Norman Dike is portrayed as a complete coward, with his cowardice even causing several men from E-company to be killed or wounded during the attack on Foy. In real life, while probably not the most skilled leader and certainly not popular among the men, Dike was certainly not cowardly. He received two medals for valor in combat, one of which for rescuing wounded men while bullets were flying all around him, and the real reason why he froze up outside Foy was that he had been shot and was in shock.
I wonder how many men were there when "he" rescued those men. The captain of a company gets credit for what his men did. Anyway, I believe the men of Easy company - there were dozens of them - about Dike's ability as a leader. (I'm former enlisted, and believe me, the non-officers know who are good leaders, and who are bad leaders, much better than the upper officers know.)
I just wanted to say that you are great reactors, I can see that you are invested and get real emotional about a show and are not faking it like so many other reactors for views. Keep up the great work, I hope your channel will grow even more!
Spears actually did make that run but it was farther than depicted. When they checked the sniper Shifty shot, he had one bullet in him, right between the eyes. Episode nine was the hardest for me to watch. Have some Kleenex handy.
My grandfather was in WWII and spent the winter of '44 in Northern France, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium and Holland. The winter was harsh and the cold intense, with temperatures sometimes below -18 Celsius at night. When he came home he told my grandmother he never wanted to be that cold again and they moved to Texas.
My grandfather was in those same countries with the 35th Infantry Division. He ended up staying in the Army after the war, going to Korea too. He retired in 1961. He must not have been too sick of the cold, even after the Ardennes, and Korea in winter. He ended up moving to Wyoming which has pretty lousy winters.
@@TheBruceGday Mine was in the 35th as well. He had been in the national guard for a long time so he had a lot of points. At the end of the war they took all the men with the points to get home and rolled them into the 106th so they could get home sooner. The 35th had been designated to go to the Pacific and shipped out sooner than the 106th. The was was over before they were needed so they all got home sooner than he did.
@@david-1775 wow! Amazing coincidence! My grandfather was in the 320th Infantry Regiment, Nebraska National Guard (maybe a little bit of Kansas Guard too. I think 35th Div. was one regiment of Nebraska National Guard, one regiment of Kansas National Guard, and the third a mixture of Nebraska, Kansas. My grandfather always said he liked Holland the best. He was in Germany twice on occupation duty. Once in late 40’s, and late 50’s. Served in Korea in between. He wrapped up as a regular army member in the Wyoming National Guard. That is why he stayed when he retired from military. He went to work as a civilian there until he passed in the 80’s.
@@TheBruceGday Mine was in the HQ and service company for the 110th Medical Regiment/Batallion. He was in the division band so he mostly did rear echelon stuff during the fighting. When you said 35th I looked to see if I had said which division my grandfather was in. Crazy.
I live in Australia so I’ve always heard about the western front and US/British progression. It was really interesting to hear about what happened to the Russian soldiers/farmers and I never knew what part Bulgaria played, or how they became a communist country. Thanks for teaching me something new!
Just so you know, if one of the soldiers that Lieutenant Spears offered a cigarette to looked REALLY familiar, it is because that was Michael Fassbender...Magneto hisself. LOL Several very big stars appeared in Band of Brothers just before they got hugely famous, including Fassbender, Simon Pegg, and others.
Every timr i binged through the series (probably do it every year) I always seem to find somewhere where I'm like "oh shit. I didnt know he's in this" lol
Hmm, I'm afraid your assessment is wrong. 1. Error was assaulting Russia before capturing Great Britain and North Africa. 2. It was Japan that ultimately, against the intentions of nazis, dragged USA into open conflict. Nonetheless, those ware huge mistakes.
On a real technical Level the USA had no choice but to enter the war even if pearl harbor wouldn't have happen over fears that Stalin would take advantage of the situation and conquer Europe after defeating germany.
My name is Rodrigo, I'm from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and I recently met your channel and I'm loving it. I also follow them on twitch. Hugs from Brazil
So a little info about how medical treatment works on the battlefield. You have different types of medics. Combat life savers are soldiers who have been trained in first aid, similar to emts in the civilian world, combat medics are on the frontlines and try to stabilize the patent, similar to a paramedic, medevac helicopters are basically the same in civilian world, going into an area to pickup the world. And lastly field hospitals are similar to a trauma ER headed by a field surgeon. After that the wounded are sent to a actual hospital somewhere in friendly lands.
I LOVE Bulgarians! I was a manager in Yellowstone National Park and had Bulgarian/Ukrainian/Romanian employees for a few months each summer. My friend Dimitar is one of the nicest and funniest people I've ever met. He is from a place called Plovdiv.
