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When you finish the series, you really need to watch the documentary We Stand Alone Together, where the interview clips come from. Then Ron Livingston's (Nixon) Behind the scenes home video of the making of BoB. Then go to the American Veteran's Center YT channel. The interview veterans from all wars and they also interviewed the actors who portrayed the Hero's in BoB. Very heartfelt interviews especially the gentleman who portrayed Bull.
@@Lowlandpiper True enough, not looking at their stuff on Patreon but do they have folk commenting on there, cause if they did they would be learning from the comments. As Blyth's did not die of his wounds is the most popular one for Ep3.
They were not being sent back home after episode 2, they were just pulled off the front line back to their base in the UK. They were always going back to fight.
When Lt Brewer gets shot in the neck while they’re approaching the next town, the medic that goes to assist him (and soon gets shot too) is a man called Al Mampre. He’s not pictured or mentioned in the show, but here’s his recounting of the events. “I lie down next to him. . . and I said, in my best bedside manner, I said, ‘Lieutenant, are you dead? Because if you are, I’m leaving.’ “He croaked out, ‘No, but I don’t know why not.’ I said, ‘OK, I’ll stay with you.’ ” Moments later, Mampre is shot in the leg, but he gives himself a shot of morphine and continues taking care of Brewer.
Brewer also went on to work for the CIA and did CIA shit in Vietnam lol. But the funny part of that is there was another easy company member who saw Brewer get shot but didn’t know he survived the gunshot, later on in life both men ran into each other in the pentagon. The man who didn’t know brewer survived saw him and went white as a ghost because he didn’t know he lived.
Bull Randleman was the one who asked why Sobel makes them march 12 miles every Friday night. Winters told him Sobel doesn't hate Easy Co, he just hates you. 😀
I studied cooking in Paris and our head chef was a child in Normandy during the invasion. He had never had chocolate an a GI saw him, patted him on the head and gave him a chocolate bar. He showed it to his mother and she smiled and told him to try it. He said it was like discovering a whole new world.
My Paternal grandfather was a British Army veteran. He fought throughout WWII from the start, and was evacuated from Dunkirk in 1940. At soon as it became an option he volunteered for the Paratroopers, and fought in the 1st Airborne Division at Normandy and parachuted into Arnhem during Market Garden. The horrifying fate of the 1st Airborne, dropped with light weapons on top of two SS Panzer Divisions is covered in the movie "A Bridge Too Far", which is available for free on RUclips (and includes possibly the most A list cast of all time, including Michael Caine, Robert Redford, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Denholm Elliot and many others.) Sadly my grandfather died in a car crash before I was born, but my Dad (also a Para in his youth) and I always considered him a hero.
ABTF was an integral part of my early movie experience but it suffers from serious omissions and errors in content, similar to 'The Longest Day.' I think some has to do with the source material (Ryan's books) and some with Attenborough's views at the time. It doesn't detract from the overall film especially the majestic score but if you want a more modern viewpoint of MG check out a source like WW2TV here on RUclips.
1st Airborne was not in Normandy. That was 6th Airborne. Also, "A Bridge too far" is not at all accurate. It was not 30th Corps that screwed up, it was Lindkvist of 82nd Airborne, and by extension also Gavin. Go watch "We Have Ways of Making You Talk".
@@PalleRasmussen The US 82'd AB and the 101st AB both took their objectives (Nijmegen and Eindhoven) and thus opened up the highway. The 30th Corps didn't "screw up" and ABTF clearly shows that. The real screwup was Montgomery refusing to modify the plan once intel (Dutch sources) showed the SS was there. He really doomed 1AB at Arnhem.
@@johannesvalterdivizzini1523 Allied High Command had poor experiences with the Maquis in France and so didn't take the Dutch Resistance seriously enough.
20::57 Just some info on Winters (the guy who didn’t get his helmet shot off) and Nixon (the guy who did). Winters came from a poor family and needed to work his way through college. Nixon came from a rich family and attended Yale for two years before leaving to enlist in the Army (this will become a minor point in a future episode). Winters was a monkish introvert who read all the infantry manuals he could get his hands on. Nixon was a party animal who loved to drink. Winters was a field commander, while Nixon was in Intelligence, which meant that he helped translate the data received from the field into information that people could use. The pair met up during Officer Candidate School, and their friendship started from there.
I disagree. That is a horrible spot to dig in, under an overlooking road embankment! I think they're burying mortally wounded, who died, such as Van Klinken with three MG wounds, all mortal.
@@williamjohnson-e4u Americans usually don't dig random graves and just leave their fallen brothers behind..if u watch the show Everytime they stop somewhere for a night the dig themselves foxholes so u and Pudgey might be the only ones who think they were burying bodies in that scene 😂😂
I was born on liberation day in Geldrop, grew up in Son, moved to Oosterbeek and live in Arnhem now. All of these places were involved in operation Market Garden and they all have monuments dedicated to the 506st and 1st airborne. I attended the 50th anniversary in Oosterbeek with Queen Beatrix and her guest of honor Prince Charles. My life is linked with that campaign and fostered my interest in history
FYI, the actor who plays Winters (Damien Lewis) was married to Peaky Blinders Aunt Polly (Helen McCrory) for 14 years, until she died of cancer in 2021.
It's actually an anti-British view written by an American screenwriter adapted from the book by an Irish journalist and directed by a British anti-establishment pacifist director. Apart from a few veteran military advisors who did their best, the film was made with very little historical input. When questioned about the historical inaccuracies, the Hollywood producer quipped "I pay to make entertainment, not history". Viewer discretion is advised.
I think an often overlooked aspect of the Sobel scene is that it’s shot from his perspective. for as much as Easy despised him at the time, he still thought of them fondly as his men. he’s been behind the scenes of the war the whole time and had no idea who was still alive and who didn’t make it. seeing each man turn around one by one was probably a huge relief to him. there was even a touch of pride when he said *Sergeant* Malarkey
We first saw Bull in the first episode. He was the one who asked why Lt Soeble hated them for making them march every Friday night when they were training.
The Dutch people were starving, no one was unaffected. Women (and men) who informed on resistants, on men who fled German slave labor, Jews, British and American airmen being hidden by the underground, were all punished as collaborators. Trials for collaboration were still going on in France into the early 1950s. This happened across occupied Europe. Sleeping with the Germans was one of the lesser crimes and was punished with having their heads shaved, humiliated in public, and driven from town. Anni-Frid Lyngstad, the brunette member of the band Abba, was the daughter of a Norwegian woman who became pregnant from a soldier and fled to neutral Sweden with her half-German baby girl.
It is horrifying to think some women probably didn't "sleep" with the Germans out of their own volition (it was an occupation after all), and were likely still punished.
@@pabloc8808 While I am sure there may have been cases where some were falsely accused, I imagine it was less common than you might think. It wasn't as if the Germans were only there for a few weeks. Remember that Holland was occupied in 1940, so the locals had watched the men and women who had collaborated enjoy better food, privileges and treatment than their neighbors for 4 years. By 1944 it would have been pretty obvious who was selling out their countrymen for their own sake and who may have been forced to do things early in the occupation. The locals made note of who was who and waited until it was time to pay them back.
