**NOTE: There was a Part 1 to this. Of course, there was a copyright problem, so it was taken off, oh well**Band Of Brothers- the part where Easy Company takes Carentan.
Blithe's blindness is a real documented thing. Herodotus mentions an Athenian soldier at the Battle of Marathon who inexplicably went blind despite having suffered no injuries whatsoever. Everyone was dumbfounded and the poor guy was blind for the rest of his life.
I'd guess some sort of shock that damaged his nervous system. Only way I could explain such a thing, but I'm not any kind of doctor either, so whatever my take may be worth.
This is silly and anecdotal, but I had to quit a job that I was lucky to have for a better opportunity. My boss was very angry at me for leaving. When I got home I went completely blind for a few seconds. I think it was a mini-stroke type of situation. My thinking is that stress that isn't handled mentally shows itself either psychologically or physiologically, and this was an example of my body handling an issue on my brain's behalf.
Blithe later in the episode had called it ‘hysterical blindness’ which was an old psychiatric diagnosis to describe a ‘partitioning effect of consciousness’ where the conscious personality dissociates a part of itself (in this case trauma) to protect itself from a seriously traumatic event. Freud and his works earlier in his career had named dissociation as hysteria which had derived from the works of Pierre Janet. This phenomenon is real and especially in this scenario. You see how other characters in the show such as Speirs, and even Winters deal with dissociation. Speirs later on after the scene says to Blithe “The only hope you have to accept is that you’re already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you’ll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function.” This also shows a level of dissociation with Speirs, showing that he’s able to dissociate himself away from himself and be able to function for a task, even if that means life or death. In the case of Blithe, hysteria was an old psychiatric and psychoanalytical diagnosis, and the word ‘hysteria’ means a ‘floating uterus’, mainly because the early meaning of the word had thought that the only people that were hysterics were actually woman, thus the term ‘floating uterus’. But this shows that this isn’t the case with all so-called ‘hysterics’.
Glad to see there's no comment regarding how 'weak' Blithe is for doing this to himself. The reality is the nerves and anxiety was so real that your body can really do things to itself as a self defense mechanic to cope with the situation and emotions. Winters did such a job handling it the way he did, instead of tumbling down on him like a ton of bricks. The more I watch Band of Brothers the more I start to see the angelic qualities in Winters doing what he can to watch over his men and be there for them especially when they need it most.
@@jonweik4091 it's not called hysterical blindness anymore; the medical term is Conversion Disorder. He actually does have blindness, but it's an unconscious mechanism that's causing it rather than actually being blind. A lot of soldiers went through it. It's widely regarded as a defence mechanism to alleviate anxieties and stress.
@@ownagenoobs1 Basically its Combat Stress. Bullets are flying all around him and explosions everywhere. My grandpa was a Vietnam vet with the Marines and he went through something similar. It was his first time in combat and in the middle of firing at the enemy, his combat buddy next to him got shot in the face. His body just shuts down and he collapsed. His breathing became fast and shallow, his heartbeat became rapid and he was losing his sight. His friends thought he got shot so they pull him to the back where a corpsman attended to him. Later he was airlifted to a field hospital where he was warded for 3 days.
From the book "Winters decided to check the company’s ammo supply. Walking by the hotel at the intersection, where the dead German machine gun crew lay sprawled, a voice called, “Lieutenant Winters. Is it safe to cross?”It was Strayer. The battalion commander and his staff, less the wounded Lavenson, were directly across from Winters, crouched by the wall of a building.“Yes, sir,” Winters replied, irked by Strayer’s question in light of the fact that his men had just bled to secure the area. To emphasize the point, Winters stepped into the middle of the street. Strayer nodded, then hurried across, his staff trailing behind. Winters smiled and shook his head in disgust. That was typical of Strayer, he thought. Don’t lead the way if someone else can do it instead.Strayer was no sooner out of sight than something slammed into Winters’ left shin with the impact of being hit by a baseball bat. He involuntarily gasped in pain and hobbled to the side of the road.“Goddamit,” he said, less from pain than out of anger for knowing he had stupidly exposed himself to show up Strayer. Welsh ran to Winters and helped him into a sitting position on the sidewalk.“Let’s get that boot off,” Welsh said. Doing so, he examined the wound. “It’s not deep. Maybe I can get it.”He drew out his trench knife and began probing.“Ouch! Dammit, Harry, you’re all thumbs.” Winters winced. “Just help me to the aid station.”At the makeshift hospital Doc Neavles hurried over and helped Welsh ease Winters onto a tabletop. “You’re not supposed to be here,” Neavles joked. “At least, not as a customer.”“Sorry, Doc, I forgot that,” Winters replied.Neavles grabbed a few instruments and effortlessly dug out a piece of a bullet. The broken slug was bent and misshapen.“You’re lucky, Lieutenant,” Neavles said. “It was a ricochet. It’ll hurt like hell and get stiff on you, but you’ll live. Any chance you can keep off of it for a while?”“I doubt it,” Winters replied.Neavles shrugged as he applied sulfa powder and wrapped the wound with a bandage. Winters put his boot back on, noting a small hole in the tongue. He did not lace the boot to the top.Easy had suffered ten casualties in the attack on Carentan, most of them wounded and now in the aid station. Neavles, along with company medics Eugene G. Roe, Ralph F. Spina and John R. Holland, moved among the men, tending their needs and addressing their injuries. Winters got off the table and limped around the room, speaking briefly to Lipton and other wounded men. Then he saw Private Albert Blithe sitting with his back against a wall, seemingly unhurt.“He said he can’t see,” Neavles said, noting Winters’ questioning gaze. “I believe him. It’s called hysterical blindness. I’ve heard of it, but I’ve never seen it’til now.”Winters knelt in front of the young man.“Blithe,” he said. “It’s Lieutenant Winters. Can you tell me what’s the matter?”“Everything just went black, sir. I can’t see a thing. I’m sorry. I’m truly sorry.”Winters patted the distressed young man’s shoulder. “Don’t you worry about a thing, son,” he said. “We’ll get you out of here and back to England. You just hang tough.” He rose and limped away. He’d barely taken five steps when Blithe called to him.“Lieutenant Winters,” Blithe said, slowly rising to his feet, swiping the back of his sleeve across his eyes. “I can see. It’s okay. I can see. I think I’ll be all right.”Winters walked back to him. Blithe looked into Winters’ eyes, and the lieutenant said gently, “That’s good, Blithe. But why don’t we send you back with the rest and get you checked out properly to make sure you’re okay.”“No, sir,” he replied. “I’d like to stay here with the fellas, if that’s okay.”Winters would have preferred to send him back, but relented. “All right. Rest here a bit first, just to make sure you’re fit. Then report back to your platoon.”Blithe nodded. As Winters walked away he felt enormous pride in Blithe. The young man was so terrified he literally lost his eyesight. Yet, once given a few reassuring words, he had snapped out of it and was ready to return to duty. Winters appreciated that Blithe could’ve taken the easy way out, but chose to stick with his friends."
