Growing up, I knew of course that my father had served in WWII. But as he never spoke of his experiences, I never heard much about them. My dad died in 1999, and Band of Brothers came out in 2001. I started to try to learn as much as I could about him and discovered he was also Airborne...Glider Trooper 194th Glider Infantry Regiment, 17th Airborne (my avatar here on You Tube is their shoulder patch)...and his first combat experience was about 10 miles further west of Foy in a little town called Flamierge at the same time Easy Company was fighting in Foy. This series made it possible for me to understand maybe just a little of what my dad experienced as an 18/19 year old man in 1945 and I will be grateful for it till the day I die. I only wish I knew more about his experiences. Maybe it's better I don't. I don't know. Cheers for the fine reaction. :)
@@hellowhat890 yeah the camera pans down to a body and the soldier says something along the lines of "I tried to explain it but this limey wouldn't listen"
The replacement who shot Grant was known as Floyd Craver, he was found guilty for murdering a British Major from the Intelligence Corps and a Wehrmacht Captain, as well as the attempted murder of Sergeant Grant (Craver also allegedly raped an Austrian girl). He was given a dishonourable discharge and sentenced to life imprisonment (but set loose shortly after returning to the States). He's been dead since July 6th 1987, after he crashed his moped into a truck in North Carolina, he was 65. Apparently he had five children, four daughters and a son.
16:41 😂 the best part of that scene is when you realize this is how he decided to come in the room "with good news" on his mind. Lieutenant Ronald Speirs is a BEAST too
Thank you for taking such a wonderful journey...this is my favorite mini series, every time it is on t.v., usually memorial day.. I always watch it....
When I was stationed in Germany I had the privilege to go to the Eagles nest , it's a steep winding scary ( cool ) road to the top and when you get there the golden elevator is still there and you take it all the way to the top to the Eagles nest where there is one of the most beautiful views on the planet , it's a memory that I cherish and will never forget. Peace Brother ✌ enjoyed your video.
The book goes into more detail about what more of the men did after the war. A large number of them went into construction or teaching. It's almost like having participated in destruction, they wanted to build something up.
Definitely watch 'We Stand Alone Together'. It's the full interviews. It'll tie it all up nicely. No need to react but have a watch for sure. You'll be glad you did. 😊
Really enjoyed your reaction to this important masterpiece. One of the best I've seen. You're a good dude. Also, your laugh should be a ring-tone lol I love it. Take care.
I was trying to come up with a comment to recognize Paul's reaction while mentioning the power/importance of the series. Your comment is exactly what I wanted to say. 👍
Have to watch the documentary “We Stand Alone Together”, it is literally all the interviews that you seen at the start of each episode, combined with about 100 more that they didn’t include, gives you even more of a perspective of their lives, before, during and after the war! :) ❤️also just need to point out your whole reaction throughout this, you have one of the most genuine reactions and actually understand most things that others don’t, loved it brother keep it up!
Also a very different scope. BoB is about the company and based off one book. Pacific focuses on the Division so the POV changes. It's also based off of two very different books and one hell of a solo story. Just to add to Random's brutality warning.
As of June 2020, Edward Shames is the last surviving member of Easy Company. Salute to them all. For they went and fought for us. They were one of the greatest generations of men ever. Personal fun fact: I still salute Malarkey's home everyday I go to work. I'm proud to live near the home of a hero's family.
Band of Brothers was such an amazing show but i read there is one strange change they made. In the scene where the german colonel surrenders to Winters. Winters noted that the luger he was given had never been fired. And kept it cleaned and maintained for the rest of his life.
The book however mentions that Winters "gave officers permission to keep their side arms and allowed German military police to retain their weapons" (p.275). So presumably the scene is intended as a composite of an actual event where a German general surrendered to him personally and a separate general order he gave regarding officers' sidearms. (Either that or the screenwriters followed the book and the book was wrong - wouldn't be the only place in the show where that happens).
