This is one of THE best, most historically accurate depiction of the Battle of the Bulge. Hopefully it makes everyone who views it appreciate what others have experienced to give us our way of life. Your freedom is the most expensive thing you own, even if YOU never paid for it.
You guys just got through my favourite episode in the series. It still gets me every time Buck Compton breaks. The look in his face and the wail of “medic” is haunting. Neal McDonough is amazing acting that out.
When Matthew Settle...who plays Ronald Spiers...ran through the smoke of that explosion in the field, several of the actors said it looked so awesome that it actually energized them for the remainder of the scene. They were stoked!
Another great reaction guys. This series is an emotional roller coaster throughout. And this episode is no different. At times it’s gut wrenching. At times there is humour and then other times you just don’t want to watch cos it’s so heart breaking like when Compton breaks down. It’s brilliantly portrayed but so hard to watch.
Funny story - I remember 1 time in the Barracks as we were sitting around drinking 1 of r guys says to Wild Bill "hey Bill, i'am going over and seeing the area of the line you held, you want me to bring anything back??" we all stop and look at Bill who lowers his beer looks him in the eye and says "Yeah, if you can find my leg that would be great " and then he smiled and we all cheered and made many toasts to Bill's leg. Even XXX got a chuckle then XX started singing and then it was just a blur after that , dam Prop Blast that stuff will sneak up on you. epic hangover
Another perfect episode. Simply put, every aspect of production is masterful. Very possibly the best episode of the season....though it does have stuff competition to that.....
The shockwaves from exploding artillery shells can literally scramble a man's brain. Throw in the fear and it's astonishing how many kept their sanity.
Shifty was the best shot in their company. He doesn't get a ton of love in the show (I mean it's a huge cast). But by being able t take out other snipers, Shifty saved a large number of men's lives. And he was an excellent hunter (where he learned to be such a good shot), so when supplies were non existent he was able to kill wildlife to help sustain the company. He was also very self assuming, never thinking he was that good.
While iconic the Greman Luger was a WW1 design. One of the reasons it was being replaced by the Walter P38 . Was the Luger was well known for accidental discharge. This is why most German officers kept the pistol without a round in the chamber.
Nixon always seemed to be sleeping at strange times. It was because he was the intelligence officer and would frequently be doing surveillance at all hours of the night.
In reality, Winters realized himself he had no more business going out there and came back to the line without needing to be called back. And it just happened that Speirs was the very first officer he spotted, it could have been anyone else.. While Speirs was racing down streets, waving between houses (a longer run than was depicted in the show), he kept taunting the Germans about their poor aim. Seconds after Speirs left to return to Easy, the leader of Item company was mowed down by machinegun fire (the german must have known he better not shoot at Speirs lol). Thankfully someone else had been nearby to hear the orders and was able to relay them.
Well, it's not just a clever name. Winters going in against orders, then sending LT. Speirs to relieve Dike, he more than put his money where his mouth is what he said to Blithe. "Easily" one of my favorite moments of the series. That scene is stunning, every, single, time. Then when Buck's helmet hits the ground, it's as Earth shattering as the German artillery. Currahee ♠
Absolutely, that scene between him and Blithe really sticks out to me now, didn’t think we’d see much of Speirs again, happy I was wrong! Yea that scene with Buck SUCKED man, it was so good
So having been in E/506th reenacted back in the day before the series and having had many long drunken conversations with Wild Bill and others from Easy. Yes Dike was hated by all and he had made the Company HQ guys dig him a "Foxhole as big as a hotel" - Wild Bill , When Speirs made the run to talk with I company (which was down to just 22 troopers) it was to have them shift fire as they were firing into Easy Co. Dike wasn't hit Clancy Lyall said he saw him bleeding BUT Clancy was not near him during the attack and none of the 506th company or Reg. paperwork had him listed as wounded. LT. Shames was also very much hated within Easy also esp by the guys in his 3rd Plt.
The actions of Dyke during the attack on Foy were somewhat contraversial amongst the men of Easy Company. Some of the men felt he was a coward, others, like Forest Guth, said Dyke was shot during the attack on Foy and that's why he haulted the advance. Other recorded actions of Dyke don't seem to support the coward perception. For instance, he pulled several men who had been wounded out of the line of fire, exposing himself to fire in the process, and I think he got a bronze star for that action. That doesn't sound like the act of a coward to me. It's complicated and we'll probably never know the whole story, but he sure had difficulty when put in charge of Easy Company.