People forget how brave the chaplains were, and very few of them carried even a pistol for self defense. And they jumped with everyone else. Talk about unsung heroes. The way Winters handles Blithe is exceptional. He doesn't shame him like Patton, just encourages him. After Blithe realizes what will happen and the shame of it, his sight returns. By handling it this way, Winters keeps a functional soldier instead of losing a body. Remember that he later tells Blithe to take it easy at the aid station for a few hours, and help Doc Rowe. That gives Blithe a chance to lose some stress, and still contribute. Nothing wrong with that. The military has discovered that giving ppl a 24 hr or so break in a rear area, some rest and a couple of hot meals often prevents a breakdown which would happen if kept on the line too long.
Bull fucking shit Chaplains are goddamn waste. They're a waste of food, manpower and money. All they do is go around peddling their God, which would be all well and good if they weren't taking up space. But in the end, a chaplain will never hump ammo, never pick up a weapon, never contribute to the war effort beyond a sermon. When push comes to shove even those French civilians will pick up a weapon. But this waste of space will do nothing of actual value.
What about Desmond Doss the focus of Hacksaw Ridge? He was a medic who refused to carry a gun but ended up saving multiple lives. He was awarded the Medical of Honor, which is really rare for a medic.
@@dorkmax7073 You obviously don't know anything about chaplains then especially ww2 chaplains. Some chaplains come from combat jobs and "pedal their god" because it helps the men feel at ease when they go off to face certain death. Hell when I was on deployment I would say a prayer with the catholic chaplain before I would go to my mount and stand watch. If you are a service member then you have no place to call a man who is enter into a hostile area with nary a weapon to defend himself. Also Winter's wasn't a chaplain he was an Airborne infantry officer.
I love how compassionate Winters is here. So many other COs would've blown up at Blithe and accused him of faking, or shame him for perceived cowardice, but Winters knows his men well enough trust them and not destroy them for something that's not their fault. Great leader and a great man.
In the Church in Carentan there is a four panel stain glass window of the Saviors of Carentan. One is Jeanne D’Arc, one is St Michel, one is D-Day anthe fourth is a knight kneeling holding his shield and on the shield is an Eagle. At the base of the pane in French is “101st Airborne”.
@@davidwoody5228 Same, took a tour through Normandy in 2017. Omaha, Utah, Carentan, St. Mare-Eglise, Pont-du-Hoc. Pretty impressive places. As a soldier the people in Normandy are some of the best, as you leave the coast French folks get a lot less...polite.
Hysterical blindness is a real thing... I used to teach hang gliding, and had a surprising number of people that the stress was high enough that they would go temporarily blind mid flight!
@Creepy Hair Sniffer a blow to the solar plexus at least for me causes more panic than pain. I always felt like I couldn't breathe. Sure it hurt a little but the shock and panic were the main problems.
Try jumping off from a 5th floor window to a rescue crash pad at the bottom because the building is on fire. I was so scared I literally went blind midair. The ambulance medics said I was hyperventilating and sweating profusely so they gave me some oxygen and it helped me calm down. My vision was restored a minute after.
Love that the show makes the officers look silly by asking whether it's safe or not to cross, only to have Winters get hit on the very same spot a couple seconds later, justifying the other officer's concerns. It's war, just cause you're a little experienced doesn't make anything less dangerous. Never stop being careful.
They cut this way to soon. The best part of all this - isn't Winters getting hit - but his effect on Blythe. The man had hysterical blindness and all he needed was a kind, caring voice. Winters talked to him for a few moments, he calmed down, could see again and then wanted to go back to his unit. So Winters told him to wait there for a little while and if he was OK - he could rejoin his buddies. ruclips.net/video/ZvEI7k8pfHg/видео.html .
They messed up a few things. Even the day Hitler died. You would think that would be easy enough to fact check. Great series, but still just Hollywood bunk
@@nicholasmuro1742 "but still just Hollywood bunk" That insinuates it's not a "great series", which you also said. There are some inaccuracies, but that doesn't make it trash like the majority of Hollywood.
It is easy to cast doubt on Blithe or feel he was a coward in this scene, but the affects of combat are difficult to gauge. What should be noted here is that Blithe returned to combat shortly after this and was shot by a sniper, shattering his collarbone. It is believed that Winters himself thought that Blithe had died, which led to the misinformation in the miniseries. After that he was sent back home due to the wound in October of 1944. He later served in Korea with the 187th Airborne. Blithe did die while still on active duty at the age of 44 in 1967, due to complications from surgery for a perforated ulcer. He was 44 at the time of his death, and the rank of Master Sergeant.
@@larryborsa4396 real life can be extremely unrealistic sometimes. Amazing how many things happen that no writer would ever put in a story due to it being too unbelievable
interesting, winters took blythes word for it, when most people would immediately assume hes faking blindness to get out of combat... winters probly knows that theres no use in distrusting his men, either the man is telling the truth or hes no good to him anyways, compassion is the best move in such a terrifying place
Ernest Hemingway says during WWI people were drinking to get their courage up. I agree john, I grew up tough and all that crap, old man beat me like a drum, blah blah.... I would SHRINK like a piece of crap and cry like a baby facing what these men faced. No chance I could take it.
@@maddierosemusic Currently, sure. But when supported by, and wanting to support, the people around you because if you don't you all die? Well, you would change, and pretty quickly. Not to mention the time spent beforehand conditioning you to be able to handle it as best as possible. We are malleable. It's a part of what makes us the most dominant species on the planet. We adapt and overcome, as cheesy a saying as it is, it's still true. PTSD (along with other mental disorders) is, put extremely simply, an example of the conditions imposed on a person being beyond the mind's current ability to flex, and/or trivialize, events. And so that person is "broken" mentally, and emotionally. Of course it depends on the person as well. Someone who has been through abuse, like you have, could have an easier or harder time in stressful situations. It's really a toss-up. It could bring back horrible memories, or you could have successfully overcome past hardships, and become stronger for it. If you can think back on the hard times in your life, and don't really give a shit about them anymore, or they don't stick with you in a gnawing way. Well then you're pretty strong. Though if you do still struggle with your past, that's absolutely fine too. Tons of people have issues letting go, and rightfully so. Long story short: I believe you, and pretty much everyone, have the ability to overcome these kinds of situations. It really is all about who's there to support you, your mental state through it, and past hardships and how they molded you.
@@SuperBennnnnnnnn Probably. Hysterical blindness, whether brief or long-lasting, can happen in response to trauma. It's scary how the brain can just shut down some of its functions like that - you can go blind, deaf, and/or mute solely from psychological trauma.
Not exactly, there is some speculation that the round itself was a friendly ricochet. The anger would more accurately be defined as the reaction of a quality Soldier and officer who is confronted with the likelihood of having to be taken out of service due to injury.
