isn't even better than it's brother the Pacific.
@@WheresWaldo05 hmm it's an opinion.
@@WheresWaldo05 I disagree, to each his own even if it is an awful take lol
I was fortunate to meet Neil McDonough (Buck Compton) at the airport where I work. Awesome guy, took some pics and talked about his roles for a few.
The first episode foreshadows the second with the training exercises in North Carolina and England that demonstrate Winters' talent as a battlefield tactician. It's often remarked upon that the plan he devised on the spot for neutralizing the German artillery battery is studied today as exemplary. The fact that he led from the front in the attack demonstrated for his men that he would not ask them to do what he wouldn't do himself.
The process/menuver of taking these guns, is called the Winters Menuver, named after Lt Dick Winters, this guy, and is taught at West Point.
At 13:10.....to answer your question....the hand signal he signed was 1-4-2-2-5....meaning 1 MG 42(that's the German machine gun)...25 meters...grenade that position.
The highest respect has to be given to these people of the best generation that ever existed becuse if we lost the war NONE of us would be here today.
I really appreciate you ladies watching this. Has anyone explained the scale of D-Day to you, yet? Ambrose, the author, likens it to moving the entire city of Green Bay, Wisconsin; that’s every cheese-head person, every cheese-hat, all the cheese, every vehicle, every building and transporting ALL of it, to the other side of the Great Lake it’s on…..
In one night….
Against resistance on the other side
"We Few, We Happy Few, WE BAND OF BROTHERS, For He Who Sheds His Blood With Me Shall Be My Brother", Henry V, William Shakespeare My favorite of Shakespeare, you should read it if haven't already. You'll understand this story all so much better.
The thing that always scares me is that shows like this and movies never use actors who are the age of the boys that fought in Normandy. I walked the cemeteries in Normandy and most allied soldiers killed were 19-20 years old. It's even worse on the German side, you see graves with children 15-18 years old... That meant they were 10-13 when the war started, they had no idea...
I guess it's because shows like this are still entertainment, no matter how good they are.
Winters received the Distinguished Service Cross for leading that assault, and the only reason he didn’t get the Congressional Medal of Honor was because the policy was that each unit could only receive up to one per day, and the alloted medal for his unit on D-Day was already awarded to another soldier.
Does "each unit" mean division, regiment, or battalion?
@@MichaelPower212 Division. The Medal of Honor recipient for the 101st Airborne that day was Lt. Col Robert Cole.
The thing about landing with someone random is thats what happened on D-day. Most of the paratroopers didn’t land where they were supposed to. So they joined up with whoever they could find and continued the mission.
These people are real! 😭😭 Great reaction ladies.
The story is real, the old men at the beginning of each episode are the actual survivors of Easy Company. You don't know who is who until the end of Episode 10.
My father was in the 29th Division and was involved in the Normandy Invasion.
Yes, Lt. Speirs did shoot prisoners on D-Day, although not like it’s depicted in this episode. The entire regiment was under strict orders not to take any prisoners, and just hours after they landed Speirs and two of his men had three Germans surrender to them, who they then shot.
“Fierce Valor” by Jared Frederick and Erik Door describes that incident and more. It’s a great read for anyone who wants to know more about Ronald Speirs
This series changed my life when it came out. Glad to see more people learning about this.
The book it's based on was written from interviews with the men and a lot was taken from a memoir written by David Webster, one of the men .
The video is a bit too opaque to see properly fwiw..
Great reaction though
The powder sprinkled on the wound was " Sulfa", an antiseptic to prevent infection.
Just finished the series again today after 10+ years of first watching it. What a ride for these heroes. Truly the 'Greatest Generation'
The reason why the codewords "flash" and "thunder" was used on the first day was that most Germans can't pronounce "thunder" without an accent, it will sound more like "sunder/zunder". So even if the Germans found out it would help them much to trick the enemy. Greetings from Germany
A lot of people who watch this tends to miss when Winters jump, you can see his leg bag fly off his leg.
You ladies are doing a fabulous job providing an authentic reaction to this series.
And, yep..... them's real events and real names. May we forever remember....
