I knew both Guarnere and Heffron. They both spoke warmly and with high respect for Joe Toye. Guarnere told me that Toye had been hit so many times that, Toye said he wondered why he was still alive. They really loved that man....
@@marvinlake1818 clown? The only clown is you buddy calling people out as liars like a true keyboard warrior... Why would the man make up a story? Maybe people like you do that alright is why you ask for proof as you put it . Like I said.. shame on you
From what I have read from other books by Co. E vets, Joe Toye was one of the strongest, toughest men you’d ever find. The exquisitely painful degloving injury to his hand was seen by Don Malarkey, who was rightly concerned, but Toye said “Don’t worry about it Malark, it’s fine.” The admiration I hold for those men cannot be overstated.
My first platoon sergeant was with the 502nd PIR, 101st Airborne Division who jumped into Normandy on D-Day only 3 days after his 17th birthday. He'd lied about his age, joined the Army to escape crushing poverty and volunteered for the Airborne to get the extra $50 monthly jump pay. 2 combat jumps in WWII, action at Bastogne, he came back for combat service in Korea. Two more combat jumps in Korea, then another break in service. He returned to join Special Forces in Vietnam, serving 3 tours. He never spoke about his service in either WWII or Korea, but on one really miserably cold exercise, he said: "Well, at least I'm not in Bastogne..." Tough, demanding high standards and no excuses, he had a heart of gold. Bobby, I still miss you.
Oh, Wish he had told his story...Their stories are so important! I hope his family knows some of it. So important to keep alive, and learn from. Thank you for sharing. Blessings for you all. 🙏💜🌿
@rockitsurjon8629 That's a helluva lot of War to fit into one lifetime. Well done old mate. "You're a better Man than I am, Gungah Din" Rajahed Kipling.
@@frenzalrhomb6919 - It seemed that Bobby lived for war. He went back to school and became a school teacher after WWII - I would have hated to have been in his class. Rejoined the Army in 1950 for Korea, seeing heavy combat and making 2 of the 3 combat jumps. Another break in service when he was married and ran a liquor store. Vietnam started to get hot and he went back into the service again. Volunteered for Special Force, rejoined a lot of his old friends and had 3 combat tours. When I ran into him, he was 50 years old and still had 5 more years of service needed to retire. Vietnam had just ended, the Army was in shambles and Bobby was not good in peacetime service. But he gutted it out to get his retirement. I stayed in contact with him until he passed away about 15 years ago, but it always seemed that he was waiting for the next war.
My father in law (USN WWII) was from Reading. He joined the Navy on 12/8/41 at 16 years old. By early 1942 he was a torpedo man in the destroyer escort fleet. He made 37 trips through the canal seeing Naval combat in both the Atlantic & Pacific theaters, we miss you Brownie. These people are what put the word GREAT in the phrase THE GREATEST GENERATION. Thanks to all now serving, those who have, and those who will in the future. FLY NAVY!!!
I've learned more about E Company, WW2, etc., from watching your videos than I ever learned in public school growing up. Thank you for all of the time and effort you've put into researching the topics and presenting them.
Totally. I hated high-school in . Social studies .in my senior year I had to take 4 social study classes. I've learned more from this channel than in high-school. Ty for this bio.❤❤
Joe Toye is buried near my parent's grave site just outside Reading, PA. My wife lived in the same block as Joe in West Reading, PA. for 11 years but never knew him. Her neighbors next door was an elderly lady and her daughter whose last name was Toye. Don't know the relationship they had to Joe. The Band of Brothers series came out long after we were married and moved away. Joe was truly an American hero.
I just recently discovered that he is buried near me and I periodically visit his gravestone to tidy it up. I also learned, ironically, that he is buried about 50 feet from my childhood dentist. Small world.
Joe's response to hard times is very different from that of people today, many of whom declare themselves victims and demand handouts and unearned rewards. Integrity and self-reliance are vanishing traits.