Exactly. The truth is: no leader is gifted with a perfect ability to forsee all possible occurrences...when the superior officer asks Winters, "Is it safe to cross...?" He's not asking, "Am I perfectly safe...?" Instead, he's asking in essence, "To the best of your knowledge, experience and judgment, is it safe to cross...? to which Winters answers, "Yes sir..." Only to be wounded himself because Winters's knowledge, experience and judgment (while considerable and likely enough for me to follow him into battle unquestioningly) was still not perfect...there are some things that you simply CAN NOT CONTROL FOR...Winters was still amazing...
The blindness is a real thing. The immune system will shutdown the abiltiy to see in extemrly stressful or traumatic situations. This tends to happen when the body is proccessing to much trauma from visual cortex. Much in the same you push a muscle too hard in the gym, its reacts, contracts and needs time to heal.
Winters always kept an eye out on the welfare of his men. He knew the signs of combat fatigue, usually the act of dropping a helmet to the ground and tousling hair up so he'd make them his runner for a day or two to get a break. Even 50 years later at a D-Day reunion one could see Winters bringing up the rear and making sure everyone was okay.
Whats funny is how Lt Col. Strayer also says "get them out of here" when he sees the cows after he finds out that Cpt. Sobel cut the fence during an exercise lol.
Winters and Nixon are hanging out by the lake in Berchtesgaden after Winters morning swim. Nixon turns to winters meaningfully and asks “So what are you going to do after this?” “Maybe get some breakfast”. Kills me every time.
i can imagine blythe was telling the truth, i had an accident once that cuased hysteria in me and my vision was really messed up for about an hour... now, my accident was probly nothing as stressful as blythes, but i did fear i was going to die, and my vision got extremely bright, like some movie flashback... the body reacts poorly to stress, period
Well he wasn't responding to visual movements. If he had been faking he wouldn't have responded. It's only because the actor knows what's going to happen hes able to ignore it . A lot of conditions phycally and mentally can cause blindness . The brain and body are really complex
The mini-series needs to make a correction to the end credits. Bligh did not die post war and distinguished himself in combat in Korea. He died in 1967 after a long career in the Army.
I love the karma of them shitting on him for asking if it’s safe to cross then getting sniped, I think it helped winter develop as a man and a leader to take a shot like that
Except that Lt Col. Strayer have always hung back all the way at the back with the rear echelons and have never been in a firefight. While all the officers in 2nd Battalion have Combat Infantryman Badges that was given to all soldiers who have engaged the enemy in battle, he never had one.
The chaplain is very lucky to be against germans who are also catholics/christians, which is why they don't shoot him. If he was in the pacific however...
Hysterical blindness He got so overwhelmed by everything that was happening around him that his brain shut off his eyes as a defense/coping mechanism. Winters talking to him in a calm and reassuring voice helped him to see again as his brain was finally able to calm down
Doc Roe was right when he said Lt Winters is lucky he only caught a piece of the bullet and it was a ricochet. A full bullet fired directly from a gun and lodged deep in the flesh will usually caused alot of damage and will do even more damage if taken out.
I knew a guy who pretended to get a concussion in an IED blast. His humvee didn’t even get hit. The one that he was following did. He got a Purple Heart.
@@likessox92 It wasn’t for dramatic effect. It was an honest mistake because many members of Easy company thought he had died until Blythe’s family came forward and said he actually survived his wounds and continued to serve in Korea.
how did Lieutenant Colonel Robet L. Strayer earn his stripes? In this clip he is seen like a scared rookie grunt that has never had any field experience first hand.
When you get to a certain level, your position is more important than you. Strayer was something like battalion CO, I believe. If he was killed or seriously wounded, it would have been a big problem. Being careless in his position was irresponsible. Something similar happened during the attack on Foy, when Dike froze and Winters wanted to run in and take charge himself, but he was stopped by Sink because he was the battalion commander and couldn't risk himself like that.
Prior to Pearl Harbour very, very few US officers had any type of combat experience, and Pearl Harbour to D-day only a fraction of the US Army was in combat (haven't done the sums but no more than 1/4 - less than 1/6th in Europe). The few WWI veterans were old, predominantly generals, with a few senior NCOs. In between the wars there were a couple of company sized ops in the Philippines, but like the vast majority on D-Day this would have been Strayers first combat. He was a pre-war national guard officer, who was probably still a 1st Lt after a decade years of local state exercises. Promotion was that slow. As the US Army expanded - from just over a hundred thousand in 1940 to several million by 1944 - he found himself Capt to Lt Col in less than two years. Its what the Caine mutiny is all about. The US armed forces were civilians in uniform, with a very small cadre to pull senior officers from. By D-Day most of those only had a theoretical knowledge of combat but someone still had to lead. I would also point out this is a group of actors interpreting a directors interpretation of a screenwriters interpretation of historians interpretation of what happened. The real Bob Strayer did what was asked of him, when it was asked of him, won medals, got promoted and his side won the war. He couldn't had been a complete zoob.
@@davidrendall7195 diego has it right, in the attack on FOY prior to sending spiers to relieve command of the inept officer, Winters tries to rush in as easy is getting pinned downed.. then he gets cocked by col sink, cant lose a battalion xo send in Spiers to take that attack on end
I have a question:was blythe really blind or was it more mental thing that he couldnt see?(also im not implying anything about blithe,im just genuinely curious about his condition)
It was a form of shellshock/ptsd/stress/fatigue whatever you want to call it. I think everyone just kind of shrugged and said "eh, it happens" and nothing was said further of it.
The patriot is mel Gibson film of 5ye the American revolutionary war. This is the 101st airborne I have a damn good friend currently a specialist I believe (E-4) my branch it would be know as a corporal.
Is it true that the US military during WW2 had poor tactics? I read somewhere that the German generals doesnt have high regards for the Americans. When ever US forces meet any resistant, they would stop and wait for support even when the forces confronting them are held by a handful of guys. That had it been the German, they would have pushed into Germany in a couple of months with all the equipment and supplies the Americans had at there disposal.
I can say the same for the German tactics when they invaded Russia and German Generals had high regards American officers specially Patton with his old school aggressiveness
@@FatGouf It seems Patton was also from the Americans perspective but the German didnt care much for him either. As for the Russian campaign, I was under the impression that they are only limited by the supplies and poor road condition. The fact the German were able to pushed so far into Russia in 4 months before winter hits should have given us some indications of how well the German fought had they given the supplies and equipment the Allies had. It would have ended much earlier.
@@discover854 - your opinion on the Russian campaign is sorely misguided. You are entirely leaving out the fact that the Germans tricked the Russians and attacked while still under a 10 year "non-aggression pact". Therefore the Russians weren't exactly shoring up their defenses or really even expecting a German attack. If anything, given how the Germans so easily moved into other countries using the Blitzkreig, one should be in awe that the Russians were able to mobilize and yes, with the help of the weather, and poor logistics by the Germans, hold the advance. As far as Patton "the Germans didn't care much for him" depends on perspective. There were those in the German command who believed that no one had the quality characteristics of German leadership, therefore all were inferior. But make no mistake, the battlefield generals who went against the likes of Patton and/or Montgomery had a great deal of respect, and fear, for many of the allied generals. If one were to look at what led to the end of the war.... America came with the supplies, England provided the launching pad, but make no mistake, Russia provided the blood. Loss of life in war should always be looked upon with solemn respect, but the deathtoll for the Russians, and the Germans for that matter, on the Eastern front, was what led to the end of the war. Stalin was a terrible human being, and his leadership decisions during WWII, while ultimately successful, were brutal even to his own army and civilians alike.