Ronald Speirs went on to become the governor of Spandau Prison. ... Spandau Prison only had one inmate: one of Hitler's guys - Rudolf Hess. I can't help but imagine Speirs poking Hess with a stick out of boredom every now and again and giving him cigarettes.
The points system (I have to reread the books) was an interesting one. You got I think... three points for every month of service. 5 points for any wounds or injuries that you lived through, and 10 points for any medals, citations or any accomplishments on paper. I think it was noted that it was a flawed system at the time but how they managed the logistics. The military couldn't just send all of their soldiers home all at once. They needed those that were staying for full on military careers to remain in Europe or military bases overseas. With the war over, they needed troops to police or act as the new police force while Europe rebuilded or began the process of revival.
That's why they got Shifty to win the lottery. He came in with them and never got wounded, so he didn't have enough points. They didn't want him to get killed right at the end, even though he almost did.
Think of the emotional trauma these men went home with. They were gone 2 yrs or more with no contact with family except maybe some letters. I’m glad some things have changed for our military and they’re better taken care of. It’s the citizens who do t have a clue what their rights have cost others who fought for them to have rights. Our kids should be learning this in school but it’s our responsibility as parents and thankful Americans to teach them at home.
Speirs regarded Grant as a great soldier and a good man. He cared about him a lot. When they found the replacement that shot him, he was attempting to rape an Austrian girl. Not only had he killed Germans during his drunk spree, but some British officers as well. When they brought him in, everyone was pissed and the tension was real. Fun fact: Colonel Sink heard about the incident and came in for a report. He spoke to Speirs alone. But after Speirs delivered the report and his testimony, Sink left. When the rest of Easy asked Speirs what happened. "He (Colonel Sink) nodded and said I would have shot him." -Speirs. Just goes to show how much respect Speirs had even from Colonel Sink. If it had gone the other way, there was a chance that Sink wouldnt have punished Speirs at all. But of course, to them, the war was over. They wanted no more fighting. No one wanted to kill that replacement. They all had enough of killing.
Major Winters did keep the Nazi colonel side arm and found that it had never been fired and in his words "had no blood on it" he kept it until his death and made sure it was never fired. Hang Tough Major Winters Rest in Peace
I have heard that Captain Spiers said that if Sgt Grant had died that he would have killed the replacement. I dont remember where I got this information
PLEASE!! Do a review of the Band of Brothers documentary; We Stand Alone Together. You can find it in it's entirety on TH-cam. It's an extended version of the interviews you see of the real veterans that the show is based on at the beginning of each episode. You will be very glad you watched it!! And so will we!! 🙂👍
From Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest...epic journey. This is a bitter sweet ending. P.S. Watch the documentary of how the Eagle's Nest was made, it's absolutely incredible. You can still go there to this day
Except the camp shown in episode 9, *Kaufering IV,* was actually found and liberated by the 12th Armored Division on April 27, 1945 and the liberation of Berchtesgaden and The Obersalzberg, along with Hitler's Eagle's Nest, shown in episode 10 were actually liberated by the 3rd Infantry Division on May 4, 1945.
If I recall the truck shifty was on had all the lottery winners on it... and if I recall most of them died in the crash. I could be wrong but I think shifty was one of 3 survivors
Keep in mind not all of the German military were Nazis. They were regular army that believed they were fighting for their country. They had no part in killing Jews, minorities, gays, etc. Unfortunately they were follow orders from a madman. At the end they truly were trying to defend what was left of their country because their families were still there. So showing respect to a Colonel who was not SS was showing respect to a fellow soldier. Kind of like earlier when one of our vets was talking about how he could have possibly been friends with the people he was trying to kill, maybe hunt or fish together. They weren't evil, they were soldiers.
