Yeah this episodes epilogue is wrong about Blithe, Blithe survived his wounds. He became a career soldier after the war, served in the Korean war and died in 1967 of a perforated ulcer.
@Emperor's Champion No, my point is, what if the records were lost back then? And not digitized? How would we, living currently, know what happened if they lost the records? And secondly, the film was made BEFORE they found out he survived. His family saw the film, and contacted Easy survivors to let them know what actually happened.
@Emperor's Champion Hey they even got the date when Hitler kills himself wrong. The scene started with it showing a date saying "April 11, 1945, when he killed himself on April 30, 1945. Also as a bonus edelweiss was used by German/Austrian mountain troops and not paratroopers. That would cause a fight between the mountain troops and paratroopers like a US paratrooper and his jump boots that they didn't allow anyone else to use as it was a symbol of their pride and status. If you wish to find other things wrong you can use this link as it helps me find others with some extra detail: www.wearethemighty.com/entertainment/historical-inaccuracies-band-of-brothers?rebelltitem=2#rebelltitem2. Also don't get me wrong its a great show and its worth it to watch from beginning to end I would recommend it if you haven't already.
What Speirs told Blithe is essentially the same as an old samurai saying, "Go into battle hoping to live and surely you shall die, go into battle expecting to die and surely you shall live."
I can see the reactions that your going through, you get to care about the men and suffer the anxiety of not being able to stop what is happening to them. My three tour in combat zones left me with much of the same feelings of helplessness. Thanks for your channel and the taking on of this challenge of this project. (:
I'm going to elaborate on this a bit. Because Blithe never showed up to any of the reunions the other men of Easy assumed he had died. When his family saw this show they reached out to HBO to let them know that Albert survived and stayed in the military until his death from complications from a surgery killed him in the late 1960s. There are a few other mistakes in the series too.
@@golfr-kg9ss I think a few of the mistakes can be attributed to loss of records from that warehouse fire back in the 50's that destroyed a lot of WW2 servicemembers paperwork.
I liked Larry's comment that seldom gets pointed out in movies that most of the people on the other side are not evil or bad or that there will always be bad people on all sides of a war. Maybe watch "The Pacific" after "Band of Brothers". The Pacific was more brutal than the European Theatre as it was also a clash of cultures not just political ideas. The Japanese soldier was taught that is was an honor to die for the Emperor. So in many of the battles they would fight to almost the last man. The few prisoners that were taken tended to be soldiers too badly wounded to fight or kill themselves. It was not uncommon for Japanese soldiers to fake surrender and then try and kill allied soldiers when they got close. It happened frequently enough that many American soldiers became very reluctant to try and take Japanese soldiers captive. A movie I would recommend you watch is "Letters from Iwo Jima" done from the Japanese perspective.
BraveSpy I also think that the soldiers on the eastern front who killed millions of unarmed women and children with bullets were not just soldiers doing their jobs. They were wicked, evil men who took pleasure from what they did. Let’s not get all tangled up in ‘they were just soldiers.’ Soldiers don’t shoot people in the neck, leaving them paralyzed & unable to move, then throw them in a ditch to be buried alive. They did this with tens of thousand of Jews & Slavs all over the eastern front.
The Japanese were exposed to Western culture so they were able to copy American English fluently. It got to the point where allied forces used code words with a lot of L's so the Japanese couldn't pronounce them, like instead of crying "medic" you say "Tallulah"
BraveSpy German troops said that the Eastern front was a cake walk compared to Normandy. The Western allies were far more efficient at killing than the Russians, especially the artillery and naval gunfire support. There was a legend amongst German troops of a “belt fed 25 pounder field gun”
As a combat veteran myself I would like to tell you what a good job you are both doing . Her indness and your not acting as if you know everything is refreshing ( GOOD WORK )
What Blithe had was called Hysterical Blindness. I think they have renamed it in the medical journals. I believe in some people during intense stress or fear they can become blind. So that is what happened to him.
has happend to me. In a turnement playing handball, 4 matches in 7 hours. pushing everything i got. i got blind, like white and gray blind. had to lay down, get my pulse down, relax, and then i could see again. happend one more time in my life. And that was when i was in the army
The scene, where Blithe battles through his own fear to get up and fire his rifle is one of the strongest scenes, I have ever seen. The actor is amazig.
lionhead123 the Pacific is way better than Band of Brothers. Although both are very good. The pacific makes you feel closer with the Marines as it follows them home and shows the struggles of what the war did to Eugene Sledge.
Hey guys, I'm the son of a WW2 vet and just wanted to say I am impressed with the respectful way you present this...I also like how you augment the video shots with continuing dialogue. It's smoother and the viewer gets more overall content from the episode. Thanks again! P.S. From reading the book, it seems that Malarkey in particular was deadly accurate with the mortars.
I heard that the German solider who was run over by the tank was portrayed by a famous stuntman. He had developed a special metal box that he could literally slip into as the tank was driving closer to him.