"Can you imagine if Germany had won the war?" If you want a glimpse into the kind of hell that would have been, watch the series "The Man In The High Castle" based on the book by Philip K. Dick.
@@Boringunguy Reading about it and hearing about it is one thing. Seeing it....damn, that was something else entirely. My father was in the army during Korea and had an NCO who experienced something similar to Ep 9. Only time he ever saw a hint of a tear from the man while telling the tale.
I love both of your reactions. IF you cry, that shows evidence of your humanity. Both this show and Chernobyl make me cry like a baby at times and I am a 54 year old guy. Keep up the good work.
did you notice his helmet is undamaged when he started the sprint from the treeline, but when he reaches Lipton his helmet's peppered with shrapnel, probably from that shell he ran through There's also the scene where a shell flies in front of him and blasts a building to the left of Spiers, and he just flinches and keeps running lol
It's not known how the Luger went off and shot Hoobler in the inferior vena cava (main blood vessel in the thigh, typical bleed out in 30 seconds) since it's a fairly secure firearm, unlike the Japanese Nambu pistol series which are prone to misfires, especially the Type 94 with its exposed main sear lending it the nickname "Suicide Gun" by the US Marines
Because it wasn't a Luger in real life. It was probably a Belgian pistol of some type, without a mechanical safety and it is known why it went off, the trigger got snagged on a piece of barbed wire during an advance.
Just realized that the actor who played Foley was Lee Adama in Battlestar Galactica. Adding to someone who commented about several other actors who appeared on BoB before becoming famous.
Interesting to hear your takes on medics. I always fall under the mindset that if the situation arises that I would be one just because idk if I could be the one taking lives. Glad to have found y’all for this series and hello from Knoxville, Tennessee (USA)
Larry mentioned how the Russians overwhelmed the Germans with numbers. To find out how bad it was look at this video "The Fallen of WWII" th-cam.com/video/DwKPFT-RioU/w-d-xo.html No need to react to this but some staggering numbers. Really surprised that Ellie liked this episode. For me this was the 2nd hardest episode after number 9.
I heard a story that Dick Winters was angry at Buck Compton for breaking down. His reasoning was that, why was other members of Easy able to hold on while Compton broke down? Winters calmed down throughout the years about that, but he was still annoyed. Don't know if this is true, but this was among the things I found while I was doing a small research of this series.
America's contribution against Germany was mostly material...both supplying it and blowing it up. If America was not in the war, the Allies would have been in a very bad position with regards to oil. Oil was the key commodity of the war...the fact that the Allies had it and Germany and Japan did not gave the Allies many gigantic advantages over the Axis. Out of a total of 7 billion barrels of oil used by all the Allies from December 1941 to September 1945, 6 billion of those barrels came from the United States.
I have visited some of them myself. I am sorry if I came off as dismissing any of the sacrifices made by American servicemen. My point was only to note how critical oil was to the Allies, and thus how indispensable the USA being in the war was for the Allies. To think that Russia would have rolled back the German advances without American diesel to fuel their tanks and planes is pretty wrong. Even if the Soviets were willing to sacrifice double the casualties they did, without US oil in the war, the USSR probably never beats Germany.
After you finished the series I would recommend you to watch a video named " The Fallen of World War II " . Its really eye opening about the human cost of these battles. You guys are great keep the videos coming :D
You two should react to a movie called Restrepo. It's a documentary that follow American soldiers in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan aka "Valley of Death". One of the best war movies because nothing beats the real thing.
I think the fact that you didn't feel this was as brutal is really valid. By this point in the war, this episode wanted to showcase how bad the mental effects were. Since Physical damage or wounds are very clearly and painfully obvious, not a lot of audiences are ready for that. So, portraying mental trauma or showing PTSD symptoms in film just really goes to show how dedicated the actors were. Because we might not actually experience what they went through in history but these episodes and films give us an idea and that's mostly what they try to go for. Just a depiction so that we can try to understand.
Lt. Dyke was always making a call. Who the hell did he call? And how? A pay phone? In the middle of the forest in Bastogne? Also, it goes without saying that there were no cell phones during WWII.
Hey Larry, as a suggestion it would be amazing if you guys shoot a reaction to the movie "1917" which released last year to universal acclaim. It's a very personal war story, but I cannot begin to describe how emotionally touching, well acted and impactful the movie is. Cinematically it's very interesting and fresh as the whole movie is shot in a "single continuous take" from start to end. I think it is one of those movies that leaves a lasting imprint on your being and brings out the humanity in you and it would be amazing to see your reactions to it❤️
In the last episode, they had medics in the camp and medics on field because some soldiers on the field needed immediate care. For some, going back to camp would be too late so they would have a few medics on field with medical equipment on hand. Medics had weapons too but most of the time they were busy tending to the wounded then actually fighting.
