Band of Brothers Episode 7 "The Breaking Point" REACTION!!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!! (ABSOLUTE LEGEND!)
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The portrayal of Dyke in this episode is one of the most talked about and disputed things about this series. The real Dyke was not a coward which is what many take out of this episode. He was actually awarded 2 bronze stars for bravery for actions in combat. While he was not a coward he was not a good leader. It is true that he froze up during the assaults on the village of Foy however the circumstances are disputed. There are reports that he only froze only after being wounded. The truth is lost to history but suffice to say he never connected with the men and was not the leader that Winters, Spiers or Lipton were. Interesting fact is that it was not a plan to replace Dyke with Spires. When Winters saw Dyke freeze and knew he had to send someone he turned around and the first Officer he saw was Dyke. Simply the luck of the draw..
It wasn't just that Dyke froze during the attack on Foy that turned Easy men off. He was distant and uninvolved long, long before that. If he had tried to be a part of the company early on (like Compton), the guys would've cut him some slack for freezing up under stress.
"the first Officer [Winters] saw was Dyke."
Should be "Speirs".
It's true that Dyke only froze at foy because he was wounded, however, both Winters and the other men wrote extensively on how aloof and distant he was. The sign of a good leader is being able to delegate, but dyke seemed to delegate his entire job to the other lieutenants and noncoms in his company. He was also often found in his foxhole asleep as well. Hence his nickname "foxhole Norman".
But you are also correct in that he was not a coward. When the bullets started flying, he would fight hard with the other men. But in that case the other men only saw him as another man on the line, not a leader.
@@Duskraven67 I agree with you 100% my only point was that many people leave this show thinking the man was a coward, he wsa not. He just was not a leader was my only point.
Norman Dike is an example of the Peter Principle, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to "a level of respective incompetence". What that means is you start at the bottom, and you're good at your bottom-level job, so they promote you. And you're good at your next level job. So they promote you again. Sooner or later you end up promoted into a job you can't handle because the skills that made you a success at lower levels of responsibility don't always transfer upwards.
As a platoon leader, Dike was pretty good. He was actually recognized for valor, winning two Bronze stars, which is *NOT* something cowards do. But then he got put in charge of a company, and let me tell you from personal experience as an army officer, not all platoon leaders can hack it as company commanders. In any case, the primary reason why Dike stalled was he was bleeding out and was falling into shock. If you look at how they portray him toward the end -- and remember the description is based on eyewitness accounts, he's pale, he's incoherent, he can't focus... all symptoms of excess blood loss.
Dike was nobody's idea of a good company commander, but this episode did him dirty.
"failing upwards", like so many in this Biden regime
Speirs was a genuine bad ass. The run he made in real life was much farther. Winters said that he chose Speirs because he was closest. He always thought that Speirs was there on purpose because he knew that Dike would have to be relieved. The sniper that Shifty shot was hit right between the eyes. Dike lived. There are questions whether he was wounded or not, or so I've heard. Carwood Lipton said that he "fell apart" and Bil Guarnere and Babe Hefron spoke unkindly of him in their books. He earned the nickname of "Foxhole Norman" because of his propensity to stay in his foxhole during fighting.
The actor playing "Warren Muck" ( Richard Speight Jr) is my Nephew.
He's an awesome and funny guy! I listen to his Podcast from time to time.
Speirs was really as bad ass as the show portrays. It’s really refreshing seeing how keyed in you guys are to what was going on out there
The real Hoobler never got his Luger. He shot himself with another service weapon he took from a dead German (probably a Browning .45) when it snagged on some barbed wire.
Also the real Norman Dike was not completely incompetent. He froze up when they were approaching Foy because he was shot, but none of the men were aware because of how many layers he was wearing.
Additionally, Spiers did not run through Foy to hook up with I company, he ran around the perimeter. Still an absurd feat of bravery, but not suicidally brave.
Shifty taking out the sniper actually did happen, and if you go to Foy today you can be taken to where he took his shot. He made a clean hit with his Garand aiming through the iron sights and nailed the sniper right between the eyes from 100 yards.
Another story about Shifty from the Battle of the Bulge the show doesn't depict was the "fake tree" incident. Overnight the Germans placed a fake tree in the treeline to disguise their AA guns and use as an observation post, and Shifty noticed it immediately...from well over a mile away.