Just for the record: On December 10, 1967, while on active duty in Germany, Blithe felt nauseated when he returned from a weekend at Bastogne, Belgium, where he had taken part in the ceremonies commemorating the Battle of the Bulge. On December 11, 1967, Blithe was taken to the emergency room at Wiesbaden Hospital, Germany, where he was admitted with a diagnosis of a perforated ulcer. He died in the intensive care unit on December 17 after surgery, and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery with full honors. In the miniseries Band of Brothers, the closing text of the third episode incorrectly states that Blithe died in 1948 due to never fully recovering from his wound (a bullet to the neck). This was an error made by the producers. Add: the bullet wound actually went through his collar bone.
FYI, the information "band of brothers" got for Blythe's life was incorrect, he survived his wounds, served in Korea. the reason they go it wrong, is he lost touch with everyone in Easy company, and 2 members of Easy, read of Pvt Blythe passing away from wound received in Normandy and they attended that person's funeral, not realizing it was a different person. So when they were interviewed for the book, the passed on the belief that Blythe was dead.
The first & only time I ever felt fear of death or any fear during combat was a rocket attack that took me off my feet(no shrapnel)! Can’t describe the kind of fear of death I felt after that! All I can say is it’s NOT the same as narrowly avoiding an accident or something like that back home. The next day I remembered that scene when Lt Spiers talked to Blythe saying he’s already dead & the sooner you accept that, you’ll be able to perform as a soldier should. So I took it to heart & it worked for me, probably too good. I lost all fear of death & now that I’m home there are days where I’m numb, emotionless because I took it to heart & worked too well. Been struggling to get it back ever since so I can feel normal again, be who I once was. There are thousands like me & worse. I say this not for pity, but for the only little amount of understanding that you can receive as you’d have to be a soldier to understand fully, which blows.
Using a mortar or artillery in general is a science. You know the speed the mortar travels due to the amount of propellant in the bomb. Using that you do the math using angle of fire you can calculate how far it will go. If the enemy is 600 meters, you know you need X degrees to get the bomb to go that far. Point at the enemy and you can get the shots to land roughly in the area you want.
With mortars you have a mortar team that’s on the weapon system and a spotter either is talking ranger or radio range that is watching were the rounds are hitting he’ll radio back how far off they are from the grid point and it till get adjusted until it’s on target then they’ll fire for affect meaning unload on that spot. Most times you plan your attack so you already have your point dialed in. That’s why when they were in town they were screaming incoming and they have us zeroed. Because that was the enemies base so they already knew the grid points of the area. Once the town was over taken the enemy would call in saying it has been and to hit the town.
Blythe actually didn't die in 48. He actually recovered from his injuries and became a career soldier eventually dying of an illness in the 60's. However at time of recording all the veterans and researchers assumed he had died of his injuries and stuff.
Fallschirmjäger. The most highly trained force in the Wehrmacht. My great uncle served among them in Holland in late 1944/45 before surrendering to the Canadians
As a kid growing up in Western Canada...I had the chance to talk with a lot of German vets from WW2 about their experience. A lot of them served in the Holland campaign.
You two are such a charming duo. Maybe it's your accents, maybe the smiles, or perhaps it's just that I enjoy your reactions; but whatever it is, I feel warm and fuzzy inside watching. Keep up the good work. 📺👀😃
Tipper survived and was sent home. He got in contact with Sgt. Martin's wife and Martin told her that Tipper was dead. It wasn't until the war was over that everyone found out that he survived.
@@terencepaul7475 the guy who got blown up when standing in the shop. he lost his eye and had to use a cane for the rest of his life but he survived, died in 2017.
@@lionhead123 Thanks for mentioning Ed. He recovered (other than his eye) and didn't use a cane. He played racquetball and skied and had one daughter who is now an elected representative in the Colorado state legislature.
Just saying this as a historian perspective. The germans they were fighting in this episode were known as fallschirmjäger or parachute hunter as known as paratroopers. The whole fallschirmjäger branch basically did not agree with Hitler's believes that's why none of them did the german salute and all that. They fought their own war not for hitler but for their own country. They admired the screaming eagles so much they were sometimes terrified of them.
In response to Larry's comment about the mortar: mortars (indeed all artillery) and sniper rifles are basically just weaponized MATH. If they know the range of the target and the capability of the round they are firing, they just perform the calculations and send the fire mission.
Can confirm. I was a 60mm mortarman in the Marines (just like Eugene Sledge). I didn't actually handle the mortars, I was the nerd who calculated firing coordinates. When the riflemen called for mortars, they would give me either the enemy position (based on grid coordinates, from a map) or if they didn't know the exact grid location of the enemy they would tell me their location, how far away the enemy was from their position, and in which direction. I used that data to calculate a firing solution for the gun crews to dial in their sights, which is done using aiming stakes (hard to explain to a layperson, via text, my bad). Artillery is exactly the same, just with bigger cannons.