IIRC, Bill Guarnere also got back home and went to work for many years, with one leg missing. Products of the Depression are cut from a different cloth.
It’s strange how a tv show gets made and all these men come to light, Probably so many more out there that need their story told. Band of Brothers got me into ww2 history, I have so much respect for these men
Ive lived my entire life until last year in Reading. I had unknowingly been in the very cemetery he is buried a couple times, even had a friend live right next to it. Had no idea he was from and buried there. I gotta stop in sometime to pay my respects to him and drive down to Ephrata for Dick Winters to do the same.
A lot of guys from Luzerne County, Pennsylvania where Pittston, and Wilkes-Barre are located served in WWII, my Father included. The larger portion of those served in the Airborne and the 28th Inf. Division, known as the Keystone Division for the Red Keystone Patch on the shoulder. Tough men all. Loyal to the core and the kind of people you want in a foxhole with you when the time comes. Airborne.
My grandfather lost his leg to a train, but he worked in mines underground as an electrician, later a chief electrician, then a consultant and mine operator. His leg hurt, but it didn't impede him from working underground. He was also born in 1919 or thereabouts. Maybe they gave him a pass for being a licensed electrician.
Stokes is the one interviewed who states that …on a real cold night, you can ask my wife, I am sure glad I’m not in Bastonge…. That that line and the line by shifty powers saying who knows under different circumstances we might’ve been friends. he might’ve liked the fish. I might like to hunt, but we both had a job to do.
Joe Toye, one of the best men of Easy. Just loved his character. It was truly the non coms that held the company together. …told ya I beat you back to the states Joe… in a thick south philly accent 😃
Sounded like you said Camp "Wee" in Petersburg Va. There was a Camp Lee in Petersburg, but it closed in the 1920's. It was reopened as Fort Lee in WW2.
I have watched so very many of your fantastic videos. Although they have brought out facts that definitely should have been used in the book and the series, I'm still enamoured of both . . . only less so. I'm just disappointed that some facts that could've been included were left out, some reputations were somewhat besmirched, some facts were mixed up, etc., etc., etc. I want to thank you and tell you that I'm very appreciative of your effort to bring out the facts! Why am I using this video to send kudos? I don't know for sure . . . there really isn't one particular video to use and I thought I would use this one that's a biography of an enlisted soldier rather than an officer.
Thank you I really appreciate that. I am on a week suspension at the moment but will have a lot of Band of Brothers content coming up in the next few days.
I just recently discovered that he is buried near me and I periodically visit his gravestone to tidy it up. I also learned, ironically, that he is buried about 50 feet from my childhood dentist. Small world.
80% disability rating after losing his leg and numerous wounds sustained throughout the war. That right there should be a crime against the VA raters who rated this man. Unbelievable!
A question I have too: there's been so very much publicity (most likely because of Band of Brothers) about the 101st Airborne. It's almost like the 82nd Airborne has been forgotten about in that nothing is published about it. Has anybody mentioned that?
Yes many times. I have posted a couple of videos on the 82nd but It doesn't have the same interest level because of the series. I will be doing more in the future.
Powerful narration of a war hero. Striking how the VA only gave him 80% disability after losing a leg and being wounded many times. I can attest that the VA doesn't provide support easily, and with my non-combat time in uniform, it's deplorable on how the VA over the decades refuse to give 100% support to combat Vets. Forget us, rear with the gear Vets, put combat Vets should receive top care. Hoorahhh, Combat Medic, 1995-2003.
Another great biography! And one that does justice to his story. I need to stop seeing the distasteful "reddit wars" about Winters vs Sobel. Unsure if you've seen but a lot of people there are talking about the "Winters-clique" and the like, as well as trying to blow up the little bit of friction between him and subordinates like Ed Shames. They're making it out as if there were actual feuds going on non-stop.
Yeah its not explained where his Irish accent came from but it must have been his parents and as you say, an area where a lot of Irish immigrants settled.
