BAND OF BROTHERS REACTION! | FIRST TIME WATCHING | EPISODE 3 - CARENTAN
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Blithe actually survived his wounds and continued serving in the military until his death in 1967.
Yep he even served in Korea.
Huh, that is so weird that everyone just assumed he died, to the point that Ambrose just assumed it as well.
Blithe got a raw deal here.
@@internetidentity3917 part of the reason they thought he died is because after he recovered he was assigned to a different unit, so the people in Easy Co. never saw him again, he also never attended any of the Easy Co. reunions.
Nobody knew what happened to him, so the rumor that he died took hold.
Ambrose took the word of the people he interviewed literally, he didn't do a huge amount of fact checking, and Blithe's time after he was wounded was something that slipped through the gaps.
It makes sense in a way, if everyone that knew Blithe in Easy Co. all said he died, and their story of how all matches, it would be easy to believe they are correct.
The series got this wrong because it was one of the few mistakes in the original non fiction book by Stephen Ambrose.
Since this gets asked a lot, I am Belgian. So a few of the episodes are very emotionally being so close.
Just wait until they actually get into Belgium and The Netherlands
So I have question not related to movies, but I know the Belgium war on independence against the Netherlands was because of religious differences and language differences but I really cannot find out the difference between Flanders and Dutch. Do you know?
I believe ep 5,6,7 are in Belgium. Battle of the Bulge.
you sound so Norwegian ... never heard anyone use "åh nej" outside of Scandinavia...
Well, that’s exactly why I wanted to watch it.
The war wasn't really occuring in a tiny spot. At this point, in 1944, there were massive battles occurring across Russia, the Ukraine, Belarus and Finland. The largest offensive in Russian history occurred at this time.
The Allies were battling their way up the Italian peninsular in a brutal war of attrition.
They had only recently finished the North African campaign and conquest of Sicily.
There was a massive air campaign bombing Germant and Eastern Europe. The whole Atlantic Ocean was a battleground as the allies battled German submarines.
Meanwhile Japan was engaged in a massive land war with China.
The allies were on the offensive in Burma where massive battles were happening. The Battle of the Phillipines Sea (the largest naval battle in history up to this point) occurred the same month that the allies invaded France.
The US was invading the Island of Saipan at this time too. Battles were raging across Papua New Guinea and there were naval and air battles all over the Pacific ocean.
Hundreds of countries were fighting.
yep, and Thailand, and Malaya, and Burma, and North Africa (up to '43), Singapore, and so many other places, it boggles the mind.
A Belgian fellow saved me from embarrassment on a train in southern France in 1972. The French conductor was frustrated by our mutual lack of communication. He spoke French, I spoke English. The conductor was rapidly escalating to stroke level saying the same thing over and over ever louder and didn't slow down when I said I was not deaf. Luckily the Belgian guy spoke up and translated for us. I've had a warm spot for your countrymen ever since. This is likely a very impactful series for you. Best of luck with it.
I don't know whether she's Belgian or Dutch, says she's from Belgium, but she speaks and have subtitles in Dutch.
@@Masterfighterx I will take her at her word since I am still ignorant.
@@Masterfighterx In Belgium French and Flemish is spoken. Flemish and Dutch are very similar, probably best described as Dialects of each other. More people understand what Dutch is, whereas fewer people know that Flemish is a language lol. It is also very difficult to find Flemish language programs but plenty of Dutch ones. It's understandable that the captions might be labelled as Dutch.
It truly was a world war, both in the amount of the world that fought to where it was fought. Fighting took place in the Atlantic and Pacific, Europe, Russia, China, Australia, Africa, America. The only place there wasn't fighting was Antarctica.
Yep, even South America saw combat, and pretty early on too! There were huge campaigns in Africa, the Middle East. The Pacific theater was an enormous part of the war from India all the way to Japan, to the pacific islands all the way down to the shores of Australia, etc etc. China's an enormous country and almost all of it saw battles! It's just that we in the West tend to hear almost exclusively about the European part. But it was truly fought on a world scale.
Right. There was a lot going and for some time after the start Western Europe didn't see much fighting, except for bombing and the resistance. After the invasion that was a different story.
At their peaks Germany controlled everything from Northern Africa to Moscow while Japan held a large swath of Russia, China, Thailand, Cambodia as well as every island down to Australia except the Philippines.
@@chetstevens4583 Japan did not occupy Russia. They were interested in Siberia, but they had a few battles with Russia before WWII and lost, some of them badly. They signed a treaty with the Russians about the time the Germans also signed one.