That's interesting. I came across a different story concerning the luger when doing research years ago. What I found said that he did get a luger but that he was only familiar with one model when there were two in use by the Germans during the war. One being a hold over from WWI and the other a newer model. Both looked very similar but for some reason the designers switched the on position for the safety. He only knew of one model and the one he found was the other. So, when he thought he had engaged the safety, he had actually disengaged it. Then, when putting it into his pocket, the trigger snagged and it went off. I know from the luger my granddad brought back (the early model) that they had a hair trigger so it wouldn't take much to accidently fire. Your version of the story sounds a lot less complicated which likely means it's the correct one. Dumb luck for Hoobler either way.
Great reaction, guys. "Ghost of Easy Company", haha. Neal McDonough's performance (as Buck Compton) is simply stupendous in this episode. Hoobler, Muck and Penkala's deaths really hit hard. They were always funny and upbeat, making the best of every situation - "I'm shaking so much, I feel like I'm dancing", "It's a lemon powder snow cone". A heartbreaking episode, but with a satisfying pay off.
Great comment
("Winters"): .. "Speirs! Get over there, relieve Dike and take that attack on in !!"
("Speirs"): ... "Hold My Beer."
Just don’t give the beer to Nixon
Spiers wrote to Winters before the series made. He said he would not deny executing prisoners. Part of war. EPIC SERIES
The story about Spiers killing the prisoners is true. It was confirmed in an interview with Dick Winters. The guy doing the interview asked Dick about this, and Dick told him about it. He said that Steven Ambrose called him one day and told him they had a problem. Lawyers from Simon and Shuster called him and were worried about potential lawsuits from some of the stories that were in the book. The Spiers story was one of them, the portrayal of Nix drinking too much was another.
Dick told him not to worry about it, he would handle it. He said he wasn't worried about Nix, he knew that wouldn't be an issue, but the Spiers story was something else. Dick said he called Spiers and said 'hey Sparky, you know those rumors that were floating around, about D-Day, were they true? He said Spiers said 'oh yeah Dick, they're true'. He told Speirs about the phone call from Ambrose and the Lawyers concerns and Spiers said don't worry about it. He would write them and letter and tell them what happened. Apparently he did just that, and Dick said it was never an issue after that, because it was true.
The interview with Winters is out there on youtube, which is where I got this info from. I may have paraphrased a little.
Speirs did shoot/ordered prisoners shot, but not as depicted. He did so on the night of June 5. he hooked up with two men, and on two occasions during the night, germans surrendered to them. The three men were under strenth and looking for their unit, and couldn't bring prisoners without great risk. on one occasion he ordered the two to shoot, and he shot one. then he shot three himself. The history of D-Day was that prisoners were taken, and some were shot. on both sides.
Lipton cannot be the CO of E.Co.. He was an enlisted soldier. To be a CO of E Co. he had to be a commissioned officer. Not only a commissioned officer but he had to outrank the platoon leaders (2nd Lts) that will be reporting to him. At the end of the episode Lipton was going to be promoted to 2nd Lt. to be a platoon leaders. Dyke eventually retires the army a Lt. colonel.
Wow, you guys are totally invested in the characters. That's what this show does to you. It's so immersive, it just sucks you in. Every character matters, whether they speak one word or a thousand. The last scene in the church is so moving. It reminds of the scene where Malarkey picks up his laundry. Toye, Guarnere, Muck, Penkala, Hoobler and Compton, it's too much to take in. I first watched this show 21 years ago and Luz's face (as the breaking point arrives) still haunts me to this day.
Lt. Ronald Speirs and two others executed 7 German soldiers during D-Day operations. The Americans were trying to find their lines and had no other way to deal with enemy prisoners. According to witnesses, Spiers shot the drunken Sergeant in self defense.
Lt. Norman Dike has a more checkered story. He was awarded two Bronze stars for bravery before taking command of Easy Company and was actually wounded in the shoulder during the advance on Foy. It is possible that it was the wound which caused him to "fall apart." He was not remembered favorably by Winters, Lipton, Guarnere or Hefron. He survived WWII, was promoted to Capitan and served through the Korean War.
War is hell!
The Germans had an issue with dud artillery shells. They used forced labor to produce munitions, so many people who resisted added sand to the explosives in a shell, or replaced the explosives entirely with something inert.
Zay is more stoic but Cam's gonna need therapy after this! That was indeed hard to watch. Nice job.
I loved how you guys emphasized leadership. It is demonstrated both positively and negatively throughout the series, and this episode particularly. I have heard that in Naval leadership schools they show this series to students and discuss leadership. Back when I went through leadership school, they did the same, but with a movie called "Twelve O Clock High". we didnt have BOB yet. We were taught that Leadership is a skill that can be learned only with experience, but also there are personality traits that can help some become better leaders. great reaction guys!