4:17 For a little perspective on Easy Company being "the G squad," remember that they had two full years of training before ever seeing combat. Very few other soldiers, sailors, or marines had that luxury. The war in the Pacific began almost immediately after Pearl Harbor. The first major allied victory, the Battle of Midway, was two years before D-Day. The Army was fighting in North Africa 18 months before D-Day, and Italy a year before. The US had liberated multiple countries from Axis Powers control and thousands of Americans had died while Easy Company was still training in safety. And the Battle of the Bulge (in part to rescue the 101st) was by far the bloodiest battle for the US in the war, so no matter how bad Bastogne was for them, I'm sure lots of other soldiers felt like all Airborne soldiers were pampered, spoiled, over-trained, and overpaid.
Gotta respond to this. The VAST, VAST majority of men who served in WWII were not combat veterans. Only about 35% of US Army soldiers were considered "front line" troops..the rest were support (artillery, rear echelon, cooks, truck drivers, staff officers, etc). Not to mention the Army Air Force, Navy, Merchant Marine, who saw little or no combat. This fact ALONE refutes your assertion they were mostly "in safety". Certainly not when compared to most of the 16 million who served in the US in WWII. They were part of the 35% of the army that actually fought. The other 65% mostly didn't. And while all areas of the United States Army performed admirably in WWII, it's safe to say that Airborne units saw MORE than their fair share of combat. In many instances, some of the highest unit casualty percentages in the US Army in WWII belonged to Airborne units. The 17th for example...one of its regiments took FIFTY PERCENT casualties in it's first 3 days of fighting in the Bulge. Yes, airborne units trained longer because they had to...they were doing things other units couldn't. And they were considered "elite" so yes they got more training. To state they were somehow "spoiled" is a slur and unnecessary to say the least.
@@natskivna I'm not denigrating the airborne, but how many Infantrymen probably thought they would be "elite" with an extra ~15 months of training? Christmas 1944 in Belgium was just as cold for the cavalry and infantry units (plus engineers and all the rest), and all American forces combined suffered about 40% casualties in the Battle of the Bulge. Heck, fighter pilots only had nine months of training beyond basic, so about a year total. My point is simply that if I was one of the men landing on the beach on D-Day instead of jumping in, or breaking through the German lines in the Battle of the Bulge instead of holding the ever-shrinking Allied territory, I might be inclined to think the men next to me were every bit as good of soldiers as the 101st.
@@michaelw8262 Who said they weren't every bit as good? I don't recall ANYONE making that statement. On the other hand, YOU made the assertion that the men of Easy (and by extension all airborne) were thought of as "spoiled". I'm not sure what the point was to make such an assertion or even how you feel qualified to make such a statement? You stating you didn't mean to denigrate the airborne while at the same time stating "lots of other soldiers felt like all Airborne soldiers were pampered, spoiled, over-trained, and overpaid" sure sounded denigrating to me. Rather than cast aspersions about airborne units, perhaps telling the story of the bravery of these other units would be a better choice if you feel they've been slighted in some way? p.s. One of the units that as you said was "breaking through the German lines in the Battle of the Bulge" WAS airborne...the 17th which was protecting Patton's left flank as he counterattacked into the southern front of the Bulge...one of THREE divisions of airborne involved in that battle.
In addition to the 101st there were other units in Bastogne, including Combat Command-B of the 10th Armored Division which repeatedly engaged German armor, destroying dozens German tanks and other armored vehicles, and kept it from rolling over and through the lightly armed 101st. In addition, there were three segregated field artillery Battalions, 333rd, 969th, and 578th, also present in Bastogne. The 333rd had been badly mauled in earlier actions and 11 of its men had been tortured and killed in the Wereth 11 Massacre. On a side note, I should add that some other things shown in Band of Brothers are not historically accurate. For instance: 1) The liberation of *Kaufering IV* as shown in episode 9 is almost entirely fictitious. The camp was actually found and liberated by the 12th Armored Division on April 27, 1945 with only a handful prisoners found alive and about 500 bodies, but the producers thought in would be more dramatic to have Easy Company liberate the camp. 2) The liberation of Berchtesgaden and The Obersalzberg as shown in episode 10. According to the U.S. Army both towns were actually liberated by the 3rd Infantry Division on May 4, 1945.