It's cute how you thought that they would get months of training, do D-Day, stick around for a few days, then go home and kinda chill the rest of the war.
All U.S. servicemen have two I.D. "dog tags" hanging around their necks. "Bull" Randleman collects one from Miller to take back to the unit. What about the second? I can't remember any movie or TV show depicting the use of the second. What you do is place the second between the center of the front and lower teeth, and clamp the jaw down on it, to hold it in place. This is necessary for the Graves Identification unit to recover the remains.
Go to 10:43...see the old man in the beret in the lower left corner? He's an actual Easy Company veteran who was on set visiting. He was asked if he wanted to be in the scene and he jumped on it. I'm not going to tell you who he is since I dont' want to spoil it for you but he's now immortalized in this series. I wish more Easy vets had been put into background scenes for the same reason.
It´s Babe Hefron!!!! Dude, THANK YOU SO MUCH for pointing that out!!! And I do agree that putting more vets inside the show would have been an amazing thing. Hugs from Brazil
@@TheFioda The vets who were able to visit the sets were heroes to the actors who swarmed all over them with affection and awe. Babe was the only one who accepted the invite to be in a scene. The vets also drank the actors under the table at dinner in local restaurants! They knew how to hold their liquor! LOL
"I'm all right! I'm all right! ... Am I all right?" This isn't actually what Lieuteant Nixon said. Captain (later Major) Dick Winters said Nixon was one of the two men who never showed any fear in battle, and when the bullet ricocheted off his helmet and knocked Nixon to the ground -- he was laughing as he fell on his butt and got back up, stunning Winters who couldn't believe what he was seeing. Winters wrote his own memoir of his service. He also said Sergeant Talbert was the bravest of the men he led.
The shrapnel in Bull's shoulder came from when the British tank got hit and Bull was knocked down in the ditch when he got separated. If you watch it again, you will see the shrapnel fly through the air and hit him.
Michael Cudlitz (Bull) is a really great actor. Fantastic here in BoB but also equally great in The Walking Dead. Several other roles as well, his role as "Palermo" in "The Negotiator" is a small, but memorable one in my opinion. Great movie.
I realize you are weeks ahead of the comments but they did not think they were going home till the war was over. At this time there was a series of Airborne operations planned and cancelled cause the allied ground forces were moving so fast that the landing zones were being overrun before the planes could take off, this cause stress and a growing keeness to get stuck back in. The operation Lipton was telling them about at the end of EP3 was to capture bridges over the Seine. It was cancelled because the German's made no stand there. The Dutch. Celebrating a day that would normally be celebrated??? Sir they were being liberated after 4 years of Nazi occupation. 'Medic for what?' The officer who was shot SURVIVED, i will not go on anymore.
Hi. I am living and was born in Eindhoven. You can still find the bullet holes in old farmhouses. Not they can't be recover, but for fun. I like your reactions btw.
Bull was definitely in Easy Company during basic training and airborne training. If you remember from the first episode he asks Winters while they're marching at night "Why are we the only company marching in full pack every Friday night?" Winters says "Why do you think?" Then Bull says "Lt Sobel hates us sir" and Winters jokes back to him "Lt Sobel does not hate Easy Company, Private Randleman, he just hates you"
Although Operation Market Garden was a failure the bravery of the men that took part is still talked of proudly the 1st British Airborne Division, the 101st & 82nd US Airborne Divisions, and the 1st Polish Parachute Brigade became the first Allied Airborne Army. The operation resulted in nearly 4,000 US casualties and around 13,000 British and Polish casualties.
A Bridge Too Far is a great companion film to this episode like others have mentioned. Lots of old Hollywood and British stars in that one, and the scale of that film is jas dropping. They legitimately recreated the drop.
It's not really covered here but operation 'Market garden' was a disaster. It's the basis for the movie 'a bridge too far'. The first few bridges were successfully captured but the last one is when it all went wrong. The British paratroopers assigned to take it met unbelievably heavy resistance and were surrounded and slaughtered. They fought incredible bravely against the odds and held out for days waiting for the column to reinforce them, but it never came. The few remaining encircled Brits crossed the river at night and retreated to safety. I recommend a documentary about the Victoria cross narrated by Jeremy Clarkson for more info. The main story he talks about is one of a few VC winners that were part of this operation.
Definitely one of the best series made. I appreciate your reactions. I'm from a very small town maybe 800 people. An American Indian community. There is one young man from here buried in France. Many men from here including my grandfather went to Europe and the Pacific theatre's the point being men from all around the world. Every ethnicity and religion came together in a common cause to fight against evil. God bless all those that sacrificed so much
There was a gigantic road block in Einhoven's narrow streets, from large British armored recovery vehicles. The traffic jam was an ideal target for the Germans. There were about 900 civilian casualties that night, from the bombing.
The airborne operation was so large it took three days to get all the Allied paratroopers dropped. As you can imagine, there was no surprise by then. There is whole movie based on Operation Market Garden called "A Bridge To Far" which has an all star cast and is great movie. The town getting bombed and shelled is the one the paratroopers just got repelled from. They were softening it up for another attack. So, its not the town were they were celebrating. That was now far behind Allied lines.
Parachute drops into battle seemed like a really cool idea, but it never really worked. When the Allies tried it in Normandy and the Germans tried it on Crete, they did win but it was really chaotic with terrible losses. And Market Garden was a complete disaster. After that, it was never really done again at such a large scale. And soon after the war, helicopters started to become common, which can set down the soldiers and their equipment in one place, and most importantly also pick them back up when needed.
@@Yora21 Sure, but Market Garden wasn't that far from being a pretty great success, paradrops in that way are just such a high risk high reward. I think the French especially still do large scale para operations nowadays, but it's definitely quite a relic of the past with helicopters etc. existing.
@Yora21 Last big airborne operation? Don't think so. Check out operation Varsity. Operation Varsity (24 March 1945) was a successful airborne forces operation launched by Allied troops toward the end of World War II. Involving more than 16,000 paratroopers and several thousand aircraft, it is the largest airborne operation ever conducted on a single day and in one location.
Going through my father's papers when he died, I found an article headlined, "8000 British Flyboys trapped at Arnhem". There was also a later article Headlined "1,800 of 8,000 escape Nazi trap, leaving 1,200 wounded behind". It said there were also about 1,000 airborne troops still hiding in the woods. My father never spoke of it, but he must have had some connection to it. Now I will never know. I never thought to ask him about his war experiences, and he never brought it up. I would surely like to know now.
It's not that the British tank commander didn't "trust" the American's word...it's that he had orders to not shoot unless he had clear sight of the enemy, he even says so himself. During operation Market Garden, since it was to liberate a friendly nation, the Netherlands, the Allies tried to keep destruction of infrastructure and property as low as possible.
Yeah, the Guards Armoured Division had been in some of the toughest tank battles in Normandy. They knew what they were doing. It's a bit of a silly scene.
Many parts of the episode are nonsense and that was one of them. Stephen Ambrose even got the date wrong for this battle at Nuenen, so don't believe everything you see.