@@rooh5825 True. I was following a UK vlogger traveling through Russia and former Soviet states. The towns and villages dotted across the former Soviet Russia empty of life only left with a monument of the war dead. A town of a couple hundreds would have a list of 200 or more on the monument. Crazy how much of a sacrifice the Russian people and former Soviet states had to endure during WW2. The death toll were unimaginable from an American perspective. The list of GIs dead in some towns across the middle America during WW2 was nothing compared to what the Russian and the Soviet states had on their monuments.
the character is hard to like, I understand what you mean...for a paratrooper, he never quite seemed to catch on that he would be fighting for real...I think Ambrose did a great disservice to the real soldier named Blythe, according to reports from his family after the series came out
Thomas T Right. I read about him. Believe he stayed in after the war. And he was from Philadelphia, so the cheesy accent is unnecessary. But I just hate when ppl speak gently and hesitantly like he did. I hate murmuring. If you’re going to say something- say it.
@@Capodecamper thanks for the reply. Europe was a very politic war (for america). In high ranks of politics. Many support germany. Many dont feel a connection. England was americas historical enemy. If anything. I like france in my midwest. ........where as. ..Japan was a personal attrition sick war (for america ( and some aussies) only enemy) casualties in jungle are small arms , dismemberment, grenades, stabbing, covert. Casualties highly accurate . Jungle. Small island. No massive artillery, no tanks. America had a HUGE investment militarily (THOUGH NOT THE BEST, THEY WENT INTO THE JUNGLES) with numbers in the euro theater. Not the best. They went west .......america I love, but I do believe in the bulge it was a bad disaster for america and those 20 k that are missing are dead and it is just a way to buffer a media and political humiliation for the writers of New York. The American military is honest about facts, but even they succumb to pressure for moral purposes. In CONTRAST, no comments about the LORD OF THE FLIES actions that occurred in the pacific , because it was much less political motivated just actual hatred.
@@Capodecamper also if ya look up where the divisions of america formed from, you realize there is an OBVIOUS connections to which volunteer divison was fighting in which front.. ALL DIVISIONS THAT HAD ANY POSSIBILITY OF SYMPATHIZING WITH GERMANY AT THE TIME WHERE SENT TO THE PACIFIC. The pacific northwest, Montana, the midwest, and the southwest like new mexico. The us army was tiny. The jungleer, americal, tropical, army divisions were all volunteer and guard divisions and were the first to engage japan, (besides a couple marine diviions) with the highest casualties in the entire war. Point? The bulge is politic, And missing in america means fucking dead. Casualties on the German side can be judged as precise but inaccurate considering the times and I do not believe a german embellishes on a military level to an equal adversary. German fucked it up pretty hard but was severely limited in pretty much everything.
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What I find funny is that Winters' reaction says he's more pissed off at getting shot than hurt.
is it safe to cross
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@@Capodecamper Looks clear.
If he'd been shot for real he'd have been more hurt than pissed off.
He's worried that his wound will compromise his ability to command and lead his men. He doesn't want to be a liability.
Blithe's blindness is a real documented thing. Herodotus mentions an Athenian soldier at the Battle of Marathon who inexplicably went blind despite having suffered no injuries whatsoever. Everyone was dumbfounded and the poor guy was blind for the rest of his life.
I'd guess some sort of shock that damaged his nervous system. Only way I could explain such a thing, but I'm not any kind of doctor either, so whatever my take may be worth.
This is silly and anecdotal, but I had to quit a job that I was lucky to have for a better opportunity. My boss was very angry at me for leaving. When I got home I went completely blind for a few seconds. I think it was a mini-stroke type of situation. My thinking is that stress that isn't handled mentally shows itself either psychologically or physiologically, and this was an example of my body handling an issue on my brain's behalf.
He later legally changed his name to ray charles.
Damn yikes, I thought historical blindness was a temporary thing
Blithe later in the episode had called it ‘hysterical blindness’ which was an old psychiatric diagnosis to describe a ‘partitioning effect of consciousness’ where the conscious personality dissociates a part of itself (in this case trauma) to protect itself from a seriously traumatic event. Freud and his works earlier in his career had named dissociation as hysteria which had derived from the works of Pierre Janet. This phenomenon is real and especially in this scenario. You see how other characters in the show such as Speirs, and even Winters deal with dissociation. Speirs later on after the scene says to Blithe “The only hope you have to accept is that you’re already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you’ll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function.” This also shows a level of dissociation with Speirs, showing that he’s able to dissociate himself away from himself and be able to function for a task, even if that means life or death. In the case of Blithe, hysteria was an old psychiatric and psychoanalytical diagnosis, and the word ‘hysteria’ means a ‘floating uterus’, mainly because the early meaning of the word had thought that the only people that were hysterics were actually woman, thus the term ‘floating uterus’. But this shows that this isn’t the case with all so-called ‘hysterics’.
Glad to see there's no comment regarding how 'weak' Blithe is for doing this to himself. The reality is the nerves and anxiety was so real that your body can really do things to itself as a self defense mechanic to cope with the situation and emotions. Winters did such a job handling it the way he did, instead of tumbling down on him like a ton of bricks. The more I watch Band of Brothers the more I start to see the angelic qualities in Winters doing what he can to watch over his men and be there for them especially when they need it most.
That's what good officers do. They lead and mentor their subordinates.
Hysterical blindness , he didn't do anything to himself .
I had to look it up because I didn't quite understand what happened to him in the battle
@@jonweik4091 it's not called hysterical blindness anymore; the medical term is Conversion Disorder. He actually does have blindness, but it's an unconscious mechanism that's causing it rather than actually being blind.
A lot of soldiers went through it. It's widely regarded as a defence mechanism to alleviate anxieties and stress.
Winters is one of the best leaders to ever hit the battlefield in WW2, and this proves it.
@@ownagenoobs1 Basically its Combat Stress. Bullets are flying all around him and explosions everywhere. My grandpa was a Vietnam vet with the Marines and he went through something similar. It was his first time in combat and in the middle of firing at the enemy, his combat buddy next to him got shot in the face. His body just shuts down and he collapsed. His breathing became fast and shallow, his heartbeat became rapid and he was losing his sight. His friends thought he got shot so they pull him to the back where a corpsman attended to him. Later he was airlifted to a field hospital where he was warded for 3 days.
