Band of Brothers | E02 Day of Days - REACTION!
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- Опубликовано: 12 июн 2020
- While the first episode kind of eased us into things, this one just opens with a bang and it doesn't really let up until the last moments.. Pheeew, this journey is going to be a tough one!
There were no subtitles on the first reaction, but I added them here because I thought it might be hard to hear the voices.
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When this series is over, you feel like you've been on an extraordinary journey with these guys.
I think that's why this works and The Pacific didn't, because it tried to be all things to all people. This is one company's experience, and that focus makes for great storytelling.
Just wait to put names to those veterans. For me was moving to know the real face of Winters, Lipton, Guernere, just to mention a couple of them
Jane at Home This series was based on one book, so it was more focused. The Pacific follows several books, so it’s more divided. Having read all three of the main books from the two series, I can see why it happened. Band of Brothers was a unit history, while the Pacific was based on memoirs, which inherently meant it would be fractured more.
I'm not certain about Lipton,but Winters, Guernere, & " Shifty "Powers are gone, now.
@Bryan Ott its not like they're enjoying a great mini series or anything, just the pure profiteering, greediness and maybe they're even baby raping nazis, or even hitler's spawn, AMIRIGHT BRRUUUTHER???????!?!?!?
There is a monument in France where Lt. Meehan's plane crashed with the names of the soldiers that lost there lives on that night.
Yep, I've been to that memorial. I really appreciate the love that the French people gave to these men. I've also seen the sight of the Brecourt Manor 105's. It's a farmer's field now..so you can't actually walk on the site..but there's a memorial to the men of Easy Company, and Richard Winters..and also Winter's drawing of what the battery looked like from his memories. It's really cool.
@@GodOfWar221 you're very lucky. I some day hope I can visit there and also Omaha Beach. Definitely on top of my bucket list.
I've been to the monument on the dike in the Netherlands about the battle depicted in episode 5 'Crossroads'
@@GodOfWar221 These memorials will keep the knowledge of these men and what they went through for a long time. Unfortunately those born 20 or more years after what it was all about will never understand the price the U.S. paid to help keep them free.
@Jack Cade what a stupid thing to say. Those men fought fascists so why would liberals pull down a monument to people who fought fascists? The Confederacy wasn't fighting fascism or tyranny, they were fighting for the right to continue owning and selling slaves. They don't deserve to be memorialized, they deserve to be learned from as examples of how not to be decent human beings. It's funny what a bit of education can teach you. You should try it some time.
"Is he sleeping?" There is an old military adage that goes "Never stand when you can sit, Never sit when you can lay down, and never stay awake when you can sleep"
still holds out. many live by that rule
They also say that in The Pacific
Also, if you remember the first episode they're handing out airsick pills before takeoff. After the jump a lot of the guys who took them complained that the airsick pills had made them sleepy. They also questioned why they'd gotten them because (at least according to the book this series is based on) they'd never used airsick pills in any of their training up to that point.
Great one !
The Army gave them all motion sickness pills, dramamine, I believe. That had the effect of making a lot of them very drowsy.
Note the contrast between Winter’s map-reading and navigation skills in this episode and Sobel’s inability to read a map in Episode 1.
Sobel was stupid but I kinda feel bad for him
Especially considering they were dropped in the wrong place. Sobel couldn't figure it out on their home territory. I know I've heard they were a little unfair to Sobel in this series but I think it's still better off they ended up with Meehan or Winters.
Sobel was a horrible leader and would have probably gotten them all killed. The men didn't like him, for the most part, but several members of Easy Company later credited him with getting them in to the best shape of their lives. Something that would greatly aid them in the years to come
Once he was moved out of a command position, Sobel turned out, by all accounts, to be a very good supply officer for the battalion. It's important to appreciate that in modern warfare logistics is often just as important as proficiency in combat, so even if he wasn't popular with the troops his contribution was still important.
Lt. Sobel, you cut that fence and get this God damn platoon on the move!
Apparently the depiction of the action against the German position is extremely accurate and based on the after-action report, down to Popeye getting shot in the butt to the random guy getting killed while asking for directions in the middle of a fight. The two tanks you see rolling in the end are supposedly the first two tanks that made it out of the beaches and were a "thank you" from the higher ups to the Easy Company for the map that Winters was able to recover.
Also, I appreciate how right before the action where they engage the Germans they show you a bunch of German soldiers and they humanize them. Instead of showing just the good Americans killing the bad nazis, they give those people a story showing you that, especially in the regular army, they weren't all nazi fanatics, but most were just regular young men who got caught up into the meat grinder just like the Americans.