I'm not sure if this was what you were referring to when sandtables were mentioned, but sandtables were used to help give troops a better understanding of the terrain. They were literally tables with sand on top where they would make hills and ridges and mark out roads, buildings, rivers, etc. They were little dioramas that helped the troops orient themselves on the ground. They were also used in the field by moving the dirt around to simulate the terrain just like a sandbox. The added benefit was that you just smoothed it over when you were done, so there was nothing the enemy could capture.
These reactions are so real and priceless. My father served in Korea and my grandfather in the first world war so this story has extra meaning
❤❤❤ Excellent job, ladies! Dick Winters became company commander because Lt Meehan's plane was destroyed. If Sobel had still been in charge, he would have been on that plane. The fact that this drop was so screwed up actually helped with the success of the operation. Men were so dispersed that the Germans thought the invasion was much larger than it was. Hall being to young to buy a beer? Most of these guys enlisted at 17 or 18. Even with the two years of training, they are still college-aged. We tend to forget how young our soldiers are. If you choose to watch through the end, you will find out who has been doing our episode intros. Some of our characters were amazingly cast. Thanks for watching.
This series is based on the book A Band of Brothers by Stephen A Ambrose and the veterans you see get interviewed in the start of each episode are each people portrayed in the show. The last episode they reveal who each one is. Get you tissues ready.
Garnier went ballistic on the horse drawn cart cuz they were the first Germans he saw after finding out about his brothers death.
Guarnere.
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@@catherinelw9365 thank you for your spelling input. I feel much better about the obvious mistake in spelling. I don't know what I would have done otherwise. Thanks again.
As you watch this series keep in mind high explosives, such as anti aircraft and artillery shells, have an instantaneous expansion rate of up to 5 miles per second; extraordinarily violent and damaging. For comparison, the typical rifle or machine gun bullet leave the muzzle at a little over 1/2 a mile per second, and slows rapidly from there, but they will still do serious damage to you out to 400 meters and beyond if the shooter has the skills (shell fragments slow much faster). Furthermore shell fragments are sharp, jagged and very hot. Plus if you are close enough to the detonation the heat and concussion can also injure or kill you. Understanding the power of high explosives you'll appreciate what exposed paratroopers went through in battles like Bastogne.
Due to a US artillery firing accident an HE shell detonated about 20 meters from our position when I was serving in the army and the violence was mind numbing despite the fact that, fortunately, we had heavy cover between us and the detonation. Only one guy got hit by fragments which ricocheted off nearby concrete (he recovered in the hospital).
This TV series was released in 1999 and made in 1998. This was shot 25 years ago and soon to be 26 years ago this summer.
13:10 Buck Compton signaled, using his fingers: "1 - 4 - 2 - 2 -5 - fist - pull - two fingers." This stands for: "One MG 42, 25 yards. Throw grenades that way." This, however, is a dramatization, as such hand signals that complex wouldn't be used until around the Vietnam War or thereabouts.
14:10 The Germans were setting up a machine gun to fire down the trench. Would have been very bad news, had Winters not taken them out.
16:05 That is sulfa powder, the first antibiotic widely used in WW2.
21:05 The characters depicted in the series were real people. That said, some of the events were dramatized, so the audience can follow what was going on. Also, some of the things actually done by other members of Easy Company were, in the series, said to be done by those in the cast. (Had the producers been historically accurate, the entire cast would have numbered in the hundreds, and ten episodes aren't enough to make you get to know and feel related to that many people.)
Late to the party, but love your reactions. Looking forward to these for future episodes!
You heard them mention some guys from the 82nd. The 82 Airborne was the other Parachute Infantry division in the Army. They both jumped that night.
The veteran talking about losing his "famous musette bag" was talking about panicked and lost pilots giving the green jump light while still going way too fast. Most of the paratroopers equipment and weapons were torn from their body by the slipstream. Many landed with nothing.
The packets are condensed salt. They dry up the blood. They are airborne troops. Always surrounded. M4 Shermans, no match for Tigers 1s or Panthers. "War is grand to the inexperienced " - Napleon Bonaparte...
That german prisoner from Oregon? In reality, him and Malarkey weren't just from the same state, the guy had worked across the street from Malarkey. They actually knew each other! The producers thought there was no way in hell anyone watching would believe that, so they changed it to being from neighboring towns.
They didn't know each other, just worked near by
D-day, the Battle of Normandy, was a multinational operation, with troops from 13 (I think) countries most notably American, British and Canadians, over 150,000 men landing on five sections of beach, plus the paratroops. The scale of it is absolutely mind blowing.