I knew both Guarnere and Heffron. They both spoke warmly and with high respect for Joe Toye. Guarnere told me that Toye had been hit so many times that, Toye said he wondered why he was still alive. They really loved that man....
Those two were quite the pair. What an honor to actually know them.
@@megancrager4397 Yes, in 2004 I had the honor of going to Europe with them on an 'Easy' company tour. Incredible experience....
@@marvinlake1818 shame on you
@@marvinlake1818 clown? The only clown is you buddy calling people out as liars like a true keyboard warrior... Why would the man make up a story? Maybe people like you do that alright is why you ask for proof as you put it .
Like I said.. shame on you
@@marvinlake18181. How the hell would he prove anything on TH-cam
2. Who the hell are you that anything needs to be proven to you?
Joe Toye is another outstanding example of the Greatest Generation. 👍
@@bigbob7820 agreed
Agreed
From what I have read from other books by Co. E vets, Joe Toye was one of the strongest, toughest men you’d ever find. The exquisitely painful degloving injury to his hand was seen by Don Malarkey, who was rightly concerned, but Toye said “Don’t worry about it Malark, it’s fine.” The admiration I hold for those men cannot be overstated.
My first platoon sergeant was with the 502nd PIR, 101st Airborne Division who jumped into Normandy on D-Day only 3 days after his 17th birthday. He'd lied about his age, joined the Army to escape crushing poverty and volunteered for the Airborne to get the extra $50 monthly jump pay. 2 combat jumps in WWII, action at Bastogne, he came back for combat service in Korea. Two more combat jumps in Korea, then another break in service. He returned to join Special Forces in Vietnam, serving 3 tours. He never spoke about his service in either WWII or Korea, but on one really miserably cold exercise, he said: "Well, at least I'm not in Bastogne..." Tough, demanding high standards and no excuses, he had a heart of gold. Bobby, I still miss you.
Oh, Wish he had told his story...Their stories are so important!
I hope his family knows some of it. So important to keep alive, and learn from.
Thank you for sharing.
Blessings for you all.
🙏💜🌿
This is kind of man that saved a lot of lives in Vietnam. Totally respect.
Damn...
@rockitsurjon8629
That's a helluva lot of War to fit into one lifetime.
Well done old mate.
"You're a better Man than I am, Gungah Din"
Rajahed Kipling.
@@frenzalrhomb6919 - It seemed that Bobby lived for war. He went back to school and became a school teacher after WWII - I would have hated to have been in his class. Rejoined the Army in 1950 for Korea, seeing heavy combat and making 2 of the 3 combat jumps. Another break in service when he was married and ran a liquor store. Vietnam started to get hot and he went back into the service again. Volunteered for Special Force, rejoined a lot of his old friends and had 3 combat tours. When I ran into him, he was 50 years old and still had 5 more years of service needed to retire. Vietnam had just ended, the Army was in shambles and Bobby was not good in peacetime service. But he gutted it out to get his retirement. I stayed in contact with him until he passed away about 15 years ago, but it always seemed that he was waiting for the next war.
My father in law (USN WWII) was from Reading. He joined the Navy on 12/8/41 at 16 years old. By early 1942 he was a torpedo man in the destroyer escort fleet. He made 37 trips through the canal seeing Naval combat in both the Atlantic & Pacific theaters, we miss you Brownie. These people are what put the word GREAT in the phrase THE GREATEST GENERATION. Thanks to all now serving, those who have, and those who will in the future. FLY NAVY!!!
I've learned more about E Company, WW2, etc., from watching your videos than I ever learned in public school growing up. Thank you for all of the time and effort you've put into researching the topics and presenting them.
Its my pleasure. Cheers.
Totally. I hated high-school in . Social studies .in my senior year I had to take 4 social study classes. I've learned more from this channel than in high-school. Ty for this bio.❤❤
Absolutely love learning more about the history and the characters. Truly exceptional men to whom we owe so much. Lest we forget. 🇬🇧🇺🇸
Dang, Toye was always getting hurt. Couldn't catch a break. The line, "what's a guy gotta do to get killed around here" makes even more sense.