That is true and you Ser in later episodes and on the books that the men of Easy company learn this and tell you in the interviews this very fact
From what I have read the Germans were also ordered not to take any paratrooper prisoner as well
Couple of things were different in the book though.
- The actual assault took over 3 hours.
- In reality, the Germans trenches were not as fortified. There was no wooden barrier at the edges, or any bunkers.
- Compton, Malarkey and Guarnere had to crawl through an open field to get to their ambush positions.
- Compton did not accidentally drop a grenade in the trench, the guy was an All-American catcher at UCLA. In reality, he threw the grenades at retreating Germans and the explosion blew their heads off.
- It was Guarnere who missed the Germans running away, not Lorraine.
- Winters actually wounds the two man machine-gun crew who are assembling the gun, and they take them as prisoners. In fact they took 12 prisoners during the assault.
- John Hall joins the assault after the second gun is taken, and gets killed shortly after.
- Easy lost 4 men, two were wounded and took 12 German prisoners.
- The "random guy" who got killed asking for directions is named in the book to be: Warrant Officer Andrew Hill of Regimental HQ.
Having been in that field. The executed it perfectly, you wouldn't know it from looking at it now. (Only thing roaming that field 10 years ago was horses) but the hedge rows and everything was spot on.
@@zainahmed6502 Compton actually does hit a german with a well-timed grenade that explodes on impact in this scene (they just didn't show it in this reaction). I don't think that's really connected to him dropping it - because that was a completely different grenade alltogether.
The thing to remember, this is not fictionalized at all. There were a few artistic licence taken with some minor things, but this really happened.
Easy company being a textbook case, this will not be the first time you will see that. As much as WWI is considered first industrial war, by WWII especially USA only had theoretical knowledge of how to fight such a conflict. And there is a good reason why Winters and Easy was held in high regard, Winters could think on his feet and Sobel trained them to ridiculous high standards but they did not have to deal with his BS in combat.
@The Rothchilds I really feel for Sobel. Even though they credited him and his pushing and training as something that kept them alive, no one from the unit went to his funeral after the war. In fairness though, neither did his ex-wife or daughter.
Winters was a very good officer
“Jesus Christ. Fuckin’ twice.”
That’s always been my favourite line from this series. Always makes me laugh.
Mine is "Yeah, now that you mention it. Except, of course, there's no snow, we got warm grub in our bellies, and the trees aren't fucking exploding from Kraut artillery, but yeah... Frank... other than that, it's a lot like Bastogne."
90% unaccounted doesn't mean 90% casualties. Most were simply scattered across the peninsula. But all 17 men on the plane including Meehan the company commander were killed. Really enjoying your reactions to this. Can't wait to see Carentan!
Another fact not shown in the show: Geroge Luz and Harry Welsh's plane starts to go down as they are jumping and the Pilot and Co-Pilot parachute with the men
Simon Peg's character was in that plane.
When the Easy was pulled of the line and went back to England, men The had taken 65 casulties including 22 kille in action
The actor you recognised is Andrew Scott. He played Moriarty in Sherlock, was also in Spectre (James Bond) and the priest in Fleabag.
Missed me?
Correction the Hot priest lol just teasing
And on one season of Strike Back.
This series might be one of the most historically accurate World War 2 docuseries. There's a site online that tells you what happened to every member of Easy company during and after the war. Popeye Wynn was indeed shot in his butt, that was not added in there for comical relief.
Indeed... as was Popeye's apologies for getting hit. In the documentary... Winters remarks on how extraordinary it was to him that Popeye's instincts were to immediate apologize for getting injured... that the thought of not being able to contribute to the fight was more distressing than actually being injured.
It's so accurate that it's notable when the show gets something wrong.
He was not, watch the band of brothers documentary and you'll see Popeye himself telling he was injured by a grenade in front of him that he says "knocked his butt over his shoulders" Nothing about actually being hit in the ass.
@@jonttul that also had happened to him, but it wasn't what wounded him. "knocked his butt over his shoulders" is another way of like he had the wind knocked out of him. If you look online of all reports from easy company, you'll see him being wounded by gunshot not grenade.
How bout Blithe he didnt die to his wound
I was taught about this engagement during my time in the Army. I attended the US Army's war college and it was the subject of a lecture as the perfect example of a smaller unit attacking and destroying a larger force.
With WWII grenades, the fragmentation pattern could be really random, especially the Allied 'pineapple' types. The casing was supposed to split up evenly into similar-sized pieces of shrapnel, but in practice, due to the low quality castings used, you often got one big piece that was very lethal and went a long way, and a shower of splinters that were more likely to wound that kill. There were many cases where a grenade went off right next to somebody and they got away with it, and others where the big fragment hit somebody theoretically outside the danger zone and killed them.
oh wow
@@luketimewalker The allied grenades were generally more reliable than the German or Japanese grenades, but all typically suffered from similar problems. Japanese grenades had a problem where they would detonate when the soldiers would arm them.