Interesting, yea doesn’t sound like one to me either. At least the way he was portrayed here, as a “well-connected” person who got put in there on his way up the ladder, and seemed disinterested and inept as a leader, I took his actions for cowardly haha
@@ItzWilson2 ... I can understand that because that's the way they chose to present him to you, it's just that stories from some of the men of Easy Company don't agree with it. I don't know who is correct, all I know is, I wasn't there.
Dyke really gets raked over the coals by this show, but the thing to remember is it's the men's recollection of him that is being shown here. The reality is quite different. Dike was awarded a second Bronze Star for his action at Bastogne, in which "he personally removed from an exposed position, in full enemy view, three wounded members of his company, while under intense small arms fire" on 3 January 1945 (he had been awarded his first one for action in The Netherlands). Clancy Lyall stated that he saw that Dike had been wounded in his right shoulder and that it was the wound, not panic, that caused Dike to stop. So yeah he fucked up here, but he was no coward.
@@2104dogface With all due respect, you weren't there, I wasn't there. The facts are in dispute. Even if he had frozen up independent of an injury, I'm not going to call the man a coward. I'm not going to call anyone that served in World War II a coward. Someone who's awarded two different Bronze Stars certainly would deserve a little more respect from me than for me to hurl insults at him in the year 2024. You and I will just have to disagree on that.
@@deanhibler3117 were in my comment did i call him a coward?? I TALKED WITH MAJ WINTERS HIMSELF HE WAS THERE , My buddy who is in the process of writing a 4 book series on the complete history of Easy has ALL the paperwork and combat journals and spent years with all the Easy company vets and is friends with most of the families to this day. i was present when the Maj read the letter from Tom Hanks asking to make this series. hell i even know the real story on how Wild Bill earned the nickname on D-Day because he told me and it never made any of the books or series. there is so much bad info out there on E co. it's tough to get the facts right. so this june 5th my buddy is doing his podcast "Were not Lost Private" podcast covering the Days of Days episode for the 80th give it a listen.
First off. I never said that you called him a coward. The original poster made a comment insinuating he was a coward during the initial showing. That's where the reference to coward came in. I'm not suggesting that you called him a coward. I'm not sure why you've decided to take such personal offense at my comments. I'm very happy that you're so studious in regards to these events as a lot of this type of history is either disappearing or being neglected these days. I meant no personal offense to you. I also did not mean any offense to the person who posted the original video. I was just trying to give a different perspective into Norman Dyke. As I stated I was not there, and regardless nobody that's alive right now was either. I'm not about to get in some sort of huge debate with you on the subject. Just know and understand that no slight was intended.
@@ItzWilson2 The show tries to be accurate, but they do make mistakes. But one of the key things is they try and tell the show through the eyes of the men. And Dyke (who is't how they perceive him) is presented in the manner the men did see him.
Irrelevant to the GREAT video (btw) but a friendly tip, shave your mustache every time it gets a new max length, should make it grow longer over time. at least worked for me.
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This is one of THE best, most historically accurate depiction of the Battle of the Bulge. Hopefully it makes everyone who views it appreciate what others have experienced to give us our way of life.
Your freedom is the most expensive thing you own, even if YOU never paid for it.
You guys just got through my favourite episode in the series.
It still gets me every time Buck Compton breaks. The look in his face and the wail of “medic” is haunting. Neal McDonough is amazing acting that out.
Can see why it’s your favorite! That scene got me as well, Neal is awesome
When Matthew Settle...who plays Ronald Spiers...ran through the smoke of that explosion in the field, several of the actors said it looked so awesome that it actually energized them for the remainder of the scene. They were stoked!
That’s so cool 😂 and I ain’t surprised! That shit got me hyped
Another great reaction guys. This series is an emotional roller coaster throughout. And this episode is no different. At times it’s gut wrenching. At times there is humour and then other times you just don’t want to watch cos it’s so heart breaking like when Compton breaks down. It’s brilliantly portrayed but so hard to watch.
Agreed man this one drained me! It had everything and dragged me right along haha really enjoyed it
(Winters) "Speirs! Get in there, lead that attack!!"