He had a Purple Heart with three oak leaf clusters by the end of the war.
Thanks for this. All those guys that served then and now deserve recognition.
Yes indeed!👍
Joe Toye is buried near my parent's grave site just outside Reading, PA. My wife lived in the same block as Joe in West Reading, PA. for 11 years but never knew him. Her neighbors next door was an elderly lady and her daughter whose last name was Toye. Don't know the relationship they had to Joe. The Band of Brothers series came out long after we were married and moved away. Joe was truly an American hero.
Thanks for sharing that story.
Had family in Reading years ago. Now I would welcome the opportunity to pay my respects to Sgt. Toye.
I just recently discovered that he is buried near me and I periodically visit his gravestone to tidy it up. I also learned, ironically, that he is buried about 50 feet from my childhood dentist. Small world.
@@drkline69 That's a lovely gesture.
Wounded so many times, and came back to support his mates. That is one great soldier. RIP Joe Toye you have earnt that.
One real man. The best of his generation. 🇬🇧🇺🇲
Thank you for providing an accurate and comprehensive life story of all these soldiers. Lest We Forget.
Great video. Another true American Hero. Thank you for your service and sacrifice to this great nation. 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲❤️🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Another outstanding video providing insight into the extraordinary men of Easy Company.
Much appreciated!
Can't tell you how much I've enjoyed these posts. Thanks for all your hard work and dedication.
Glad you like them!
Thanks for remembering these guys.
Thank you again, War&Truth, for the whole story about Joe Toye. Proving once again why you are the best channel here for the rest of the story.
Thank you so very much.
Thank you for mentioning James Campbell. He is buried near my hometown in Lawrence County Illinois, in St. Francisville.
I really like these detailed overviews of an individual soldier.
Thank you.
Joe's response to hard times is very different from that of people today, many of whom declare themselves victims and demand handouts and unearned rewards. Integrity and self-reliance are vanishing traits.
It was a different world back then. I honestly don't know how civilization will survive itself over the next 100 years.
IIRC, Bill Guarnere also got back home and went to work for many years, with one leg missing.
Products of the Depression are cut from a different cloth.
Back then you could just walk in somewhere and get a job that could support a family. Things are very different now.
@@War_And_Truth : Bro, 100? Im worried we wont make the next 6 years the way things are going.
@@repetemyname842sad but true
Good job fella, for these small vignettes into these men’s real lives.
Cheers
Always liked this character in the series, I have a whole new respect for him now. RIP to a true hero
these are the best videos, ty
Glad you like them!
In the last episode, 10, where families were included we learnt that Joe insisted that on his tombstone his membership of the 506 PIR be included.
Kinda tells you right there, He didn't play.
Thank you for telling the whole store about Joe. He was a good soldier and a good man. God bless him; God bless them all. 💝
Thank you
The Greatest Generation, never forget 🇺🇸
Thank you so much, well done.
Thanks
It’s strange how a tv show gets made and all these men come to light, Probably so many more out there that need their story told. Band of Brothers got me into ww2 history, I have so much respect for these men
All these men, including Joe Toye are national heroes. I stand at attention every 4th of July an Veterans day for them.
Good to hear. I wish our younger generations would do the same thing.
Excellent plus job ! Once again you make the HEROES of Easy Company come alive !!!
Thank you very much!
Your videos are second to none and i enjoy them immensely. Please do some on the members of the filthy 13! Airborne! All the way!
Thanks! Here are a couple of videos I have done on the filthy 13.
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th-cam.com/video/hV6IS43XIOs/w-d-xo.html
Yes it's nice to hear the stories of the men from before and after BoB.
Very well researched and written. 👏
I really appreciate your coverage .
Thank you sir
The more I see the real photos of the men, the more I realise the casting crew nailed their job!
Another great presentation. Thanks.
Thanks for watching!
Thank You. Really enjoyed listening to your video..
