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Easy Company, led by Winters, successfully destroying that gun battery literally saved hundreds of lives as those guns were firing directly on one of the beaches US soldiers were trying to assault that morning, as depicted in the opening of Saving Private Ryan.
In fact, one of the members of Easy company (I won’t say who so as not to spoil which characters survive. EDIT: now that they've finished the show I can reveal that it was Winters himself) received a letter a few years after the war from a medic who received a medal for saving a colonel’s life on that beach. The medic wrote that the artillery was hitting them badly and he didn’t think anyone was going to make it, when suddenly the bombardment stopped abruptly and he was able to move through the beach. Only after this medic read a newspaper article talking about Easy company’s assault on that gun battery did he realize it was thanks to them that the guns stopped firing and hundreds of American lives were saved.
god damn thank you for sharing this. stuff like this is why i read the comments. can't imagine that feeling our boys on the beach got when they realized the shelling had stopped and they would have to advance
@currahee! 👍. By the way, now that they've finished the show I can reveal that it was Winters who received that letter years later
That's so incredible.
Which easy company member? That's so awesome!
Lt Thomas Meehan’s plane was hit at the beginning of the episode. It was the one that showed the cabin fill with fire after the engine exploded. It was the company HQ plane, Sgt William Evans(Simon Pegg ep1) was also on the plane. A farmer found Evans’ dog tags in a tree near the crash site about 44 years later. There’s a monument near the site of the crash with all the names of the paratroopers who died on that flight.
15:55 that also really happened in the trenches. A random paratrooper named Andrew Hill bumped into the men during the attack and when he got directions to company HQ when he lifted his head he was hit. There’s a nice tribute video on The History Underground where they brought his American flag sent to the family to his death site and grave at the Normandy American Cemetery.
9:47 paratroopers were verbally instructed before boarding the planes to not take prisoners because they didn’t have the means or manpower to hold them and it would also delay them from moving along with their mission.
Dad landed on Omaha 2 weeks after D-Day. Got home almost 2 years later. No PTSD back then. Thanks for fighting and BANG...you're home. The memories may be buried but mind remembers. Alcohol was the drug of choice. Drugs were minimal in the late 40's early 50's. He worked every day but nights were loud from the time I was 5-college. Hated him. He sobered up 15 years before he died. He and Mom were happy again. I loved them both.
I want to Thank both of you for the respect and reverence you are showing to these men. We can't possibly know what they went thru. jim
My grandfather was a doughboy in the Argonne Forest in 1918. He took a lot of gas; mustard and phosgene, mostly. He was evac'ed to a French Hospital and they gave him opium. The US hospital had already banned opium as being too addictive, so he was given what they had, which was brandy (lots of brandy). He died in 1957, of cirrhosis of all his organs, and had been a mean drunk.
"We're not lost private, we're in Normandy." Shows Winters ability to instill confidence amongst the chaos. As epic and brave as the D-Day invasion was, you really need to see "The Fallen of World War 2." Perspective is not an adequate enough expression...
They weren't supposed to take prisoners, since they had no way to guard or do anything with them.
Especially since they were behind enemy lines and there was still no guarantee of success for D-Day. They didn't even have enough men or food to keep prisoners if they wanted to.
D-day is a term applied to the plans of most major attacks. It denotes the day of initiating the attack. The invasion of Normandy, being the largest amphibious operation to date in history, was actually titled as Operation Overlord. But given the scope of the operation, the tag line of D-Day became synonymous with the June 6, 1944 invasion. The 'D' indicator is also used to denote the following days after June 6. For instance, June 7 is also known as D+1, and the 8th as D+2, and so on.
Note the symbols on the helmets.
On the side of a helmet you will see a ♠️. This indicates a solider is in the 506th Paratroop Infantry Regiment.
Some helmets have on the back a white vertical or horizontal bar. The vertical bar indicates that the wearer is an officer. The horizontal bar are for sergeants. They are put on the rear of the helmet so that men behind can identify those who have a leadership role in the confusion of battle. Being on the back also keeps the enemy from knowing which soldiers are the leaders. If they did, they would be purposely targeted.
More accurately, D-day is short for Day of Days (the title of the episode), which is the launch day for a major military offensive. The same type of terminology is used for space launches, where it is denoted as T-minus for the countdown until the launch and T-plus for the duration after the launch.
