William 'Wild Bill' Guarnere and Edward 'Babe' Heffron back at Bastogne | Band of Brothers
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- William 'Wild Bill' Guarnere and Edward 'Babe' Heffron back at Bastogne | Band of Brothers
🎥 Join us on a poignant journey back to Bastogne as we revisit the iconic reunion of two legendary Easy Company paratroopers, William 'Wild Bill' Guarnere and Edward 'Babe' Heffron, portrayed in the acclaimed HBO series "Band of Brothers." Experience the camaraderie, bravery, and brotherhood that defined their bond during the pivotal moments of World War II. This video captures the essence of their friendship, offering a glimpse into the real-life heroes behind the characters. Don't miss this heartwarming tribute to the warriors who faced the challenges of war together and emerged as lifelong friends.
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I remember fondly these two gentlemen. It was October 2004 and I was fresh out of my 2 of 3 back surgeries at Portsmith Naval Hospital, VA. Across the Elizabeth River in Norfolk, at the MacAurther Memorial, BoB’s were having a meet and greet book signing if you will. Changing into my Service Alpha’s (Class A’s) stood in line for my turn. Having my book, DVD’s and camera at the ready. When I finally got to meet them all and exchange brief smiles and thank yous, I believe it was Babe that started giving me shyet for being a Marine. I wasn’t about to engage the interservice rivalry but Wild Bill to his credit took a look at my chest and saw my jump wings. “Leave him alone. He’s one of us”! I’ll always remember Wild Bill with that comment. Better men than me.
I have to say, Bill was quite the character. My son and I, both veterans would meet him in Allentown or at the Mid Atlantic air museum WW2 weekend. He always recognized me as a friend and fellow 101st Airborne veteran. But I was in the 501st and that was all he needed to start up the rivalry between the units. “ oh you better watch your wallets boys, the 501st is here” I would give him some back and he loved it too.
They don’t make them like that anymore. RIP airborne buddy.
Ironically I live in Whitehall (Egypt Twp). 10 mins north of Allentown. Made many visits to the Forks Gunshow there. Use to reenact (bad guys) putting on Living History displays at Reading some years back before that event gave up the ghost participation wise.
You keep good company. Semper Fi
Ehh...they served in the European Theater. You all were on the other side of the world making do with that 30% of the war effort FDR and Churchill alloted your theater.
No. Sounds like you are a good man too sir.
The men decide the war, but sometimes, the war decides the man.
Thank you for your service.
I had the distinct pleasure of meeting “Wild Bill”. He was one of the most open men I have ever met and had a great sense of humor. RIP Bill
They formed part of the greatest generation. Heroes is a word thrown like confetti these days but they were true heroes.
This is so true. I feel sorry for the newer generations that never had the chance to interact with these men and women. My grandfather was a WW2 vet (Normandy), but he never talked about it. I grew up in Texarkana, TX, and he was friends with Bull Randleman. I never knew Mr Randleman as anything other than my Grandpa's buddy who would meet us for lunch every week, along with a few other elderly gentlemen. Imagine my shock and surprise when I saw him during the interview portion of the Band of Brothers TV show when it first aired. I was a senior in high school, and my Grandpa had passed on by that point, and I was living in another part of Texas. I never got the chance to go back and tell Mr Randleman how much he inspired me.
My father was in Bastogne,.........these men are all gone now,....God Bless them!............
Without them I would'nt be here..
@@stephenbartley8133 I was born and raised in Germany. Without them, I wouldn't be here. My parents met while studying and training for a career in the German Protestant Church. If Germany hadn't been liberated by these men, my parents wouldn't have had the opportunity for this career choice, and they would not have met.
The image of them standing on the edge of that tree line is powerful.
I lived in south Philadelphia and took the bus with Babe all the time. He always wore his airborne jacket and Bill used to go to the diner nearby. I miss those times.
God bless you yanks....when ever anyone has a problem....you are there....some of us remember...my father fought side by side with you in normandy....my wifes dad side by side with you in.korea.....god bless you all......
The U.S., Britain, Canada and other countries made great allies.
Sadly, not anymore. Today, young people join the U.S. services to received free sex changes operations.
Unfortunately Americans have forgotten the large numbers of British troops who fought in the Ardennes and helped rescue the US Airborne in Bastogne, they rewrite it as a purely American battle now
@@claverhouse1 Yes, u r correct. The northern flank probably would have collapsed without the Brits. Some Brits were actually in Fort, if I recall correctly.
Hotton
666 BRITISH graves.CWCGz🇬🇧 just at Hotton alone died
Hanssen lost two tanks and could not get into Hotton and he changed his objectives.