Good points about Ukraine and Bulgaria, just to say that if Britain had surrendered (or made a compromise) with Germany, the Germans could have got all the oil and supplies they needed from across the Atlantic, plus it would have freed up nearly a million extra men to fight against the Soviets. Britain and British Commonwealth forces couldn't have invaded Europe without the Americans as well, but don't think for a minute they won in the West on their own - they didn't.
if Ellie is curious about how "soviet style warfare" looked like... heres a nice Polish film (1978) about battle of lenino, where Polish 1st infantry division fought wehrmacht for a small village in todays Belarus... th-cam.com/video/5Rsbz0BUyzI/w-d-xo.html
Lugers, those German pistols, were, especially later in the war, notoriously temperamental. The soldier who got one, stuck it in his belt and it went off. There’s a horrible scene in ‘Schindler’s List,’ where a Nazi intends to shoot a Jewish prisoner with a Luger and he CAN’T get the pistol to fire. That prisoner actually survived the war. Maybe in those two scenes there’s some sort of karma-equivalence, if you believe in that sort of thing
On Luger’s unreliability, it was common later in the war that production shortcuts, variability in production materials and even active sabotage by slave-labor meant that the losing side’s equipment was often defective. I read that Jewish slave labor knew that dumping a handful of metal shavings into, for instance, Panther tanks would utterly destroy the tank’s entire drive-train. I’ve always marveled at that. An enormous tank, powerful gun, thick armor designed to lead attacks could be completely incapacitated by a handful of metal shavings from the shop floor.
Even the gasoline that both sides used was different. The Germans were almost always short of gasoline as a nation. The octane rating of the German gas was, I believe, lower. Either way, they diluted their gas because they didn’t have as much. You’ve seen that basic US Army car, the Jeep. Of course the Germans captured some Jeeps and drove them. The German assessment was they were good vehicles but they didn’t like what low gas mileage they got. Americans never complained about the Jeep’s low gas mileage because the Americans always had so much gas. It was a vehicle designed for the American way of war, with the expectation of lots of gas available.
Ultimately, Germany was doomed to defeat. Any strategic changes they may have made in hindsight ultimately wouldn't have prevented their defeat. Perhaps the only thing that could have was to have come up with the a-bomb on their own in 1941 or 1942. I don't think their scientific efforts in that direction were as serious as the allies though. The Germans just didn't have the population, raw materials, or production capacity to take on the rest of the world. Even allied with Japan and Italy and occupying much of Europe, it just wasn't enough to offset what Russia could provide in manpower and the USA could provide in production capacity.
@@jimsmith6547 You are welcome and may you have a fine Friday too, good sir. By the way, if this is your first time with the Homies, it will be well worth watching the Band of Brothers reactions from the start. Ellie (I am unsure of the spelling I am afraid :O) not only looks like an angel but she has a lovely heart and more than once has sprung tears from my eyes by the genuine intensity of her emotions as the horror of war unfurls before her.
the Soviets drowned the Germans in blood..in theirs.. more people than bullets if you wanna know how look world where germans win ...man in high castle is your series
So... A message for Ellie... I REALLY think you should skip episode 9. If you do watch, please, please, please be prepared for a heart wrenching episode. I wont give any spoilers, but it is a really rough one.
Shames wasn't a hated guy exactly... the men liked him as a person... but he was a dreadfull leader and they were happy he got that trip home so he would be away.
Because of the absurdity of it…even Doc Roe cracked a joke “Did you think it was a German leg, Hoob?” On screen and watching, no one realized how bad the wound was and no one was laughing once they realized Hoob had died.
You may want to read more on ww2 as the usa didn't just send troops we supplied russia the uk and others for the war. If the usa didn't help no way could russia and the uk survive. The usa was feeding and sending food,Trucks, Tanks, planes ammo you name it. I know people love trashing americans yet the US tax payers have done a great deal for europe in more than one world war. The first battle the uk won in africa was with 300 us made tanks and weapons and ammo so if you take a look into the facts we heled all along one one way or another.
Hard to believe this series is 20 years old
I know, it looks like it was made today.
@@davidr3146 that's realism
Truly astounding.
Might wanna check ur math there Jerry.
Notice how the legend of Spears literally grows? Every time the story of the POWs is told the number he shot gets bigger and bigger.
*Speirs
"but when you go and talk to that person, they heard it from someone who was there..."
I heard Spears killed 50 Germans with a single 20 round magazine...Then he loaded that magazine into his Thompson and killed 50 more.