@@YekouriGaming No, Michael Power has it correct. The first US use of D-Day dates back to 1918. The D in D-Day literally stands for Day. It's simply a way to refer to an assault date and time in communications without naming it, so that the date and time remain secret. Assaults take place on D-Day, at H-hour. The invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944 was not the only D-Day of World War II. Every amphibious assault, including those in the Pacific, in North Africa, and in Sicily and Italy, had its own D-Day.
Calling the Episode Day of Days is a clever tie in, but is in no way related to the use of the term D-Day.
@@jasond1433 You sure the "D" didn't stand for "debarkation"?
D-Day is the day. H-Hour is is the Hour. M-Minute for precision. Because of the scale, this particular D-Day became THE D-Day. Nowadays we usually just use NLT, or "No Later Than", followed by a specific time since we just don't do operations this insanely large anymore. (Also, the old system is cumbersome. Synchronization has to be down to the second for modern communication equipment to function correctly)
You see various meanings when you look into it more. For example, the French still see D-Day as disembarkation. "Day of Days" or "Day of Decision" are poetic interpretations.
Someone wrote to Eisenhower about it once.
"When someone wrote to General Eisenhower in 1964 asking for an explanation, his executive assistant Brigadier General Robert Schultz answered: “General Eisenhower asked me to respond to your letter. Be advised that any amphibious operation has a ‘departed date’; therefore the shortened term ‘D-Day’ is used.""
I am a combat veteran ( Vietnam ) You can not possibly know the good you have just done. Thank you for this and God bless you both
Y'all catch a lot of details that most reactors miss.
Well done, y'all.
"I'm sorry sir, I didn't mean to F$%k up" shows the commitment these men had for each other. Here he is wounded, in pain. Yet what is bothering him is he feels he let down his brothers in arms. And yes it actually happened along will Torres surviving two grenades that day.
Some information about the composition of the 101st division as well as the 506th PIR as of June 1944:
During Operation Overlord (June 1944):
101st Airborne Division: - Major General Maxwell D. Taylor
[101st composed of 4 infantry regiments: 327th Glider Infantry Regiment, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 502d Parachute Infantry Regiment, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment and 3 Artillery battalions, 1 Antiaircraft battalion and 1 Engineer battalion]
506th Parachute Infantry Regiment(PIR) - Colonel Robert Sink
1st Battalion (a,b,c companies): Lt. Col. William L. Turner (KIA 7 June 44), Lt Col. James L. LaPrade
2nd Battalion (d,e,f companies): Lt. Colonel Robert L. Strayer
3rd Battalion (g,h,i companies): Lt. Col. Robert Lee Wolverton (KIA 6 June 44), Maj. Oliver M. Horton
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On June 6th: Lt. Colonel Strayer commanded the 2nd Battalion (which Easy company was part of).
First Lieutenant Thomas Meehan was in command of Easy Company.
1st Platoon Leader: 1st Lt. Richard Winters Assistant: 2nd Lt. Harry Welsh
2nd Platoon Leader: 2nd Lt. Warren Roush Assistant: 2nd Lt. Buck Compton
3rd Platoon Leader: 2nd Lt. Robert Mathews Assistant: S/Sgt. C. Carwood Lipton (acting)
When Lt. Meehan went missing, Lt. Richard Winters (the most senior officer in Easy Company) took command and Lt. Harry Welsh took over as 1st Platoon Leader. Eventually Lt. Buck Compton became 2nd Platoon Leader and Lt. Warren Roush became 3rd Platoon Leader.
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The non-commissioned officers (NCOs):
The 1st Sergeant: 1/Sgt. William Evans ( Was on same plane [stick 66] as Lt. Meehan )
1st Platoon Sergeant: S/Sgt. Leo Boyle
2nd Platoon Sergeant: S/Sgt. James Diel
3rd Platoon Sergeant: S/Sgt. C. Carwood Lipton
When Sgt. Evans went missing, S/Sgt. James Diel took over as 1st Sergeant and Sgt. William Guarnere took over as 2nd Platoon Sergeant.
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Easy Company originally included three rifle platoons and a headquarters section. Each platoon contained three twelve-man rifle squads and a six-man mortar team squad. Easy also had one machine gun attached to each of its rifle squads, and a 60mm mortar in each mortar team.