Lt. Dike survived the attack, but was taken to the rear with medics for treatment. He would later be assigned to serve in the 506th Regimental Headquarters, as an assistant to the Operations Officer (Glorified secretary). He DID go on to serve in the Korean War as well, eventually reaching the rank of Lt. Col. at the time he retired. He also got his law degree from Yale in 1947.
Dike was basically supposed to be a 'temp leader" of Easy Company until further promotions and transfers after Operation Market Garden had been sorted out. Basically put in charge early Nov. But here he was, basically two months later, KNOWING that he was supposed to be replaced by someone else at some point, he is involved with the Battle of Bulge and assaulting the town of Foy. Within 2 months, he took over Easy, got tossed into one of the biggest extended "battle" of the war, in dire conditions, and then relieved of command.
PRIOR to being assigned as leader of Easy Company, Dike distinguished himself during combat in both the D-Day invasion AND in Operation Market Garden, actually winning several medals for actions taken to rescue several injured men under heavy fire. Some reports are that he basically was going through backyards with only his pistol at the time and either dragging or carrying wounded soldiers out of harms way. (Think it was around 4 he saved, but 2 others died of their wounds later). During this effort, he was under fire, was wounded (not seriously) and basically did the running back and forth to get other soldiers out of danger while his unit was pinned down and basically trying to just give him covering fire because that was about all they could do at the time until another unit connected up with them and they were able to push the Germans back.
It should also be noted, that the men of Easy Company respected Lt Dike as a MAN, just not as a leader. They were fully aware of his record and reputation, and knew that in combat of SMALL units, he was "on the ball". But suddenly having an entire company tossed onto his back was a bit too much at one time, and he had basically ZERO time to adjust in his position because Easy Company itself was in middle of training replacements and resupplies after Market Garden. So, basically, he came in at a bad time for the company, was a bit over his head due to lack of experience leading that many men at once, and was only supposed to be a "temp officer" with expectations of a "permanent leader" being assigned around the start of 45 (Like in Jan, or Feb at the latest).... only to be tossed into Battle of the Bulge and everything kind of overwhelmed him and he more or less became too cautious and unsure of basically every decision. The worst case for a leader during combat.
Something I find really cool is the town of foy has a plaque right before you enter the city with the names of all the men who died to take the town back.
If you want to see real video footage of easy company watch the documentary we stand alone together. It's an add on after the end of the series.
In realty Winters was NOT called back by Sink, But turn around himself and seen that spears made himself available juts like good officer does.
So you know, when a company First Sergeant says he or she has no confidence in an officer, that person is TOAST. A First Sergeant is no joke at the company-level. Basically there's the Captain and the First Sergeant who're Mom and Dad for 120 soldiers. Officers (lieutenant, first lieutenant, captain) come and go every couple of years. The First Sergeant is the institutional knowledge of the unit.
Most of the German dud rounds were made in factories attached to concentration camps. Some of the slaves there were too weak and sick and did a bad job as a result. Some intentionally sabotaged as many rounds as they could and probably saved countless lives, a feat as brave as anything any soldier did.
3:45 is heartbreaking to see a man his age nearly come to tears
The Luger pistol was prized as a trophy in the European Theater and also used as a form of currency
It's a fact, spiers executed prisoners. The show almost wasn't done because Winters didn't want to show that. Tom Hanks talked to Winters and Winters called Spiers. Spiers confirmed it and gave permission to include the scene.
yeah several other E co. shot PW's on D-Day also, but they never told Ambrose so it never made the book or series
In every company there is a Commanding Officer (CO) and the Co. First Sergeant. The two of them are the dad and mom of the company. The CO leads the company. The First Sergeant takes care of the administration of all the enlisted men in the company. After Lipton became a 2nd Lt. and platoon leader, StfSgt Floyd Talbert became E Co. First Sergeant. In episode 10 there is a scene where Talbert asked Captain Spiers to replace him from Co. FS back to a platoon Sgt. because he missed being with the men. Spiers response was "Ok, I guess you have earned the right to demote yourself"
Dike was the son of a New York State Supreme Court judge.[2] He was a 1937 graduate of St. Paul's School[1] and a 1941 graduate of Brown University.[1] He studied at Yale Law School.
Yawning like that is an indicator of being nervous and stress.
