Richard Winters - Part 5 Fort Benning & Camp Mackall (Band of Brothers Untold)
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- Part 5 of Richard Winters Journey to war covers his time at various camps as the rigorous training continues.
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So glad that I’ve discovered this channel!
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I have really been enjoying this series about Winters' early army carreer.
Thanks for all your hard work in bringing us this free content. It is very appreciated.
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The quality of your content is going from strength to strength. Thank you.
Thanks, I appreciate that!
One of your best pieces of work. 120 miles is no joke!!!!! My feet hurt now just thinking about it.
They didn’t have decent footwear like we have now. My father was in the Army in WW2. He was EOD. He tore up Augsburg Germany.
@@tonyhammer3588 funny you mention the boots as the boots didn’t change much till the 90’s. My feet lay testimony to that. Great catch. I remember sitting down with one of chesty pullers SGTMj and he mentioned 60 mile humps and a 72 hr liberty for walking over the line.
Great series
Thanks
👍👍 I am unfamiliar with the article that Colonel Sink read about a Japanese battalion supposedly marching 100 miles down the Malayan peninsula in just 72 hours. Many Japanese units actually raced down the Malayan peninsula at this time on bicycles stolen from the local population. I am not in a position to say that the claim about the rapid Japanese forced march is untrue but I’m just adding my 2c worth to the discussion. Great series of videos! ✅✅
You are right. They were heading down to meet the British at Singapore if my memory is correct. I think they had to carry their bicycles for much of the trip as it was through muddy jungles.
Sink probably thought they could still beat the time completely on foot.
You weren’t there so you dont know. It’s that easy.
I would have questioned the veracity of any story coming from the other side of the world in wartime in 1942 but Sink just ran with it even though it was probably hearsay and/or Japanese propaganda.
@@tonyhammer3588 Thank you Captain Obvious. 😃✅👍 I was not there at that time but I do know a few things such as the propensity of both journalists and military commanders to make false or misleading statements especially in wartime. Colonel Sink himself embellished the truth by stating falsely that ALL his men completed their forced march. I might not know everything first hand but I am not all that gullible either. 😁 One needs an appropriate dose of skepticism when reading the news or history Sir. ⭐️😃
7:56 I think there’s a requirement for every comment section to have an idiot, we’ve found the one for this one. You even said “I’m not in a position to know” and he comes at you with “you don’t know”.
The Japanese claim is likely suspect, but Sink probably didn’t really care if it was true or not. It was an opportunity to shine.
Just an old ex armored cav trooper here who happens to love the show.Carry on soldier.
Thank you - and for your service as well.
@WorldWarTruth Thank you,for bringing our fallen to light.
Glad to see the channel growing so rapidly.
Edit: The reason men were given some training on motorcycles, is because the German Army used large numbers of motorcycles in their motorized formations earlier in the war. By the time the 101st was receiving this training, the Germans had relegated their motorcycles to secondary roles, but it's understandable that US planners thought it possible that US airborne forces might capture a number of motorcycles in any drop. Training on horses is obvious. Horses were a major means of transportation in Europe during WW2 and the German Army was completely dependent on them. Even today, forces that are expected to fight in remote locations where horses are prevalent, receive some horsemanship training.
Thanks for the follow up info.
Thanks, Capt Obvious.
@@tonyhammer3588 What was obvious about anything I said? I'm sure if we took a pole of viewers, most if not all, of the information I posted was new to them. The level of knowledge about WW2 - especially at any level of detail - is generally very low, so I don't take it for granted that what I add is "obvious". Anyway, if you think I'm obvious, no one is forcing you to read my comments and trolling me isn't going to stop me from adding information that I think might be helpful.
@@juliancate7089 He's clearly an opinionated ar$ehole who thinks he knows everything and that others cannot contribute
He made the same "Captain obvious" comment to someone else in another comment.
Reference books ? I believe you, would like to read those same books ! Intriguing post, thank you !
The story part 5 is exceptional ! Thumbs up and subscribed!
Thank you. I source from the books written on Easy Company. There are two on Winters alone. There are also a lot of interviews.
I seriously love these mini series of events from each respected paratrooper from band of brothers, it’s so fascinating and some pictures that I’ve never even seen before!! Keep doing what you’re doing sir! It’s incredible stuff
Glad you like them!
I'm really enjoying the lead up to the ETO. Good stuff!!
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EXCELLENT series. Fun fact. My Army unit broke the U.S. Army distance record for Basic Training in 2003. Our Capt was Jock who graduated from West Point I believe, can’t remember, he played Baseball and was a BIG FELLA. He pushed us day and night with little rest. The Sergeants who trained us HATED him. He had to break up fights among the Sergeants. Many got in fist fights in front of our three Platoons. Entertaining times. After that I went to OCS and knew EXACTLY how not to act.
Thank you and for the story as well.
Cool story, bro.
Thanks. Very interesting from Sc
Glad you enjoyed it
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Thanks mate
Another good one old man. Although I am pissed off that you call Harry Welsh...kidding. I'm kidding. Looking for to the next one especially since you're saying that it was skipped over.
A lot of the time in England was probably not interesting enough for the series but connects more dots.
@@War_And_Truth Which I understand for television, but the thing is I was a history major and one of my favorite aspects are the little things that fall through the cracks.
We did 32 miles in 14 hours actually from Uwharrie National Forest to Camp Mackall, The 505th did 100 miles in 3 days in commemoration of some event, they were combat ineffective for about a month.
Weapons only or with rucks?
AatW!
@@Billy_the_Greek With rucks we were coming off a 7 day field problem, this was endex (end of exercise)
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Just to point out a slight inaccuracy that in December 1943 and January 1944 they were already in England. Knock a year off each time I reckon. Thanks for the videos though, very interesting
Yes my bad. They arrived at Liverpool in September 1943.
Imagine having to march 100+ miles in shitty weather, destroying your feet, all for some old dudes ego lol
Yeah I didn't include the march in the video I did about Colonel Sink being an a$$ but this was another example of the power trip he seemed to have.
Hi ho Silver!
Hmm, reading the book, this is verbatim if I have it right.
Much of it is obviously from Winters own memoirs (as I wasn't there) which have been reproduced on many levels including video interviews. I draw my content from many different sources and outside of quoting the vets themselves, its almost always in my own words. I'm telling Winters own story in this series. Most of my other videos are opinion pieces.
I don't really think that this counted as breaking any record.. unless they went to the jungle.. hung out for a few years and then did this.. in fact if easy had deployed to the Pacific they would have found out the hard way.
I don't think there was any comparison to be made at all. The Japanese wore sandals and carried bicycles through the malaria ridden muddy jungle in scorching humidity. This was solely about Colonel Sink's ego and he won no friends from it.
Is there a reason you pronounce Toccoa differently from how it's pronounced in BoB?
It's voice software. The creator of the channel is deaf.
@@juliancate7089 Ah, thank you. I wondered about that because of some of the pauses and syntax in earlier videos.
Still doing the Battle of Britain speech for people it didn't refer to... a bit brazen
Its merely a channel intro. It doesn't have anything to do with the actual video (now I understand your comment from the last video)
I can imagine the eye rolls when sobel was hollering during the training exercise
I just cant help but laughing. Sobel would have been handy in the jungles in The Pacific. They would have heard him a mile away Lol