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By the time the company was pulled off the line (in Normandy), they had taken 65 casualties including 22 killed in action [including the 17 of Stick 66 ( Lt. Meehan and Sgt Evans etc)].
Out of the 139 men of Easy Company who had left England on the night of 5 June, Winters' roster shows that there were only five officers left (Winters; his three platoon leaders Harry Welsh, Buck Compton, and Warren Rousch; and Rousch's assistant Francis L.O’Brien), as well as 69 enlisted men.
Both of you were shocked when Spiers shot those POW's including one from Eugene, Oregon. During D-Day Invasion, standing orders not to secure POW's because there were no secure areas for the POW's. After Normandy is secure, then POW's can be taken in secured areas.
Of course harsh though it is, 90% of the company is missing, not a time to have men out of the line guarding POW's.
There was no evidence of any other instances of Spiers shooting unarmed prisoners his children and grandchildren were very vocal in their anger at the legacy those stories gave him
@@patrickkanas3874 I am not saying that he did it. By Malarkey's reaction after he talked to German from Eugene, Oregon. I think that Spiers was not held accountable if he shot them because orders not to secure POW's until areas are secured. Spiers like other Easy Company's members are heroes.
Or scene is inaccurate
@@MrTech226 Search Maj. Dick Winters on Ronald "Sparky" Speirs (Band of Brothers) and there's an interview he did when the book was coming out. The concern was that he would sue. When Winters rang him Spier's replied the stories were true and he had no issue with publication.
The artillery guns destroyed at Brecourt Manor were 105 mm. They were firing at 'Utah' beach landing area. There is a video showing animation ( and info ) of the assault on the German guns by easy company created by the "The Operations Room" RUclips channel.
There is even a round or two of the artillery guns that lands early in the landing scene of Saving Private Ryan.
BoB is one the most in depth and well put together war series. From newbies to the subject to those who've been there, it's always agreed on how accurate and detailed it is. And BoB fans are some of the most willing and eager to give you any and all tid bits they know to make the experience more impactful and understood. Thanks for doing this series. Much love.
I enjoyed your guys reaction came across respectful and genuine. Just subscribed, looking forward to you guys other reactions. it does get very hard for some people to watch in later episodes so be prepared!...
Just a heads up. They have a separate Game of Thrones channel that they are in the second season with. if your into it that is.
@@boki1693 i know im late but i can't find the separate channel it's not in the description either ...
@@BigJoe6669 No worries. They had at least two other channels. They stopped doing GoT shortly after I posted this with no explanation at all. Thats fine them stopping. I just wish they had told us why or that they did stop. We just sat there waiting and asking them what happened for over a month with no response. I assume they stopped the other channels as well? Didn't matter. I found a Aussie couple thats doing GoT that is very good. www.youtube.com/@SpartanandPudgey/videos
Hi, it may seem a long way off, but once you've finished all 10 episodes, you must, must watch " We stand alone together ", a documentary which accompanied the series, where they spent two years visiting over 30 cities between 1999 - 2001, interviewing the surviving members of " Easy Company ". Caution: You will laugh at some of their stories, and need a handkerchief for others, just a wonderful watch ! Sadly, the last survivor of the original Easy Company passed away in May of 2019, Medic. Sgt. Albert Mampree at the age of 97.
I'm from the UK, and I've very much enjoyed your reactions ... keep safe and well ! Chris, Lancashire, UK
And that's only their first battle. A long way until May 45. Only a year but you will see the characters change, evolve and mature over time.
All the surviving veterans were longly interviewed before the making of the serie, the part you see were selected specifically for each episodes.
Enjoying the ride. Looking forward to each episode.
I watch this series atleast 2 to 3 times a year.
The real Don Malarkey...sorry about the spoiler there...said that the scene of him running back across the field was very accurate except he didn't have to run as far as the actor did. It was still a long way for him when people are shooting at you!
i remeber hearing XXX talk about it and how they all gave him crap for going out there
@@2104dogface While running back the actor slipped by accident and was nearly hit by the SFX charges in the ground. His facial expression of being in danger was real after the fall he said.
Shortly after midnight on 6 June, over 18,000 men of the US 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions and the British 6th Airborne Division were dropped into Normandy. Allied paratroopers and glider-borne infantry were well trained and highly skilled, but for many this was their first experience of combat. Their objectives were to capture key sites behind the beaches and to secure the flanks of the assault areas.