(Speirs) " Hold My Beer"
😂😂exactly!
Funny story - I remember 1 time in the Barracks as we were sitting around drinking 1 of r guys says to Wild Bill "hey Bill, i'am going over and seeing the area of the line you held, you want me to bring anything back??" we all stop and look at Bill who lowers his beer looks him in the eye and says "Yeah, if you can find my leg that would be great " and then he smiled and we all cheered and made many toasts to Bill's leg. Even XXX got a chuckle then XX started singing and then it was just a blur after that , dam Prop Blast that stuff will sneak up on you. epic hangover
So awesome man! Great story
Another perfect episode. Simply put, every aspect of production is masterful. Very possibly the best episode of the season....though it does have stuff competition to that.....
The shockwaves from exploding artillery shells can literally scramble a man's brain. Throw in the fear and it's astonishing how many kept their sanity.
For real I can’t even fathom what that must’ve been like
Shifty was the best shot in their company. He doesn't get a ton of love in the show (I mean it's a huge cast). But by being able t take out other snipers, Shifty saved a large number of men's lives. And he was an excellent hunter (where he learned to be such a good shot), so when supplies were non existent he was able to kill wildlife to help sustain the company. He was also very self assuming, never thinking he was that good.
While iconic the Greman Luger was a WW1 design. One of the reasons it was being replaced by the Walter P38 . Was the Luger was well known for accidental discharge. This is why most German officers kept the pistol without a round in the chamber.
Fascinating had no idea ab that!
Nixon always seemed to be sleeping at strange times. It was because he was the intelligence officer and would frequently be doing surveillance at all hours of the night.
Ah yea that makes perfect sense haha
I've seen about 85% of Neal Mcdonough Tv/ Film work. And this episode's performance is what (out of what I've seen) his best performance.
In reality, Winters realized himself he had no more business going out there and came back to the line without needing to be called back. And it just happened that Speirs was the very first officer he spotted, it could have been anyone else..
While Speirs was racing down streets, waving between houses (a longer run than was depicted in the show), he kept taunting the Germans about their poor aim.
Seconds after Speirs left to return to Easy, the leader of Item company was mowed down by machinegun fire (the german must have known he better not shoot at Speirs lol). Thankfully someone else had been nearby to hear the orders and was able to relay them.
So cool to know what actually went down thanks for the comment! Love that he was taunting them 😂
Well, it's not just a clever name. Winters going in against orders, then sending LT. Speirs to relieve Dike, he more than put his money where his mouth is what he said to Blithe. "Easily" one of my favorite moments of the series. That scene is stunning, every, single, time. Then when Buck's helmet hits the ground, it's as Earth shattering as the German artillery. Currahee ♠
Absolutely, that scene between him and Blithe really sticks out to me now, didn’t think we’d see much of Speirs again, happy I was wrong! Yea that scene with Buck SUCKED man, it was so good
The actor of "Muck" is my nephew's son, Richard Speight Jr, from Tenesse!
So cool!! He was great!
So having been in E/506th reenacted back in the day before the series and having had many long drunken conversations with Wild Bill and others from Easy. Yes Dike was hated by all and he had made the Company HQ guys dig him a "Foxhole as big as a hotel" - Wild Bill , When Speirs made the run to talk with I company (which was down to just 22 troopers) it was to have them shift fire as they were firing into Easy Co.
Dike wasn't hit Clancy Lyall said he saw him bleeding BUT Clancy was not near him during the attack and none of the 506th company or Reg. paperwork had him listed as wounded.
LT. Shames was also very much hated within Easy also esp by the guys in his 3rd Plt.
Dude that’s so cool!! Thanks for the awesome info 😁
Somehow this show never gets even a little bit old
I can definitely feel how timeless it is, even though I’m watching it for the first time 😂
Dyke was actually shot in the shoulder which made him freeze up.
Ahhh gotcha, didn’t even see that
Nope, Dike wasn't hit there is no mention in any of the official paperwork
The actions of Dyke during the attack on Foy were somewhat contraversial amongst the men of Easy Company. Some of the men felt he was a coward, others, like Forest Guth, said Dyke was shot during the attack on Foy and that's why he haulted the advance. Other recorded actions of Dyke don't seem to support the coward perception. For instance, he pulled several men who had been wounded out of the line of fire, exposing himself to fire in the process, and I think he got a bronze star for that action. That doesn't sound like the act of a coward to me. It's complicated and we'll probably never know the whole story, but he sure had difficulty when put in charge of Easy Company.