The German stick grenades were concussion grenades only -- though they could be converted to fragmentation grenades by the addition of a metal sleeve that was designed to fragment. The reason the grenades were not fragmentation types was that they were meant to be "offensive" grenades, as opposed to "defensive" types like the US Mk. 2 pineapple grenade or the British Mills bomb. Of course, either type of grenade could be used offensively or defensively, but those are the general terms used. The difference is an "offensive" grenade like the German stick grenade, because it didn't throw fragments, and because you could throw it farther (thanks to the stick), you could throw it and then immediately charge the position you threw it at because you would be well outside the lethal blast area. With the "defensive" type of grenade, you had to take cover immediately after throwing it, because it DID throw fragments, and you couldn't throw it far enough to outside the range where those fragments could kill or wound.
@@philipcoggins9512 Once the Germans starting getting pushed back on the eastern front, they were known to booby trap their own grenades and leave them behind for advancing Red Army troops to use. Their grenades didn't use a pin and lever (or spoon as it's sometimes called) the way allied grenades did. Both the German grenade types -- the Stielhandgranate (stick grenade) and the Eihandgranate (egg grenade) -- required you to unscrew a cap, which was attached to a cord, and then pull it. That activated a friction igniter (a match, basically) that started the fuze burning. That meant you couldn't hold the grenade like you could an allied grenade after you pulled the pin -- those didn't start the fuze until a spring flipped the spoon off after you'd thrown it. With the German grenades, pulling the cord started the fuze burning, and you had to get rid of it. The German grenades were supplied with 4 second fuzes, but a 1 second fuze was available if the grenade was to be attached to a trip wire and used as a booby trap. Retreating German soldiers would occasionally substitute the 1 second fuzes and leave a few grenades behind, as if they'd been forgotten in the haste to leave. Red army soldiers attempting to use the captured grenades would blow themselves up the instant they pulled the cords.
Thanks for the info Darren!
I’m so proud of Kat! I was expecting much more turning away. Well done. It only gets harder but that was a great reaction! 🖤
This is the kind of series once you've seen it all you will remember all your life about it, it's this good 😧🤧
Its one of the greatest shows I've ever watched
“Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn't even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.”
-Heraclitus
The biggest reason for trenches being built the way they are is because of what you saw with the grenade. The biggest killer, besides shrapnel, is the pressure wave. A trench diverts that pressure around corners which significantly lowers the pressure, making it easier to survive, or dissipating it completely.
That and to prevent defilade fire if one section of the trench was taken.
Both of my granddads fought in the II WW for 5 years. 5 years of this shit :( There is no way that I can ever understand how they felt. But forever grateful for their sacrifices and keeping Finland independent.
My uncle was a tank Sgt with Patton from just after D Day through the Battle of Bulge, liberating the German concentration camps and into Berlin.
My other Uncle Al lost both legs, but never spoke of where or how.
@@BadgerBJJmy grandad lied about his age and signed up at 14. He fought through North Africa and up through Italy. He ended up in a trench that took a mortar, he was the sole Survivor, plastered with shrapnel down one side. He had nightmares for 2 decades later, but he too would never discuss it unless it was a fellow serviceman, we only found out at his funeral.
I think those who had it rough are the ones who don't talk, understandable I suppose
One of the greatest shows I've ever watched just the music to the opening credits gives me nostalgia to the point of being emotional just an incredible cast amazing production value its perfect
They still teach this action to Officers Training at West Point. Dick Winters was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and was later Promoted to Major and was put in command of the Battalion. He did this with only 13 men, facing 50 Germans who were well dug in. Incredible Men... It's awesome to see that these hero's are being remembered.
I can empathize with Kat’s anxiety during intense war movies or series like this. My wife is the same way and even gets heart palpitations. That said, this series was one of the rare exceptions in that you really feel the humanity of Easy Company and I think you’ll really like it.
My wife can't even watch it. She made it through the first episode but we had to stop part way through the second. She can't stand scenes in movies where there is a possibility of someone getting shot out of no where. I think we stopped shortly after the guy got hit crawling in the field. It really stinks because I think otherwise she would've liked the show. She misses out on so many good movies/shows.
I think it's so cool that the two of you are watching Band of Brothers. It's my favorite miniseries of all time. Can't wait for the rest.
Another great reaction to this. Also it's crazy how accurate they managed to get it all. You will get very attached to people.
I wonder how long it will take everyone to realize the identity of the actor playing Private "Bull" Randelman.