The Japanese did have a plan to invade eastern Russia and to take some ports and land. However, Germany's surprise attack threw off the timing to prepare and launch such an attack. Many in the Japanese command wanted to take advantage of Germany's attack, but there wasn't time to get ready before winter came. In addition, the US had cut off oil sales to Japan and that worked against the plan.
Later the Russians and Japanese did fight, with the Russians on the offensive. The Japanese were crushed.
@@Thane36425 this is where my disinterest in geography hurts me. i know the Doolittle raid was one way and the planes were meant to land in Russia so I assume the land over the straight from Japan is Russia. On a map it looks more like Mongolia and WWII maps show the Japanese empire extending far into this area. The POINT being almost the entire world was involved outside of South America and Africa below Libya and Egypt.
This is perhaps the biggest single error in Band of Brothers. Blythe died in 1967 (at the all too young age of 44) of a perforated ulcer. It took him a while to recover from his wounds and he was shipped back to America to recover. He stayed in the Army though and even fought in Korea.
Yet no one in easy company outside dick winters knew that, and no one told Stephen ambrose when he was writing the book or told the team making the show
Lt. Dyke was also misreported in the series. His ability, and his death were errors.
@@dirus3142 That is very true.
@@dirus3142 Dike didn't die in the show though?
@@dirus3142 Eh, Dyke's ability is contested, I wouldn't call it an error. He has a few defenders who claim that he was a competent officer who was in shock from a wound or had a nervous breakdown, and that's all Easy remembered. Then he has a bunch of critics (mostly from Easy) who claim that he was a competent *desk* officer who was good at army politics but had no idea how to lead in the field (similar to Captain America from Generation Kill, who *also* has his defenders among the officer corps). He also doesn't die in the show. So the show definitely depicts Dyke as his men saw him at the time.
17:40 Mary, never apologize for getting emotional when the situation calls for it! Thank God for giving you a heart that hasn't yet become calloused to the trials these men went through!
My favorite part of this episode is always Welsh and the guy with the bazooka taking out the tank. They don’t come out and fully explain it, but what Harry did was incredibly smart and brave. He waited until the slope of the ground forced the tank to present a shot at its underside and then had the gunner take his shot. The underside of WWII German tanks were WAY less armored than the front and top. German tanks were so well armored they were know for being able to take direct bazooka shots to their upper armor with hardly any damage. With the angle their shot also likely came in/up right between the legs of the driver and instantly killed him and most if not all of the rest of the guys inside too. Harry Welsh doesn’t get as many moments to shine in the series as Winters, but this episode and that scene definitely showed me that along with Winters, Welsh is one of the officers who helped make Easy Company so damn good and effective.
"You're going to get me killed Lieutenant!" I have the box set of this on DVD, and this scene is the only spot the disc freezes!! Ugh!!!
For me also another favourite scene in this episode is Welsh running up alone to the window with the machine gun and lobbing the grenade in. Incredibly brave of him to do that and saved the lives of a lot of the company.
@@Dana001 I always thought that was ‘Babe’ Hefron in that part, but it’s so frantic I wouldn’t be surprised if I was wrong.
@@timhibbard4226 Babe's a replacement. He's not in the company until they go back to England.
Welsh is great. They don't cover it in the series but he had already fought with the 82nd in Italy and was then sent for officer training which is right before he appears in episode 1. That's why he joins Easy. He actually does tote that silk parachute around the whole time they're in France and his fiancee does indeed make a dress from it. Also, he's just as drunk as Nixon is the entire time, but it never manages to catch up to him.
Every single original officer that went through training under Sobel gets promoted to battalion. Winters was the only one to make it from the beginning to combat. We don't really meet most of them in the series, but all the guys who are officers during the show are replacements that show up either during training like Welsh or for combat losses.
Sobel was awful but did a great job.
Anybody else really anticipating Mary’s reaction to the next few episodes as the events depicted in them happened right ‘in her neck of the woods’ so to speak?
What country is she in?
@@squint04 I believe she is Belgian. So both the the next few Netherlands set episodes will be pretty close and just over the border from where she lives and then the Battle of the Bulge episodes take place on the border of Belgium and Luxembourg.
9:40 Blithe suffered from what was then called “hysterical blindness.” Nowadays, this is recognized as being one of the symptoms of Conversion Disorder, which is a medical condition where the brain and body's nerves don't send and receive signals the way they're supposed to. Not surprisingly, some of the causes of Conversion Disorder are psychological in nature.
18:05 Nixon's joke is an example of what is called "black humor," where people laugh about the pessimistic side of things, e.g. death. This is common (and understood) among those who know they could kill or be killed at any time, such as soldiers.