From the book
"Winters decided to check the company’s ammo supply. Walking by the hotel at the intersection, where the dead German machine gun crew lay sprawled, a voice called, “Lieutenant Winters. Is it safe to cross?”It was Strayer. The battalion commander and his staff, less the wounded Lavenson, were directly across from Winters, crouched by the wall of a building.“Yes, sir,” Winters replied, irked by Strayer’s question in light of the fact that his men had just bled to secure the area. To emphasize the point, Winters stepped into the middle of the street. Strayer nodded, then hurried across, his staff trailing behind. Winters smiled and shook his head in disgust. That was typical of Strayer, he thought. Don’t lead the way if someone else can do it instead.Strayer was no sooner out of sight than something slammed into Winters’ left shin with the impact of being hit by a baseball bat. He involuntarily gasped in pain and hobbled to the side of the road.“Goddamit,” he said, less from pain than out of anger for knowing he had stupidly exposed himself to show up Strayer. Welsh ran to Winters and helped him into a sitting position on the sidewalk.“Let’s get that boot off,” Welsh said. Doing so, he examined the wound. “It’s not deep. Maybe I can get it.”He drew out his trench knife and began probing.“Ouch! Dammit, Harry, you’re all thumbs.” Winters winced. “Just help me to the aid station.”At the makeshift hospital Doc Neavles hurried over and helped Welsh ease Winters onto a tabletop. “You’re not supposed to be here,” Neavles joked. “At least, not as a customer.”“Sorry, Doc, I forgot that,” Winters replied.Neavles grabbed a few instruments and effortlessly dug out a piece of a bullet. The broken slug was bent and misshapen.“You’re lucky, Lieutenant,” Neavles said. “It was a ricochet. It’ll hurt like hell and get stiff on you, but you’ll live. Any chance you can keep off of it for a while?”“I doubt it,” Winters replied.Neavles shrugged as he applied sulfa powder and wrapped the wound with a bandage. Winters put his boot back on, noting a small hole in the tongue. He did not lace the boot to the top.Easy had suffered ten casualties in the attack on Carentan, most of them wounded and now in the aid station. Neavles, along with company medics Eugene G. Roe, Ralph F. Spina and John R. Holland, moved among the men, tending their needs and addressing their injuries. Winters got off the table and limped around the room, speaking briefly to Lipton and other wounded men. Then he saw Private Albert Blithe sitting with his back against a wall, seemingly unhurt.“He said he can’t see,” Neavles said, noting Winters’ questioning gaze. “I believe him. It’s called hysterical blindness. I’ve heard of it, but I’ve never seen it’til now.”Winters knelt in front of the young man.“Blithe,” he said. “It’s Lieutenant Winters. Can you tell me what’s the matter?”“Everything just went black, sir. I can’t see a thing. I’m sorry. I’m truly sorry.”Winters patted the distressed young man’s shoulder. “Don’t you worry about a thing, son,” he said. “We’ll get you out of here and back to England. You just hang tough.” He rose and limped away. He’d barely taken five steps when Blithe called to him.“Lieutenant Winters,” Blithe said, slowly rising to his feet, swiping the back of his sleeve across his eyes. “I can see. It’s okay. I can see. I think I’ll be all right.”Winters walked back to him. Blithe looked into Winters’ eyes, and the lieutenant said gently, “That’s good, Blithe. But why don’t we send you back with the rest and get you checked out properly to make sure you’re okay.”“No, sir,” he replied. “I’d like to stay here with the fellas, if that’s okay.”Winters would have preferred to send him back, but relented. “All right. Rest here a bit first, just to make sure you’re fit. Then report back to your platoon.”Blithe nodded. As Winters walked away he felt enormous pride in Blithe. The young man was so terrified he literally lost his eyesight. Yet, once given a few reassuring words, he had snapped out of it and was ready to return to duty. Winters appreciated that Blithe could’ve taken the easy way out, but chose to stick with his friends."
Thanks for shering this
People forget how brave the chaplains were, and very few of them carried even a pistol for self defense. And they jumped with everyone else. Talk about unsung heroes. The way Winters handles Blithe is exceptional. He doesn't shame him like Patton, just encourages him. After Blithe realizes what will happen and the shame of it, his sight returns. By handling it this way, Winters keeps a functional soldier instead of losing a body. Remember that he later tells Blithe to take it easy at the aid station for a few hours, and help Doc Rowe. That gives Blithe a chance to lose some stress, and still contribute. Nothing wrong with that. The military has discovered that giving ppl a 24 hr or so break in a rear area, some rest and a couple of hot meals often prevents a breakdown which would happen if kept on the line too long.
Troy Ortega well said
He did actually go blind with hysterical blindness caused by the stress of battle so I don't think he should of feeled shame. He wasn't making it up
Bull fucking shit Chaplains are goddamn waste. They're a waste of food, manpower and money. All they do is go around peddling their God, which would be all well and good if they weren't taking up space. But in the end, a chaplain will never hump ammo, never pick up a weapon, never contribute to the war effort beyond a sermon. When push comes to shove even those French civilians will pick up a weapon. But this waste of space will do nothing of actual value.
What about Desmond Doss the focus of Hacksaw Ridge? He was a medic who refused to carry a gun but ended up saving multiple lives. He was awarded the Medical of Honor, which is really rare for a medic.
@@dorkmax7073 You obviously don't know anything about chaplains then especially ww2 chaplains. Some chaplains come from combat jobs and "pedal their god" because it helps the men feel at ease when they go off to face certain death. Hell when I was on deployment I would say a prayer with the catholic chaplain before I would go to my mount and stand watch. If you are a service member then you have no place to call a man who is enter into a hostile area with nary a weapon to defend himself. Also Winter's wasn't a chaplain he was an Airborne infantry officer.
0:14 a perfect example of best friends communicating with just facial expressions
Lol everyone could understand that, very common facial expression
me and my coworkers share this expression like 20 times a day. t- medical field
Did you really feel it was necessary to point this out
Buckle Up, Homestuck yes
@@Oblio1942 and saying the word oooops.
I love how compassionate Winters is here. So many other COs would've blown up at Blithe and accused him of faking, or shame him for perceived cowardice, but Winters knows his men well enough trust them and not destroy them for something that's not their fault. Great leader and a great man.
In the Church in Carentan there is a four panel stain glass window of the Saviors of Carentan. One is Jeanne D’Arc, one is St Michel, one is D-Day anthe fourth is a knight kneeling holding his shield and on the shield is an Eagle. At the base of the pane in French is “101st Airborne”.
Have you taken any pictures of that?
@@Rad18238 cromwell-intl.com/travel/france/normandy/brecourt-manor.html
About halfway down the page.
Badass.
Been there. Pretty awesome.
@@davidwoody5228 Same, took a tour through Normandy in 2017. Omaha, Utah, Carentan, St. Mare-Eglise, Pont-du-Hoc. Pretty impressive places. As a soldier the people in Normandy are some of the best, as you leave the coast French folks get a lot less...polite.
Hysterical blindness is a real thing... I used to teach hang gliding, and had a surprising number of people that the stress was high enough that they would go temporarily blind mid flight!