That scene is "commonly" known to be a load of horseshit. Of course he would have shot at the tank if someone told him where it were positioned. Not drive like a headless chicken into enemy tank fire. Poor brits watching this show, seeing how they're displayed as idiots. You know, the people that had been fighting the germans for about 4 years before the americans showed up. Surviving heavy air bombardment for years over their country... etc. Incredible resilience. Besides that and some other nitpick its a fantastic show though.
Moore and Malarkey "relocated" that motorcycle and sidecar at Utah beach and got it to England. Sobel "knew" they swiped it, but couldn't prove it. Frustrating! There could have been a whole series on the 101st "liberating" motorcycles, cars, bicycles, staff cars, fire-trucks and even an ice cream truck during the war. Worse, many of the soldiers only learned to drive in the Army, due to the Great Depression. Lots of accidents throughout the war.
The frontline troops are often rotated out. A man can only take so many days of combat action before it mentally breaks them. The term "1,000 yard stare" comes from this where troops are approaching their breaking points. The combat units know these breaks are limited in their duration. Easy Company didn't think they were going home after being pulled off the line. It's not fun when you get the orders to return to the line, but that is what has to be done.
27:10 I'm sure that the young girl and her family were sheltering in place throughout the battle earlier in the day and coming out at night only for supplies/food. Im almost sure that she wasn't giving bull the evil eye for his actions but rather staring at him in disbelief because of the horrible things that man is capable of. Her first up close and personal look at the savagery of war. BoB ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reaction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
So what had happened when he said they were moving out again was that between this episode and the last, they had been scheduled for a few more combat jumps but then they were canceled at the last minute. This is what Guarnere is telling the replacements about Patton overruning their drop zone. Imagine getting yourself mentally and physically ready before each jump and then not going. It's a mix of emotions.
I mean, the 4th Armored Division drove from St.-Lô to Commercy in 5 weeks, liberating half of France in the process. Between the 9th Air Force obliterating everything in Patton's path, the 4th Armored Division mopping up the scraps, and the German Army in France being leaderless throughout most of that campaign (Rommel and Von Kluge were indicated in the Valkyrie Plot so were forced to commit suicide), the paratroopers weren't needed.
By the way, my father was a DR - Dispatch Rider at Market Garden. He went to Browning's HQ at the Groesbeek Heights several times from where the XXX Corps tanks were, in other words way passed further north from where the 101st were fighting. I didn't find this out until I investigated after he had died why he had been mentioned in Dispatches. The REAL story of Market Garden disturbs me greatly.
During this time in this episode, Captain Sobel was a Battalion Supply Officer, basically in charge of inventory and supplies. That was one reason he had to call out Sgt Malarkey about stealing the army motorcycle.
WW2 US army policy was to continuously feed replacements into deployed field units to keep them operational. Thus, each US division consisted of one on the line, one in the hospital, and one in the cemetery.
@31:05 - Bull was in fact in basic training with Easy Company in Episode 1. He was the soldier that told Winters (while marching at night) that Sobel hated Easy Company (because he was always running and marching them at night) and Winters replied, "Lt Sobel does not hate Easy Company, he just hates you."
12:08 US soldiers would often give children they came across their chocolate, the problem was that the bars were specially made to be loaded with calories in case they found themselves in a situation where they had nothing else to eat. As a result, some children got very sick or possibly died as a result... Of course, the soldiers didn't realize at the time
What most people don’t know is a real member of the 101st Airborne was in this series. As they liberated Holland. Babe Heffron was among the crowd waving a French flag sitting in wheel chair wearing a hat.
During the war the front line troops would regularly be cycled back into areas within the reconquered areas to rest, relax, get some hot food and possibly even a hot bath. At first they would be sent back to England but as the war progressed the R&R areas moved along with the front line. Before the Germans attempted the "Bulge Breakout" Bastogne was an R&R town. Just getting a few miles behind the front would work wonders for morale. Keep watching.
During my BoB tour in July,we visited the field in Holland where Easy landed. There is a farm house beside it that is owned by an 85 year old man,who we met. He said that,as a 5 year old,he was given chocolate by the paratroopers. Also,during the scene in the town with all of the people,there is a very brief shot of the real Babe Hefron who was an extra in the scene. He is sitting and waving a small flag.
Fyi Cobb was actually one of the more experienced soldiers. He actually had seen combat before D-Day in North Africa. On his journey back to America his transport ship was torpedoed and sunk. He survived and re upped to the Airborne.
You two are quickly becoming my two favorite reactors, for real. Two things we react-enjoyers love are honesty and genuineness. There are several reactors that fake not having had seen some things prior because it's cash cow react content, BoB is some of that content. It drives me mad when previously great reactors fake something just to get money. I've not yet seen you fake it. Please never start. Always be honest if you've seen something. 10/10
Enjoying your reaction so far to one of the best miniseries of all time. In my opinion, some required watching when you’re done with Band of Brothers if you haven’t watched them already… The Pacific, Hacksaw Ridge, A Bridge Too Far, Enemy at the Gates, Dunkirk, 1917, All Quiet on the Western Front and We Were Soldiers. All Quiet on the Western Front and 1917 are set during WWI amd We Were Soldiers is set in Vietnam. The rest are set in WW2.
The actual story behind the motorcycle is pretty wild! Definitely recommend looking into it! Shows a lot that isn't explained to much in this show. Sobel was actually pretty cool about the situation
About the unit citation. The soldiers were required to wear them. Operation Market Garden (the mission of the episode) was a risky mission that ultimately failed. Had it worked the allies might have gotten into Germany much sooner.
It's a shame this show is just based on the accounts from the book so it's quite biased in certain ways. I find it quite disrespectful how the show disrespects some guys who did their job as soldiers amicably. They're real people after all
@@cassu6 That's the only thing I feel is somewhat poor about the show - they have to tell a story that is compelling so the writers had to 'shape' some of the truth to make the tale more interesting. I understand that. BUT they are real men with real reputations that are being besmirched in the minds of millions of people! BoB is not alone in this of course - Zulu famously had the family of one VC winner walk out of the premier in absolute disgust of how their ancestor was blatantly dishonoured.
To this day the Dutch of Arnhem still love the British Paras who jumped into Arnhem and were annihilated. Even though the Germans took terrible revenge on the area and the coming winter in Northern Netherlands is called "Starvation Winter". Even today they celebrate, schoolkids tend graves and memorials, etc. It is amazing. 34:00 Gods you guys are innocent. In every occupied country some people resisted, some cooperated, most were just keeping a low profile. And young women found German BFs for various reasons. These were known as "field mattresses". After the end of occupation, the locals- usually those who joined the Resistance late- would punish these women. Women are easy targets, and there was probably lots of mysogny in that added to the frustration at occupation and hatred for the occupiers.