This show jumpstarted the TV careers of so many actors, and he's my personal favorite from this series.
German stick-grenades were of the concussion-type, were as US Army grenades were fragmentation. Joe was able to survive because most of the blast went up into the air. German stick-grenades were very useful in enclosed places like rooms, cellars , and vehicles.
The real Joe Toye was truly a bad ass.
Throughout his service, he earned a Silver Star (for this assault), Two Bronze Stars and FOUR Purple Hearts. Despite having severe trench foot and a two fresh wounds, he snuck out of the hospital to go and fight in the front lines at Bastogne.
His children never knew their father was a war hero, he never talked about his experiences. They mostly found out after the TV series came out. Joe had sadly passed away by that point.
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www.frankdeangelis.com/Staff%20Sergeant%20Joseph%20Toye.htm
my dad went in the army at 18 in 1939 mobilised from the territorial army,went through the blitz on the island of dogs,he became ill and when he came out of hospital his mates had all been sent to Salerno in Italy ,he was sent to Scotland to train commandos at a camp for d day (pt and unarmed combat)then was in Dover for d day.he said most did not know it was d day till a few hours before the went in as they had spent months getting on and off ships in full kit the navy cooks gave them a good breakfast and a rough sea gave them sea sickness the rest he never said.
I watched the series a few years ago and it got me interested in WWII. Learning more about it helped me get promoted in the military. It's a great series.
First saw this when it aired with my parents, dad was British 6th airborne, 9th battalion. With the jump scene my mum asked dad if it was really that bad, he said no, it was worse. Out of 650 men in his battalion only 150 made it to the RV, they still took the Merville battery and only 65 were left standing afterwards, including my dad. So proud of him.
Waiting a week for an episode was tough, lol. This series is fantastic and really gives you a ton of emotions to digest. I love that you guys are doing a great job with these!
I’m glad the both of you are watching this series. My father and all my uncles served in WWII. They never ever talked about it. Each time I’ve re watched it I wonder what their experiences were like. Now when I hear the music, I tear up.
8:03 In the interviews and book, they talk about how that first day during the first assault at Brecourt Manor they took risks they would never after. Including climbing a tree.
10:00 Remember this is based on a true story. Joe Toye really did have two grenades go off next to him in that engagement and was not wounded. As Guarnere said, "lucky bastard".
Also know that the Germans at Brecourt were artillerymen not infantry--their job is to maintain the guns and keep them firing so they're skills as riflemen are going to 'secondary' to that.
Winters also said he took the firefight to the trenches because most of the Germans had bolt action rifles and he had the M1 Garand, an 8 shot semi automatic rifle, allowing to fire and reload much faster.
Band of Brothers is an extremely accurate movie. When Steven Ambrose was doing studies for his book he was put in touch with Dick Winters and started asking him questions. Winters them pulled out diaries that told day by day what went on and being the efficient man he was he added the men and what they did.
Saving Private Ryan was also filmed on a lot of the same locations as BOB. They constructed the villages and reused them in the different films just changing things around.
Now a little story of after their training in Toccoa Ga, they were to go to Fort Benning in Columbus Ga. to their jump school. They marched from Toccoa to Atlanta which was around 120 miles away before they boarded a train to Benning. If many people today walked 50 miles they would be down for a couple of days.
Easy Companies assault is considered a literal text-book assault and is taught to this day by the US Army as an example of a small unit attack on an entrenched position.
Correct.
Thank you for posting these. I began watching BoB for the first time on the day it premiered here in the States - the evening of Tuesday, the 11th of September, 2001. Yeah - that's right. It was a welcome respite from the day's news.
Anyway, I've watching it at least 15 times since, most recently with my son. I still find new things in it each time, but what I've never been able to recapture is the visceral experience of watching it for the 1st time. This helps me do so, and it is powerful. So, thanks.
I just recalled an anecdote from the book that I’d like to share. The producers on the old John Wayne movie “The Longest Day” made a bigger deal about this but one of the paratroopers in this episode is holding a small object, called a ‘cricket’ that was issued to the Airborne. It was a little noise-maker that allowed for non-verbal challenge & response. It was either one click challenge, two click response or vice-versa. The problem was that the exact same noise was made by the German bolt-action rifles. Apparently the, I want to say, Division Chaplain, was born in Germany and spoke HEAVILY accented English. He went to the officer of the unit he’d jump with in great terror, “Captain, vat do I dew? If I speak, our own men vill shoot me?” He jumped, apparently, with DOZENS of the crickets strapped all over himself in case some got lost or swept away. He survived without incident. I have suggested you and sweet Kat react to the documentary and went back and watched some of it. I had forgotten, but you recall the hill the troopers had to run up every day in training, Currahee? It became a sort of unofficial battle cry, for the unit? When the Commander of the British Red Devils Airborne wished to toast Easy Company for helping them get out of danger following the failed drops into Holland, he raised his glass with a lusty ‘Currahee!’ In whatever Native American language it is it’s meaning is ‘We Stand Alone Together.” I had forgotten that but it’s a full-circle kind of situation.