I was blind for 4 seconds after watch a snuff video, so i belive him xd
I had a team mate of mine get hit real hard in the solar plexus and he went blind for a minute. Trauma and panic do weird things to the body.
@Creepy Hair Sniffer a blow to the solar plexus at least for me causes more panic than pain. I always felt like I couldn't breathe. Sure it hurt a little but the shock and panic were the main problems.
Try jumping off from a 5th floor window to a rescue crash pad at the bottom because the building is on fire. I was so scared I literally went blind midair. The ambulance medics said I was hyperventilating and sweating profusely so they gave me some oxygen and it helped me calm down. My vision was restored a minute after.
I know a young woman what had a bout of hysterical blindness after her first tandem skydive jump with an instructor.
Best war movie/series ever. The guy who played Blithe was The Major in Green Street Hooligans.
I love this series, one of my favorites. If u Google blithe, he was actually a bad ass soldier
GSE for life!!! Forever blowing bubbles
Who fuckin cares
@@ww2guy782 Felt bad for Blithe. The guy should've been in supply or something, not in combat.
Then you never watched hacksaw ridge
Love that the show makes the officers look silly by asking whether it's safe or not to cross, only to have Winters get hit on the very same spot a couple seconds later, justifying the other officer's concerns.
It's war, just cause you're a little experienced doesn't make anything less dangerous. Never stop being careful.
They cut this way to soon. The best part of all this - isn't Winters getting hit - but his effect on Blythe. The man had hysterical blindness and all he needed was a kind, caring voice. Winters talked to him for a few moments, he calmed down, could see again and then wanted to go back to his unit. So Winters told him to wait there for a little while and if he was OK - he could rejoin his buddies.
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The acting is just so good
I watched an interview with Dick Winters and he had nothing but respect for Blithe. Blithe went on to serve in Korea.
I like how Strayer isn't portrayed as cowardly or terribly incompetent, just kind of a weirdo.
Blithe ended up serving a reputable career. Getting a purple heart, and both a bronze and silver star.
He also didn't die in 1948 like the show says at the end of the episode, they messed up. It was 1967 I believe
They messed up a few things.
Even the day Hitler died.
You would think that would be easy enough to fact check. Great series, but still just Hollywood bunk
@@nicholasmuro1742 "but still just Hollywood bunk"
That insinuates it's not a "great series", which you also said. There are some inaccuracies, but that doesn't make it trash like the majority of Hollywood.
@@RenegadeShepTheSpacer
No. Something could be hogwash but still be entertaining.
It is easy to cast doubt on Blithe or feel he was a coward in this scene, but the affects of combat are difficult to gauge. What should be noted here is that Blithe returned to combat shortly after this and was shot by a sniper, shattering his collarbone. It is believed that Winters himself thought that Blithe had died, which led to the misinformation in the miniseries. After that he was sent back home due to the wound in October of 1944. He later served in Korea with the 187th Airborne. Blithe did die while still on active duty at the age of 44 in 1967, due to complications from surgery for a perforated ulcer. He was 44 at the time of his death, and the rank of Master Sergeant.
Wow so Blithe survived afterall. He probably got panic attacks that is why he went blind.
I found Blithe's character to be totally unrealistic. He wouldn't have made it through training in the first place.
@@larryborsa4396 real life can be extremely unrealistic sometimes. Amazing how many things happen that no writer would ever put in a story due to it being too unbelievable
Another thing, most were boys. Most under 25 .
War disturbes most older men . Think about what it does to the younger age groups
@@hannahdyson7129 - Actually the average age of a Soldier in WWII was 26.6, it's a common myth that they were under 25.
interesting, winters took blythes word for it, when most people would immediately assume hes faking blindness to get out of combat... winters probly knows that theres no use in distrusting his men, either the man is telling the truth or hes no good to him anyways, compassion is the best move in such a terrifying place
on my best day i could never summon up the courage of someone like blithe on his worst day...
Of course you could, you just don't know it or/because you haven't had to.
Ernest Hemingway says during WWI people were drinking to get their courage up.
I agree john, I grew up tough and all that crap, old man beat me like a drum, blah blah....
I would SHRINK like a piece of crap and cry like a baby
facing what these men faced. No chance I could take it.
@@maddierosemusic People adapt. They were people, just like us.
@@maddierosemusic Currently, sure. But when supported by, and wanting to support, the people around you because if you don't you all die? Well, you would change, and pretty quickly.
Not to mention the time spent beforehand conditioning you to be able to handle it as best as possible. We are malleable. It's a part of what makes us the most dominant species on the planet. We adapt and overcome, as cheesy a saying as it is, it's still true.
PTSD (along with other mental disorders) is, put extremely simply, an example of the conditions imposed on a person being beyond the mind's current ability to flex, and/or trivialize, events. And so that person is "broken" mentally, and emotionally. Of course it depends on the person as well. Someone who has been through abuse, like you have, could have an easier or harder time in stressful situations. It's really a toss-up. It could bring back horrible memories, or you could have successfully overcome past hardships, and become stronger for it.
If you can think back on the hard times in your life, and don't really give a shit about them anymore, or they don't stick with you in a gnawing way. Well then you're pretty strong. Though if you do still struggle with your past, that's absolutely fine too. Tons of people have issues letting go, and rightfully so.
Long story short: I believe you, and pretty much everyone, have the ability to overcome these kinds of situations. It really is all about who's there to support you, your mental state through it, and past hardships and how they molded you.
Nowadays, people get upset when you use the "wrong" word to talk about gender. Good times create weak men.
Casting is everything to a great script…v everyone nailed it
I believe Blythe had what is called hysterical blindness.
Shellshock
@@SuperBennnnnnnnn Probably. Hysterical blindness, whether brief or long-lasting, can happen in response to trauma. It's scary how the brain can just shut down some of its functions like that - you can go blind, deaf, and/or mute solely from psychological trauma.
Well yeah, they said that in the episode....
The modern term is "conversion disorder"
He's pissed off because he gave information that wasn't true, it wasn't safe to cross. He is angry at himself. A true soldier, much respect.
He could be both pissed at that and him catching a ricochet in his leg.
Not exactly, there is some speculation that the round itself was a friendly ricochet. The anger would more accurately be defined as the reaction of a quality Soldier and officer who is confronted with the likelihood of having to be taken out of service due to injury.
Situations can change in an instant. Perhaps angry at himself that he let his guard down for just an instant, long enough for safety to become danger.
Exactly. The truth is: no leader is gifted with a perfect ability to forsee all possible occurrences...when the superior officer asks Winters, "Is it safe to cross...?" He's not asking, "Am I perfectly safe...?" Instead, he's asking in essence, "To the best of your knowledge, experience and judgment, is it safe to cross...? to which Winters answers, "Yes sir..." Only to be wounded himself because Winters's knowledge, experience and judgment (while considerable and likely enough for me to follow him into battle unquestioningly) was still not perfect...there are some things that you simply CAN NOT CONTROL FOR...Winters was still amazing...
I guess it wasn't all that safe to cross after all.