Great reaction! Keep it up!
Thanks doctor
Spoiler alert: Winters said that the scene with his character and Blithe...where Blithe regains his sight...happened almost exactly as it's portrayed in this episode.
Also he did survive in the end and even fought in Korea. He didn't really go the reunion until the very end.
the attention to detail in this series and the incredible writing and acting make it truly unforgettable
Thing about Malarkey picking up the laundry at the end is that the men had more than one uniform. These were the uniforms left at the laundry before D Day, their dress uniforms and definitely not their battle dress they wore to France.
She doesn’t need to be told Blythe didn’t die 500 times people..
Except he did die in 1967, and according to his son, he essentially drank himself to death. So whether he ever really recovered from his Normandy experiences may not be so simple.
@@ariochiv are you kidding me right now? He did die.. just not when the episode said he did. Did you really think I thought he was still alive? Bahahaha 🤣🤦♂️ come on man really!? I knew about this 20 years ago I don’t need the whole lowdown.
@@ariochiv 😲😲 he died, I thought he was immortal 🤦♂️
Good news! Blithe didn't die!!!
Blithe not only survived the war, but volunteered for the airborne infantry in the Korean War, where he was highly decorated. The date of his death was a guess made by Stephen Ambrose, because when he interviewed the men for "Band of Brothers", no one had known what had exactly happened to Blithe, and they had assumed he had died.
For how "cruel" Speirs can appear he's right, you are a soldier and volunteered too... as he said everyone was scared.
P.S. Blithe actually survived 😎
Speirs was a first-class officer & an intense bad-*ss. As we will see in later episodes.
I know first hand that Speirs was right. I was in battle of Fallujah in 2004 and unfortunately for me, my mom's birthday was during that fight. All I could think about was that no matter what, I absolutely could not die on my mom's birthday. That thought over and over and over again until I was trembling so badly that I couldn't line up the shotgun I was using to breach doors. I had a choice. Either I could keep being a nervous wreck until I wasn't going to be able to do my job and fail myself and everyone around me whose lives depended on me, or I could let it all go and realize that shit happens and that it's not really under my control if I get hit or not.
I chose to let go. If I get hit, I get hit. No sense worrying what I can't control, instead focus on what you can. I calmed down and focused on what I was supposed to be doing. Which is good because there was a PKM machine gun pointed right at the door that I was stupidly going to stand in front of when I breached it.
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Pvt. Blythe actual broke his toe when he kicked that orc helmet, that scream was real!
And the director didn't tell him he was being dropped early as to get a better reaction.
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I am 52 and as I grew up elderly veterans existed from WWII. Now they are too old, but it is never too late for you to understand the horror and the sacrifice people made. We can never forget it because we have the freedoms we have because of it.
Ed Tipper, the soldier who was blown up while walking through the building in Caretan survived his wounds. He married a woman half his age in his 60s, had a daughter and lived into his 90's. Kerry Tipper is a politician in American still.
It will get rougher for you from here on out. After you get tough enough getting through this series there is The Pacific, Hacksaw Ridge and Fury. The Pacific and Hacksaw, like BoB, are about real people and what they did. Fury is fictional but is very real in it's portrayal of what the Allies ran into in invading Germany. The best documentary on WWII is "The World at War" it's 26 episodes long and covers all fronts of the war. They interview survivors from all the warring nations. It's another must see.
I think she already reacted to Fury.
The Pacific is much worse
and hopefully sometime this year we'll get Masters of the Air
Definitely watch The World At War, fantastic series…
In addition to the big Blythe error, there's another minor error in this episode. The edelweiss is the symbol of the Gebirgsjäger (mountain infantry) not the Fallschirmjäger (paratroopers).
Also, fun fact, the song Edelweiss is not a traditional folk melody. It's not even Austrian. It was written in New York in 1959 for the stage musical The Sound of Music. It was the last song Oscar Hammerstein ever wrote.
You just ruined my childhood! LOL
Well, whoever wore the flower seems to have met a disturbing fate.
In the 1800's the flower was also worn by Swiss and Austro-Hungarian alpine units. As a patch, it was officially associated with the mountain infantry, however any soldier could've worn the flower as a symbol of purity and rugged individualism.
Speaking on fear in the military. Soldiers aren't taught to remove their fear, they're taught to control it, and channel it into something productive.
Fear can be a very useful tool.
The producers made a mistake on this one. Blythe survived the war and died many years later.
No. The caption said 1948, never really recovering.