their is an epic pic of Nixon in his bed sitting up Drunk with crates of Booze that he took just for himself , Plus Maj. Winters did in fact Take the pistol from the german and took it home ( it was a PKK pistol not a Luger as showing here) the biggest collection of E co items is in a Museum in Gettysburg, PA they have alot of Winters items, and even Speirs plus many items looted by GI's esp Hitler's Silver items and even the only section of blood stained cloth from the suicide couch from the bunker were Hitler killed himself in the U.S. - th-cam.com/video/_MQd0EIBIgg/w-d-xo.html
Looting always been a part of war. Not viewed as acceptable these days though. Just today the US Government returned something like 15k+ "artifacts" to Iraq that were taken over the last 20 years.
"You're a hell of a fine soldier, Shifty. There's nothing more to explain."
Growing up, I knew of course that my father had served in WWII. But as he never spoke of his experiences, I never heard much about them. My dad died in 1999, and Band of Brothers came out in 2001. I started to try to learn as much as I could about him and discovered he was also Airborne...Glider Trooper 194th Glider Infantry Regiment, 17th Airborne (my avatar here on You Tube is their shoulder patch)...and his first combat experience was about 10 miles further west of Foy in a little town called Flamierge at the same time Easy Company was fighting in Foy. This series made it possible for me to understand maybe just a little of what my dad experienced as an 18/19 year old man in 1945 and I will be grateful for it till the day I die. I only wish I knew more about his experiences. Maybe it's better I don't. I don't know. Cheers for the fine reaction. :)
what a lot of people don't notice is that the drunk soldier also killed a British officer. "limey" is a slur for British people
Really? Got to rewatch again.
I knew he didn't just kill the Germans. He killed some British officers too which wasn't inthe episode.
@@hellowhat890 yeah the camera pans down to a body and the soldier says something along the lines of "I tried to explain it but this limey wouldn't listen"
The replacement who shot Grant was known as Floyd Craver, he was found guilty for murdering a British Major from the Intelligence Corps and a Wehrmacht Captain, as well as the attempted murder of Sergeant Grant (Craver also allegedly raped an Austrian girl). He was given a dishonourable discharge and sentenced to life imprisonment (but set loose shortly after returning to the States). He's been dead since July 6th 1987, after he crashed his moped into a truck in North Carolina, he was 65. Apparently he had five children, four daughters and a son.
Webster wrote that Speirs actually smashed the replacement’s face with the butt of a rifle and shouted, “I’ve killed better men than you!”
True. Not only that, Col. Sink told Spiers he should have saved all the trouble and just shot him.
16:41 😂 the best part of that scene is when you realize this is how he decided to come in the room "with good news" on his mind. Lieutenant Ronald Speirs is a BEAST too
Thank you for taking such a wonderful journey...this is my favorite mini series, every time it is on t.v., usually memorial day.. I always watch it....
When I was stationed in Germany I had the privilege to go to the Eagles nest , it's a steep winding scary ( cool ) road to the top and when you get there the golden elevator is still there and you take it all the way to the top to the Eagles nest where there is one of the most beautiful views on the planet , it's a memory that I cherish and will never forget. Peace Brother ✌ enjoyed your video.
A beautiful and very special series. You will never forget it. Thank you for watching & reacting to it.
Really enjoyed re-watching BofB on your channel. You're good company.
The book goes into more detail about what more of the men did after the war. A large number of them went into construction or teaching. It's almost like having participated in destruction, they wanted to build something up.
At least they didn’t go what Sledge in the pacific went through
Definitely watch 'We Stand Alone Together'. It's the full interviews. It'll tie it all up nicely. No need to react but have a watch for sure. You'll be glad you did. 😊
He has seen war is another fantastic documentary if you haven't seen it
It's a must-watch.
Really enjoyed your reaction to this important masterpiece. One of the best I've seen. You're a good dude.
Also, your laugh should be a ring-tone lol I love it.
Take care.