Enjoyed this guys. Love watching younger generations discover this masterpiece. It's important.
Having the real men at the beginning of each episode sets it up. Hit's hard when you know that what you're watching is what those men experienced. Hard to fathom.
My great uncle was one of the Airborne men who was shot and killed parachuting into battle. His Purple Heart is displayed in a place of honor. 🇺🇸
This series will change you. It’s the best show I’ve ever watched. And each time I watch I get something else out of it.
True. It really is a masterpiece. It gives you a new outlook on life and what is important. And how fortunate we all are that there were ordinary people who were willing to sacrifice everything for our freedom.
The way these are filmed it immerses you in and makes you feel like you’re actually there
Yeah "Flash" and "Thunder" were the codeword or callsign to recognize each other. Germans don't have a 'th' sound in their language so if they tried saying 'thunder' it would sound more like 'dunder'.
Or "sunder"
@@chrisbolliger5717 more like "zunder". We Germans also pronounce "the" more like "ze". Greetings from Germany
@@Abbath77 My wife is German and even after 35 years in the U.S. the 'th" sound still gets her. She says it more like a Ts sound witch would make it about halfway between "sunder" and "zunder".
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It never even occurred to me that the one paratrooper knew the one in the tree or any of the other fallen paratroopers. That hit me in a whole new way.
Lol.. everytime I hear the name Shoshana first thing that pops in my head.. "AU REVOIR SHOSHANA"
You two are going really enjoy this series, and just a little factoid: my older brother is a veteran paratrooper..he told me that the parachutes that the men used in WWII didn’t have a deployment bag..a deployment bag helps absorb the shock of the parachutes opening, so the force wouldn’t be too violent, that’s why the men lost most of their equipment, without that bag in the parachute opening was ROUGH
Lovin the reactions! By the time the show is done you will feel like you know all the characters personally.
Thank you for editing out the best parts of the jump scene
It looks like you already started BoB lets go! Belive it or not My grandfather was in Item Company. A sister Company of Easy. He was the trigger half of the 30 cal team. He pal'd around with Buck and Toye until my grandfather was wounded by mortar fire in Bastogne. I have his patches and medals. I'll be honest I don't touch the medals I feel unworthy so I let them sit there in their case and look proudly upon them. Cheers guys. Once again great content.
My great grandad was at Dunkirk then back for Normandy landing , British sapper. 1 stray bullet and I’m not here . Can’t imagine fleeing that beach then going back . I have his medals on my war. I think the world forgot the tragedy’s that afforded them life.
Compton didn't really fumble with the grenade like it might look like at first glance... one of the guys running past him actually bumped into him and that's why he dropped the grenade
I wouldn't be surprised if, while filming this, they tried to depict that but it never looked right on camera, so they decided to do it differently. As someone who has made WWII films, doing stuff like this can be very difficult.
Grenades kill in two ways. Shrapnel and shockwave. Trenches are designed to stop both using the walls, bends and corners. If a grenade is thrown in, you go around a corner and make yourself small. You're not hit by shrapnel and the shockwave loses enough force to not kill you. That's why he was told to roll, getting around the corner from the grenade.
Winters said they had a mission and were not equipped to handle prisoners
The "D" in "D-Day" simply refers to "Day". It's a previously designated placeholder to represent the day of the landings. During planning, the actual date was a secret, but they needed to plan around it. So, for instance, for things that needed to happen a day after, they could say "D+1", and for things that needed to happen the day prior, they could say "D-1". It was a paradigm first used during WW1.
I hope y'all grow to love history as much as I do. Dick Winters was a very good commander.
There's always a moment of silence between the airplane sounds(jet or prop when I was in) and the sounds on the ground.
They Gave Their Today For Our Tomorrow 🙏
You guys need to Watch The Pacific after this series. It follows the Marine Corps in the Pacific theater of war. Made by the same people who made Band of Brothers.
This series and a handful of others show what grenades actually do. They don't explode as much as they pop. The damage is from the shrapnel they throw off, and if you're out of the line of sight, you can avoid most of the damage. That's why they're a handy infantry weapon.