Now to tell another reactor that Blithe didn't actually die... When the book was written the soildiers interviewed believed that he he had... turns out he got out of the hospital and served In Korea. His family was shocked when they watched the episode and saw it say he had died. One of the writers of the show said if he could go back and fix one thing it would be the Blithe Mistake.
One of the things I found interesting in the mini, particularly this episode is that the stuntmen could do a near perfect 'dead man' drop. Having seen some newsreel footage of men actually being shot in combat (or executed by fire squads or whatnot), I notice they just 'drop'--obviously they don't try to break their fall because they're dead or paralyzed or out of it. The stunts in some shots look almost exactly like that.
It's also interesting how they did the stunt where the guy got run over. The guy did actually get run over but a pressure thing dropped him in a ready made hole underneath
You guys should review a movie called, " hacksaw ridge." Its based on a true story about an american field medic in ww2. Maybe you could react to the teailer.
E Company was not a company composed entirely of volunteers. That was the Pathfinders, which consisted of 80 volunteers from every unit. It is true, that most who volunteered to fight were eager to do so, because of Japan attacking Pearl Harbor [1]. [1] _A Company of Heroes: Personal Memories About the Real Band of Brothers and the Legacy They Left Us_ (2010, p. 255)
Random fact: The real Albert Blithe recovered from his wounds and was sent home on October 1, 1944 after receiving a Purple Heart, his friends never knew what happened to him so they all thought he died from his wounds. He went on to serve in the Korean war and never retired from military service. He died on December 11, 1967 while in active duty in Germany after being diagnosed with a perforated ulcer.
Elly I love how your face lights up when you smile. These war series and movies seem to emotionally wreck you though your empathy is a wonderful trait.
You should do a reaction video to the opening scene of Saving private Ryan. As a combat vet I can tell you thats about as close to the real thing as ive seen in Hollywood. It actually brings back the memories and smells of Iraq and Afghanistan for me.
its insane to think these boys were given guns ammo and explosives and told to wreak shit behind the lines..look up old videos of war shell shock goes to show what war does
The germans depicted in the TV show are Fallschirmjager men, theyre the german paratroopers and many of them joined for the same reason as the american paratroopers, better pay, and the bragging rights, although many were ardent nazis and to be a fallschirmjager you had to join the nazi party. They are seen as some of the fiercest soldiers among the german army in ww2 alongside the SS. in the beginning the man that lost his brother at monte cassino the german soldiers there were also fallschirmjager troops.
16:39 ....... Military grade amunnition it's not like regular amunnition.....Normal bullets have their heads empty, so when they impact, spreads into small shards that causes massive damages; but military grade bullets have their heads solid, so they penetrate the body without causing massive internal bleeding. It's not ment to kill but to injure, so when you hit an enemy, at least two or three of their companion will spent some time trying to stabylize him intead of shooting at you...... It's a shit, but it's military mentalitty at it's best ....So, yeah, it's higly possible to survive an shot to the neck...... (sorry if I wrote wrongly, but I'm spanish and sometimes english betrays me)
An optimist is a pessimist who can't handle reality. A pessimist is an optimist who got tired of being surprised. There aren't too many good ways to die in war.
Carentan, only twice I think in history did Paratroopers faced Paratroopers. One of those was the the road leading to and taking Carentan. American Airborne vs the German Fallschirmjager.
With regard to your comment about how the soldiers shouldn't be seen as automatically bad, I remember a long time ago in a war biography, the author was saying that nobody has the right to disdain the motives and honour of the dead on either side of the war. Some were good, some were bad, most were just normal people with all sides to their characters, but they paid with their lives for the right to not be judged those who gave less. He wasn't talking about what evil was done, but about the price that was paid.
One of the most touching reactions I've ever seen hope your channel goes to over 100,000 and Perhaps to 1 million one day👍❤❤ PS love the message you both made at the end of this reaction hopefully a third world War will never happen 🙏
I find the scene where Lipton has blood coming from his crotch and his brother in arms understands and doesn't hesitate to look even tho it might be embarrassing too look he does I don't know why but I think that's a good show of brotherhood cause if shit like that happened to me even if I was missing an arm I'll be more relieved that everything is where it should be.
You keep saying it's 90% luck, but that is absolutely not the case. If it were, then training, morale, and leadership wouldn't matter, and the truth is that better trained, better equipped units regularly curbstomp less trained, poorly equipped units and armies, and why soldiers and units with high morale fight harder and better than those about to break. In fact, if only luck mattered, then we'd still be seeing soldiers lining up in ranks and marching up on one another, rather than doing everything they possibly can to remove luck from the equation. The truth of the matter is that a highly trained, highly-equipped unit or army with skilled leadership will absolutely SMASH a poorly-trained unit or army with lousy equipment and terrible leadership, even if the latter is significantly larger, unless there is some OTHER advantage in place for the second group. This actually showed up in WW2 as the invasion of Europe continued and Germany started fielding units of teens and old men with minimal training and lousy gear and they usually weren't able to even slow the Allies down. You can't ENTIRELY take luck out of the picture, but you can absolutely minimize its effect on combat.