About Hoobler shooting himself; I've heard that the safety mechanism of the Luger is opposite to their service pistols. So when Hoob 'put it on safety' he actually disengaged the safety, because he doesn't know the mechanism is opposite
You asked about Hubler and safeties. As an American soldier, he would've been familiar with the safety system on American weapons like the 1911 and Garand. But, he wouldn't have been trained on how German weapons work or how their safeties work. The Luger's safety, for example, operates very differently from the American 1911, so it's likely he thought he had it in SAFE but actually had it OFF.
American Paratroopers did get training on German weapons (not every single 1 but still)
I had to take a break after this episode to complement you guys in doing such an awesome job in reacting to this groundbreaking TV Mini series. To give you some key actors in this film, some who you know and some you may not know, Damien Lewis (Winters) is a British actor whose pinnacle acting moment was this series. He also played a schizophrenic role in "Dreamcatcher" based on a Stephen King novel. I don't think I have to remind you that Donnie Wahlberg played Lipton. He gets better and better with every role given to him. He was also in "Dreamcatcher" (a very heart wrenching performance) and a bit part in "The Sixth Sense." Neal McDonough (Lynn "Buck" Compton) is best known for playing the villain Damien Darhk in the CW series "Arrow," "DCs Legends of Tomorrow," and "The Flash." He can be seen in one other WWII movie "Flags of Our Fathers," and "American Horror Story" where he plays Dwight Eisenhower. He's also a fellow alum from Syracuse University. Another actor from the CW series "Arrow" playing the most evil villain you'll ever see Ricardo Diaz (he should've got an Emmy for his performance) is Kirk Acevedo (Joseph Toye). Richard Speight Jr. ( Warren "Skip" Muck) played in the CW series "Supernatural as The Trickster, Loki and the angel Gabriel. To see David Schwimmer in a dramatic role was a blessing in disguise. His 3 episode appearance on this show should give him a boost in other dramatic roles. I, too, freaked out when I saw Jimmy Fallon. Anyone can spot him 100 miles away! But, not a spoiler, but look out for the debut of Tom Hardy. He's coming up soon playing John Janovec. I can't wait to finish off this series with you guys.
Think it was back during the 50th Anniversary of the battle of bulge reenactment in PA i was in E/506th living history and we had a bunch of the org Troopers with us. had a real good Prop Blast Bash too. at some point as we were drinking & Singing 1 of our guys comes up to "Wild Bill" and says hey Bill i am going over to visit the area of the line you were in , is their anything you want me to bring back for you" Bill lowers his beer looks him straight in his eyes and says "Yeah, if you could find my leg that would be great" then he smiled and lifted his beer, we all laughed and cheered and toasted to Bill's leg. also toasted to Hinkel. those were some great time
When you boys are done with this series you should check out Neil Halloran's the Fallen of WW2.
It explains the scope and scale of this war.
Dud doesn't mean it will never go off. It just didn't go off when it was supposed to. It may take a while to explode, it may never explode. You are correct. They should count their blessings and get away from it.
Tourists who visit those woods, are told be here mindful of unexplored ordinance left from the war.
This epsiode always stuck with me. I've rewatched this show probably 10 times. It's up there, top5 of all time. When I was on military training my captain bought the whole DVD-set so me and my whole platoon could watch this show back in 2004. Great way to strengthen team chemistry.
Great channel, keep it up. You'll probably move on to The Pacific. Also a great show. But I kept comparing it to BoB, don't :)
If Lipton had been able to play Call of Duty: United Offensive, he would have known where every German gun was. Too bad that game wasn't released until 2004.
Low key y’all becoming my dawgs lol keep up the reactions boyz 🤙🏻🔥
“This has to be a dream” is a great way to describe what guys think when they get hit from what I’ve heard. In Ken Burns “The Vietnam War” John Musgraves got hit, and laid there hearing god awful screams and thought “who the hell is screaming like that?” And realized it was him, hearing his own screams
5:30 you have to keep some things in mind. 1: firearms safety was not what it is today. you have to remember this is the age of holding onto the trigger while your gun is safe. something you are highly discouraged doing today. 2: Hoob was unfamiliar with the firearm in question. the safety on the luger is almost the exact opposite to what it is on the 1911. 3: the luger was famous for having two things; a tiny trigger guard, and a crisp soft trigger pull.
what more than likely happened was, Hoobler was running around from foxhole to foxhole, showing off the gun. Then, thinking it was on safe, he stuffed it into his pocket, where his glove got caught on the trigger and sent a round through his leg.
