I applaud your continuing work to present this show to Valk...keep up the great work. The makers of the show could not portray the terrain around Carentan the way it really was, so it is really hard for people to understand why the troops went straight up the road to get into the town, and you wondered why they could not hide and sneak in through the woods. But the Germans had flooded all the areas around Carentan, and the only ways into the town were across the few raised causeways...which the Germans defended heavily. There was no option for the Americans trying to get into the town but to get across the causeways as fast as possible, there was no way to approach the town under cover or concealment. It is one of the reasons I recommend that channel The Operations Room to folks....because they show the real battles so you can see the few important things they could not show in the series. I guess I will also mention that Albert Blithe did not actually die, the makers of the show made a mistake on that because Blithe had not been in contact with the other Easy veterans. He stayed in the Army, fought in Korea, and passed away in 1967 from as a result of a perforated ulcer. Though, Old Man may well have already mentioned that to you. Edit: Yup 😉 Minor note...the Germans were signatories to the Geneva Conventions, so probably about 60 percent of the time they followed the rules...maybe less in some places. Of course, the SS never had any compunctions about shooting medics...or chaplains...and I am sure the rules were followed much less on the Eastern Front, but in the West there was at least some attempt by the Germans to follow the rules at least some of the time. There was that bit in the last episode where the German troops did not shoot at Malarkey when they thought he might be a medic going to help somebody.
"allowed" doesn't quite factor into it. It's war. If you win, or if your own side doesn't punish you, you could do absolutely anything. What your own side would punish you for depended a lot on what side you were on, what front you were fighting on, and whether or not your commander cared.
You are correct that the Japanese would intentionally target medics. This, however, is the western front, where both sides obeyed the Geneva Conventions wrt each other more often than not. Of course, as someone else noted, in practice it boiled down to what your immediate commanders would let you get away with, but you were not 'supposed' to kill medics or chaplains. Most of the time that was honored, sometimes it wasn't. Both the Germans and the Americans cared a lot less about the rules of war on the Eastern and Pacific fronts respectively.
For Valk: th-cam.com/video/taHFUKKKmJM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=D5tZDNplZtpH9oh9 Many reactors think tanks vs light infantry are undefeatable. A 13:24 WW2 training video.
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Old Man has a point, Supernatural should have ended after Season 5.
I applaud your continuing work to present this show to Valk...keep up the great work.
The makers of the show could not portray the terrain around Carentan the way it really was, so it is really hard for people to understand why the troops went straight up the road to get into the town, and you wondered why they could not hide and sneak in through the woods. But the Germans had flooded all the areas around Carentan, and the only ways into the town were across the few raised causeways...which the Germans defended heavily. There was no option for the Americans trying to get into the town but to get across the causeways as fast as possible, there was no way to approach the town under cover or concealment.
It is one of the reasons I recommend that channel The Operations Room to folks....because they show the real battles so you can see the few important things they could not show in the series.
I guess I will also mention that Albert Blithe did not actually die, the makers of the show made a mistake on that because Blithe had not been in contact with the other Easy veterans. He stayed in the Army, fought in Korea, and passed away in 1967 from as a result of a perforated ulcer. Though, Old Man may well have already mentioned that to you. Edit: Yup 😉
Minor note...the Germans were signatories to the Geneva Conventions, so probably about 60 percent of the time they followed the rules...maybe less in some places. Of course, the SS never had any compunctions about shooting medics...or chaplains...and I am sure the rules were followed much less on the Eastern Front, but in the West there was at least some attempt by the Germans to follow the rules at least some of the time. There was that bit in the last episode where the German troops did not shoot at Malarkey when they thought he might be a medic going to help somebody.
"allowed" doesn't quite factor into it. It's war. If you win, or if your own side doesn't punish you, you could do absolutely anything.
What your own side would punish you for depended a lot on what side you were on, what front you were fighting on, and whether or not your commander cared.
You are correct that the Japanese would intentionally target medics. This, however, is the western front, where both sides obeyed the Geneva Conventions wrt each other more often than not. Of course, as someone else noted, in practice it boiled down to what your immediate commanders would let you get away with, but you were not 'supposed' to kill medics or chaplains. Most of the time that was honored, sometimes it wasn't.
Both the Germans and the Americans cared a lot less about the rules of war on the Eastern and Pacific fronts respectively.
For Valk: th-cam.com/video/taHFUKKKmJM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=D5tZDNplZtpH9oh9 Many reactors think tanks vs light infantry are undefeatable. A 13:24 WW2 training video.
I remeber when i was a wee lad and id always watch it on loop with my dad. Along with fury, pacific rim, amd planet 51 :p
Wonder how valk would react to the pacific
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