Belgium and the netherlands definitely got the worst of the war on the western front. After market garden failed the germans held onto the area almost to the end of the war and were being starved for months before allied forces finally pushed the germans out. Mostly canadians and british, which is something the dutch still haven't forgotten. The dutch can be extremely welcoming to canadians visiting the country, particularly the older generation that were very young at the time they were liberated but were old enough to remember what it was like and the soldiers that shared their rations with the local population, especially the kids when they could while relief shipments were being organized
Holland was occupied by Germany for a couple years during the war. The punished women slept with lived with and occasionally had children with the occupying Germans ( usually officers)
32:40 the moment you enter the military and it's training with the knowledge that you may see combat, your already better than most. It takes bravery, discipline and strength that most people don't have. So of course Cobb deserves respect, but you can not put him on the same level as most of his comrades. All soilders deserve respect and alot deserve praise, but they don't all deserve the same amount
at 10:42 the older man with the hat who is waving the dutch flag is one of the easy company vets actually ;) and hello James Mcavoy at 4:49. 11:46-11:47 When they liberated the netherlands they've hidden their collar rank insignias, so that german snipers wouldn't shoot the high ranking officers
Anyone who ever gets assigned to that unit will get the same commendation. I was in the 363rd TRW in the Air force in the 70's and recieved an oytstanding unit award for what the 363rd did in 1963, discovering the nuclear missiles on Cuba. Its an award for the unit. It distinguishes you from all other units.
Market Garden and later the Reichswald Battle (not so well known), the place here is filled with graveyards. oh and "shaved women collaborateurs" they did it in france as well
Not digging graves. Anytime your going to be stationary in one place, you immediately start digging a trench as a protective/defensive measure. It's SOP.
The ribbon that Cobb made the new guy (Newbie) take off is a unit citation, Anyone assigned to that unit is authorized to wear it, even a soldier assigned to that unit today. It is mandatory to wear it if you are assigned to that unit. Award ribbons/medal are individual awards and may only be worn if that person earned the award. Cobb was wrong in this case. BTW, so you know, I am a retired 20 year US Army vet, so I do have some knowledge in this area..
Sgt Randleman asked in Ep1 why Easy are the only ones marching 12 miles in full pack every Friday night, to which Winters replied "Sobel doesn't hate Easy Company Private Randleman... He just hates you". Orange is the Royal Colour of the Netherlands (The House of Orange). The Women were conspirators, they slept with and gave info to the Germans, as the Resistance Leader said, the Men who conspired were being shot. Operation Market Garden relied on the Airborne (US 82nd, 101st & UK 1st 'Red Devils') taking a series of Bridges through Holland, in the Episode, we hear Luz on the radio saying "Armour has cut the Road!" meaning they had been stopped from reaching their Objective in Arnhem, the Red Devils were already there and now surrounded in Arnhem itself trying to capture the Bridge. I think you missed on the card at the end, the British lost 8,000 men there. The events of Market garden are put to film in "A Bridge too Far", it's a brilliant film and I would highly recommend watching it if you're still interested in learning about WW2. Also, they weren't digging Graves, they were digging Foxholes for cover along the road.
I really love yalls reaction because its the perfect blend of talking but also watching.Super impressed you remembered Cobbs name cause this is my favorite series in history and many reactors dont pay attention enough to even remember 1 persons name at the end.Great job
Wooo! Love your upload schedule. I get to watch whatever upload right before work every day lol. Works out perfectly, anyway. Keep up the great work. Look forward to your videos every day.
I highly recomend giving the show a rewatch sometime after your done. You'll have an easier time picking up who's who with the giant cast, and likely some other things as well. Also, you might want to check out Black Hawk Down, more or less the ultimate Leave No Man Behind story.
The British and Polish paratroopers had the dubious honour of securing the bridge at Arnhem, where Field Marshal Gerd Von Runstedt sent two Schutz Staffel Panzer Divisions under the command of General Bittrich to rest up, ready to face down General Patton's assault on the Siegfried Line.
The Germans occupied Holland for 4 years until the US/UK jumped in this operation. The women were sleeping with the Germans for years as they had given up and thought this was their future. At 10:35 Winters tucks in his collar, which displays his Rank, because he knows the snipers try to take out the officers. The amount of detail in this show is top notch.
The Germans continued to occupy much of homeland until the end of the war. They cut off their transportation in the winter if 44-45 resulting in starvation of the dutch. I'm the spring of 45 there was actually a truce where the German commanders allowed the US to drop food to the dutch. Audrey Hepburn was very malnourished during this time.
Bull as a legends and so are his men we were so worried..
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Prepare yourself for Episode 9 & 10 and get your tissues ready. That's my only spoiler 😉
The problem with being that far ahead of course is no benefit from comments. In this one you still think Blyth died......
@@666johnco Well, they said Episode 8 ist out in patreon, so there might be at least a tiny chance, that they havn' t seen No. 9 or 10 yet.
When you finish the series, you really need to watch the documentary We Stand Alone Together, where the interview clips come from. Then Ron Livingston's (Nixon) Behind the scenes home video of the making of BoB. Then go to the American Veteran's Center YT channel. The interview veterans from all wars and they also interviewed the actors who portrayed the Hero's in BoB. Very heartfelt interviews especially the gentleman who portrayed Bull.
@@Lowlandpiper True enough, not looking at their stuff on Patreon but do they have folk commenting on there, cause if they did they would be learning from the comments. As Blyth's did not die of his wounds is the most popular one for Ep3.
They were not being sent back home after episode 2, they were just pulled off the front line back to their base in the UK. They were always going back to fight.
When Lt Brewer gets shot in the neck while they’re approaching the next town, the medic that goes to assist him (and soon gets shot too) is a man called Al Mampre. He’s not pictured or mentioned in the show, but here’s his recounting of the events.
“I lie down next to him. . . and I said, in my best bedside manner, I said, ‘Lieutenant, are you dead? Because if you are, I’m leaving.’
“He croaked out, ‘No, but I don’t know why not.’
I said, ‘OK, I’ll stay with you.’ ”
Moments later, Mampre is shot in the leg, but he gives himself a shot of morphine and continues taking care of Brewer.
Brewer also went on to work for the CIA and did CIA shit in Vietnam lol. But the funny part of that is there was another easy company member who saw Brewer get shot but didn’t know he survived the gunshot, later on in life both men ran into each other in the pentagon. The man who didn’t know brewer survived saw him and went white as a ghost because he didn’t know he lived.
The first 5 episodes are intense and hit you in the feels. The last 5 episodes say "hold my beer" to that.
True, the Ardennes is a different beast.
Bull Randleman was the one who asked why Sobel makes them march 12 miles every Friday night. Winters told him Sobel doesn't hate Easy Co, he just hates you. 😀
Was going to write that myself, then saw you beat me to it.
I studied cooking in Paris and our head chef was a child in Normandy during the invasion. He had never had chocolate an a GI saw him, patted him on the head and gave him a chocolate bar. He showed it to his mother and she smiled and told him to try it. He said it was like discovering a whole new world.