Hotton a British upgraded 17 pounder Sherman 🇬🇧 Turret is still at that bridge.
Zero Yanks defended Hotton
666 British stopped the Hanssen Panzer colllumn.
Not any Yank.
Thank you will never be enough
These men saved us, saved a generation, saved future generations
They’d be sick to see how their sacrifice was worthless.
@@WarfraeGet help lil bro 😭
Saved from what ? Whole eastern europe suffered communism, and now just 3 generations later we are heading for a same conflict. Their sacrifices were pointless like any other war before and after them. Non of this makes any sense and we need to stop romanticising veterans - all of them just threw their lives away for nothing (not their fault of course)...
@@akshaanmehra128 Shut up, jeet.
100% correct, word can’t express enough Thank You to the Greatest Generation for OUR FREEDOM.
Some of the hardest sonsabitches to ever walk the earth. The Greatest Generation.
This is awesome. I got to meet these amazing gentlemen, as well as Dick Winters, as they flew together out of PHL for this trip. I was working security and was chosen to take care of these men in a private area as they came through the checkpoint. Being able to serve those men in the smallest of roles was a tremendous honor for me, as was being able to thank them each face to face.
You know when was this interview made?
Heroes for sure, we owe our freedom to these men.
What freedom……they’d be sick to see what this country has become. A rotten festering corpse
I’m so glad these great men’s memories have been preserved in print and on film. Never forget.
"There's no snow." And the trees aren't exploding.
"Bull, smack him for me please"
great scene
Our greatest generation. God bless one and all.
I am a retired career paratrooper and I went to The Netherlands and Belguim for 5 years with DOD afterwards. I went to Bastonge over 40 times. At the American Cemetary in Holland, Margratten, over a 3 year period I started at one end of the rows and completed putting two flags (one US and one Dutch) with the boy scouts. I took a photo each year where I started and ended. It was a great honor to for me to do this for the brothers who were my heros growing up. Over 101 jumps, master parachutiest, and all the surgeries and spinal fusions to go with them. I took my two boys to every WWII Airborne Battlefield. We did the "The Bridge Too Far" in one day. I had a friend in Korea who retired from the US Army but was captured as a Brit Paratrooper in Holland - he was on the movie set and the part about the guy running for the cannister dropped full of red berets was his stick buddy. Terrible war. All the wars are terrible. Only the dead are young forever.
Thank you for your service and commitment
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Thank you band of brothers for introducing and inspiring me to this.
God Bless you incredible heroes. Thank you for the sacrifice you made to secure our freedom.
I can listen to these guys for hours. They have such a wealth of knowledge and experience that I would never have imagined all they went through and the training they did to get ready for the invasion on D-Day. The utmost respect for them and all their comrades from Easy company PIR 506th 101st Airborne Division.
As well as every single person who served and serves today. Thank you 🙏.
When they mentioned about Muck and Penkala is so painful. Their whole bodies disappeared…
The sad reality is worse. They dont just disappear or evaporate, they torn to pieces Im sure torso head limbs were around. Whoever had to clean that up..... it's too much for a man to register that through his eyeballs.
I've been to recovery searches for missing soldiers. We sifted the dirt on possible positions and found a lot of bone fragments and teeth. Thats what was left sometimes of soldiers. Sometimes a larger skull fragment or a shinbone. A direct hit with large caliber leaves not much and often enough, the trenches and foxholes were just closed with the remains inside or not even that. There are places that are still today dangerous to go to because of unexploded ordnance or mines, like the Hürtgenforest in Germany. The countries directly affected by heavy fighting couldn't afford to deploy search and retrieving teams, because the people left had to rebuild.
Yeh hit me hard too up I remember seeing it on the band of brother tv series and it was horrific but hearing them talking about for real was just awful I can't even imagine what it must of been like I honestly don't want to imagine it I guess back then you had no choice but to shrug it off and get on with it there was a war to win and plenty of germans out there trying to do the same to you
@@a.m.7165 It's not unusual for unexploded ordnance to be found in German cities during construction projects, to this day.
@@fosterfuchsyeah I'm painfully aware of that. Had to leave my home 2 times because of controlled detonations of bombs. What I meant is, that until the 60s some regions were so full of unexploded or left behind ordnance, that people just didn't go there, so a lot of fallen soldiers were just left there. My dad was a forester in the 60s. He had the job to reforestate an area were heavy fighting took place in the end phase of the war and he told that the area was still littered with ammo crates and mortar rounds. An official bomb squad wasn't really established yet and they had work to do, so they just threw a lot of stuff in an old quarry where it laid till the 80s. I've been to that area a lot in the early 2000s for hunting and you could still see all the foxholes and some surface finds like bottles or empty rifle cases.