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for this beautiful story!! Keep up the great work 💪🙏🇺🇸
Cheers
Been waiting for this one 🤙🏽🤙🏽
Ive lived my entire life until last year in Reading. I had unknowingly been in the very cemetery he is buried a couple times, even had a friend live right next to it. Had no idea he was from and buried there. I gotta stop in sometime to pay my respects to him and drive down to Ephrata for Dick Winters to do the same.
A lot of guys from Luzerne County, Pennsylvania where Pittston, and Wilkes-Barre are located served in WWII, my Father included. The larger portion of those served in the Airborne and the 28th Inf. Division, known as the Keystone Division for the Red Keystone Patch on the shoulder. Tough men all. Loyal to the core and the kind of people you want in a foxhole with you when the time comes. Airborne.
my daughter lives in Pittston
Another great video.
I appreciate that
Great original photo with shined jump boots.
RIP Joe Toye. Ty for your service.❤❤❤
Born the same year as my Mum and lived four years longer,RIP,my mum was also in uniform in WWII
Great video!
Thanks!
Really like your detailed narrative.
Thank you kindly!
Thanks.
You're welcome
My grandfather lost his leg to a train, but he worked in mines underground as an electrician, later a chief electrician, then a consultant and mine operator. His leg hurt, but it didn't impede him from working underground. He was also born in 1919 or thereabouts. Maybe they gave him a pass for being a licensed electrician.
Different breed back then. Lose a nail these days and you are off work.
4:00 Glad to see a picture of young J. B. Stokes. Fellow Texan.
He's interviewed in the series.
Stokes is the one interviewed who states that …on a real cold night, you can ask my wife, I am sure glad I’m not in Bastonge…. That that line and the line by shifty powers saying who knows under different circumstances we might’ve been friends. he might’ve liked the fish. I might like to hunt, but we both had a job to do.
@@MichaelConferPhoto, yep. Those lines are well remembered by me, also. Shifty and JB.
Unbelievable story, unbelievable life, unbelievable man. RIP!
The great generation . Everyone of those guy need a big thank you
Well done, Mr. Toye...
Joe Toye, one of the best men of Easy. Just loved his character. It was truly the non coms that held the company together.
…told ya I beat you back to the states Joe… in a thick south philly accent 😃
I celebrate Joe Toye Day the third Thursday in November.
Enjoyed!!!!
Love your vids!!
My Parents knew Don Malarkey at the University of Oregon after the War.
Thanks
Thank you.
We want Babe Heffron bio......please
Stay tuned.
Sounded like you said Camp "Wee" in Petersburg Va. There was a Camp Lee in Petersburg, but it closed in the 1920's. It was reopened as Fort Lee in WW2.
Its just my pronunciation though they probably called it that :P
OUTSTANDING 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Thank you.
Thanks mate👍😎
No problem 👍
Great ...😊 Subscribed 🎉
Thanks for the sub!
I live in Pa. My parents grew up Reading Pa. My family worked in the still mills snd coal mines of Pennsylvania.
turns out the $50 airbourne pay bump is now worth $1126 & change today
Jump pay has not kept up with inflation, I think it is $150 a month now. No wonder so many men volunteered for the paratroopers.
I have watched so very many of your fantastic videos. Although they have brought out facts that definitely should have been used in the book and the series, I'm still enamoured of both . . . only less so. I'm just disappointed that some facts that could've been included were left out, some reputations were somewhat besmirched, some facts were mixed up, etc., etc., etc. I want to thank you and tell you that I'm very appreciative of your effort to bring out the facts! Why am I using this video to send kudos? I don't know for sure . . . there really isn't one particular video to use and I thought I would use this one that's a biography of an enlisted soldier rather than an officer.
Thank you I really appreciate that. I am on a week suspension at the moment but will have a lot of Band of Brothers content coming up in the next few days.
I just recently discovered that he is buried near me and I periodically visit his gravestone to tidy it up. I also learned, ironically, that he is buried about 50 feet from my childhood dentist. Small world.