It goes to show you that familiarity with a firearm is just as important, if not more so, than just having a general basis of firearms safety. My grandfather always told me, "you need to know all the ways it can bite you, so that you can avoid it ever doing so."
carrying it around in his pocket was a very bad idea. true of any pistol, especially the lugar. theres a reason the germans carried it in a fully inclosed leather holster.
Buck was very close to the men but that became his weakness. An officer was meant to maintain a certain distance to his subordinates because of the high turnover between fights.
You can't grieve for everyone of them, they say. And that's what broke Buck there and then
When a soldier drops his helmet it is a sign that they have mentally broken and they need to taken off the line. Buck was a catcher for the UCLA Bruins prior to enlisting.
They did Dike dirty in this, he actually had combat experience and didnt freeze during the attack but got injured and unable to command. I believe he was in the Korean War as well.
The run Spiers made actually happened, it was toned down in the show. Yes you read that right, it was toned down, the men of easy company said the run was much further and he was under heavier fire.
The episode where a legend was born. What a soldier what a man.
5:30 the most hilarious question you could have asked. 😂 like yeah he shot himself on purpose tf
Dud or not, that round is still treated as live ordinance.
In the first couple of days after D Day, Gen. Taylor told them no prisoners, partly because they had no camps set up yet; they were just coming up from the beaches. Plus, paratroopers are not infantry. That's not their job. As for the sergeant, it was during an attack and the sergeant was drunk and putting his men at risk. I doubt he would have gotten in trouble for it.
WE STAND ALONE TOGETHER...documentary with Easy company...has some real footage
At 05:36: The satey catch on the Luger P08 was notoriously unreliable and could, under less than ideal handling, disengage itself. The issue was found to be so commonplace within the Wehrmacht prior to the start of the war that the Luger's succesor, the Walther P38 had a significantly improved safety mechanism because of how many accidents there had been. However, as with nearly every piece of new tech/weaponry the Germans had, there was never enough of the P38's to equip everyone who needed one so the Luger was manufactured until 1943 without a change in design even though it had "officially" been replaced in 1938.
Dike was put with Easy because of his connection with someone to get battle experience to move up
If you think about it, the guys that survived must've looked at each other afterwards and marveled that they were the fortunate few that survived. Probably surreal every time they got together.
Enjoy watching y'all react to this. Seen this many times. Always emotional . Tough stuff ahead.
Winters said he look around and saw spiers the killer that he needed
Lugers were known for going off without even a finger on the trigger
22:21 "Don't miss, Shifty." Darrell Powers DOES NOT miss.
If you ever have the opportunity to visit Foy, you can stand in the same spot Shifty Powers stood at the corner of the building where he took out the German sniper. You'd also be amazed at the distance Shifty had to cover with that shot (further than shown in this episode!).
Also, Winters chose Spiers simply because Spiers was standing off to his left and was the first officer Winters saw when he turned around. Additionally, when Spiers left I Company to run back through the Germans, the commander of I Company was hit in the chest and killed seconds after speaking to Spiers. Spiers could have been hit by that shot but good fortune was on his side.
Some guns don't have safetys and very rarely they misfire takes someone pulling the trigger, and guns do have hair triggers
Duke didn’t die. He was removed from command.
Dyke was removed from commanding troops. He stayed in the 101st Div as a desk officer. As a Captain, he was aide to Gen. Maxwell Taylor, Commanding general of 101st Div. He served in Korea and retired from the army a Lt. Colonel. Moral of the story is, just because you are not a good combat leader, it does not mean the army can't make good use of you. Oh yea. Capt. Sobel also retired a Lt. Colonel.
Remember what Spiers told Blithe in episode 3: The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead. All war depends on it....
Luger only have the word gesichert written at the safety lever and the word is fully covered up in the other setting.
The safety on the Luger was verry temperamental and if you tucked into a cote or as he did un his belt it would take off the safety. You have to carry them in the holster that is designed for them.
Spiers told Winters he did it. I believe it.
The coveted Luger was a pistol from WW1. They were known to have a hair trigger. Where a slight touch could cause an accidental misfire. This is why they were issued with a flap holster. The pistol was completely covered by the holster to prevent the soldier from harming themselves.
I'll talk about Buck and Speirs at episode 10. Wouldn't want to give out spoilers. Speirs was soldier's soldier. Going back to episode 3 remember how Speirs told Blye that he needs to realize he's already dead. Then he can do what a soldier needs to do. The Speir's charge is the example of that thinking. This needs to be done. Here I go..
During the war many men rose up in rank , but it was uncommon for a E-8 to rise up to commissioned officer.