These subtitles are appalling.
But the crowd said plenty of artillery. You know how those crowds loved to talk.
RIP Muck and Pankala
Good mates...grew up in South Phily...and they both made it to 90...passing away within months of each other.
real life legends right there
it's haunting to come back to a place 70 years later and just go "oh yeah the died over here"
All I can say about Bastogne is that I’m glad I wasn’t there, but I salute to the fullest those who were.👍
No matter how cold I get in the middle of winter when I happen to be outside, I always remind myself it's not nearly as bad as these men had it. Without adequate gear, during one the coldest winters in living memory, while being shot at. I have no right to complain.
You men are still great and an inspiration to us all. Thank you for your sacrifices and all you've provided for the next generations
Maaan, what those guys endured...God bless 'em.
2:49 - 2:59 in my opinion, shows how persevering and resilient one can be in hard times
I'm sure it was especially powerful to be back there for Guarnere, given that he lost his leg in those woods.
God Bless these men. God Bless all who defend freedom for those who can't. 🙏
You dont know what your saying
My uncle Ray Smoot on a road behind the Normandy beaches, was shot and severely wounded on D Day + 2. He was captured by the Germans and spent the rest of the war in a German hospital.
My uncle Peter Gable was an MP and walked the Omaha and Utah beaches with General Eisenhower a couple days after that.
My dad Edward Gable later on fought in the Battle of the Bulge. They were all heroes to me.
Must be surreal for them to peacefully walk around that area. I cant even comprehend being at war, then years later walking around the same site
isn't it just the most interesting thing in the world seeing these two reminiscing in that spot like that.
The casting was soo good in this show that I was able to tell who they were just by looking at them.
Except Bills actor was too short and Babes actor was too tall.
They truly were americas greatest sons.
thank's you band of brother's .
I thank God for men like them!! They saved the free world!!
Never Forget 🙏❤️🔥🇺🇸😎
Amazing video of two heroes Reminiscing. Should have more views
The subtitling is horrendous when Bill & Babe are speaking. You shouldn’t subtitle if you’re not sure what the dialogue is.
Thank You!
Such men lived
they will always have to be remembered...true heroes!
Such an incredibly important moment to have the captions so fouled up.
Who did these captions? They need to be fired.
probably a software program.
“Unmerciful Sheldon” 😂
@@Sailor1010 Sheldon was very unmerciful in WWII. What a jerk.
Quadruple mind-boggling bravery God bless these men for what they endured indescribable unimaginable Terror they must’ve felt one and all least we forget the least we forget😐
Warriors respect 🙏
Como é impressionante ver homens já em idade tão avançada, voltar assim a um lugar de tanta dor e sofrimento. Hoje em dia, o que mais se vê são jovens depressivos com qual coisa
those closed captions are ESL at it’s best XD
I watched the series about a year ago. When I first saw the two characters that were based on these guys i was *convinced* thay both Bill and Gaurnere were dead, especially Bill after seeing all the injurieshe had prior. Color be suprised when i find out afew months later that they BOTH LIVED after loosing their legs!
And here they are, back in that thoose woods as if they didnt loose apert of themselves there, figuratively and literally. Regardless of differences my respect to those that survived the bulge will always be high.
Looks like Wild Bill earned a Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart. Babe earned a Bronze Star, Purple Heart, and Good Conduct Medal.
That is so funny that all of the nonsense those two did One got the good conduct medal.. They actually laughed about that at one of the reunions in Bastogne waiting in line to use the bathroom. They were agitated that they actually had to pay to use the restroom there and Babe said we FN saved this town and now we have to pay to piss? Well guys this piss is on me... and paid the money
Heros...they all were Heros..nuttin like them now in this country..bet theyre happy they are dead with what this country has become.....i served my whole family served wifes dad did the rhine crossing wounded etc..the most humble man you ever met....
Memória imorredoura. Honrar é preciso. Gratíssimo.
They were both from the same neighborhood in South Philly I think that was cool and they both went back to their old stomping grounds after the war.
I can only imagine what's really going through their heads. I don't believe I'll ever be able to go back to the countries I fought in.
We should never forget the men and women who fought and lost their lives for freedom we have today.
Great stuff! “AATW!”
Hero’s both of them
The greatest generation
Great Men
I burst into tears when Bill got hit with a mortar while carrying Joe
My god I hope our sons never have to go what they went through. For almost 80 years the peace they bought with their youth and their lives has held. For 80 years Fascism was kept back.
My uncle was there.. 18 yrs old.