I was trying to come up with a comment to recognize Paul's reaction while mentioning the power/importance of the series. Your comment is exactly what I wanted to say. 👍
Have to watch the documentary “We Stand Alone Together”, it is literally all the interviews that you seen at the start of each episode, combined with about 100 more that they didn’t include, gives you even more of a perspective of their lives, before, during and after the war! :) ❤️also just need to point out your whole reaction throughout this, you have one of the most genuine reactions and actually understand most things that others don’t, loved it brother keep it up!
To this day the WInters family silver is that silver set he split with Harry.
You've got to watch, We Stand Alone Together. Has all the interviews with the veterans. Well worth the watch
You did a GREAT job with this entire series. Thank you.
14:02 i dont want to understate how powerful this character's *RAGE* is portrayed on screen when he shouts "SHOOT HIM!" Great acting.
Now it's time for The Pacific please ;)
Same style, but far more brutal
Also a very different scope. BoB is about the company and based off one book. Pacific focuses on the Division so the POV changes. It's also based off of two very different books and one hell of a solo story. Just to add to Random's brutality warning.
You gotta watch The Pacific next and the documentaries Searching for Augusta and We Stand Alone Together
Yessir, The Pacific would be a great follow-up to this series
Been enjoying every episode you react to. My favorite series of all time. Keep it up, looking for more reactions. Much love from Sweden!
As of June 2020, Edward Shames is the last surviving member of Easy Company.
Salute to them all. For they went and fought for us. They were one of the greatest generations of men ever.
Personal fun fact: I still salute Malarkey's home everyday I go to work. I'm proud to live near the home of a hero's family.
There's a couple more left, Shames is the last surviving officer. I'll be seeing one when I go back to Mississippi next week.
@@philipcoggins9512 Mampres was the last enlisted man who died. Shames is the only survivor of Easy now.
@@catherinelw9365 Are you talking about people who were portrayed on the show, or the actual members of E Company?
Band of Brothers was such an amazing show but i read there is one strange change they made. In the scene where the german colonel surrenders to Winters. Winters noted that the luger he was given had never been fired. And kept it cleaned and maintained for the rest of his life.
The book however mentions that Winters "gave officers permission to keep their side arms and allowed German military police to retain their weapons" (p.275). So presumably the scene is intended as a composite of an actual event where a German general surrendered to him personally and a separate general order he gave regarding officers' sidearms. (Either that or the screenwriters followed the book and the book was wrong - wouldn't be the only place in the show where that happens).
Ronald Speirs went on to become the governor of Spandau Prison. ... Spandau Prison only had one inmate: one of Hitler's guys - Rudolf Hess.
I can't help but imagine Speirs poking Hess with a stick out of boredom every now and again and giving him cigarettes.
I’ve been there in that part of the world. The countryside really is that beautiful in the Alps
The points system (I have to reread the books) was an interesting one. You got I think... three points for every month of service. 5 points for any wounds or injuries that you lived through, and 10 points for any medals, citations or any accomplishments on paper.
I think it was noted that it was a flawed system at the time but how they managed the logistics. The military couldn't just send all of their soldiers home all at once. They needed those that were staying for full on military careers to remain in Europe or military bases overseas. With the war over, they needed troops to police or act as the new police force while Europe rebuilded or began the process of revival.
That's why they got Shifty to win the lottery. He came in with them and never got wounded, so he didn't have enough points. They didn't want him to get killed right at the end, even though he almost did.
The best mini series ever
Think of the emotional trauma these men went home with. They were gone 2 yrs or more with no contact with family except maybe some letters.
I’m glad some things have changed for our military and they’re better taken care of. It’s the citizens who do t have a clue what their rights have cost others who fought for them to have rights.
Our kids should be learning this in school but it’s our responsibility as parents and thankful Americans to teach them at home.
I was like... awww, the pacific would have been nice... but Chernobyl... all is forgiven.
Speirs regarded Grant as a great soldier and a good man. He cared about him a lot.
When they found the replacement that shot him, he was attempting to rape an Austrian girl. Not only had he killed Germans during his drunk spree, but some British officers as well.