It’s very telling that you are both so moved emotionally watching this series. Love all your reviews.
I’ve mentioned that this series is based on Stephen Ambrose’s book of the same name. In the book when discussing their training base one of the volunteers, upon arriving at Tocoa took one look at the small mountain, Currahee, and commented “I’ll bet for graduation we have to run up that hill!” Little did he know that he and the unit would be running up that hill within a few hours and most every day that followed.
4:30 - Horses? I read a journal written by one of the Germans who was at the invasion and he wrote that he knew the war was lost when he witnessed the allies landing and was amazed that they brought no horses with them. He was shocked that the entire allied invasion force was mechanized while until then other than on the front lines horses had still been widely used by forces fighting in Europe and he realized that his military could never compete with the technological might of the Allied invasion
I’m so happy you’re doing this series.
Eps 3-8 are super intense. 9 is legendary, beautiful and sad. So excited to watch you watch these.
Just discovered you guys- really appreciate your sincerity- I can say that you have some extremely emotional events coming in future episodes- this was just a taste- I can honestly say that I believe this series is the greatest series ever filmed. I get extremely emotional watching this series as I find the sacrificing of oneself for another person the most moving thing in all humanity and this is on full display in BOB.
I’ve gone to Normandy twice first time was 4 years ago we spent a little time there but the 2nd was last year for the 75th anniversary. Our tour guide was a decorated member of British military and had so many interesting facts. We went all over Normandy for 5 days and we actually went where the battle against the artillery guns took place
i love the fact that you guys actually understood 1.) who LT meehan was and 2.)when he died.
i first watched this show when i was like 12 and had to watch it 10 times before i even realized that LT meehan was the guy in the tent
with winters when they realized they were dropping on normandy. or even that it was his plane that was engulfed in flames in the beginning of the episode. now granted i was a kid and your adualts but alot of other reactors dont realize how LT meehan died as quickly as you two figured it out. sooo i respect your guy's attention to detail
Easy's assault of the guns at Brecourt Manor is quite extraordinary. Normal military doctrine says the attacker should out number the defender by 3 to 1that's how much of an advantage the defender has. Yet at Brecourt 12 men attacked an artillery position defended by 48 to 60 men. No wonder so many medals were given out for such a small action.
As the Prussian field marshal von Moltke posited, no plan survives contact with the enemy. The airborne drops on Normandy were planned in detail but in the actual event they ended up being very chaotic. The heavy flak caused many of the aircraft commanders to signal the troopers to drop earlier than had been planned so that very few landed where they were supposed to. Fortunately, the troopers were well trained, if you remember from the first episode everyone was to memorize the maps and terrain of the entire area. There was also a lot of mixing of troopers from different platoons and companies at first as seen by Hall joining with Easy company. It was the adaptability and good leadership of the junior officers and NCOs in the field that led to the success of their missions.
The beginning of Lt. Speers legends and his balls of steels !
In the first few moments of the episode we see a paratrooper sleeping. They were given anti-nausea pills before takeoff which reportedly had the side effect of making the men sluggish. Many fell asleep. I am sure they woke up right quick when the flack started.
John 'Cowboy' Hall was played by British actor Andrew Scott (familiar especially because of his role in Sherlock as Moriarty).
On a historical note, the assault on the German artillery is actually taught at West Point. The instructors challenge future Army leaders with the same scenario. The series is based on a famous book which I read. In the account of the trooper who climbed up the tree bef
In 2001 I made friends with an older gentleman, very soft spoken. Turned out he, in his words "got a European vacation in 1944 courtesy of the United States Army". Band OF Brothers had just completed and we talked about it for a while. He said between Private Ryan and Band of Brothers, this was as close as you could get to showing the reality of how it really was. The assault on the guns at Brecourt Manor is still taught as textbook teamwork. When they threw the grenades in that attack they threw them so hard and so far that they exploded in mid-air above the Germans where there was no protection form the blast. The fragments killed everyone under them.
My great grandfather was in the same division of these guys in E Co. 101st Airborne division. He was a ww2 vet.
It was a very long day for them, taking off in England late at night, dropping in Normandy in the early hours, then having to navigate and find each other and fight all day before they could catch their breaths once the Army caught up to them from the beaches.