@@AI_Image_Master a mistake because the veterans didn't see him for years and one day he came on one of their meeting years later. They thought he was dead but no. :)
@@AI_Image_Master he later served in Korea, and stayed in the military. He was stationed in Germany when he died from a perforated ulcer in 1967.
@@bobkatfan2013 I guess you guys are right. Got this from wikipedia , which is actually a more amazing story.
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
One of my high school teachers had been a tanker in the US Marines in the 1970s and 80s. They had an incident where a man had been sent down the range to check something but his commander forgot to put it over the radio so everyone knew. The fellow was a long way down when the tanks were cleared to fire. The commander called for a cease fire but it was too late. One of the rounds passed so close to the man it sent him tumbling and rattled him pretty good, just from the shockwave of it flying so close over his head. The man lived and the commander got in serious trouble. Bear in mind those tanks did not have modern thermals and optics.
So, that man who got got slammed by the near miss can happen.
A WWII verteran once told me a story of one of his squad mates getting hit by a German anti-tank shell aimed at a nearby tank. Lets just say had the man in this episode been hit, they probably couldn't show that.
Mandatory comment on this episode, Blithe actually lived he just lost contact with the rest of E company and actually went on to serve in the Korean war. He ended up getting married and having a kid ( kids? ) and died in 1967.
Blithe was actually highly decorated; 1 silver star, 3 bronze star(s), purple heart 3 - he was a master parachutist made hundreds of jumps including two combat jumps. he served in korea as well. he served his country for 25 years.
For WWII, it wasn't fought in that confined an area. It was in Europe, Africa, and throughout the Pacific and Southeast Asia (including India, the Middle East and China). That's pretty international. The war was so big that we don't always hear about the fighting in many of these places (like, for example, the Syria-Lebanon Campaign of 1941). In the U.S. I know we tend to focus on the European and North African theaters, especially prior to our own entry into the war in 1942.
Don't worry too much about the Characters. You have the main ones you need to know. The other main characters will be slowly fleshed out over the course of the series.
The motorcade ride was significant because Guarnere was driving (Italian) and Malarkey was in the side car (Irish). Both had beers and were having a good time. If you recall in the beginning they weren't on very good speaking terms.
Intense reaction, Blythe actually survived. There was a mistake in research
I don’t see it so much as a mistake in research. Ambrose’s book was based almost entirely on the regimental history and interviews with the men who lived into the 80s and 90s, and they all thought Blithe was dead. Ambrose got it from multiple sources, and the correct information was in places he had no reason to look.
@@ajtooley Reasonable but it definitely impacted the emotion of Episode 3.
@@andrewmadeloni7173 Fair enough. And I don’t understand why it hasn’t just been corrected.
@@ajtooley I have seen a reaction where they included the correction.
@@andrewmadeloni7173 On the American HBO streaming version, which is probably the easiest to change, it still reads that he died in 1948. That’s just weird to me.
Regarding the laundry packages, Lieutenant Meehan was the leader of Easy Company who went down in the burning plane the night they jumped into Normandy. Thus Winters became Easy's CO (commanding officer).
I am a combat veteran ( Vietnam ) You can no possibly know the good you have just done. Thank you for this and God bless you
While in the Air Force I had orders for Florennes AB in Belgium. At the last minute those orders were changed to Comiso IAS in Sicily. Was really looking forward to seeing where my uncle had fought in the Battle of the Bulge.
Spiers wasn't really a psycho. He was ruthless, to be sure, but on D-Day the paratroopers were under orders to not take any prisoners because it was imperative that they complete their objectives within certain time constraints so the beach landings could succeed and prisoners would just slow them down.
Blythe died in Weisbaden, West Germany after returning from a ceremony in Belgium that commemorated the Battle of the Bulge. Blythe however did become a heavy drinker and that caused a stomach ulcer that had to be operated on, but he died from complications after surgery.
All of the characters are contrasted with the perfect Lt. Spiers, which works well to underscore their inner psychology of self-doubt, insecurity, sensitivity, rage and fear.
The finest military museum I ever visited was the Musee Militare in Brussels. (and I have been to many in different countries) It's a tragic reality that both World Wars tore Belgium apart, but that museum does the memory of those many battles justice.
In 2000 when the series was written, some information was not available to the producers and researchers. Blithe died in 1968, not 1948. He had a distinguished military career following the vents depicted. As he had not kept in touch with the other men he served with in Easy company he had been rumored to have died in 1948. Memebers of his family contacted the production after the series was aired in 2001 to offer a correction.
I was in the only company of American Soldiers who were part of the 50th Anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge in Bastogne in 1994. We had a ceremony at the monument and then marched in the parade through town that afternoon. You could have anything you wanted in that town that night. Of course our major ordered us back on the bus and made us go back to our camp in the Netherlands.