In fact the information that the series gives that the soldier Blithe would have died in 1946 is not true. He survived and even fought in the Korean war.
Have you done World of Warcraft - Rejection of the Gift? If not, its probably one of the most relatable. Even if someone is not a fan of WoW, they should get it.
Heh. You got to see why we infantry that specialize in anti-tank call tank crew crispy critters ( the bazooka hit on the German tank) and why tank crews call us infantry crunchies ( squished that German with a tank).
"Each platoon headquarters and company headquarters in a Parachute Rifle Company was allotted 1 M1/M9/M9A1 "Bazooka" each". Check out the below for Organisation of a US Parachute Rifle Company particularly the organisation for Feb 1944 to Aug 1944 under additional equipment: www.battleorder.org/us-airborne-ww2
My friend Ed Tipper, wounded at 6:20 in this video, was the bazooka man for "E" Company. He survived those horrible wounds and became a high school teacher in Colorado, skiing in our mountains into his 80s. He died three years ago.
A Finish Simo Häyhä ,"worlds deadliest sniper" You can find him on RUclips kild (shot) 700-800 russians in 100 days .1939-40. Winterwar. why ? i only did my duty ! he whas very humboll and nice man !! Stay safe.
The regular German Army soldiers were more everyday soldiers. The SS, however, were fanatical Nazis. They were truly evil, and they were units that ran the concentration camps. When the Americans liberated the Dachau camp, groups of soldiers executed the SS guards as retribution. The official count was 35-50 SS guards were executed, but witnesses said it was closer to 500. Also the Americans looked the other way when some of the Jewish prisoners served their own justice on the guards. This was all in violation of the Geneva Convention, but thankfully not much was made of the investigations.
As someone whose grandparents were in Auschwitz and historian, I don't like to defend the SS. However viewing people as good or evil is never going to help prevent these things. People are complex and do things for lots of reasons. We absolutely need to condemn and describe the horrible things the SS and the camps did. However these things have been done by people before and are still being done today. Humans need to stand as a whole against this, until that happens it will never end.
говорите побольше на русском)44 год,, мой прадед под Киевом лег на Днепре реке , смотрю вот США, жаль конечно что солдаты полягли но никому кроме снг не жаль что наши померли в сотни тысяч раз более.
Yeah this episodes epilogue is wrong about Blithe, Blithe survived his wounds. He became a career soldier after the war, served in the Korean war and died in 1967 of a perforated ulcer.
I was about to say exactly the same thing hehe
was gonna comment this xD
@Emperor's Champion No, my point is, what if the records were lost back then? And not digitized? How would we, living currently, know what happened if they lost the records? And secondly, the film was made BEFORE they found out he survived. His family saw the film, and contacted Easy survivors to let them know what actually happened.
Wow. Thanks for revealing that.
@Emperor's Champion Hey they even got the date when Hitler kills himself wrong. The scene started with it showing a date saying "April 11, 1945, when he killed himself on April 30, 1945. Also as a bonus edelweiss was used by German/Austrian mountain troops and not paratroopers. That would cause a fight between the mountain troops and paratroopers like a US paratrooper and his jump boots that they didn't allow anyone else to use as it was a symbol of their pride and status. If you wish to find other things wrong you can use this link as it helps me find others with some extra detail: www.wearethemighty.com/entertainment/historical-inaccuracies-band-of-brothers?rebelltitem=2#rebelltitem2. Also don't get me wrong its a great show and its worth it to watch from beginning to end I would recommend it if you haven't already.
The priest guy with glasses, Father John Maloney... that's... Doug Cockle, voice of Geralt of Rivia in the Witcher games :)
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wow, thanks
@@MsRiNgOo thanks, wow
What Speirs told Blithe is essentially the same as an old samurai saying, "Go into battle hoping to live and surely you shall die, go into battle expecting to die and surely you shall live."
Is that how Sean Bean survived in Sharpe? by shouting "im gonna die here!!!" when he led the Forlorn Hope? xD
@@terencepaul7475 Sean Bean survived Sharpe by dying everywhere else.
@@bfahren he used up all his tickets I see
I can see the reactions that your going through, you get to care about the men and suffer the anxiety of not being able to stop what is happening to them. My three tour in combat zones left me with much of the same feelings of helplessness. Thanks for your channel and the taking on of this challenge of this project. (:
Blithe wound up living - the unit didn’t find out.
I'm going to elaborate on this a bit. Because Blithe never showed up to any of the reunions the other men of Easy assumed he had died. When his family saw this show they reached out to HBO to let them know that Albert survived and stayed in the military until his death from complications from a surgery killed him in the late 1960s. There are a few other mistakes in the series too.