They found more of each other over the next two days. They weren't all lost as casualties. They were lost mapwise, because the airdrop had been so chaotic, when the pilots were paniced by the anti-aircraft artillery.
My grandfather was a tanker.... it paid for his doctorate to become the doctor in his town.
He never wanted to be a doctor until he got patched up by medics.
His last tank (of three) was made into a memorial outside a base in West Virginia.
He delivered thousands of kids and was a house doctor to the whole town.
At 80 he developed Alzheimer’s and only certain people would trigger memories.
He was always nice and told me the truth. After he died, my grandma said I looked like his younger brother and he would occasionally call me his name.
He died in France
Seeing your faces and reactions to the scenes in the show reminds me of how I felt when I first saw this series, and first saw Saving Private Ryan. Thanks for letting us be a part of that journey with you. I know you both said that Kat doesn't usually watch these types of movies or shows, but in this instance, it's watching a bit of history, and I think we should all see these things like this here and there to remind us of what people went through to preserve freedom, and also to help us not repeat these awful moments in our history. Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, and Stephen Ambrose and all of the men of Easy Company did a great job of giving us a feel for what those men went through in 1944 and 1945.
I felt as I knew each and every member of easy. I mourned the loss of the fallen as would have a friend. Never has a series had the character development or captured the emotions of war and the comradery that is created in situations of extreme distress. I salute every one of those men that served and I commend the actors that portrayed them for truly honest and well done performances.
The episodes become more and more intense. And whats incredible is that it all happened. There were real people who experienced this. You will get to know each member of Easy Company and grow attached to them and their experience. Enjoy the journey!
And a lot of them are going to get wounded or die. But getting to know them through this is worth it.
The expressions of these people are fascinating. The gulf between those who go and those who stay is insurmountable. What did you expect? Music?
The Volksdeutsche soldier Malarkey actually encountered on D-Day was not from 100 miles away from Malarkey, but rather a few blocks away in the same city. They changed it in the series because they thought the audience would not believe the coincidence.
One comment from Kat, “So many planes!” Here’s a staggering statistic of the production volume the US provided in WWII. The Willow Run plant was able to produce a B-24 heavy bomber every 63 minutes, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
A good follow up to watch is "Dick Winters: Hang Tough" from 2012 and narrated by Damian Lewis who played Dick Winters. It brings a lot more of Dick Winters leadership. One thing not touched on in Band of Brothers was that then Lt. Winters was recommended for the Medal of Honor for his actions at Brecourt Manor. He received the Distinguished Service Cross instead
Michael Cudlitz who played the part of Denver (Bull) Randleman, has also been in several good movies over the past 18 years. I first took notice of him being I see very few movies in the AMC series The Walking Dead he portrayed Abraham Ford who was a tough military style character.
I hope you guys watch the Pacific, just as amazing and well done.
Fun Fact: Luger pistols were HIGHLY sought out after by Allied troops throughout the war. The Luger P08 was standard issue in WWI and gained a reputation for being a reliable and well liked weapon. Since many soldiers had a relative that fought in WWI, many guys going over had already heard about the Germans with the Luger and wanted one for themselves.
This was historically accurate, including the final dialogue at the end, I saw an interview with Winters on the history channel. His final words were with tears in his eyes “and I kept it”. Kat you need to fortify yourself because some of the later episodes are far more intense than this one was, and the tug and play a tune on your heart strings.
The show is a rollercoaster of feelings. Grabbing you by the heartstrings by showing you a moment in a person's life. Showing us just how basically human we all are. How caring and loving we can be, or how the pain and angry we suffer can make us lash out at those that are on our side. Only to be joking or clowning around while smack in the middle of something so truly scary.
Humor is an odd creature. Humor helps us deal with the hard facts of life and the universe. We really are very tiny things, in a tiny moment, in a glorious picture that would be lacking if each of us weren't apart of it. So we might as well enjoy the trip and have a few laughs.
The soldiers were given 'air sickness tablets' prior to take off. The effect of these was to put many of the soldiers to sleep, or at least make them drowsy. I haven't yet found any firm reference to what these tablets were, but there is mention by some of the soldiers that they had never been given, nor needed airsickness tablets before D day, and they suspected they were mild sedatives.
Contrary to Hollywood and most movies about WW2, horses were the main mode of transport for hauling things around. Trucks, cars, jeeps and tanks were rare. The Brits were the first all mechanized army in the world. Not until late in the war did the U.S. actually get rid of horse cavalry. But the U.S. did have all motorized supply, unlike Germany, Italy and Russia who used mainly horses to haul things around. Chris
I LOVE see your face when ppl die its so sweet and passion its feel that pain
This is awesome! First time I've ever seen anyone react to this amazing series! It's so worth it!