The crazy thing about the Battle of Bloody Gulch, when the shermans from 2nd armoured division arrive, there were 60 in total, I can hardly imagine the roar of 60 tanks, cannon firing all as a group
Mary, Blithe didn't die on 1948 as stated, but he died in 1967 in Germany from purfuated ulser. He also served on the Korean War.
The intro is really good. RIP the composer Michael Kamen. He did the music for "last action hero" and it's really good too for a action comedy staring arnold schwarzenegger
This series is sooooo good. The ending just rips my heart out. So good.
Learning is a constant process. Never worry if you know you don't know something. Only worry if you think you know everything. Your reaction is genuine and those men represented in this movie all had real reactions too. This is what this series shows is that humans in a hellish situation all react differently.
Just adding more context. Yes, Blithe survived and continued serving. At that time, after extended rehabilitation of injured soldier, they get moved to another unit. Blithe most likely get transferred after rehab
They really were world wars. You had British Gurkhas and Sepoys, French Algerians, etc. as you said, in trenches in Europe.
While the people from Easy Company never heard from Blythe again, once he was taken to the hospital, he did recover from his injuries, later volunteered again for the Korean War, and ended up getting quite a lot of medals there.
Guarnier and Babe thought they had heard about a funeral for a Blithe in the late 40s, which they assumed was the guy from Easy Co. But wasn't. This I believe is why the production thought he had passed. I think his story came to the fore via accounts from Winters......
WW2 was a massive war in China, the Eastern Pacific from Burma to Australia, North Africa, two massive U-boat campaigns in the Atlantic and Pacific, and all of Europe from France and Britian to well past Ukraine into Moscow. There was even attacks on India and Alaska. The Belgian part was a tiny sliver.
The scene where the laundry lady says the names of the men who didn’t pick up their laundry are them that were injured or died.
The way I understand it, on D Day itself no camps for POWs had yet been established, since they were barely off the beaches, and the orders were to execute the captured enemy soldiers. So, Speirs was not acting contrary to orders. Within a short time, however, the allies established POW camps. My personal opinion is that Winters wouldn't have done it, but I don't believe he was ever asked about it.
No such orders have ever been found.
@@CruelestChris They wouldn't be written because it's a war crime.
Paratroopers whose chutes caught in trees presented easy targets. A number were shot as they struggled. Atrocity stories spread among the survivors, with claims that German soldiers had bayoneted them from below or even turned flame-throwers on them.
A trooper in the 82nd remembered his instructions only too clearly: 'Take no prisoners because they will slow you down.'
A soldier in the 101st recounted how after they had come across two dead paratroopers 'with their privates cut off and stuck into their mouths', the captain with them gave the order: 'Don't you guys dare take any prisoners! Shoot the bastards!'
It wasn't just the Americans either. The British, Scottish and Canadians also did the same stuff.
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That sounds more like a story from the Pacific theatre, and my point was we have no evidence that these orders were issued to troops before the operation. There was likely a general understanding that it would be logistically impossible for the paratroops to secure a large number of prisoners and what they would have to do instead, but not one that was directly acknowledged.
Just a couple of little corrections from the opening. Hall was the young guy from Able company that landed with Winters and was killed by the boobytrap during the assault on the guns, while the guys who had interactions with the British Soldier and the German/American Soldier were two different men; Donald Hoobler and Donald Malarkey. It's an easy enough mistake to make as (other then both being named Donald) both men wanted to get their hands on a Luger pistol. Hoobler was the one that chatted to the British Soldier, while Malarkey was the one that talked to the German/American Soldier.
Other then that you seem to be picking up the men's names better/faster then a lot of other reactors.
The information in the end credits about Blithe is incorrect, although people interviewed by Stephen Ambrose believed it to be true at the time. After the mini series aired, the family of Blithe came forward and said that he had in fact fully recovered from his wounds and went on to have a long military career after the war. Blithe actually died in 1967 while still in the Army, in Germany.
I love your reactions. You are so emotionally invested in the characters and shows, and I know it's hard but you do a really good job.
It seems like you received a very European-Centric education on WW2. It’s called a “World War” because it took place all across the world. While the Allies were fighting in France and Italy, the Soviet Union was waging a massive war across all of Eastern Europe from Finland down to Bulgaria. The Allies also fought the Axis forces in North Africa and the Middle East and in the middle of the Atlantic. At the same time as the European war, China and nearly every single East Asian country (except Thailand) were fighting against Japan and Japan was fighting in Malaysia, India, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines and on dozens of tiny specks of islands across the entire Pacific Ocean against the US, UK and Anzac forces. The Pacific, the second miniseries made the same people as Band of Brothers, covers this war and it is a must-see series.