My Paternal grandfather was a British Army veteran. He fought throughout WWII from the start, and was evacuated from Dunkirk in 1940. At soon as it became an option he volunteered for the Paratroopers, and fought in the 1st Airborne Division at Normandy and parachuted into Arnhem during Market Garden. The horrifying fate of the 1st Airborne, dropped with light weapons on top of two SS Panzer Divisions is covered in the movie "A Bridge Too Far", which is available for free on RUclips (and includes possibly the most A list cast of all time, including Michael Caine, Robert Redford, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Denholm Elliot and many others.) Sadly my grandfather died in a car crash before I was born, but my Dad (also a Para in his youth) and I always considered him a hero.
ABTF was an integral part of my early movie experience but it suffers from serious omissions and errors in content, similar to 'The Longest Day.' I think some has to do with the source material (Ryan's books) and some with Attenborough's views at the time. It doesn't detract from the overall film especially the majestic score but if you want a more modern viewpoint of MG check out a source like WW2TV here on RUclips.
The Allies knew that the second SS panzer was at Arnhem; they had an enigma intercept 10 days before the Parashoot drop.
1st Airborne was not in Normandy. That was 6th Airborne. Also, "A Bridge too far" is not at all accurate. It was not 30th Corps that screwed up, it was Lindkvist of 82nd Airborne, and by extension also Gavin.
Go watch "We Have Ways of Making You Talk".
@@PalleRasmussen The US 82'd AB and the 101st AB both took their objectives (Nijmegen and Eindhoven) and thus opened up the highway. The 30th Corps didn't "screw up" and ABTF clearly shows that. The real screwup was Montgomery refusing to modify the plan once intel (Dutch sources) showed the SS was there. He really doomed 1AB at Arnhem.
@@johannesvalterdivizzini1523 Allied High Command had poor experiences with the Maquis in France and so didn't take the Dutch Resistance seriously enough.
20::57 Just some info on Winters (the guy who didn’t get his helmet shot off) and Nixon (the guy who did). Winters came from a poor family and needed to work his way through college. Nixon came from a rich family and attended Yale for two years before leaving to enlist in the Army (this will become a minor point in a future episode). Winters was a monkish introvert who read all the infantry manuals he could get his hands on. Nixon was a party animal who loved to drink. Winters was a field commander, while Nixon was in Intelligence, which meant that he helped translate the data received from the field into information that people could use. The pair met up during Officer Candidate School, and their friendship started from there.
26:20 Pudgy they ain't digging graves....they are digging foxholes to sleep in!!
Well, kinda double purpose?
She is isn't the sharpest tool in the shed lol we still love her!
@@MrElis420 Don't be so negative and condescending.
I disagree. That is a horrible spot to dig in, under an overlooking road embankment! I think they're burying mortally wounded, who died, such as Van Klinken with three MG wounds, all mortal.
@@williamjohnson-e4u Americans usually don't dig random graves and just leave their fallen brothers behind..if u watch the show Everytime they stop somewhere for a night the dig themselves foxholes so u and Pudgey might be the only ones who think they were burying bodies in that scene 😂😂
I was born on liberation day in Geldrop, grew up in Son, moved to Oosterbeek and live in Arnhem now. All of these places were involved in operation Market Garden and they all have monuments dedicated to the 506st and 1st airborne. I attended the 50th anniversary in Oosterbeek with Queen Beatrix and her guest of honor Prince Charles. My life is linked with that campaign and fostered my interest in history
FYI, the actor who plays Winters (Damien Lewis) was married to Peaky Blinders Aunt Polly (Helen McCrory) for 14 years, until she died of cancer in 2021.
Great romance
Damien Lewis also is proper British. He puts on a good American accent
Good NY accent in Billions
Orange is the national color of the Netherlands. Enjoyed your reaction.
..but not Your knowledge! Cumon! Kids - downunder!¤#% Don't You know Your history?
It's the colour of the Royal House of Orange. The national flag is a red white and blue horizontal tricolour.
The full story of ‘Operation Market Garden’ is depicted in the movie ‘A bridge too far’. A very good war film.
A great film with an insanely stacked cast of legends
If you Leopards MOAR than Tigers & Panthers 😛
Actually, it shows just a little part from the british side.
It's actually an anti-British view written by an American screenwriter adapted from the book by an Irish journalist and directed by a British anti-establishment pacifist director. Apart from a few veteran military advisors who did their best, the film was made with very little historical input. When questioned about the historical inaccuracies, the Hollywood producer quipped "I pay to make entertainment, not history".
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I think an often overlooked aspect of the Sobel scene is that it’s shot from his perspective. for as much as Easy despised him at the time, he still thought of them fondly as his men. he’s been behind the scenes of the war the whole time and had no idea who was still alive and who didn’t make it. seeing each man turn around one by one was probably a huge relief to him.
there was even a touch of pride when he said *Sergeant* Malarkey
I guess that could be true but it wasn’t portrayed that way in the show
And then he blew it by saying some stupid shit, so the audience's disappointment with him in that scene is completely fair.
We first saw Bull in the first episode. He was the one who asked why Lt Soeble hated them for making them march every Friday night when they were training.
The Dutch people were starving, no one was unaffected. Women (and men) who informed on resistants, on men who fled German slave labor, Jews, British and American airmen being hidden by the underground, were all punished as collaborators. Trials for collaboration were still going on in France into the early 1950s. This happened across occupied Europe.
Sleeping with the Germans was one of the lesser crimes and was punished with having their heads shaved, humiliated in public, and driven from town. Anni-Frid Lyngstad, the brunette member of the band Abba, was the daughter of a Norwegian woman who became pregnant from a soldier and fled to neutral Sweden with her half-German baby girl.
It is horrifying to think some women probably didn't "sleep" with the Germans out of their own volition (it was an occupation after all), and were likely still punished.
@@pabloc8808 While I am sure there may have been cases where some were falsely accused, I imagine it was less common than you might think. It wasn't as if the Germans were only there for a few weeks. Remember that Holland was occupied in 1940, so the locals had watched the men and women who had collaborated enjoy better food, privileges and treatment than their neighbors for 4 years. By 1944 it would have been pretty obvious who was selling out their countrymen for their own sake and who may have been forced to do things early in the occupation. The locals made note of who was who and waited until it was time to pay them back.
It's cute how you thought that they would get months of training, do D-Day, stick around for a few days, then go home and kinda chill the rest of the war.
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@@Markus117d Shame. They didn't teach this poor lad any words :(
All U.S. servicemen have two I.D. "dog tags" hanging around their necks. "Bull" Randleman collects one from Miller to take back to the unit. What about the second? I can't remember any movie or TV show depicting the use of the second. What you do is place the second between the center of the front and lower teeth, and clamp the jaw down on it, to hold it in place. This is necessary for the Graves Identification unit to recover the remains.
This show is amazing to re-watch, because the cast is so large and it helps with keeping track of them.
Go to 10:43...see the old man in the beret in the lower left corner? He's an actual Easy Company veteran who was on set visiting. He was asked if he wanted to be in the scene and he jumped on it. I'm not going to tell you who he is since I dont' want to spoil it for you but he's now immortalized in this series. I wish more Easy vets had been put into background scenes for the same reason.