Love Winters' angry huff after he gets hit.... 😆
The blindness is a real thing. The immune system will shutdown the abiltiy to see in extemrly stressful or traumatic situations. This tends to happen when the body is proccessing to much trauma from visual cortex. Much in the same you push a muscle too hard in the gym, its reacts, contracts and needs time to heal.
YOU DON'T SNIPE IN CARENTAN!
Tell my COD2 inner kid that..
Office reference as well lol
HamburgerTime SABOTEUR !!! Saboteur !!!
Why not? 🤔
Great reference
this needs more views
Why?
Blithe being blind is actually one of the effects of PTSD
Does it go away like do they get to see again
@@lavafox72x39 sometimes but not always, a soldier at the battle of marathon in ancient times lost his sight for the rest of his life.
I heard in his case it went away and he was decorated in Korea.
Winters always kept an eye out on the welfare of his men. He knew the signs of combat fatigue, usually the act of dropping a helmet to the ground and tousling hair up so he'd make them his runner for a day or two to get a break. Even 50 years later at a D-Day reunion one could see Winters bringing up the rear and making sure everyone was okay.
Whats funny is how Lt Col. Strayer also says "get them out of here" when he sees the cows after he finds out that Cpt. Sobel cut the fence during an exercise lol.
Winters and Nixon are hanging out by the lake in Berchtesgaden after Winters morning swim. Nixon turns to winters meaningfully and asks “So what are you going to do after this?”
“Maybe get some breakfast”.
Kills me every time.
It was in 🇦🇹Austria I thing. In Zell Am See
Fair point! Cheers!
@headbangingurl16 Yes it is, and he did a great job on Blithe
Winter’s inner monologue “Damn Dick that’s what you get for being so cavalier.”
Cardboard got a little less flat when the actual death counts became unavoidable to deny.
0:25 How I am when I stub my toe....
Lucky that's only the toe
i can imagine blythe was telling the truth, i had an accident once that cuased hysteria in me and my vision was really messed up for about an hour... now, my accident was probly nothing as stressful as blythes, but i did fear i was going to die, and my vision got extremely bright, like some movie flashback... the body reacts poorly to stress, period
Well he wasn't responding to visual movements. If he had been faking he wouldn't have responded. It's only because the actor knows what's going to happen hes able to ignore it .
A lot of conditions phycally and mentally can cause blindness . The brain and body are really complex
The mini-series needs to make a correction to the end credits. Bligh did not die post war and distinguished himself in combat in Korea. He died in 1967 after a long career in the Army.
i love these movies so much!
God loves you
Blythe went on to fight in Korea and earned a Silver and Bronze star.
love eugene
Similar thing happened to my brother - he was so stressed over a upcoming surgery he became blind for 48 hours
carentan, those days...
why the fuck are you saying it like you were there
@@Smile4theKillCam456 we were wtf
MonadnockValley LMFAO
Every military academy Cadet must learn from winters
Back In the Majors day! UNITED 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 UNITED 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼!!
1:41 if you guys r wondering what shellshock is this is a prime example
No you idiot. He's blind
he was out of it from the drop on
The officers should put those binoculars out of sight. They were a tip-off to snipers that a juicy officer target was swanning about.
Man, you really feel it for Blythe.
A warzone is still a warzone.
On the next road he's gonna double check before he crosses it.
ใช่yes.
War is hell
Did Winters qualify for a purple heart for that injury?
I love the karma of them shitting on him for asking if it’s safe to cross then getting sniped, I think it helped winter develop as a man and a leader to take a shot like that
Except that Lt Col. Strayer have always hung back all the way at the back with the rear echelons and have never been in a firefight. While all the officers in 2nd Battalion have Combat Infantryman Badges that was given to all soldiers who have engaged the enemy in battle, he never had one.
He didn't get "sniped". He got hit by a ricocheting stray bullet.
Did Winters call the ricochet stupid?
The chaplain is very lucky to be against germans who are also catholics/christians, which is why they don't shoot him. If he was in the pacific however...
looks like it wasnt safe to cross
Im not even sure Blythe was trying to feign an injury - he didnt even flinch
Hysterical blindness
He got so overwhelmed by everything that was happening around him that his brain shut off his eyes as a defense/coping mechanism. Winters talking to him in a calm and reassuring voice helped him to see again as his brain was finally able to calm down
Sheldon Cooper Now known as “conversion disorder”
@@Bucketheadhead I didn't know that. Bravo to you
it is called hysterical blindness due to shock, look it up
BLAINT WHAT HAPPEND YOUR EYE?
not everyone is made for war
It's just a flesh wound.
Doc Roe was right when he said Lt Winters is lucky he only caught a piece of the bullet and it was a ricochet. A full bullet fired directly from a gun and lodged deep in the flesh will usually caused alot of damage and will do even more damage if taken out.
It probably hurt like hell, but all things considered, this was an 'easy' Purple Heart, if there is such a thing.
I knew a guy who pretended to get a concussion in an IED blast. His humvee didn’t even get hit. The one that he was following did. He got a Purple Heart.
easier than Blythe's, am I right?
@@thomast8539 IRL Blythe didn't die, the show fabricates his death for dramatic effect
@@likessox92 It wasn’t for dramatic effect. It was an honest mistake because many members of Easy company thought he had died until Blythe’s family came forward and said he actually survived his wounds and continued to serve in Korea.
how did Lieutenant Colonel Robet L. Strayer earn his stripes?
In this clip he is seen like a scared rookie grunt that has never had any field experience first hand.
He was evidently right to be careful though :^)
Haven't you ever seen The Lost Battalion?
When you get to a certain level, your position is more important than you. Strayer was something like battalion CO, I believe. If he was killed or seriously wounded, it would have been a big problem. Being careless in his position was irresponsible. Something similar happened during the attack on Foy, when Dike froze and Winters wanted to run in and take charge himself, but he was stopped by Sink because he was the battalion commander and couldn't risk himself like that.
Prior to Pearl Harbour very, very few US officers had any type of combat experience, and Pearl Harbour to D-day only a fraction of the US Army was in combat (haven't done the sums but no more than 1/4 - less than 1/6th in Europe).
The few WWI veterans were old, predominantly generals, with a few senior NCOs. In between the wars there were a couple of company sized ops in the Philippines, but like the vast majority on D-Day this would have been Strayers first combat.
He was a pre-war national guard officer, who was probably still a 1st Lt after a decade years of local state exercises. Promotion was that slow. As the US Army expanded - from just over a hundred thousand in 1940 to several million by 1944 - he found himself Capt to Lt Col in less than two years.
Its what the Caine mutiny is all about. The US armed forces were civilians in uniform, with a very small cadre to pull senior officers from. By D-Day most of those only had a theoretical knowledge of combat but someone still had to lead.
I would also point out this is a group of actors interpreting a directors interpretation of a screenwriters interpretation of historians interpretation of what happened. The real Bob Strayer did what was asked of him, when it was asked of him, won medals, got promoted and his side won the war. He couldn't had been a complete zoob.