I regret so much not recording my grandmother and a friend of her stories about those days , I live in the Netherlands we got invaded by the Germans and they got such lively stories to tell about it that made me feel I was there to
Great episode guys it only gets harder from here. Btw if you think this is bad wait until you have to start the next series called " The Pacific "
WWII era German “potato masher” grenades were essentially concussion grenades, and weren’t as deadly as American fragmentation grenades. Eventually, the Germans designed a fragmentation sleeve that fit over the explosive end of the grenade that was meant to increase lethality.
Also, the fragmentation pattern of 'pineapple' grenades was really inconsistent. They didn't fragment evenly: more often than not you got one big piece and an irregular shower of little ones. You could luck out, be standing inside the theoretical 'lethal radius' zone and get away with zero injury. Alternatively, you could be standing outside the zone, get hit by the big piece and be killed stone dead by it's momentum.
The military uses D-Day for every operation planned. You will encounter people saying D-Day is on this or that date with H-hour being the time of the operation. The Normandy invasion was called Operation Overlord with D-Day occurring on June 6th 1944. It is widely known as "the" D-day due to the sheer scale of the invasion. In 1994 the base I was stationed at in England hosted the 101st and 82nd Airborne for the 50th anniversary jump of D-Day.
My understanding is that on D Day itself, there was no ability to guard POWs, so the high command authorized shooting them. After that day the authority was rescinded.
not many people notice, LT Mehan''s plane is the one that went down after the engine caught fire and fire swept through the passenger compartment.
D-Day is a general term meaning day of invasion. The invasion of Normandy historically is pegged as the D-DAY because it was the largest amphibious invasion in the history of warfare, World War II or otherwise.
Ever blast in the air is anti-aircraft weapons. They fire and at a pre-specified altitude, they explode to send shrapnel into any nearby aircraft. Imagine jumping OUT of an aircraft INTO that.
FYI, your playlist for this series has the episodes in reverse order, 10 > 1 instead of 1 > 10. You may want to reorder them so people can easily watch the playlist in the correct order.
0:58 mark In the interviews we presented XXX with that Guidon (small blue flag on the wall behind him) in 2000. Each plane carries 1 Stick of Troopers of 15 to 18 men. i have flown in (W7) whisky 7 a C47 they was the lead plane for the 2nd wave of the 505th 82nd on D-Day with the doors on it can be warm inside and not too noisy. they were dressed in layers under their M42 jump uniforms they had wool shirt & pants ect.., plus their uniforms were CC2 treated for chemical warfare which made them hot & stink so they were warm & had been given motion sickness pills which helped. where LT. Meehan's plane hits ,there is now a marker there with all the names of those who died in that crash. Many troopers lost gear & weapons during the jump. the crickets were used by a few units mostly the 101st Flash & Thunder was used for all units. 4:22 Mark Officers were issued Escape kits and they sewed the items into their uniforms Hence why Winters pulled out the compass from his pants. yeah Guarnere earned the nickname "Wild Bill" in Normandy he killed every German soldier he came across as he was out for revenge for his Brother Henry who was killed fighting in Italy. so the show gets this wrong as Bill also didn't have a weapon during the ambush portrayed, BUT after the ambush shown here he got 2 P-38 pistols off the dead Germans which he used in another ambush and later he picks up a Thompson. having talked with XXX & XXXX that were there at those ambushes they were ok and understood why they had to portray it as shown for the show. Many Troopers were killed still in their harness while in the air or hung up in trees. 1 stick of troopers landed in a camp of Russian Cossack's and were hacked up by swords., their were many American , British ect who joined the german army and esp in the Waffen SS had units for volunteers from every country. Speirs did kill the POW's and 1 of his own men (A Drunk NCO who refused to follow an order then went to draw his weapon but Speirs shot him 1st)he was cleared of all charges on that. the attack on the guns is spot on (except for a few minor details) - (11:45 mark Comption's gun was 1 he picked up after his jump so he hadn't had to chance to check it) had the honor of being walked through it by some of those who took part. them cooking and eating in the truck a typical GI meal in the field if i remember right talking to XXX who was their it was kinda a stew made with some stuff they found and rations cooked in a GI ammo can
Fantastic couple
Believe it or not, the D in D-day just stands for the word “day.” It’s like H-hour. It means The day, the day when all this happens.
Glad you are enjoying this.