It´s Babe Hefron!!!! Dude, THANK YOU SO MUCH for pointing that out!!! And I do agree that putting more vets inside the show would have been an amazing thing. Hugs from Brazil
@@TheFioda The vets who were able to visit the sets were heroes to the actors who swarmed all over them with affection and awe. Babe was the only one who accepted the invite to be in a scene. The vets also drank the actors under the table at dinner in local restaurants! They knew how to hold their liquor! LOL
@@Farbar1955 poor actors...they had no chance...FUBAR
"I'm all right! I'm all right! ... Am I all right?" This isn't actually what Lieuteant Nixon said. Captain (later Major) Dick Winters said Nixon was one of the two men who never showed any fear in battle, and when the bullet ricocheted off his helmet and knocked Nixon to the ground -- he was laughing as he fell on his butt and got back up, stunning Winters who couldn't believe what he was seeing. Winters wrote his own memoir of his service. He also said Sergeant Talbert was the bravest of the men he led.
The shrapnel in Bull's shoulder came from when the British tank got hit and Bull was knocked down in the ditch when he got separated. If you watch it again, you will see the shrapnel fly through the air and hit him.
Michael Cudlitz (Bull) is a really great actor. Fantastic here in BoB but also equally great in The Walking Dead. Several other roles as well, his role as "Palermo" in "The Negotiator" is a small, but memorable one in my opinion. Great movie.
He plays a lead role in the Police drama "Southland". Good series cut short
Wow - Bull is also Lex Luthor!
8:55 The events portrayed in the next episode occurred exactly 80 years before October 4th of this year, which was a week ago.
Winters: "Never put yourself in a position to take from these men"
Buck: "Alright...I'll throw left handed then..." 🎯 😂
Malarkey didn’t steal the motorcycle; he liberated it.
It was a Strategic Transfer of Equipment to an Alternate Location.
I realize you are weeks ahead of the comments but they did not think they were going home till the war was over. At this time there was a series of Airborne operations planned and cancelled cause the allied ground forces were moving so fast that the landing zones were being overrun before the planes could take off, this cause stress and a growing keeness to get stuck back in. The operation Lipton was telling them about at the end of EP3 was to capture bridges over the Seine. It was cancelled because the German's made no stand there.
The Dutch. Celebrating a day that would normally be celebrated??? Sir they were being liberated after 4 years of Nazi occupation.
'Medic for what?' The officer who was shot SURVIVED, i will not go on anymore.
Hi. I am living and was born in Eindhoven. You can still find the bullet holes in old farmhouses. Not they can't be recover, but for fun. I like your reactions btw.
Bull was definitely in Easy Company during basic training and airborne training. If you remember from the first episode he asks Winters while they're marching at night "Why are we the only company marching in full pack every Friday night?" Winters says "Why do you think?" Then Bull says "Lt Sobel hates us sir" and Winters jokes back to him "Lt Sobel does not hate Easy Company, Private Randleman, he just hates you"
29:54 The bit you missed at the end said: "At Arnhem, the British 1st Airborne lost nearly 8,000 men."
Although Operation Market Garden was a failure the bravery of the men that took part is still talked of proudly the 1st British Airborne Division, the 101st & 82nd US Airborne Divisions, and the 1st Polish Parachute Brigade became the first Allied Airborne Army.
The operation resulted in nearly 4,000 US casualties and around 13,000 British and Polish casualties.
If that was a Hershey bar he still hasn't tasted chocolate.
They weren't digging graves. Those are foxholes meant for providing yourself with cover against gunfire and artillery.
Burying mortally wounded Van Klinken, who died from three MG bullet wounds.
A Bridge Too Far is a great companion film to this episode like others have mentioned. Lots of old Hollywood and British stars in that one, and the scale of that film is jas dropping. They legitimately recreated the drop.
It's not really covered here but operation 'Market garden' was a disaster. It's the basis for the movie 'a bridge too far'. The first few bridges were successfully captured but the last one is when it all went wrong. The British paratroopers assigned to take it met unbelievably heavy resistance and were surrounded and slaughtered. They fought incredible bravely against the odds and held out for days waiting for the column to reinforce them, but it never came. The few remaining encircled Brits crossed the river at night and retreated to safety. I recommend a documentary about the Victoria cross narrated by Jeremy Clarkson for more info. The main story he talks about is one of a few VC winners that were part of this operation.
Definitely one of the best series made. I appreciate your reactions. I'm from a very small town maybe 800 people. An American Indian community. There is one young man from here buried in France. Many men from here including my grandfather went to Europe and the Pacific theatre's the point being men from all around the world. Every ethnicity and religion came together in a common cause to fight against evil. God bless all those that sacrificed so much
@10:42, when Sgt Talbert is sitting at the table in Arnheim, the old man with the cap is the REAL Babe Hefron.
18:49 he is realizing that the guy who tried to warn them about the ambush was just killed, no?
There was a gigantic road block in Einhoven's narrow streets, from large British armored recovery vehicles. The traffic jam was an ideal target for the Germans. There were about 900 civilian casualties that night, from the bombing.
The airborne operation was so large it took three days to get all the Allied paratroopers dropped. As you can imagine, there was no surprise by then. There is whole movie based on Operation Market Garden called "A Bridge To Far" which has an all star cast and is great movie. The town getting bombed and shelled is the one the paratroopers just got repelled from. They were softening it up for another attack. So, its not the town were they were celebrating. That was now far behind Allied lines.
Parachute drops into battle seemed like a really cool idea, but it never really worked. When the Allies tried it in Normandy and the Germans tried it on Crete, they did win but it was really chaotic with terrible losses. And Market Garden was a complete disaster. After that, it was never really done again at such a large scale.
And soon after the war, helicopters started to become common, which can set down the soldiers and their equipment in one place, and most importantly also pick them back up when needed.
@@Yora21 Sure, but Market Garden wasn't that far from being a pretty great success, paradrops in that way are just such a high risk high reward.
I think the French especially still do large scale para operations nowadays, but it's definitely quite a relic of the past with helicopters etc. existing.
@Yora21 Last big airborne operation?
Don't think so. Check out operation Varsity.
Operation Varsity (24 March 1945) was a successful airborne forces operation launched by Allied troops toward the end of World War II. Involving more than 16,000 paratroopers and several thousand aircraft, it is the largest airborne operation ever conducted on a single day and in one location.
Going through my father's papers when he died, I found an article headlined, "8000 British Flyboys trapped at Arnhem". There was also a later article Headlined "1,800 of 8,000 escape Nazi trap, leaving 1,200 wounded behind". It said there were also about 1,000 airborne troops still hiding in the woods. My father never spoke of it, but he must have had some connection to it. Now I will never know. I never thought to ask him about his war experiences, and he never brought it up. I would surely like to know now.
It's not that the British tank commander didn't "trust" the American's word...it's that he had orders to not shoot unless he had clear sight of the enemy, he even says so himself. During operation Market Garden, since it was to liberate a friendly nation, the Netherlands, the Allies tried to keep destruction of infrastructure and property as low as possible.
Yeah, the Guards Armoured Division had been in some of the toughest tank battles in Normandy. They knew what they were doing. It's a bit of a silly scene.