@@golfr-kg9ss I think a few of the mistakes can be attributed to loss of records from that warehouse fire back in the 50's that destroyed a lot of WW2 servicemembers paperwork.
There’s a George Luz (the guy that does impressions) in every unit. God bless them all.
Just an FYI, but Blythe didn't die, though they thought he had. He survived the way and reunited with them after the war.
I liked Larry's comment that seldom gets pointed out in movies that most of the people on the other side are not evil or bad or that there will always be bad people on all sides of a war. Maybe watch "The Pacific" after "Band of Brothers". The Pacific was more brutal than the European Theatre as it was also a clash of cultures not just political ideas. The Japanese soldier was taught that is was an honor to die for the Emperor. So in many of the battles they would fight to almost the last man. The few prisoners that were taken tended to be soldiers too badly wounded to fight or kill themselves. It was not uncommon for Japanese soldiers to fake surrender and then try and kill allied soldiers when they got close. It happened frequently enough that many American soldiers became very reluctant to try and take Japanese soldiers captive. A movie I would recommend you watch is "Letters from Iwo Jima" done from the Japanese perspective.
maybe more brutal than western front, not eastern
BraveSpy I also think that the soldiers on the eastern front who killed millions of unarmed women and children with bullets were not just soldiers doing their jobs. They were wicked, evil men who took pleasure from what they did. Let’s not get all tangled up in ‘they were just soldiers.’ Soldiers don’t shoot people in the neck, leaving them paralyzed & unable to move, then throw them in a ditch to be buried alive. They did this with tens of thousand of Jews & Slavs all over the eastern front.
The Japanese were exposed to Western culture so they were able to copy American English fluently. It got to the point where allied forces used code words with a lot of L's so the Japanese couldn't pronounce them, like instead of crying "medic" you say "Tallulah"
BraveSpy German troops said that the Eastern front was a cake walk compared to Normandy. The Western allies were far more efficient at killing than the Russians, especially the artillery and naval gunfire support. There was a legend amongst German troops of a “belt fed 25 pounder field gun”
@@SvenTviking you may try to find a bit more german reports and memories about eastern front
The parachutes were made of silk, very valuable at the time, which is why he wanted to send it home for a wedding dress.
As a combat veteran myself I would like to tell you what a good job you are both doing . Her indness and your not acting as if you know everything is refreshing ( GOOD WORK )
What Blithe had was called Hysterical Blindness. I think they have renamed it in the medical journals. I believe in some people during intense stress or fear they can become blind. So that is what happened to him.
has happend to me. In a turnement playing handball, 4 matches in 7 hours. pushing everything i got. i got blind, like white and gray blind. had to lay down, get my pulse down, relax, and then i could see again. happend one more time in my life. And that was when i was in the army
It gives me hope for the world that she feels for the characters. Keep it up
My grandpa was shot in the neck in ww2 and he survived.
She's not going to make it through "The Breaking Point."
Or why we fight
@@vandamsel5022 True. But no one makes it through that
she'll have to get through bastogne first
@@REXXltm14 facts
The scene, where Blithe battles through his own fear to get up and fire his rifle is one of the strongest scenes, I have ever seen. The actor is amazig.
Be warn: when both of you complete this series. Pacific series is a lot more graphic!
and boring
lionhead123 the Pacific is way better than Band of Brothers. Although both are very good. The pacific makes you feel closer with the Marines as it follows them home and shows the struggles of what the war did to Eugene Sledge.
BARgunner1918 _ i would say it’s the opposite.
Burnt Toaster just my personal preference between the two. Each person is different with movies and how they perceive them
Not nearly as good.
Hey guys, I'm the son of a WW2 vet and just wanted to say I am impressed with the respectful way you present this...I also like how you augment the video shots with continuing dialogue. It's smoother and the viewer gets more overall content from the episode. Thanks again!
P.S. From reading the book, it seems that Malarkey in particular was deadly accurate with the mortars.
wait I thought Malarkey was a rifleman?
I heard that the German solider who was run over by the tank was portrayed by a famous stuntman. He had developed a special metal box that he could literally slip into as the tank was driving closer to him.
Just for the record: On December 10, 1967, while on active duty in Germany, Blithe felt nauseated when he returned from a weekend at Bastogne, Belgium, where he had taken part in the ceremonies commemorating the Battle of the Bulge. On December 11, 1967, Blithe was taken to the emergency room at Wiesbaden Hospital, Germany, where he was admitted with a diagnosis of a perforated ulcer. He died in the intensive care unit on December 17 after surgery, and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery with full honors. In the miniseries Band of Brothers, the closing text of the third episode incorrectly states that Blithe died in 1948 due to never fully recovering from his wound (a bullet to the neck). This was an error made by the producers.
Add: the bullet wound actually went through his collar bone.