When they brought him in, everyone was pissed and the tension was real.
Fun fact: Colonel Sink heard about the incident and came in for a report. He spoke to Speirs alone. But after Speirs delivered the report and his testimony, Sink left. When the rest of Easy asked Speirs what happened.
"He (Colonel Sink) nodded and said I would have shot him." -Speirs.
Just goes to show how much respect Speirs had even from Colonel Sink. If it had gone the other way, there was a chance that Sink wouldnt have punished Speirs at all.
But of course, to them, the war was over. They wanted no more fighting. No one wanted to kill that replacement. They all had enough of killing.
Major Winters did keep the Nazi colonel side arm and found that it had never been fired and in his words "had no blood on it" he kept it until his death and made sure it was never fired. Hang Tough Major Winters Rest in Peace
I have heard that Captain Spiers said that if Sgt Grant had died that he would have killed the replacement. I dont remember where I got this information
I've read somewhere that Colonel Sink had said that he would've shot the replacement if it was up to him.
@@rijkemans5114 I hadnt heard that thank you
@@rijkemans5114 sink said things along those lines multiple times so it wouldn't surprise me
PLEASE!! Do a review of the Band of Brothers documentary; We Stand Alone Together. You can find it in it's entirety on TH-cam. It's an extended version of the interviews you see of the real veterans that the show is based on at the beginning of each episode. You will be very glad you watched it!! And so will we!! 🙂👍
Sending you some love, Paul.
From Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest...epic journey. This is a bitter sweet ending.
P.S.
Watch the documentary of how the Eagle's Nest was made, it's absolutely incredible. You can still go there to this day
Except the camp shown in episode 9, *Kaufering IV,* was actually found and liberated by the 12th Armored Division on April 27, 1945 and the liberation of Berchtesgaden and The Obersalzberg, along with Hitler's Eagle's Nest, shown in episode 10 were actually liberated by the 3rd Infantry Division on May 4, 1945.
If I recall the truck shifty was on had all the lottery winners on it... and if I recall most of them died in the crash. I could be wrong but I think shifty was one of 3 survivors
Well done, Sir. 👍
Keep in mind not all of the German military were Nazis. They were regular army that believed they were fighting for their country. They had no part in killing Jews, minorities, gays, etc. Unfortunately they were follow orders from a madman. At the end they truly were trying to defend what was left of their country because their families were still there. So showing respect to a Colonel who was not SS was showing respect to a fellow soldier. Kind of like earlier when one of our vets was talking about how he could have possibly been friends with the people he was trying to kill, maybe hunt or fish together. They weren't evil, they were soldiers.
4:17 For a little perspective on Easy Company being "the G squad," remember that they had two full years of training before ever seeing combat. Very few other soldiers, sailors, or marines had that luxury. The war in the Pacific began almost immediately after Pearl Harbor. The first major allied victory, the Battle of Midway, was two years before D-Day. The Army was fighting in North Africa 18 months before D-Day, and Italy a year before. The US had liberated multiple countries from Axis Powers control and thousands of Americans had died while Easy Company was still training in safety. And the Battle of the Bulge (in part to rescue the 101st) was by far the bloodiest battle for the US in the war, so no matter how bad Bastogne was for them, I'm sure lots of other soldiers felt like all Airborne soldiers were pampered, spoiled, over-trained, and overpaid.
Gotta respond to this. The VAST, VAST majority of men who served in WWII were not combat veterans. Only about 35% of US Army soldiers were considered "front line" troops..the rest were support (artillery, rear echelon, cooks, truck drivers, staff officers, etc). Not to mention the Army Air Force, Navy, Merchant Marine, who saw little or no combat. This fact ALONE refutes your assertion they were mostly "in safety". Certainly not when compared to most of the 16 million who served in the US in WWII. They were part of the 35% of the army that actually fought. The other 65% mostly didn't.