Saint miraglis was a disaster for the 82nd Airborne. They missed thier drop Zone and dropped dead smack into the middle of town and we're like shooting ducks in the air. When the Airborne passed through they had to cut down all the bodies that were hanging all over town by the parachutes
Loved you in the movie "Inglourious Basterds" Shosanna
Buck's gun didn't jam, when you first see him asking winters is the CO, he was cleaning his gun, and then loaded it before going to the assault point, he never racked a bullet before the attack began, and so if it weren't for his squad he'd be dead.
I know I'm way late to when this was uploaded, but I feel like it's worth pointing out that Guarnere had just learned right before they jumped that his brother had been killed in Italy. Doesn't excuse him going off without orders like that, but it helps explain why he did.
It was D for diversion while the main battle took place on the eastern front. Operation Bagration .
D-Day: Droping day or doomsday, or departure day or even D day for the big day... In french we say : Jour du débarquement or Jour J witch is like the first important big day
If you ever have a chance to visit France, go to Omaha beach - it is a giant amphitheater shape with steep cliff walls all around the beach. The Germans had mapped every inch of the beaches for their artillery and men on the beach were sitting ducks, which is why what Winters, Speirs and the men of Easy Company did at Brecourt Manor was such an important accomplishment. Silencing and spiking those guns saved countless lives especially at Omaha were the situation was already pretty desperate.
The Greatest Generation!!
If you think having 90% of your men missing is bad, the 82nd lost an entire company in Saint-Mere-Eglise. It was a major objective that needed to be taken so the Germans wouldn't mount a counter attack. Unfortunately, most of the 82nd over shot the landing zone and landed right on top of the town while some of the buildings were on fire, illuminating them , making them easy to shoot at. Most didn't even make it to the ground. Some got caught in trees or on utility poles, while others got sucked into the fires burning alive. One fellow, John Steele, got hung up on the town church's spires and for two hours had bells ringing in his ear as he witnessed the slaughter.
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We think of D-Day as a triumph of Anglo-American grit and spirit but if you examine it further, it really is mixed. The soldiers and sailors showed amazing bravery but I believe that the High Command really muffed it.
Command felt that preparing the battlefield would give away the invasion plan. They used new, untested technology and relied heavily on men like the paratroopers to secure the larger guns. They planned on landing armor on the beach but almost all of it sank in the ocean because it was new and didn’t work. We have air superiority but didn’t use it on the beach front.
The air corp were order to attack targets miles away from the action. As we saw, the paratroopers ended but scattered throughout Normandy and many were disorganized when the invasion was happening. The navy did not shell German positions. On the other hand, tactics and training were good and the brave soldiers were able to advance despite having only hand weapons. The “Mulberry Harbors”, a British idea, work well and brought in many vehicles and fuel. A huge sea-borne invasion was pretty new but if it were planned today, it would have had much more coordinated integration of sea, air and land forces. I have walked through the cemeteries in Normandy and I felt great admiration for the soldiers but also some regret for the hardships they faced in that brave struggle. You guys did a great reaction. I think that Episode Two is the best but all of the series is excellent.
I joined the 82nd airborne division because of this miniseries
You guys have barely scratched the surface so this journey. As we move along you'll get to know these men, you'll get to love these men, most of all you get to understand each and everyone of their personalities. you're going to laugh you must definitely going to cry, but it's worth it. If you have questions ask them. I've studied world war II for 40 years. I'm a lot of people who are watching this including myself will answer your questions. For the most part without spoilers. I hate to say enjoy the Ride but you will by the end you have watched one of the most accurate there are some inaccuracies to information missed when originally writing the book and some cinematic license to condense battles and situations. But for the most part it's pretty damn accurate. it's one of the best world war II pieces I ever put on film. Looking forward to continuing we'll see you in Carentan.❤️💚☘️🇺🇦
they used flash as a challenge word and thunder and a response because the “th” sound doesn’t exist in the german dictionary and german soldier couldn’t make that sound without his accent showing
Whoops i’m sorry didn’t see someone else said this already
Great reaction. The show just keeps getting better and better with each episode. It has some of the best action/war scenes I've ever seen.
Once you finish this show you have to watch The Pacific. It's from the same producers who did Band of Brothers.
Prepare a supply of handkerchiefs
Strap in. It just gets better. Your respect for Winters will only increase. I enjoy people watch this series. Every reactor I’ve watched says this series had a permanent impact on their life. Must watch “We Stand Alone Together “ when you are finished.