Many parts of the episode are nonsense and that was one of them. Stephen Ambrose even got the date wrong for this battle at Nuenen, so don't believe everything you see.
That scene is "commonly" known to be a load of horseshit. Of course he would have shot at the tank if someone told him where it were positioned. Not drive like a headless chicken into enemy tank fire. Poor brits watching this show, seeing how they're displayed as idiots. You know, the people that had been fighting the germans for about 4 years before the americans showed up. Surviving heavy air bombardment for years over their country... etc. Incredible resilience.
Besides that and some other nitpick its a fantastic show though.
8:29 him and Aldon Moore were driving that last episode when they first got back to England.
Moore and Malarkey "relocated" that motorcycle and sidecar at Utah beach and got it to England. Sobel "knew" they swiped it, but couldn't prove it. Frustrating! There could have been a whole series on the 101st "liberating" motorcycles, cars, bicycles, staff cars, fire-trucks and even an ice cream truck during the war. Worse, many of the soldiers only learned to drive in the Army, due to the Great Depression. Lots of accidents throughout the war.
The frontline troops are often rotated out. A man can only take so many days of combat action before it mentally breaks them. The term "1,000 yard stare" comes from this where troops are approaching their breaking points. The combat units know these breaks are limited in their duration. Easy Company didn't think they were going home after being pulled off the line. It's not fun when you get the orders to return to the line, but that is what has to be done.
They never thought they were going home. They just thought they were getting a break from the fighting.
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I'm sure that the young girl and her family were sheltering in place throughout the battle earlier in the day and coming out at night only for supplies/food. Im almost sure that she wasn't giving bull the evil eye for his actions but rather staring at him in disbelief because of the horrible things that man is capable of. Her first up close and personal look at the savagery of war.
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So what had happened when he said they were moving out again was that between this episode and the last, they had been scheduled for a few more combat jumps but then they were canceled at the last minute. This is what Guarnere is telling the replacements about Patton overruning their drop zone. Imagine getting yourself mentally and physically ready before each jump and then not going. It's a mix of emotions.
I mean, the 4th Armored Division drove from St.-Lô to Commercy in 5 weeks, liberating half of France in the process. Between the 9th Air Force obliterating everything in Patton's path, the 4th Armored Division mopping up the scraps, and the German Army in France being leaderless throughout most of that campaign (Rommel and Von Kluge were indicated in the Valkyrie Plot so were forced to commit suicide), the paratroopers weren't needed.
By the way, my father was a DR - Dispatch Rider at Market Garden. He went to Browning's HQ at the Groesbeek Heights several times from where the XXX Corps tanks were, in other words way passed further north from where the 101st were fighting. I didn't find this out until I investigated after he had died why he had been mentioned in Dispatches. The REAL story of Market Garden disturbs me greatly.
Also - so glad you are watching this and being attentive and thoughtful - I think this is a pretty important series for everyone to see.
During this time in this episode, Captain Sobel was a Battalion Supply Officer, basically in charge of inventory and supplies. That was one reason he had to call out Sgt Malarkey about stealing the army motorcycle.
WW2 US army policy was to continuously feed replacements into deployed field units to keep them operational. Thus, each US division consisted of one on the line, one in the hospital, and one in the cemetery.
@31:05 - Bull was in fact in basic training with Easy Company in Episode 1. He was the soldier that told Winters (while marching at night) that Sobel hated Easy Company (because he was always running and marching them at night) and Winters replied, "Lt Sobel does not hate Easy Company, he just hates you."
12:08 US soldiers would often give children they came across their chocolate, the problem was that the bars were specially made to be loaded with calories in case they found themselves in a situation where they had nothing else to eat. As a result, some children got very sick or possibly died as a result...
Of course, the soldiers didn't realize at the time
I've been spacing out these B.O.B reaction videos to 1 per night. It's such a relaxing thing to fall asleep to.
What most people don’t know is a real member of the 101st Airborne was in this series. As they liberated Holland. Babe Heffron was among the crowd waving a French flag sitting in wheel chair wearing a hat.
During the war the front line troops would regularly be cycled back into areas within the reconquered areas to rest, relax, get some hot food and possibly even a hot bath. At first they would be sent back to England but as the war progressed the R&R areas moved along with the front line. Before the Germans attempted the "Bulge Breakout" Bastogne was an R&R town. Just getting a few miles behind the front would work wonders for morale. Keep watching.
There were some comments on the previous episode as well regarding this, but they never did think they were being sent home to the U.S.
This is my favorite reaction youve done recently. Love your channel
During my BoB tour in July,we visited the field in Holland where Easy landed. There is a farm house beside it that is owned by an 85 year old man,who we met. He said that,as a 5 year old,he was given chocolate by the paratroopers. Also,during the scene in the town with all of the people,there is a very brief shot of the real Babe Hefron who was an extra in the scene. He is sitting and waving a small flag.
You guys missed the last part of the info . The British Airborne Division lost 8,000 men at Arnhem.
Fyi Cobb was actually one of the more experienced soldiers. He actually had seen combat before D-Day in North Africa. On his journey back to America his transport ship was torpedoed and sunk. He survived and re upped to the Airborne.
22:24 It's not food, It's his cigar. He's taking a bite of it to chew on.
@26:09 Pretty sure they're not digging graves but are just digging in.
No, that's a horrible place to dig in, overlooked by the road embankment. I think they're burying Van Klinken, who had three mortal wounds.
Fun fact: Carrots are orange because of the Dutch, they used to be pale white.
Groeten uit Brabant (close to Eindhoven)
You two are quickly becoming my two favorite reactors, for real.
Two things we react-enjoyers love are honesty and genuineness.
There are several reactors that fake not having had seen some things prior because it's cash cow react content, BoB is some of that content. It drives me mad when previously great reactors fake something just to get money.
I've not yet seen you fake it. Please never start. Always be honest if you've seen something.
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Enjoying your reaction so far to one of the best miniseries of all time. In my opinion, some required watching when you’re done with Band of Brothers if you haven’t watched them already… The Pacific, Hacksaw Ridge, A Bridge Too Far, Enemy at the Gates, Dunkirk, 1917, All Quiet on the Western Front and We Were Soldiers. All Quiet on the Western Front and 1917 are set during WWI amd We Were Soldiers is set in Vietnam. The rest are set in WW2.
The actual story behind the motorcycle is pretty wild! Definitely recommend looking into it! Shows a lot that isn't explained to much in this show. Sobel was actually pretty cool about the situation
About the unit citation. The soldiers were required to wear them.
Operation Market Garden (the mission of the episode) was a risky mission that ultimately failed. Had it worked the allies might have gotten into Germany much sooner.
24:13 it was a piece of the tank that was right behind Bull. When it got hit by the German tank it sent shrapnel out and a piece of it hit Bull
07:30 Sobell actually jumped into Normandy with the rest of the 101st on D-Day
Formed some men into a small squad and took out a German machinegun position .