My favorite episode! Good job gents!
Dike got killed when the Haystack blew up he was sitting behind
You can definitely find out the truth about Spiers but wait till you finish the series
If you Boys are up to it, I would serious recommend the 9 11 Gedeon and Jules Naudet documentary about the day the towers fell. They went in into one of the towers with the Firefighters and filmed the whole thing. You can find it on TH-cam to react to.
Spires did kill the POWs on D-Day, but he was by no means the only one. The sad reality is that they didn’t have any ability to take prisoners on those first days after the landings, and they couldn’t let them get free to go back and give away their positions.
Speirs killed prisoners on the night of the 5th of June when he only had 2 men with him and was looking for his unit. but in fact, on D- Day many german prisoners were taken. some were shot, justifiably or not, but most became POWs.
When you said "Winters knew who to send in", it was actually a stroke of luck, Spiers was simply the first officer he spotted, he could have picked anyone else.
they had to kill the POWs because their was no way they could facilitate their surrender. they had no means of getting them out of there. they barely had enough manpower to hold off the germans, and the success of the invasion still was in question. TLDR they either would have starved in some sort of captivity or been released and fought
Lieutenant Dike is portrayed as being incompetent. In real life he performed many acts of heroics. For example, Dike was awarded a Bronze Star for his action at Uden, Holland, with the 101st Airborne Division between 23 and 25 September 1944, in which he “organized and led scattered groups of parachutists in the successful defense of an important road junction on the vital Eindhoven (sic)-Arnhem Supply Route against superior and repeated attacks, while completely surrounded." 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. In preparation for the 13 January 1945 attack on Foy, Belgium, E Company was attached to the 3rd Battalion, 506th PIR. Division Headquarters ordered the attack to begin at 0900 hours. During the assault, Carwood Lipton, at that time the company's first sergeant, described Dike as having "fallen apart." 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. Dike survived the assault, and eventually returned to the rear in the company of a medic. Afterwards, he was transferred to 506th Regimental Headquarters to become an assistant operations officer. Dike then moved on to become, as a captain, an aide to General Maxwell Taylor, Commanding General, 101st Airborne Division. He later served in the Korean War
Dyke was supposedly shot in the shoulder which made him freeze up.
He was a made man by some high ranking officer so who knows if he actually earned those awards of if they were given to him so he would move faster up the ranks.
The writer of the episode regrets portraying Dike so poorly. I saw him say it somewhere along the rabbit hole deep dives on BOB.......
Spiers run that he did was actually a lot longer of a run but in the show they had to make it look believable
Try reacting to the thin red line!
Lipton was doing the job anywa
BALLZ OF STEEL SPEIRS
Note: These stories were written from the memoires. Wait till done with the series of course. But after episode 10 is done, watch the 1 hour 30 min documentary called "We Stand Alone Together" where all the real guys are interviewed. You'll realize these are accurate and being portrayed as close to reality as they can. Of course hollywood enbellishes some items and has to in some cases. But what Speirs did running through Foy was accurate as well as most of what they are showing. For example, in Episode 3 with Blythe. What happened to him and how was accurate. But the guy who wrote the memoire never knew that he actually survived as well as others from the EC. So there are some things that get through the cracks. But the sotorylines are right from the guys who were in it. Great job guys!!!
There is a lot of controversy about Stephen Ambrose as a historian. When he wrote this he relied on the memories of survivors at their reunions. There are strengths to this approach but this series reveals some of the weaknesses. Maybe later we can discuss the plagiarism issues.
femoral artery is in the thigh. once it is punctured it's about 30-45 seconds before you bleed out. not much anyone can really do
If you can quickly get a tourniquet on it and get the wounded quickly transported to medical facilities, he has a chance.
Speirs was probably a psychopath and not in the Ted Bundy I want to murder people way but in I have absolutely no fear way. Absolute badass.
Not at all. he simply overcame his fear. Episode 3.
No need to apologize for saying "character arc". There's always going to be a disconnect between the actual story and the romanticized portrayal of the story for entertainment. Probably the best example is the late R. Lee Ermey, who most people know as being the asshole D.I. in Full Metal Jacket. In reality, he was an excellent leader and anyone who's ever met him will tell you that he never talked about himself. He was more interested in hearing about them and their military career.
You two are not insulting anybody by saying "character arc". You are simply commenting on the slightly embellished version of the story being told.
Horrible salute Cam. Your longest finger should touch the edge of your eyebrow and rotate your hand so you can look down your palm to your wrist. Straight line from finger tip to elbow.