FYI, the information "band of brothers" got for Blythe's life was incorrect, he survived his wounds, served in Korea. the reason they go it wrong, is he lost touch with everyone in Easy company, and 2 members of Easy, read of Pvt Blythe passing away from wound received in Normandy and they attended that person's funeral, not realizing it was a different person. So when they were interviewed for the book, the passed on the belief that Blythe was dead.
The actor that played Blithe was outstanding.
in the priest scene always struck me...the love for the souls of soldiers risking their own life...my God
The first & only time I ever felt fear of death or any fear during combat was a rocket attack that took me off my feet(no shrapnel)! Can’t describe the kind of fear of death I felt after that! All I can say is it’s NOT the same as narrowly avoiding an accident or something like that back home. The next day I remembered that scene when Lt Spiers talked to Blythe saying he’s already dead & the sooner you accept that, you’ll be able to perform as a soldier should. So I took it to heart & it worked for me, probably too good. I lost all fear of death & now that I’m home there are days where I’m numb, emotionless because I took it to heart & worked too well. Been struggling to get it back ever since so I can feel normal again, be who I once was. There are thousands like me & worse. I say this not for pity, but for the only little amount of understanding that you can receive as you’d have to be a soldier to understand fully, which blows.
Using a mortar or artillery in general is a science. You know the speed the mortar travels due to the amount of propellant in the bomb. Using that you do the math using angle of fire you can calculate how far it will go. If the enemy is 600 meters, you know you need X degrees to get the bomb to go that far. Point at the enemy and you can get the shots to land roughly in the area you want.
With mortars you have a mortar team that’s on the weapon system and a spotter either is talking ranger or radio range that is watching were the rounds are hitting he’ll radio back how far off they are from the grid point and it till get adjusted until it’s on target then they’ll fire for affect meaning unload on that spot. Most times you plan your attack so you already have your point dialed in. That’s why when they were in town they were screaming incoming and they have us zeroed. Because that was the enemies base so they already knew the grid points of the area. Once the town was over taken the enemy would call in saying it has been and to hit the town.
Blythe actually didn't die in 48. He actually recovered from his injuries and became a career soldier eventually dying of an illness in the 60's. However at time of recording all the veterans and researchers assumed he had died of his injuries and stuff.
Fallschirmjäger. The most highly trained force in the Wehrmacht. My great uncle served among them in Holland in late 1944/45 before surrendering to the Canadians
As a kid growing up in Western Canada...I had the chance to talk with a lot of German vets from WW2 about their experience. A lot of them served in the Holland campaign.
You two are such a charming duo. Maybe it's your accents, maybe the smiles, or perhaps it's just that I enjoy your reactions; but whatever it is, I feel warm and fuzzy inside watching. Keep up the good work. 📺👀😃
Thanks:D
Tipper survived and was sent home. He got in contact with Sgt. Martin's wife and Martin told her that Tipper was dead. It wasn't until the war was over that everyone found out that he survived.
who was Tipper again?
@@terencepaul7475 the guy who got blown up when standing in the shop. he lost his eye and had to use a cane for the rest of his life but he survived, died in 2017.
@@lionhead123 Thanks for mentioning Ed. He recovered (other than his eye) and didn't use a cane. He played racquetball and skied and had one daughter who is now an elected representative in the Colorado state legislature.
This is my Fav. TV shows of all time !!
Just saying this as a historian perspective. The germans they were fighting in this episode were known as fallschirmjäger or parachute hunter as known as paratroopers. The whole fallschirmjäger branch basically did not agree with Hitler's believes that's why none of them did the german salute and all that. They fought their own war not for hitler but for their own country. They admired the screaming eagles so much they were sometimes terrified of them.
Fan theory: Blythe hit that German in the neck & paralyzed him.
They made a mistake Blithe actually survived his wounds ... he died December 10, 1967
In response to Larry's comment about the mortar: mortars (indeed all artillery) and sniper rifles are basically just weaponized MATH. If they know the range of the target and the capability of the round they are firing, they just perform the calculations and send the fire mission.
Can confirm. I was a 60mm mortarman in the Marines (just like Eugene Sledge). I didn't actually handle the mortars, I was the nerd who calculated firing coordinates. When the riflemen called for mortars, they would give me either the enemy position (based on grid coordinates, from a map) or if they didn't know the exact grid location of the enemy they would tell me their location, how far away the enemy was from their position, and in which direction. I used that data to calculate a firing solution for the gun crews to dial in their sights, which is done using aiming stakes (hard to explain to a layperson, via text, my bad).
Artillery is exactly the same, just with bigger cannons.
Now to tell another reactor that Blithe didn't actually die... When the book was written the soildiers interviewed believed that he he had... turns out he got out of the hospital and served In Korea. His family was shocked when they watched the episode and saw it say he had died. One of the writers of the show said if he could go back and fix one thing it would be the Blithe Mistake.