One thing to remember watching this -- and if you watch the horrific violence of "Saving Private Ryan" as well -- is the influence of a comment by French director Francois Truffaut. Truffaut famously opined in the 1970s that it was impossible to make a war movie that made war look as horrific as it really actually is; on film, Truffaut said, war always looks fun.
And Truffaut and Band Of Brothers executive producer (and Private Ryan director) Steven Spielberg were good friends (Spielberg famously used the French director as an actor in Close Encounters) and the American talked about that quote with Truffaut and took it as a challenge to break that mold here and on SPR. Spielberg's directive was clear: do NOT make the battle scenes look enjoyable. At all. And I think he succeeded. War in this miniseries does not, in fact, look like much fun.
A huge part of this episode was to emphasise the chaos and confusion that the members of Easy Company experienced, this was their first taste of combat. For example Lipton, who climbed the tree into the exposed firing position, stated that they all did a number of extraordinarily risky thing which, as they gained combat experience, they would never do again. They were as lucky and they survived to learn. Dick Winters exceptional command performance needs to also be understood in this light, this was his first command of men in combat and he led them to overwhelm a significantly superior enemy force in entrenched positions, achieving the objective with minimal losses, he could not have done better.
The shakey camera thing was a purposeful stylistic choice Spielberg made with private ryan that carries over into this series. Its an attempt to replicate war reporters footage from the era. I think the effect works rather well at putting you right into the situation. Which of course is very anxiety inducing and rather emotional. Great reaction as always!
This is the greatest WW2 film ever made. The interviews with the real survivors is haunting. The fact it really happened will make you weep and appreciate what people did to liberate humanity across the planet. So much suffering, but good won.
You asked how they were able to see each other, a lot of the time they couldn't. They carried these little toys called crickets that they would click to indicate where they were.
Funny story, one if the medics that jumped in to Normandy was of German heritage and had a thick German accent, he was worried that he might accidentally get shot by his own men. So he asked his co what he should do, and the co told him carry extra crickets. So when the medic jumped, he had a cricket in every pocket, pack and available space possible. He had over 20 on him, just in case any broke.
So happy your reacting to band of brothers, one of my all time favourite shows, you’ll love the emotional rollercoaster, enjoy 👍
Fun fact, it doesn't happen until later however (SPOILER) even though its inaccurate in real life, a soldier will be shot by a sniper in one of the later episodes, it says in the text that he dies of his injuries however he actually lived and died at an old age lol most of easy company didn't know this though so it was made out in the show that he died he even though he didn't
One of THE greatest mini-series EVER. I watched your reaction videos out of order, so I saw the end before this. Your poor girlfriend! I’m sorry, I didn’t catch her name. When you look at her sweet face during the last couple of episodes, its striking. She went on an emotionally draining journey. I’m not at all surprised she opted out of The Pacific.’ She was an absolutely wonderful contributor but I think, like any normal person, you simply run out of ways to describe and feel death and loss. You’re a lucky man. I wish you two all the happiness and peace that there is.
Hey Kat, it’s good to hear that I’m not the only one who has anxiety that can be triggered by what we see on tv/film. Not that I’m glad you have anxiety! But you know what I mean. Sometimes I just feel like people can’t relate to me in that regard. So I just want you to know that I relate and I feel for you.
You have no idea how much that means to me. Thank you 🦄♥️
this whole series is so powerful. The emotions it keys, the depiction of chaos in war.
Almost half the transport of the German army was horsedrawn, especially in lower level units such as the "defense divisions" on the coast which were made up of conscripts. SS and more experienced armored units had motor transports. The purely infantry units could only move at a marching pace, and the horse carts could keep up. Plus the Germans by 1944 were suffering extreme shortages of fuel; what there was available was usually routed to armored units and the Luftwaffe.
THe Character Hall was played by actor Andrew Scott who played Moriarty in Sherlock
The German "potato masher" grenade was more of an offensive weapon, the actual explosive contained was thin material, it was the shock wave that did the damage mostly. It did create shrapnel, but it was mostly thin tin and didn't do a whole lot. the explosion was what did the damage. US pineapple grenades theoretically were supposed to explode into multiple chunks of shrapnel, but this didn't happen in reality. they would just fracture along the weakest points so you'd get two or three big thunks and a few bits.