Hi Mary, born into a military family, grandfather landed at D Day, father served 39 years including Malaya, I did 11 years including 1 war and multiple operations.
Why was it called a world war? Well, what you're watching took place 5 years after Germany invaded Poland (1939). USA only joined the war after the bombing at Pearl Harbour, Hawaii, (China also joined, fighting against the Japanese) in 1941. But to put it into context, Germany had invaded Poland, taken over France, Belgium, and other countries. The battles included the front with Russia on the east, North Africa, Italy, the Mediterranean on islands such as Crete, Malta, the pacific and throughout South East Asia in countries like Burma, Thailand, Singapore, Malaya, Philippines , the Pacific, the Atlantic, and more . Germany's allies were principally Italy and Japan (which included Koreans). So you see, there were battle fields literally all over the world.
India had 2.5m soldiers fighting as part of the allies against both Germany and Japan and fought with distinction, as did many other nations. We owe so much to so many from lots of countries that joined to oppose the German (and their allies) forces.
It is very difficult to understand and appreciate the timeline now, because there was literally so much going on, literally all over the world, for 6 years.
USA, with the exception of Pearl Harbour, remained untouched.
I have this series and so far have only watched it once. I really should dust it off and watch it again.
I would also highly recommend the series The Pacific. Also incredible portrayal of the battles in WWII in that part of the world.
Everyone deals with this degree of stress differently, but one line was almost exactly what my uncle (who saw serious combat) told us. “The trick is to convince yourself you're already dead.” That can hopefully free your mind to remain functioning and give yourself a chance at survival.
This is probably one of the greatest mini series. You are in for some great episodes coming up.
I love your honest reactions to this. Band of Brothers is such an amazing show that sticks with you long after it's over. I do recommend watching it more than once. It gets a lot easier to keep track of who's who upon further viewings.
Elite level is where you can remember who is who from the interviews with the real guys at the start of each episode.
Tiny space? The war was fought in Europe, Asia, North Africa, South Pacific, and if you count Japan invading Alaska, Balloon bombs, and U-Boat action on the US Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts, that includes North America as well.
The intro is one of the most beautiful pieces of music I've ever heard. The lyrics are also wonderful.
It's called a World War because it was fought across several continents. While a lot of the history portrayed in media is typically of Europe, campaigns were fought in Asia, India, Africa, the Pacific Islands, major naval battles in the Atlantic, air skirmishes in and near Australia, and more. Only North and South American mainlands remained virtually untouched by the war, but even nations from that hemisphere took part in the war.
It actually wasn't fought in just a small part of the world. It was all of Europe from Norway and Sweden down to Italy and Greece. It was in Asia and across the entire Pacific to the U.S. state of Hawaii. It was in the Middle East and Africa. It truly was a world war.
Alaska also..
Don't forget the Battle of the Río de la Plata! (The Río de la Plata river separates Argentina and Uruguay). It was the chase of the german Graf Spee battleship by a wolf pack of British Royal Navy ships
Remember, this was a television series based on a book which was based on interviews with the men from Easy Company. This is all about Easy and their recollections. Some errors are inevitable.
Overall a very accurate and visceral series.
My grandfather would have LOVED it.
It was a world war because it was fought around the world. Europe, Africa, Middle East, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Korea, the entire Pacific Ocean, North Atlantic….the war covered a huge portion of the planet. Australia got bombed, the Germans were active in Argentina (look up the story of the Graf Spee), German U-boats sailed up the Hudson River and St Laurence River…aside from Antarctica, every continent saw some action of some sort.
Have you ever seen the website for the Piron Brigade? They were Belgians who fought in Normandy and Belgium for the British Army. There is a combat chronicle that you may find interesting.
The lyrics from the song Edelweiss qualifies as one of the creepiest lyrics ever. I think the intro music to The Man in the High Castle series (Edelweiss), is the weirdest intro ever - and what’s worse, it seems like it was used as a lullabye.
The next 5 episodes take place in Holland and Belgium. Buckle up.
Love your editing, and your mature, thoughtful reaction to this show. Keep up the great work.
The rumours about Speirs are true.
Winters called him and asked him, and he said "yeap, I did it". He was a stone cold killer, but a great combat leader.