A real badass!
Excellent story😊
Many many thanks
Hot damn, he was wounded that bad and only got 80% rating. I know dudes who never even left the wire with ratings that high these days lol.
Salute!
6:05 The soldier 2 places off of Randleman's left shoulder (going right, in the picture) might be Edward Tipper.
Its John Sheehy
Respect! 💯🫡
ATW!
80% disability rating after losing his leg and numerous wounds sustained throughout the war. That right there should be a crime against the VA raters who rated this man. Unbelievable!
Disgusting
A question I have too: there's been so very much publicity (most likely because of Band of Brothers) about the 101st Airborne. It's almost like the 82nd Airborne has been forgotten about in that nothing is published about it. Has anybody mentioned that?
Yes many times. I have posted a couple of videos on the 82nd but It doesn't have the same interest level because of the series. I will be doing more in the future.
Powerful narration of a war hero. Striking how the VA only gave him 80% disability after losing a leg and being wounded many times.
I can attest that the VA doesn't provide support easily, and with my non-combat time in uniform, it's deplorable on how the VA over the decades refuse to give 100% support to combat Vets. Forget us, rear with the gear Vets, put combat Vets should receive top care.
Hoorahhh, Combat Medic, 1995-2003.
Another great biography! And one that does justice to his story.
I need to stop seeing the distasteful "reddit wars" about Winters vs Sobel. Unsure if you've seen but a lot of people there are talking about the "Winters-clique" and the like, as well as trying to blow up the little bit of friction between him and subordinates like Ed Shames. They're making it out as if there were actual feuds going on non-stop.
There are at times some good documents posted on Reddit but its pretty toxic otherwise.
I love the picture of Babe Hefron and Bill Garnier at Joe Toye’s grave.
The soldiers were a blessing to America.
Nice vid
lets get his subs up...cmon! great work boot
Much appreciated
that is a good series i have the whole dvd set
Being from Georgia, I have always wanted to visit Tocoa, maybe run Curahee 👍
You should do it. You are a lot closer to it than I am lol
My Great Uncle Bill Did the tour D-Day to Germany. He too came home and drank himself to death. It‘s like they never really made it home.
Did I hear that right? Was Joe Toye in the State police before he was in the Army, the audio was a little garbled?
He worked in a butcher shop and later in the mines when he's 17
Lots E company members where from PA
Dick Winters
Joe Toye
Bill Gaurneere
Babe Heffron
Harry Welsh
Albert Blithe
Jack Foley
Colonel Strayer as well, though he was wasn't strictly Easy Co.
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You stated he died in his 50’s. The math doesn’t add up. 1919-1995
Not Toye. He was 76.
Great bio, apart from the AI narration.
Subscribed.
Thanks and welcome. I am deaf so that's my only means of narration.
@@War_And_TruthWe appreciate you ... and it!
@@jacquelinedaniels3601 🤩
Would love to hear the story of Lt. Dyke
I have done a video on Dike but I will do a bio on him shortly.
A thick Irish accent, was his mother Irish? He most have been raised in a pocket of Irish immigrants in Penn.
Yeah its not explained where his Irish accent came from but it must have been his parents and as you say, an area where a lot of Irish immigrants settled.
Heffron referred to Toye as a "big Mick" in an interview.
When watching the series, I assumed that he was Italian. 🤷🏼♂️
@@tudyk21me too
👍!
Listen man, is this AI voiced? You say multiple names in different ways throughout the video. Strange cadences.
Yes mate. Im deaf so I need to use AI
He should have started cutting Pennsylvania Blue stone, because in pittston Pennsylvania there's a lot of Blue stone
Man
God Bless the Infantry
Injured ?😀 its called wounded peanut injured is when you fall out of a tree always loved tha t line
Best line of the series.
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RIP Joe Toye. This was probably the worst casting in the series. Wish we could have paid tribute to him better.
Could have been better I agree.
So. Working poor are the engine of the monster.