Thanks. What more can we say
Please get rid of the closed captions, they are not reciting exactly what is being said. Otherwise, God bless these men. May they all rest in peace.
Why bother with captioning when you can't get 50% of the conversation correct? Just leave it out if you can't understand what they're saying. Everyone else understands what they're saying.
My uncle was in the town of bostonge before these boys of the airborne came,he told me about the germans probing the lines they would catch them coming across an open field from a tree line.
People who rely on the subtitles are going to be confused and/or misinformed.
American courage exemplified. 😢
How are the subtitles so bad? Channel should be ashamed.
This must be an old video. Babe Heffron passed away in December 2013 and Bill Guarnere in March 2014, both at the age of 90
Would be so strange them visiting Bastogne when the last time they were there, it was a battlefield
They dont make them like that anymore. The best of a generation that had strength we never will. I wonder how many generations stand on those broad shoulders.
If you do subtitles (if the uploader has done them) you should at least understand what they were saying. Because the subs make absolutely no sense.
Honras eternas à todos que lutaram na WW2 contra o nazifascismo!!!!!!
👏👏👏👏🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Band of Brothers should be required viewing/reading in schools. I’m 42 now and I grew up having a massive amount of respect for our veterans. Kids today have no idea what any of this was about and that is incredibly sad.
Thank you for saving the world, men like this are disappearing from the world.
"In valor, there is hope." ----TACITUS
When was this video taken?
Not sure where you got 360 men, but entirely incorrect. A parachute company at full strength in World War II was about 140 men. Easy company was not at full strength when they went into Bastogne in December 1944. They were still recovering from their losses in Holland.
My uncle was there Bobby Brice saved three men and got killed saving the fourth
Get the subtitles right!!!
all i could see in this video were the mistakes in subtitles..
Now as the last surviving men and women of this generation are leaving this planet, we are on the onset of another global conflict.
Subtitles are way off
Did you see Monte Python and the Holy Grail? Whoever did these subtitles should be sacked as well. More wrong that right. It distracts from the story here of how the men of the 101st Airborne faced incredible hardship and odds, yet never broke. These men are the Greatest Generation. There will never be a generation like them again!
sad how bad the "subtitles" are
This was the largest engagement for America - but the Russians and Germans had a whole bunch of these on the Eastern Front
Could you have at least *tried* to get the subtitles correct?
why even bother with subtitles if they'll be this incorrect?
Now theres a couple of real American Warriors. I love those guys. The fabric of out country loved these. We could of did better with Vietnam Warriors.
Hotton bridge was held by the British🇬🇧
Sherman Firefly upgraded 17 pounder held that Hanssen collumn .
Lodt two tsnks in the river.
One a DtugIV snd a PsntherG.
Brutish lost 666 men
Hotton
CWCG cemetery.
The Bulge was NOT judt the Yanks st Bastogne.
Visit Hotton
Graves do not lie
Their kind will never walk with mortals ever again..the finest generation. They gave so we could live.
And we let the tranneeze take over.
A generation of men and women the likes of which we may never see again.
wtf where these subtitles??
Pity the useless subtitles....
I wouldn't say 'complete surprise' - tanks could be heard moving en-masse in the days before. And the Germans had attacked through the Ardennes in 1940 and 1914.
Yes, it was pretty much a “complete surprise.” It is true that tanks could be heard, but the Army brushed this (and other signs) off as nothing to worry about. An intelligence failure of gigantic proportions. The military just didn’t take the signs seriously.
God bless EVERY SINGLE ONE 😔🌹
Those have to be the worst subtitles I have ever seen in my life
We all have a responsibility to stop war like this to happen again. We will not sending any of our children to fight for the rich and powerful.
I don’t know what weapons WW3 will be fought with, but WWIV will be fought with sticks and stones
A lot of the rich and “powerful” fought too. A lot of college educated men fought gallantly in wars of old even in WW2. When a country invades my land or tries to take over the world like the Germans or Japanese and attacks us like Pearl Harbor and 9/11, yes I’m fighting. You think you’re comment was smart and that you made a nice sounding quote but really it’s ignorant and very empty
@@ledgaming6489 Tbf Germany wasn’t trying to take over the whole world, just Europe, the British and French wanted Germany to take out the USSR which is why they kept appeasing them. And Japan really had no choice but to attack Pearl Harbor after the oil embargo
We are now in the longest period of world peace in history.
Lots of little wars, but no more big ones: no WWi or WWII, no hundred years was, no more wars of the 5 Emperors , etc.
Appreciate what these men did for us.
@@veramae4098 Europe is in the middle of the largest war since WW2
These subtitles are useless.