Mary - There are a number of RUclips videos that have a brief history of WWII, give one or two a try. Well worth the time. As stated in other comments hostilities to one extreme or another nearly covered the entire world during the war
17:27 it hit me hard too, it gets harder with every rewatch. Everytime I see the series or parts of it, I get more & more appreciative. The world War redundant information was out of the blue 🤣🤣🤣 thanks for the recap though, much needed, love your BOB Reactions
Seeing you react to these tough moments makes my heart swell. You are clearly a person filled with empathy but also someone who can still appreciates the realities of war. Keep it up Mary! You give me hope.
I'm always glad when women watch these kinds of movies or series. Very often they don't take much interest in war movies the way men do, and they can be pretty sheltered and ignorant of the realities of war, beyond platitudes. Then a lot of them will support or encourage war in that ignorance, taking the men who die in them for granted.
It goes without saying that Blyth is the main focus of the episode and comments. But Lt. Welsh gets some development here. He copes by drinking, and has a somewhat cynical attitude. He also copes by planning his life with Kitty after the war. He also is very courageous attacking the MG position and then the tank later on. I like him alot. But I also appreciate Dick Winters leadership. He braved withering mg fire getting his men out of the ditch, he comforts Blythe, then later again stanting in the open, directing the men and getting Blythe to fire his rifle. Of the the three companies under attack, only Easy Co. led br Winters holds the line. Hes an impressive and brave leader.
It actually was not a small area. This war stretched across the world. This is Europe but it was in the Pacific, Asia, The Arctic and even Africa as well.
Thanks, Mary! 💥
Albert Blithe did not die in the 40s. He actually remained in the Army, served in Korea, and, had a distinguished career. He died in an Army Hospital, in Weisbaden, Germany, of a perforated ulcer, in December, 1967. He had attained the rank of Master Sergeant.
Because of submarines & Merchant Raiders, ships disguised as commercial ships that were fully armed, the world war did affect a large area with battles on & off the coast of all continents. Japan even launched balloon bombs that actually killed people in the US.
World War II was fought on every continent except for Antarctica. So it was fought in every continent with permanent human populations. There were battles from Greenland to Australia.
E or easy company of the 506th parachute regiment Departed England with 140 men. Only 65 of them were fit for duty when they came back. Many of those had light injuries. Of course many of those who didn't make it back fit were injured and not dead. Still that's an over 50% casualty rate. I can't imagine how they were still able to fight.
Max von Sidow fashioned an Alsatian accent in the movie '3 Days of the condor'(and a very good movie!). I know because Robert Redford referred to him in it as 'the Alsatian gentlemen'. I'm thinking to myself, is that where you're from? Great reaction by the way!
Well it's not just that a lot of people from a lot of different countries fought, it's that the war was fought literally all over the world. Europe, US, Africa, Japan, Asia etc.
I'm pretty sure it's both
Action in WW2 stretched from the Pacific to the Atlantic, from the West Coast of the US (Pearl Harbour), all the way going West until you get to the East coast of Greenland (The sinking of the Bismark). It wasn't just in Europe. So maybe the definition of a world war is about the number of countries involved but WW2 was ultimately waged across a huge swathe of the world.
World War II was fought around the globe. From Europe, to small islands in the Pacific, to small and forgotten areas in Africa, North Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia, the Alaskan Aleutian Islands... and there were casualties on the U.S. mainland. I live just 3 hours drive from a spot in Southern Oregon where a Japanese "balloon bomb" killed a family who were out picnicing. German U-Boats shelled cities on the East Coast (quite ineffectively, fortunately!). There were German soldiers on the furthest north island of Norway, Svalbard, until more than a YEAR after the War ended - they were meteorologists, and radioed back weather data, but, nobody had time or resources to go bring them back!
There were Japanese soldiers on islands in the Phillipines and Indonesia that didn't surrender until 1974 (Hiroo Onoda was one of them). Imagine that... 29 years after the war ended - they were still fighting.
It was a WORLD War...
As to it being a World War, don't forget that while all of this was going on in Europe, there was an equally large amount of fighting going on in the Pacific and in Asia. The US was heavily involved in both theaters of the war, while most other nations, the exception being the UK, were really only involved in one theater.
Also from '40-'43 in North Africa
Yep, even South America saw combat, and pretty early on too! There were huge campaigns in Africa, the Middle East. The Pacific theater was an enormous part of the war from India all the way to Japan, to the pacific islands all the way down to the shores of Australia, etc etc. Madagascar, the Aleutian islands, etc etc.
China's an enormous country and almost all of it saw battles! It's just that we in the West tend to hear almost exclusively about the European part. But it was truly fought on a world scale.
And in Africa. And in South america. A world war is being called that because theres war on every continent.