Interesting, yea doesn’t sound like one to me either. At least the way he was portrayed here, as a “well-connected” person who got put in there on his way up the ladder, and seemed disinterested and inept as a leader, I took his actions for cowardly haha
@@ItzWilson2 ... I can understand that because that's the way they chose to present him to you, it's just that stories from some of the men of Easy Company don't agree with it. I don't know who is correct, all I know is, I wasn't there.
@@buddystewart2020 yea for sure! Really interesting to hear that there’s more to it. Thanks for the comment!
per all the official paperwork Dike wasn't hit during the attack
Dyke really gets raked over the coals by this show, but the thing to remember is it's the men's recollection of him that is being shown here. The reality is quite different. Dike was awarded a second Bronze Star for his action at Bastogne, in which "he personally removed from an exposed position, in full enemy view, three wounded members of his company, while under intense small arms fire" on 3 January 1945 (he had been awarded his first one for action in The Netherlands). Clancy Lyall stated that he saw that Dike had been wounded in his right shoulder and that it was the wound, not panic, that caused Dike to stop. So yeah he fucked up here, but he was no coward.
Gotchaaa yea I wish he was portrayed better in the show then 😂 cool to know those details
Clancy Lyall was nowhere near Dike during the attack and in all the official paperwork is no mention of him being wounded
@@2104dogface With all due respect, you weren't there, I wasn't there. The facts are in dispute. Even if he had frozen up independent of an injury, I'm not going to call the man a coward. I'm not going to call anyone that served in World War II a coward. Someone who's awarded two different Bronze Stars certainly would deserve a little more respect from me than for me to hurl insults at him in the year 2024. You and I will just have to disagree on that.
@@deanhibler3117 were in my comment did i call him a coward?? I TALKED WITH MAJ WINTERS HIMSELF HE WAS THERE , My buddy who is in the process of writing a 4 book series on the complete history of Easy has ALL the paperwork and combat journals and spent years with all the Easy company vets and is friends with most of the families to this day. i was present when the Maj read the letter from Tom Hanks asking to make this series. hell i even know the real story on how Wild Bill earned the nickname on D-Day because he told me and it never made any of the books or series. there is so much bad info out there on E co. it's tough to get the facts right. so this june 5th my buddy is doing his podcast "Were not Lost Private" podcast covering the Days of Days episode for the 80th give it a listen.
First off. I never said that you called him a coward. The original poster made a comment insinuating he was a coward during the initial showing. That's where the reference to coward came in. I'm not suggesting that you called him a coward. I'm not sure why you've decided to take such personal offense at my comments. I'm very happy that you're so studious in regards to these events as a lot of this type of history is either disappearing or being neglected these days. I meant no personal offense to you. I also did not mean any offense to the person who posted the original video. I was just trying to give a different perspective into Norman Dyke. As I stated I was not there, and regardless nobody that's alive right now was either. I'm not about to get in some sort of huge debate with you on the subject. Just know and understand that no slight was intended.
ItzWilson, I subscribed because your videos are super cool!
Ayee thanks man! Really appreciate it 👊
Great reaction!!
So if i recall Dyke wasnt a coward, he actually was assigned extra duties between another platoon or something and just didnt tell anybody.
Ah fairs, I wish he didn’t play it off as he didn’t give a fuck about anything 😂
@@ItzWilson2 The show tries to be accurate, but they do make mistakes. But one of the key things is they try and tell the show through the eyes of the men. And Dyke (who is't how they perceive him) is presented in the manner the men did see him.
@@markwood6056 well said
Irrelevant to the GREAT video (btw) but a friendly tip, shave your mustache every time it gets a new max length, should make it grow longer over time. at least worked for me.
Good to know, if only I could grow one 😂
@@ItzWilson2 That was my same thought back a few years, started to shave and I GUESS (no legit clue) it stimulated the growth or smth idk lol.
I want to say Spier's run was toned DOWN to try and make it believable. It was longer and he was yelling at the Germans for their poor aim.
I heard this, that’s unreal 😂 speirs in GOAT contention for that