@@davidrendall7195 diego has it right, in the attack on FOY prior to sending spiers to relieve command of the inept officer, Winters tries to rush in as easy is getting pinned downed.. then he gets cocked by col sink, cant lose a battalion xo send in Spiers to take that attack on end
I guess it wasnt that safe
I have a question:was blythe really blind or was it more mental thing that he couldnt see?(also im not implying anything about blithe,im just genuinely curious about his condition)
It was a form of shellshock/ptsd/stress/fatigue whatever you want to call it. I think everyone just kind of shrugged and said "eh, it happens" and nothing was said further of it.
Contrasts Winters with Patton.
luck is under rated
So???...........Is it still safe to cross??
I guess it’s not really safe to cross, is it? Lol, I’m wondering if this is real or writer added it in, either way, humorous
Pvt. Albert Blythe was a war hero.
what did you use to record
Bee sting.
They laugh but he gets hit 10 seconds later lmao
CBC
Is this a tv show or a movie?
A movie, Good Sir. "The Patriot"
The patriot is mel Gibson film of 5ye the American revolutionary war. This is the 101st airborne I have a damn good friend currently a specialist I believe (E-4) my branch it would be know as a corporal.
Tv show, or a really long movie depending on how you watch it
Dick Winters, Medicine Man.
Captain America is a Brit
0:20 when your foot starts to cramp during track and field
Conversion disorder.
holy shit is that marc warren?
Yep. BoB had a good number of really good actors who later became really, really famous (Tom Hardy, for one).
Michael Fassbender for another.
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@@BobSmith-dk8nw James McAvoy, Jimmy Fallon
Is it true that the US military during WW2 had poor tactics? I read somewhere that the German generals doesnt have high regards for the Americans. When ever US forces meet any resistant, they would stop and wait for support even when the forces confronting them are held by a handful of guys. That had it been the German, they would have pushed into Germany in a couple of months with all the equipment and supplies the Americans had at there disposal.
I can say the same for the German tactics when they invaded Russia and German Generals had high regards American officers specially Patton with his old school aggressiveness
@@FatGouf It seems Patton was also from the Americans perspective but the German didnt care much for him either. As for the Russian campaign, I was under the impression that they are only limited by the supplies and poor road condition. The fact the German were able to pushed so far into Russia in 4 months before winter hits should have given us some indications of how well the German fought had they given the supplies and equipment the Allies had. It would have ended much earlier.
The Americans had the best tactics in WW2, especially their infantry.
@@discover854 - your opinion on the Russian campaign is sorely misguided. You are entirely leaving out the fact that the Germans tricked the Russians and attacked while still under a 10 year "non-aggression pact". Therefore the Russians weren't exactly shoring up their defenses or really even expecting a German attack. If anything, given how the Germans so easily moved into other countries using the Blitzkreig, one should be in awe that the Russians were able to mobilize and yes, with the help of the weather, and poor logistics by the Germans, hold the advance.
As far as Patton "the Germans didn't care much for him" depends on perspective. There were those in the German command who believed that no one had the quality characteristics of German leadership, therefore all were inferior. But make no mistake, the battlefield generals who went against the likes of Patton and/or Montgomery had a great deal of respect, and fear, for many of the allied generals.
If one were to look at what led to the end of the war.... America came with the supplies, England provided the launching pad, but make no mistake, Russia provided the blood. Loss of life in war should always be looked upon with solemn respect, but the deathtoll for the Russians, and the Germans for that matter, on the Eastern front, was what led to the end of the war. Stalin was a terrible human being, and his leadership decisions during WWII, while ultimately successful, were brutal even to his own army and civilians alike.
@@rooh5825 True. I was following a UK vlogger traveling through Russia and former Soviet states. The towns and villages dotted across the former Soviet Russia empty of life only left with a monument of the war dead. A town of a couple hundreds would have a list of 200 or more on the monument. Crazy how much of a sacrifice the Russian people and former Soviet states had to endure during WW2. The death toll were unimaginable from an American perspective. The list of GIs dead in some towns across the middle America during WW2 was nothing compared to what the Russian and the Soviet states had on their monuments.
I think doc was high on morphine for the whole show.
WHAT?!?!? WHY DO YOU SAY THAT???
Blithe’s character irks me. I think maybe it’s the fake accent.
he's a bit odd from the get go
Joanie Adams He was a Brit trying to do a southern accent. To make it more funny the real Blithe was from Philly.
altonbunnjr Ha. Sort of like the NYC accents of Martin (from Cleveland), Perconte (from Chicago), and Guarnere (from Philly). 🙂
the character is hard to like, I understand what you mean...for a paratrooper, he never quite seemed to catch on that he would be fighting for real...I think Ambrose did a great disservice to the real soldier named Blythe, according to reports from his family after the series came out
Thomas T Right. I read about him. Believe he stayed in after the war. And he was from Philadelphia, so the cheesy accent is unnecessary.
But I just hate when ppl speak gently and hesitantly like he did. I hate murmuring. If you’re going to say something- say it.
Like the bulge, america lost like 4 to 1 , with enormous artillery and plane superiority, put we can chalk that up to missing.
what
@@Capodecamper yeah what
@@Capodecamper thanks for the reply. Europe was a very politic war (for america). In high ranks of politics. Many support germany. Many dont feel a connection. England was americas historical enemy. If anything. I like france in my midwest. ........where as. ..Japan was a personal attrition sick war (for america ( and some aussies) only enemy) casualties in jungle are small arms , dismemberment, grenades, stabbing, covert. Casualties highly accurate . Jungle. Small island. No massive artillery, no tanks.
America had a HUGE investment militarily (THOUGH NOT THE BEST, THEY WENT INTO THE JUNGLES) with numbers in the euro theater. Not the best. They went west .......america I love, but I do believe in the bulge it was a bad disaster for america and those 20 k that are missing are dead and it is just a way to buffer a media and political humiliation for the writers of New York. The American military is honest about facts, but even they succumb to pressure for moral purposes. In CONTRAST, no comments about the LORD OF THE FLIES actions that occurred in the pacific , because it was much less political motivated just actual hatred.
@@Capodecamper also if ya look up where the divisions of america formed from, you realize there is an OBVIOUS connections to which volunteer divison was fighting in which front.. ALL DIVISIONS THAT HAD ANY POSSIBILITY OF SYMPATHIZING WITH GERMANY AT THE TIME WHERE SENT TO THE PACIFIC. The pacific northwest, Montana, the midwest, and the southwest like new mexico. The us army was tiny. The jungleer, americal, tropical, army divisions were all volunteer and guard divisions and were the first to engage japan, (besides a couple marine diviions) with the highest casualties in the entire war. Point? The bulge is politic, And missing in america means fucking dead. Casualties on the German side can be judged as precise but inaccurate considering the times and I do not believe a german embellishes on a military level to an equal adversary. German fucked it up pretty hard but was severely limited in pretty much everything.
@@ripvanwinkle1819 wow that dosnt make sense either
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