"Ain't nobody flying horses".... I'm dying!!
The Germans in the trench were setting up a machine gun. The powder they were using on the wound is called sulfa powder and it causes clotting in blood
This really is an unbelievable scene at the beginning before they jump. Most of these guys were so damn young too.
This is to the best recollection of all survivors. The book was written by a man who interviewed surviving easy company members one on one.
Memory is fickle, especially in war, but as far as anyone can possibly assert so much later on, this is true.
@15:56 - The powder was sulfa, a precursor to penicillin that was far less effective.
A. I love yalls reactions
B. It becoming a "game" is something alot of vets struggle with, and something i judge alot of people for. When you come back home you start to really process every joke, every shot, every moment. And some choose to be in denial and keep being awful and some choose to accept it. That mindset is what leads to alot of people ending it after a few years when they're back home.
Yes, it's real.
Guarnere calling Winters a Quaker is likely a colloquialism because Winter hails from rural PA and Guarnere from Philly. The added zing would be the traditionalist pacifist or rather non violent stance of Quakers more appropriate to the American Revolution but would be wildly known to people from PA, the same way east coasters know the natives of their respective areas would be the analogy. In effect Guarnere just blew off calling Winters a “slow hick” in a really regional slang.
Yes.. those planes, and even modern helicopters and combat transport aircraft can be literally painfully loud. Ear plugs are a must, and flight helmets with intercom are essentially the only way to effectively talk to each other.
One hour prior to the paratroopers jumping you had the Pathfinders landing and marking the drop zones. Five hours after the airborne units landed, you had the Normandy Beach landings. At least this was how it went more or less. The "fog of war" always screws up your best plans.
Just want to say I really enjoyed your reactions so much that I became a new subscriber. You two are so into this show, I love it! Even though I watched this miniseries when it first aired on HBO and I have watched countless YT reactors to this show, YOUR reactions make me feel like I'm watching it for the first time again. Can't wait to rewatch the next episodes with you ladies. Cheers.
During the assault on Brecourt Manor one of Winters’ men did climb a tree in combat. I read the book, it’s fantastic. The account from the paratrooper who did it concludes, “…..and that’s also the LAST tree I ever climbed in Europe.”
The powder you asked about during the assault when Popeye gets hit in the ass is Sulfa powder. It’s what they had like hydrogen peroxide. For trying to quickly clean before wrapping in a bandage and evacing the wounded. It’s to try to prevent infection before it starts.
The more times I've rewatched and watched reactors for this show the more terrifying Speirs becomes every time.
There is Sobal's running on a full stomach of spaghetti training. After they took out the guns they had 1 hr to eat and rest before going into battle again . Credit goes to Sobal
Just found the channel. You ladies better buckle up this is the cake walk part. That said, from a Vet, thank you for watching this, it's important to remember the things that have been done for all of us to live in peace.
The interviews are the things that really always got me. Especially since they don't reveal who these men are till the end of the series.
Bill Guarnere, the guy who opened up on the Germans early, REALLY hated the enemy because his brother was killed at Monte Cassino while fighting to reclaim their Italian homeland.
FYI Band of Brothers is one of three shows documenting the stories of WWII, The Pacific is the next show and it follows the Marines of the 1st Marine Division through the island hopping battles against Japan and the third series is currently airing on appleTV call the Masters of the Air and tells the stories of the 100th Bomb Group of the 8th Air Force in Europe.
yes, real, the men interviewed at the beginning of every episode are the real men of Easy Company
Sulfa Powder: Sulfa had a central role in preventing wound infections during the war. American soldiers were issued a first-aid kit containing sulfa pills and powder and were told to sprinkle it on any open wound. The sulfanilamide compound is more active in the protonated form.
Ladies, remember those guys were always talking to each other the way Gaurnere and the others talked. That used to be the way men used to mess with each other. You had to be able to dish it out and take it. When Hall started throwing it back at Gaurnere, Bill Gaurnere knew Hall was a good guy.
I was in the army infantry from 8 yrs... this is some of the most realistic co.bat I've ever seen portrayed on screen. That and Saving pvt Ryan minus the water bullets hurting ppl
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“I hope they don’t show us if it’s real until the end.” *sweats in pre-episode interviews*