Love watching you guys and I love the fact your watching band of brothers! Keep up the vids coz you always made me smile 👍
One of the things I found interesting in the mini, particularly this episode is that the stuntmen could do a near perfect 'dead man' drop. Having seen some newsreel footage of men actually being shot in combat (or executed by fire squads or whatnot), I notice they just 'drop'--obviously they don't try to break their fall because they're dead or paralyzed or out of it. The stunts in some shots look almost exactly like that.
It's also interesting how they did the stunt where the guy got run over. The guy did actually get run over but a pressure thing dropped him in a ready made hole underneath
You guys should review a movie called, " hacksaw ridge." Its based on a true story about an american field medic in ww2. Maybe you could react to the teailer.
E Company was not a company composed entirely of volunteers. That was the Pathfinders, which consisted of 80 volunteers from every unit. It is true, that most who volunteered to fight were eager to do so, because of Japan attacking Pearl Harbor [1].
[1] _A Company of Heroes: Personal Memories About the Real Band of Brothers and the Legacy They Left Us_ (2010, p. 255)
The time between the German tanks arriving and the Shermans was two hours… meaning they held their own against tanks for two hours.
One of the few that truly reacts to the horrors of war. The funnies of comradeship, the unimagines of combat.
Random fact: The real Albert Blithe recovered from his wounds and was sent home on October 1, 1944 after receiving a Purple Heart, his friends never knew what happened to him so they all thought he died from his wounds. He went on to serve in the Korean war and never retired from military service. He died on December 11, 1967 while in active duty in Germany after being diagnosed with a perforated ulcer.
Elly I love how your face lights up when you smile. These war series and movies seem to emotionally wreck you though your empathy is a wonderful trait.
You should do a reaction video to the opening scene of Saving private Ryan. As a combat vet I can tell you thats about as close to the real thing as ive seen in Hollywood. It actually brings back the memories and smells of Iraq and Afghanistan for me.
its insane to think these boys were given guns ammo and explosives and told to wreak shit behind the lines..look up old videos of war shell shock goes to show what war does
The germans depicted in the TV show are Fallschirmjager men, theyre the german paratroopers and many of them joined for the same reason as the american paratroopers, better pay, and the bragging rights, although many were ardent nazis and to be a fallschirmjager you had to join the nazi party. They are seen as some of the fiercest soldiers among the german army in ww2 alongside the SS. in the beginning the man that lost his brother at monte cassino the german soldiers there were also fallschirmjager troops.
Love the fast uploads for this series.
16:39 ....... Military grade amunnition it's not like regular amunnition.....Normal bullets have their heads empty, so when they impact, spreads into small shards that causes massive damages; but military grade bullets have their heads solid, so they penetrate the body without causing massive internal bleeding. It's not ment to kill but to injure, so when you hit an enemy, at least two or three of their companion will spent some time trying to stabylize him intead of shooting at you...... It's a shit, but it's military mentalitty at it's best ....So, yeah, it's higly possible to survive an shot to the neck...... (sorry if I wrote wrongly, but I'm spanish and sometimes english betrays me)
An optimist is a pessimist who can't handle reality. A pessimist is an optimist who got tired of being surprised.
There aren't too many good ways to die in war.
Carentan, only twice I think in history did Paratroopers faced Paratroopers. One of those was the the road leading to and taking Carentan. American Airborne vs the German Fallschirmjager.
07:33 Oh my goodness, what a great expression by Ellie of total disgust and horror.
Mortars can be extremely accurate. Remember these guys fired thousands of rounds and would set up range stakes in their fields of fire if possible.
Lol her face is priceless
He actually died in the 1960s, I believe.
After this series you guys need to react to “The Pacific” its from the same producers that made “Band of Brothers”
With regard to your comment about how the soldiers shouldn't be seen as automatically bad, I remember a long time ago in a war biography, the author was saying that nobody has the right to disdain the motives and honour of the dead on either side of the war. Some were good, some were bad, most were just normal people with all sides to their characters, but they paid with their lives for the right to not be judged those who gave less. He wasn't talking about what evil was done, but about the price that was paid.
One of the most touching reactions I've ever seen hope your channel goes to over 100,000 and Perhaps to 1 million one day👍❤❤
PS love the message you both made at the end of this reaction hopefully a third world War will never happen 🙏
Her face at 14:55. lol
Fun fact for fans of the English language version of the witcher games... the priest in this episode is Geralt of Rivia.
I find the scene where Lipton has blood coming from his crotch and his brother in arms understands and doesn't hesitate to look even tho it might be embarrassing too look he does I don't know why but I think that's a good show of brotherhood cause if shit like that happened to me even if I was missing an arm I'll be more relieved that everything is where it should be.
I think Blithe’s random blindness was from shock. I’m pretty sure I’ve heard that can happen when someone goes into a state of shock.