WWII was a truly global conflict. The Allies (later known as the United Nations as for a seat as a "Founding Member" a nation had to declare war on Germany) were: Poland, the United Kingdom, France, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, Yugoslavia, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Greece, the Republic of China, the Soviet Union, the United States, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Colombia, Turkey, Ethiopia, and their colonies. The Axis powers were: Germany, Italy, Japan, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Finland, Thailand, and their colonies and puppet states.
06:56 Lt Harry Welsh actually did did that
So by design you weren't supposed to stand on the outside of the Sherman tank and shoot at infantry with the .50 caliber Machine gun. It was meant to shoot at attacking enemy aircraft. Which is why it was in that position so it can point upward. But if you give soldiers a machine gun they're gonna shoot at something with it.
1 year at a event with E co. 506th XXXX was telling us about the attack Carentan and how while he was on the side of the road kissing the dirt he looked up saw Winters yelling at him swearing and throwing his gear and kicked him he got so scared of him he got up and ran forward.
Thank you for sharing this movie with us
It was called a World War because it was fought in nearly every country in the world. From Europe to Asia, Africa and the Middle East. The south Pacific and even in Alaska. Also Blithe did not die he recovered and went home. The Producers of the show got it wrong.
It literally took blithe's injury to convince winters to fall back the men to base.
Like a lot of people here they’ve probably watched Band of Brothers regularly since it was first aired. Scary thought, it will be 2041 by the time you catch up!
It's called a world war because in literally took place in many different parts of the world all at the same time. Not just in Europe but also in Asia and the middle east and north Africa and in the south Pacific and the north Pacific. And many different countries took part in it all from different parts of the world. You have to remember that it wasn't just in the part that Easy Company 101 Airborne took place.
Love your genuine and heart wrenching reaction. Lots more tears coming.
WW2 wars took place in Europe, north and east Africa, Middle East, south and east Asia, and the Pacific islands
Geographically it truly was a world war (as was the first). Conflict reached from Alaska (Japanese invaded the Aleutians) to the Gulf of Mexico - German submarines patroled and attacked ships from Maine to Texas. The deserts of North Africa to the Himalyan mountains it was all around us. It was a horrid war of starvation, disease, genocide and violence that spared no one it touched.
It was called the World War 2 because many countries involved not only in Europe but also in the Pacific, Japan was an ally of Germany, Japan conquered almost part of Asia or the other side of the world, and on December 7,1941 Japan attack Pearl Harbor Hawaii which is a colony of US(Before 1941 US did not join the war in Europe), where most of its Navy Fleet is located, Many of the US Military Ships sunk, Military Facilities destroyed and many People died, that's when the US joined the war not only in the Pacific but also in Europe.
Never call Lt Spiers a psycho. Winters officially asked him if he murdered those Germans on D-Day, and he said he had to because they couldn't maintain POWs with their current resources and positioning. He was a great American soldier, and it was true war.
Mary, are you aware it was a World War because it WAS. There were TWO Theaters: The European Theater of Operations (ETO), vs Nazi Germany and Italy, and the Pacific Theater of Operations (PTO), vs Imperial Japan. The US was heavily involved in both.
Names can be hard. Everyone dresses in green and wears a helmet so it can be hard to tell them apart.
Some of us watch this every year so these guys are like family to us.
If you remember in the first episode, Sobel did an inspection of the barracks and was critical because Tipper had so many love letters. Tipper was also the guy who handed Sobel the map when the barbed wire fence was cut. In this episode he was the man in the house who was hit by the artillery shell. He survived. In the Day of Days episode he was the man in the peach/salmon colored shirt. He had a long life.
You might need to watch several times to learn who everyone is but BoB will use a sort of formula from here on that will help a little bit. In each episode one member of Easy is put in focus the same way Blythe was in this one.
Really enjoying your reaction to this masterpiece.
Not an easy series to watch, but it's important that we do.
WW2 truly was a world war. The fighting covered parts of Africa, most of Europe, Russia, China, Japan, Hawaii, Alaska, and more.
Oh Mary, you're in for a ride if this episode hit you hard. Where you get to know these guys the harder it's going to hit. Lots of tissue sweetie. But the brilliance of this series is doing exactly what it's supposed to do. Show the younger generations and some of the older generations without pulling any punches what the greatest generation did to save the world. They're sacrifices they're paying their heartache, their lifelong troubles. American French English finish Dutch Russian. One man was responsible for the deaths of between 70 to 100 million people worldwide. And yet we're on the brink of it again. One man. I'm really enjoying you watching and learning. We'll see you in Holland. ❤️💚☘️🇺🇦