Major Dick Winters on Bastogne Pt.2 (Band of Brothers)
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Major Dick Winters has been a personal hero of mine ever since I've seen the show "Band of Brothers" as a young man. Here are some clips from an interview of Dick Winters done by Rep. John Payne, which was recorded in the early 2000's. Thank you Rep. John Payne for sharing this interview with the world.
Here's the links to his interviews:
Part 1: • A Tribute to Maj. Dick...
Part 2: • Rep. Payne's Legislati...
Part 3: • A Tribute to Major Win...
Part 4: • A Tribute to Maj. Dick...
Part 5: • A Tribute to Maj. Dick...
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My Grandpa never talked about the war. But for me, this guy represents all of those Grandpas out there that didn't want to talk about it when they got back home
A truly great man. Thank you for you and your men’s service Major Winters.
Dick Winters is such a legend! Such an amazing leader and true depiction of the best generation of man! If you haven't seen Band of Brothers, do yourself a favor and binge watch.
@@davidschmidt4227 Russian's my American Friend. 9 out of 10 Wehrmacht died on the Eastern Front. You lot joined the party late. Russia won ww2 with our help.
Watching and listening to Winters never gets old. I am glad these interviews were memorialized. It is a shame that so many veterans talked about their service. EDIT: i meant to say didn't talk about their service
His comment of living them every day is true, segments every night. Nothing like these men went through but know that your battles and losses stay with you. Afghanistan 08-09, 09-10 & 12-13.
Welcome home.
Damien Lewis honored Dick with his performance.
That’s for damn sure.. I think the whole crew did the same for respective characters
The scenes of artillery shelling in Band of Brothers was extremely intense and hard to watch.
And the most hardest is seeing both Joe Toye and Bill Guarnere losing their legs.
And then seeing Muck and Penkala get hit and then seeing how Malarkey so sad and crying for the loss of his buddies it the most touching in the Series.
Toughen up man
Now just imagine it was 10x that bad in person
it was because my father came ashore in the second wave on D Day, I joined up in the British Army. I did three tours, one of my stupid reasons was to find out could I cut it. He asked me, well did you? I said I didn't run away and did my duty. 'well you did your duty and I'm proud. Looking back all these years ago (39 years) it was a bit stupid, but I'm glad I did it as it made me the person i am.
The brits have always been some tough men. I hate too see that great nation be over ran with PC fools and people who hate liberty. Thank you for your service!
@@philly0976 And who are those 'silly PC fools' who hate liberty? Do you people think before you post or simply driven by innate prejudices? You know nothing about our UK.
life is a test . well done
What reg ?
There is nothing stupid about wanting to find out what kind of man you are. Granted there are more than one way of finding out, but what counts is that desire or will to find out.
The maturity of those guys in there 20s,are amazing to this boomer,
Those last sentences he spoke, tell volumes of what it is these men went through. Yet the age and time they've lived in, have shaped them to become men that didn't openly speak of their hurts in face of what they perceived to be weakness, instead of healing.
Unlike today, if you tell someone they’re ugly,stupid or whatever, they need a safe place to have a cry, these guys are most definitely the greatest generation ever
You missed the point dude. We did these guys a disservice by not addressing and treating their PTSD
@@dnorfed Save the cheap political rhetoric. It’s not a good thing that these Second World War veterans felt like they had to keep their feelings bottled up, or that many turned heavily to the bottle to cope. A culture of diminishing mental illness and silly ideas of emotionless masculinity harmed these men. They deserved better.
When he is taking about the concentration of shelling its minuteness and tree bursts are just as deadly the percussion could stop a heart simalar to being close to a lighting strike and flying Debris if close enough. It's the first time I seen him say he had PTSD at very end of this video 4:22 to end
Dick Winters was a great man .
My father was also in Bastogne with Patton third army .. He said Bastogne was the worst shelling that they in-countered in the war plus -70 degrees ..
They never talked surrender... for that kind of 'loose' talk would put the seed in their mind to surrender... I can understand that. And not knowing when it would be all over... hanging on day by day, no that is fortitude! Not everyone has that kind of guts. They did!
His comment of living them every day is true, segments every night. Nothing like these men went through but know that your battles and losses stay with you. Afghanistan 08-09, 09-10 & 12-13.
This is the best interview with Dick Winters. I've.watched many.
Thank you
Legend. Thank you sir .
RIP
Whoever the flog is that gave this a thumbs down, you have no clue.
Hes a caltex flog m8. You from Cairns?
@@tonyweaver2353 HAHA nar. Melbourne.
The one takeaway for me about all wars is that no one comes away unscathed. Dick Winters, outstanding soldier and combat leader, is a good example. I wish more people around the world would realize this. It would save many lives.
Amazing man
After all that
My uncle was in the 82nd Airborne/508th in the Bulge, and he would tell me that the worst things to be in was that artillery barrage or in the midst of a tank battle. One day he woke up in the morning in a foxhole right next to an unexploded tank shell. He came home with shaking hands and battle fatigue until he died about 8 years ago.
I watch this then interrupted by an advertisement, a girl born in the 90's and her ad for her diet and system of living today. I weep for them, called snowflakes by generation X who also saw no war. (yes me included)! Some Gen X's appreciate WWII Vets and Heroes. They will see war again soon.