You keep saying it's 90% luck, but that is absolutely not the case. If it were, then training, morale, and leadership wouldn't matter, and the truth is that better trained, better equipped units regularly curbstomp less trained, poorly equipped units and armies, and why soldiers and units with high morale fight harder and better than those about to break. In fact, if only luck mattered, then we'd still be seeing soldiers lining up in ranks and marching up on one another, rather than doing everything they possibly can to remove luck from the equation. The truth of the matter is that a highly trained, highly-equipped unit or army with skilled leadership will absolutely SMASH a poorly-trained unit or army with lousy equipment and terrible leadership, even if the latter is significantly larger, unless there is some OTHER advantage in place for the second group. This actually showed up in WW2 as the invasion of Europe continued and Germany started fielding units of teens and old men with minimal training and lousy gear and they usually weren't able to even slow the Allies down.
You can't ENTIRELY take luck out of the picture, but you can absolutely minimize its effect on combat.
13:20 her face lmao
In fact the information that the series gives that the soldier Blithe would have died in 1946 is not true. He survived and even fought in the Korean war.
Thanks for your words Lari. Regards from germany
Yeah guys, the show got it wrong. Blithe survived, and served in the US Army until the 1960’s.
Great reactions guys!
Have you done World of Warcraft - Rejection of the Gift? If not, its probably one of the most relatable. Even if someone is not a fan of WoW, they should get it.
Enjoyed your video. Cheers from Canada
Blythe actually lived for several years
Heh.
You got to see why we infantry that specialize in anti-tank call tank crew crispy critters ( the bazooka hit on the German tank) and why tank crews call us infantry crunchies ( squished that German with a tank).
I've been waiting for the next episode from you guys! Fantastic!
13:23 since when have paratroopers a bazooka????? they have only light weapons to fight infantery. they are no anti tank units...
"Each platoon headquarters and company headquarters in a Parachute Rifle Company was allotted 1 M1/M9/M9A1 "Bazooka" each".
Check out the below for Organisation of a US Parachute Rifle Company particularly the organisation for Feb 1944 to Aug 1944 under additional equipment:
www.battleorder.org/us-airborne-ww2
@@FingonNZ thx mate.
My friend Ed Tipper, wounded at 6:20 in this video, was the bazooka man for "E" Company. He survived those horrible wounds and became a high school teacher in Colorado, skiing in our mountains into his 80s. He died three years ago.
A Finish Simo Häyhä ,"worlds deadliest sniper" You can find him on RUclips kild (shot) 700-800 russians in 100 days .1939-40. Winterwar.
why ? i only did my duty ! he whas very humboll and nice man !! Stay safe.
Interesting fact, I think there are only two American actors. The rest are British or Australian.
Im a new sub where are yall from?
That’s what I was wondering. I can’t place the accent.
Their profile says Bulgaria...East Europe
The regular German Army soldiers were more everyday soldiers. The SS, however, were fanatical Nazis. They were truly evil, and they were units that ran the concentration camps. When the Americans liberated the Dachau camp, groups of soldiers executed the SS guards as retribution. The official count was 35-50 SS guards were executed, but witnesses said it was closer to 500. Also the Americans looked the other way when some of the Jewish prisoners served their own justice on the guards. This was all in violation of the Geneva Convention, but thankfully not much was made of the investigations.
As someone whose grandparents were in Auschwitz and historian, I don't like to defend the SS. However viewing people as good or evil is never going to help prevent these things. People are complex and do things for lots of reasons. We absolutely need to condemn and describe the horrible things the SS and the camps did. However these things have been done by people before and are still being done today. Humans need to stand as a whole against this, until that happens it will never end.
Also have a feeling neither of you would be able to watch The Pacific it's even more gruesome
They call it the" greatest generation" for a reason...
You guys hear about Chadwick?
Yeah, Black Panther died today...
Good series
говорите побольше на русском)44 год,, мой прадед под Киевом лег на Днепре реке , смотрю вот США, жаль конечно что солдаты полягли
но никому кроме снг не жаль что наши померли в сотни тысяч раз более.
you guys should try the movie 13 hours
are you guys Norwegian? maybe Hungary?
so the ending was actually wrong blithe did survive and lived on he died years later!
Check out the film Kajaki.
sky crawler dogfight other is Path of Hate
the only big inaccuracy of the show.
dont forgot how Winters refused to take the German Officer's gun :3
@@terencepaul7475 To me, that's a small inaccuracy, not a big one.
Good series my favorite and the pacific iloved reaction the girl hello from costarica🇨🇷
you should check out marines during wwII the battle of tarawa
Have u got to episode 9 test?
Not yet
@@TheHomiesReact make sure u have a box of tissues 🥺🥺😣😣
KADA THE BASTED waching ?
Where in France do you live?
Please react yo gears of war 1 2 3 4 or 5 pleace love u
Please watch "Man of Steal" .
hmmm what's your accent??... you sound a lot like my Chilean Cousins!
Please react to Orphan Black!
Vam ochen' ponravitsya! Garantiruyu!
You guys are going to struggle with episode 9. It’s worse/best one. By the end of it you will feel like you were there with easy company.
Apex plz