I have come to greatly enjoy your viewing of this series. The story of these men is absolutely incredible. Thank you for watching it and sharing it with your audience
A really great reaction and review . Many of us here have watched Band of Brothers and most felt the same way watching you . I look forward to more reactions / reviews of it .
i know this is a late comment, but the part around 5:40 about being born in one area and fighting for another. for my family it was the opposite. my great grandmother came to America from Germany after the First War, with my grandmother and 2 of her 3 sons (great grand mothers, grandma was like 4yrs old at the time), all between like 4 and 10 years old. my 2 great uncles who were born in Germany, fought for the US in WWII. and their brother that stayed behind (theres a real messed up story as to why he wasnt allowed to come over) in Germany, had to fight for the German Army and was later taken as a POW by the Russians...
Winters ought to have received the Medal of Honor for his actions at the battery. Impressive.
It’s very common for soldiers to get a nap in as they head towards a encounter that may very well be their last.
Fun Fact: The battle to secure the artillery is still studied at West Point and other Officer training courses as an example of a near perfectly executed attack. Live the content, keep it up!
Edit: Just got to the part where that fact was on the screen lol
The young guy who landed with Winters played Moriaty to Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock.
The anxiety and gallows type humour are not an intention underlying the series but an aspect of real combat, the constant strain and terror is frequently leavened by strange moments of humour and intimacy. This is what allows ones mind to touchstone to something which is not horror and chaos. It is also a reason for why so many combat veterans have such a peculiar and strong attachment and loyalty to each other. Also just to clarify, the 90% missing does not reflect the losses on D-Day, the two US Airborne Divisions were widely and hopelessly scattered and it took days, in some occasions weeks, for some troops to navigate back to their units, US Paratrooper losses on 6th June were significant, but not anywhere close to 90%.
Nice reaction. I appreciate the extended discussion you had afterwards.
11:56 I really like that guy to! He’s moriarty from Sherlock (Benedict Cumberbatch series)
Easy Company's engagement at Brecourt Manor is still taught as a text-book perfect example of an assault on a prepared position at West Point to this day.
Hall was played by Andrew Scott, perhaps best known for playing Moriarty in Sherlock
The "90% unaccounted for" doesn't mean that those men were necessarily killed or wounded, it simply meant that nobody knew where they were at the time. The initial airdrops were scattered all over the Cotentin peninsula, with some plane loads landing over 20 miles away from their assigned drop zones (the 101st Airborne division's drop, the unit depicted in this show, was the most dispersed of any of the three Airborne divisions dropped into Normandy). In some cases it took over a week for troops to reunite with their parent units. In the end, of roughly 6928 US paratroops of the 101st who were dropped on D-Day, "only" 1240 became casualties during the first 24 hours of OVERLORD (a rate of almost 19%); by 30 June, twenty-four days after the initial assault, 101st Airborne had suffered 4670 casualties (at 67%, the highest casualty rate of any Allied unit involved in the initial landings).
There's nothing wrong with being uncomfortable watching the violence in a series like this. It's a sign that you have a great sense of empathy and humanity. It also means you'll appreciate the struggles and the sacrifices of the people on screen that much more, and that is a very good thing. If you can take anything away from this series, it is a strong appreciation for the cost of war and the sense that it should never be undertaken lightly.
The signal cricket noise makers were used when speaking wasn't advisable. There was another airborne unit that had a German-born US citizen as a surgeon. He asked what he was supposed to do. His commander said "When you land, don't open your mouth." He was seen on his plane with a cricket strapped to each arm and each leg, and he had more in his pockets. This story is in the author's book D-Day, I think.
Do you know his name?
@@GhostEye31 The author? Stephen Ambrose. The doctor? No, I don't. I haven't read it in a few years.
Found it. Dr. Samuel Feiler. And he wasn't a surgeon, he was a dentist. He was a German Jew that escaped Berlin in 1938. My memory appears to be going. :)
If you get a chance to go to Normandy once all the craziness is over then do go, it's beautiful. I was there for the 60th Anniversary of D-Day as a member of a 101st Airborne Living History Group, an amazing and emotional experience including meeting some of the surviving members of E/506th.
That paratrooper may have been asleep; remember the sedatives they were given before taking off from the English airbase -- one pill just before lift off, then another an hour into the flight.
Thank You for doing this reaction. I've never understood all the marvel stuff. These are real people, they did these things and this is what really happened to them. They are the real Super Heroes.
1:05 hahahah I can't believe this quarantine has turned me into one of those neighbors hahaha. At 2 am I'm moving tables and boxes from end to the other 😅 still got half of my room done while the other half is just filled with shot that meeds moving that I only now do between 9PM and 3AM 😂... Safe to say neighbors hate me, especially when the drill comes out 😂😂.
7:15 - Airborne were instructed not to take prisoners until after the main landing. They didn't have the resources to guard them. Speirs didn't act out of malice. And he didn't ask one of his men to do it.
You are the first reaction channel i have seen that caught Lt. Meehan's plane going down.