And while all areas of the United States Army performed admirably in WWII, it's safe to say that Airborne units saw MORE than their fair share of combat. In many instances, some of the highest unit casualty percentages in the US Army in WWII belonged to Airborne units. The 17th for example...one of its regiments took FIFTY PERCENT casualties in it's first 3 days of fighting in the Bulge.
Yes, airborne units trained longer because they had to...they were doing things other units couldn't. And they were considered "elite" so yes they got more training. To state they were somehow "spoiled" is a slur and unnecessary to say the least.
@@natskivna I'm not denigrating the airborne, but how many Infantrymen probably thought they would be "elite" with an extra ~15 months of training? Christmas 1944 in Belgium was just as cold for the cavalry and infantry units (plus engineers and all the rest), and all American forces combined suffered about 40% casualties in the Battle of the Bulge. Heck, fighter pilots only had nine months of training beyond basic, so about a year total. My point is simply that if I was one of the men landing on the beach on D-Day instead of jumping in, or breaking through the German lines in the Battle of the Bulge instead of holding the ever-shrinking Allied territory, I might be inclined to think the men next to me were every bit as good of soldiers as the 101st.
@@michaelw8262 Who said they weren't every bit as good? I don't recall ANYONE making that statement.
On the other hand, YOU made the assertion that the men of Easy (and by extension all airborne) were thought of as "spoiled". I'm not sure what the point was to make such an assertion or even how you feel qualified to make such a statement? You stating you didn't mean to denigrate the airborne while at the same time stating "lots of other soldiers felt like all Airborne soldiers were pampered, spoiled, over-trained, and overpaid" sure sounded denigrating to me.
Rather than cast aspersions about airborne units, perhaps telling the story of the bravery of these other units would be a better choice if you feel they've been slighted in some way?
p.s. One of the units that as you said was "breaking through the German lines in the Battle of the Bulge" WAS airborne...the 17th which was protecting Patton's left flank as he counterattacked into the southern front of the Bulge...one of THREE divisions of airborne involved in that battle.
In addition to the 101st there were other units in Bastogne, including Combat Command-B of the 10th Armored Division which repeatedly engaged German armor, destroying dozens German tanks and other armored vehicles, and kept it from rolling over and through the lightly armed 101st. In addition, there were three segregated field artillery Battalions, 333rd, 969th, and 578th, also present in Bastogne. The 333rd had been badly mauled in earlier actions and 11 of its men had been tortured and killed in the Wereth 11 Massacre.
On a side note, I should add that some other things shown in Band of Brothers are not historically accurate. For instance:
1) The liberation of *Kaufering IV* as shown in episode 9 is almost entirely fictitious. The camp was actually found and liberated by the 12th Armored Division on April 27, 1945 with only a handful prisoners found alive and about 500 bodies, but the producers thought in would be more dramatic to have Easy Company liberate the camp.
2) The liberation of Berchtesgaden and The Obersalzberg as shown in episode 10. According to the U.S. Army both towns were actually liberated by the 3rd Infantry Division on May 4, 1945.
THE PACIFIC next, boiiiiii!!!!!!!
Sadly all the men of Easy Company have passed away, the last one passed away in 2000 - RIP
They earned “points” based on battles fought , wounds, and such.
their is an epic pic of Nixon in his bed sitting up Drunk with crates of Booze that he took just for himself , Plus Maj. Winters did in fact Take the pistol from the german and took it home ( it was a PKK pistol not a Luger as showing here) the biggest collection of E co items is in a Museum in Gettysburg, PA they have alot of Winters items, and even Speirs plus many items looted by GI's esp Hitler's Silver items and even the only section of blood stained cloth from the suicide couch from the bunker were Hitler killed himself in the U.S. - th-cam.com/video/_MQd0EIBIgg/w-d-xo.html
Looting always been a part of war. Not viewed as acceptable these days though. Just today the US Government returned something like 15k+ "artifacts" to Iraq that were taken over the last 20 years.
The Japanese were much more aggressive and ready to fight to the death.
Stand for the flag and kneel for the fallen
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