It's a shame this show is just based on the accounts from the book so it's quite biased in certain ways. I find it quite disrespectful how the show disrespects some guys who did their job as soldiers amicably. They're real people after all
@@cassu6 That's the only thing I feel is somewhat poor about the show - they have to tell a story that is compelling so the writers had to 'shape' some of the truth to make the tale more interesting. I understand that. BUT they are real men with real reputations that are being besmirched in the minds of millions of people! BoB is not alone in this of course - Zulu famously had the family of one VC winner walk out of the premier in absolute disgust of how their ancestor was blatantly dishonoured.
10:43 The man sitting waving the flag in the lower left corner is an actual Easy Co. man! I won't say who it is, no spoilers.
To this day the Dutch of Arnhem still love the British Paras who jumped into Arnhem and were annihilated. Even though the Germans took terrible revenge on the area and the coming winter in Northern Netherlands is called "Starvation Winter". Even today they celebrate, schoolkids tend graves and memorials, etc. It is amazing.
34:00 Gods you guys are innocent. In every occupied country some people resisted, some cooperated, most were just keeping a low profile. And young women found German BFs for various reasons. These were known as "field mattresses". After the end of occupation, the locals- usually those who joined the Resistance late- would punish these women. Women are easy targets, and there was probably lots of mysogny in that added to the frustration at occupation and hatred for the occupiers.
Fun fact; there's actually a retreat... i'm sorry, a "Tactical Withdrawl" known as the "Australian Peel".
The orange cloths showed the support of the Netherlanders for their perceived liberation
Belgium and the netherlands definitely got the worst of the war on the western front. After market garden failed the germans held onto the area almost to the end of the war and were being starved for months before allied forces finally pushed the germans out. Mostly canadians and british, which is something the dutch still haven't forgotten. The dutch can be extremely welcoming to canadians visiting the country, particularly the older generation that were very young at the time they were liberated but were old enough to remember what it was like and the soldiers that shared their rations with the local population, especially the kids when they could while relief shipments were being organized
If you recall from training, it was Randleman (Bull) who asked "Why does Sobel hate us".. and Winters replied "He just hates you" :)
Also, Randleman excelled at Bayonet training in England...a little foreshadowing?
Holland was occupied by Germany for a couple years during the war. The punished women slept with lived with and occasionally had children with the occupying Germans ( usually officers)
You guys have become my favorite reactors. Cheers all the way from Central America
The tri-color is the national flag. The orange is the color of the royal family.
24:13 The piece of shrapnel in Bull's shoulder was probably a piece of a metal fence.
The dutch guy who removed it sad so. 'Stuk van een hek.'
32:40 the moment you enter the military and it's training with the knowledge that you may see combat, your already better than most. It takes bravery, discipline and strength that most people don't have. So of course Cobb deserves respect, but you can not put him on the same level as most of his comrades. All soilders deserve respect and alot deserve praise, but they don't all deserve the same amount
That wasn't a Red Sheet. Those were Orange sheets. They're in the Netherlands.
at 10:42 the older man with the hat who is waving the dutch flag is one of the easy company vets actually ;) and hello James Mcavoy at 4:49. 11:46-11:47 When they liberated the netherlands they've hidden their collar rank insignias, so that german snipers wouldn't shoot the high ranking officers
The bit you didn't pause to read .. "At Arnhem, the British 1st Airborne lost nearly 8,000 men"
Anyone who ever gets assigned to that unit will get the same commendation. I was in the 363rd TRW in the Air force in the 70's and recieved an oytstanding unit award for what the 363rd did in 1963, discovering the nuclear missiles on Cuba. Its an award for the unit. It distinguishes you from all other units.
These guys had been back in England since early August and it was now mid-September.
Market Garden and later the Reichswald Battle (not so well known), the place here is filled with graveyards.
oh and "shaved women collaborateurs" they did it in france as well
David Webster mentions Vincent van Gogh was born in Nuenen. Actually, van Gogh was born in Zundert, but lived in Nuenen 1883-1885.
Not digging graves. Anytime your going to be stationary in one place, you immediately start digging a trench as a protective/defensive measure. It's SOP.
The ribbon that Cobb made the new guy (Newbie) take off is a unit citation, Anyone assigned to that unit is authorized to wear it, even a soldier assigned to that unit today. It is mandatory to wear it if you are assigned to that unit. Award ribbons/medal are individual awards and may only be worn if that person earned the award. Cobb was wrong in this case. BTW, so you know, I am a retired 20 year US Army vet, so I do have some knowledge in this area..
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The look on Webster’s face is because he realizes that’s the window the old man was in and his family is probably dead now.
So many things I wanted them to notice and react to. They missed like all of them
that whole no destruction of property order the tank guy was talking about is nonsense, that scene was just for the show :)
Sgt Randleman asked in Ep1 why Easy are the only ones marching 12 miles in full pack every Friday night, to which Winters replied "Sobel doesn't hate Easy Company Private Randleman... He just hates you".
Orange is the Royal Colour of the Netherlands (The House of Orange). The Women were conspirators, they slept with and gave info to the Germans, as the Resistance Leader said, the Men who conspired were being shot.
Operation Market Garden relied on the Airborne (US 82nd, 101st & UK 1st 'Red Devils') taking a series of Bridges through Holland, in the Episode, we hear Luz on the radio saying "Armour has cut the Road!" meaning they had been stopped from reaching their Objective in Arnhem, the Red Devils were already there and now surrounded in Arnhem itself trying to capture the Bridge. I think you missed on the card at the end, the British lost 8,000 men there. The events of Market garden are put to film in "A Bridge too Far", it's a brilliant film and I would highly recommend watching it if you're still interested in learning about WW2.
Also, they weren't digging Graves, they were digging Foxholes for cover along the road.
I really love yalls reaction because its the perfect blend of talking but also watching.Super impressed you remembered Cobbs name cause this is my favorite series in history and many reactors dont pay attention enough to even remember 1 persons name at the end.Great job
It wasn't a bullet. Bull had some shrapnel in his shoulder from when the tank exploded.
Wooo! Love your upload schedule. I get to watch whatever upload right before work every day lol. Works out perfectly, anyway. Keep up the great work. Look forward to your videos every day.
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I highly recomend giving the show a rewatch sometime after your done. You'll have an easier time picking up who's who with the giant cast, and likely some other things as well. Also, you might want to check out Black Hawk Down, more or less the ultimate Leave No Man Behind story.
The British and Polish paratroopers had the dubious honour of securing the bridge at Arnhem, where Field Marshal Gerd Von Runstedt sent two Schutz Staffel Panzer Divisions under the command of General Bittrich to rest up, ready to face down General Patton's assault on the Siegfried Line.
The Germans occupied Holland for 4 years until the US/UK jumped in this operation. The women were sleeping with the Germans for years as they had given up and thought this was their future. At 10:35 Winters tucks in his collar, which displays his Rank, because he knows the snipers try to take out the officers. The amount of detail in this show is top notch.
The Germans continued to occupy much of homeland until the end of the war. They cut off their transportation in the winter if 44-45 resulting in starvation of the dutch. I'm the spring of 45 there was actually a truce where the German commanders allowed the US to drop food to the dutch. Audrey Hepburn was very malnourished during this time.