Welcome to War. It's only going to get rougher from here on out. After this their is The Pacific, Hacksaw Ridge, Fury, and A Bridge too Far. Another good one is The Battle of Warsaw 1920.
Flash=challenge, Thunder=password. Supposed to change to another challenge and password at a designated time every 24 hours.
This is a particularly apt series to watch this weekend. Keep in mind these guys never expected to be in a World War. One event changed everything. Right now the world is every bit as precarious if not more so then before that outbreak. If you think this can't happen to your generation you are mistaken.
That man from Eugene Oregon wasn't forced! He said all good Arians should return to the fatherland! He wanted to go fight for Hitler.
We didn't use a raincoat, we used a poncho but it's the same concept. A lot of tactics used in WWII are still used today...
The veterans at the start are the actual men the show depicts, intentionally unidentified (until the end of the series) to prevent first time viewers knowing who survived the war and who may not have. It is this contribution by veterans and the honour bound accuracy in depicting the experience their involvement entailed on the show creators and actors which makes BoB so very special. Unlike most media this is almost a documentary and not a show, this is reality TV as it is meant to be. Having said all that remember the memories and experiences are decades old and from a certain persons perspective, BoB has errors and flaws in what is depicted and the demonstrated actions of some of the characters, which I'm sure other posters in this and future episodes will explain. This confusion does not take away from its historical value, but adds to it, because, hopefully, it makes the watcher think and want to explore deeper and clarify more. Knowledge is never a bad thing.
Speirs later confirmed that him killing those prisoners was 100% accurate.
Try to keep tabs on faces and names! It makes the series even more enjoyable to know the individual timelines.
If i remember it right Lt. Winters came up with the attack plan for the guns and it was so successful that its still being used by the military today
Something that the episode doesn't get across very well is how many Germans that the men of Easy Company were facing in this fight. There were 17 Americans going up against between 50 and 60 Germans. They succeeded in destroying the guns at a cost of only one killed and one wounded. It was an amazing success.
D-Day is disembark day. IE, the day to actually land. There are many "D-days"
What was that thing Winters took from his fly and used as a compass? Was it a snap button he took off and put water in it?
The German Soldier from Oregon wasn't a conscript. Due to American being a nation of immigrants there were many ethnicities who were only first or second generation who maintained a greater sense of loyalty to their ethnicity or country of origin. They chose to "return to the Fatherland" to fight for the NAZI cause of a stronger Germany. And in doing so, knowing or not, stood on the side of one of the greatest evils in history.
If you watch carefully and listen to the interviews, you can see (deduce), from this episode, which one is Dick Winters....
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Idk if someone mentioned it but the Srgt fired early in the beginning because hes the one that found out his brother was killed right before the jump. he saw the opportunity and took them out. wasnt smart but worked out. If my brother was killed and i saw a bunch of enemies in front of me, i might have done the same. Revenge isnt always the best move but it wins wars
Captain mehan was in the plan that got shot where pretty much all the men didn't get out of the plan it just burned up and crashed. God Bless
And thats (I think) one of the reasons D day was such a massacre (in terms of losses). Airborne landed all over but the right spots (and in this BoB episode, you can understand why that happened), so the guys in the beaches found a lot of resistance, instead of a little one if the paratroopers landed in the right places. (Its an assumption, Im no expert).
I read Buck Compton’s book. Dropping that Grenade was totally fictitious. He wasn’t happy they made they made that up.
That assault on Brecourt Manor is/was taught at West Point.
By the time this is over you’ll know why the call the WW2 generation of men and women “the greatest generation”. The most epic war in the history of mankind and they literally saved the world from the forces of evil in both the European and Pacific theaters of war.
The words for Sign-Counter Sign "Flash-Thunder" were chosen because they were easy for GI's to remember but also they are very difficult for a native born German to pronounce. The "th" sound is not something that is found in the German language and won't roll off the tongue like it would for an American. It would be like a American trying to pronounce ǻ, Ǫ, Ǣ or ð correctly. I *know* I can't.
That was the only documented case of Spiers shooting unarmed prisoners and they were under orders not to take any. His children and grandchildren were extremely vocal about their disdain for the legacy that the rumors about him doing that multiple times gave him
great series
i own the box set of this series and watch it 1-2 times a year
Lt. Meehan was in the plane that caught on fire mid air. He’s gone
also good reaction... thanks