I was born in the wrong era
Same
How they did it is just beyond me. were i in their shoes I'd go mad with fear.
The men of Easy Company were normal men. They were trained for combat, they survived combat, many did not. BUT, again, they were normal men. Don't sell yourself short - with good leadership, good training, the necessary experience, you could have withstood the cold, the shellings just as they did.
The us proximity fuses used by their artillery.was even more devastating to Germans. Would have been wicked
This Man along the rest of the vets are the reason I served! I will never feel of see what they dealt with but I’m glad I served for them as a infantrymen in Afghanistan!
2nd Infantry here
But in the Afghan war you played the role of the Germans. Think about that
@@969kurtAfter ww2 all American wars are total bollocks. Invasion based on lies evil geo political games.
I remember when a couple of these Easy Company guys came in on a tandem jump when I was at Campbell right after September 11th when they were making a big show of how ready we were to fight. I knew right then I had NOTHING on these dudes.
Thank you Mr. Winters for your service and sacrifice and also the other men and women who served in WW2. They truly were the greatest generation.
The one big thing they had going for them was they all trained together for a long time which enabled them to work at their best together. That and they had great NCOs.
The initial group trained together yes but with the high attrition rate replacements came in that did not have that level of training.
God bless this man and all those who fought with him.
Dick winters is the type of man we need to lead the country.
I am in your Canadian honour sir
For over a hundred years, shelling artillery and mortars kill +80% in war. Nothing consistently terrified soldiers in war more than shelling. Àccording to my two uncle's who were in Bastion in WW2.
I remember reading something similar. He mentioned the total lack of control and helplessness and the fact in a blink you could be gone. He said you just have to try not to think about it and only think about the stuff you can do. Terrifying.
If you remove disease as a cause of death then 80% sounds about right. HE is by far the largest killer on a battlefield however delivered. Thankfully I've never been under concentrated artillery fire but I can't imagine much worse, inability to fire back or really do anything other than rely on chance. My heart goes out to those that had to endure that and the cold.
I would loved to have met this man,shook his hand and said thank you.
Just think the Germans were almost constantly under heavy artillery and concentrated artillery. And the Americans invented "time on target (TOT) fire. That were EVER SHELL hits the ground at the target area at the same time! Devastating!!! When the Germans lost air superiority they were also subjected to unlimited air to mud. The Russians used mass artillery also.
Good point. Americas big gun power in wwII was unmatched
...not to mention what troops experienced in WW1....
I read somewhere in ww2 if your getting shot at by machine guns it’s German. Accurate rifle fire it’s British. And if your getting hit by artillery it’s American
not to mention the invention of the Proximity fuse. No more shells buried in the ground before they exploded. Very nasty.
The US proximity fuse was used for the first time in Europe at bastonge
Listening to him speaks gives me goosebumps
Nuts!
The stuff legend is born of. Name to last a thousand years.
what a treasure trove of a channel. thank you for this
Winters- all that is good about fighting wrong with all your might, but still retaining dignity and humanity
I've never been to war so I know nothing, but I found that episode difficult to watch. I had to stop the video a few times because I didn't want to see what was happening. And I wasn't even there.
There’s no reason to be ashamed of that, these men faced these horrors specifically so you would never have to.
@@NicholasAdeptus I'm not ashamed.
MC AULIFFE. IRISHMAN BEST AT BASTOGNE NUTS
WHY DIDNT US HAVE ARTILLERY TO FIRE BACK THEY NEW WHERE GERMAN ARTILLARY WAS ALSO BOMBERS AND P51 WHERE WERE THEY
They couldn't get artillery in. The weather was the shits. Once the weather lifted the Germans were doomed. Patton broke through Dec. 26th.
@@Anthony-ot8vl Exactly. Patton had to fight the artillery into the area. Also, the close air support fighter-bombers that might have helped couldn't because of the dense fog. The impasse only lasted for a few days, but it must have been incredibly frustrating for the troops on the ground.
The same reason they couldn’t make supply drops… they were surrounded and the winter in Bastogne made for poor visibility. The mobile guns of that era didn’t fire miles in distance… and they didn’t even have artillery like that anywhere near Germany. Bastogne is essentially a border town.
Captain America right here
I feel like the modern United States was built by and on the shoulders of men like this and we have somehow let it go to hell in a hand basket. I am ashamed of where this country is heading. Everyone is offended by everything yet they are ashamed of nothing. Richard Winters generation lived thru the great depression and fought world wars that granted freedoms to so many and our latest generation doesn't know what bathroom to use. Its a sad state.
I employ a lot of college students. They are hard working, and take a lot of pride in doing a job right. None have ever asked me which bathroom to use. Maybe you should turn off the Fox News propaganda machine and actually get out amongst other people.
In yhe last thirty years I don't think I have heard a single activist, journalist, politician or even parent tie 'rights' to corresponding responsibilities. The entire focus is on the right, as if it comes with no strings of responsibilities.
@@texaswunderkind I listened to an interesting podcast...a researcher was curious about how the 'greatest generation' was viewed prior to WWII.
Through articles from that time and interviews he demonstrated that they were largely viewed the same as most people view the Millennials of today. So, it seems to some extent that nothing changes and that until a generation is tested, we don't really know wht they are made of.
@@texaswunderkind really lol?