Norman Dike is portrayed as a complete coward, with his cowardice even causing several men from E-company to be killed or wounded during the attack on Foy. In real life, while probably not the most skilled leader and certainly not popular among the men, Dike was certainly not cowardly. He received two medals for valor in combat, one of which for rescuing wounded men while bullets were flying all around him, and the real reason why he froze up outside Foy was that he had been shot and was in shock.
must be said that this is from easy company's perspective. its how he appeared to them.
@@ibuprofriends Which is why I posted what I posted.
@@ibuprofriends ok... but they shouldn't perpetuate falsehoods for any reason.
I wonder how many men were there when "he" rescued those men. The captain of a company gets credit for what his men did. Anyway, I believe the men of Easy company - there were dozens of them - about Dike's ability as a leader. (I'm former enlisted, and believe me, the non-officers know who are good leaders, and who are bad leaders, much better than the upper officers know.)
Wow I never knew that, thank you for sharing that info bud
I just wanted to say that you are great reactors, I can see that you are invested and get real emotional about a show and are not faking it like so many other reactors for views. Keep up the great work, I hope your channel will grow even more!
Thanks. It's because this TV series shows our story as well!
Spears actually did make that run but it was farther than depicted. When they checked the sniper Shifty shot, he had one bullet in him, right between the eyes. Episode nine was the hardest for me to watch. Have some Kleenex handy.
Popeye Wynn and another paratrooper found the sniper Shifty shot and said, “it really doesn’t pay to shoot at Shifty when he’s holding a rifle.”
My grandfather was in WWII and spent the winter of '44 in Northern France, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium and Holland. The winter was harsh and the cold intense, with temperatures sometimes below -18 Celsius at night. When he came home he told my grandmother he never wanted to be that cold again and they moved to Texas.
My grandfather was in those same countries with the 35th Infantry Division. He ended up staying in the Army after the war, going to Korea too. He retired in 1961. He must not have been too sick of the cold, even after the Ardennes, and Korea in winter. He ended up moving to Wyoming which has pretty lousy winters.
@@TheBruceGday Mine was in the 35th as well. He had been in the national guard for a long time so he had a lot of points. At the end of the war they took all the men with the points to get home and rolled them into the 106th so they could get home sooner. The 35th had been designated to go to the Pacific and shipped out sooner than the 106th. The was was over before they were needed so they all got home sooner than he did.
@@david-1775 wow! Amazing coincidence! My grandfather was in the 320th Infantry Regiment, Nebraska National Guard (maybe a little bit of Kansas Guard too. I think 35th Div. was one regiment of Nebraska National Guard, one regiment of Kansas National Guard, and the third a mixture of Nebraska, Kansas. My grandfather always said he liked Holland the best. He was in Germany twice on occupation duty. Once in late 40’s, and late 50’s. Served in Korea in between. He wrapped up as a regular army member in the Wyoming National Guard. That is why he stayed when he retired from military. He went to work as a civilian there until he passed in the 80’s.
@@TheBruceGday Mine was in the HQ and service company for the 110th Medical Regiment/Batallion. He was in the division band so he mostly did rear echelon stuff during the fighting. When you said 35th I looked to see if I had said which division my grandfather was in. Crazy.
I live in Australia so I’ve always heard about the western front and US/British progression. It was really interesting to hear about what happened to the Russian soldiers/farmers and I never knew what part Bulgaria played, or how they became a communist country.
Thanks for teaching me something new!
Just so you know, if one of the soldiers that Lieutenant Spears offered a cigarette to looked REALLY familiar, it is because that was Michael Fassbender...Magneto hisself. LOL Several very big stars appeared in Band of Brothers just before they got hugely famous, including Fassbender, Simon Pegg, and others.
James McAvoy ep 4 replacement, Tom Hardy later on.
Every timr i binged through the series (probably do it every year) I always seem to find somewhere where I'm like "oh shit. I didnt know he's in this" lol
@@tibal3710 Yes...exactly
Germany's dumbest mistakes (glad they made those mistakes): #1 invaded Russia and #2 got USA involved... both mistakes were fatal on their own
Yeah, because after Pearl Harbor, the USA still didn't declare war on Germany. But a few days later, Germany declared war on the US. Big mistake!
Hmm, I'm afraid your assessment is wrong.
1. Error was assaulting Russia before capturing Great Britain and North Africa.
2. It was Japan that ultimately, against the intentions of nazis, dragged USA into open conflict.
Nonetheless, those ware huge mistakes.
@@constanza86 Japan attacked the US, the US declared war on Japan, then later, for no good reason, Germany declared war on the US.
Jonas Surovec hitler hoped that declaring war on the USA would entice Japan to put pressure on the USSR in the Far East.
@@Perfectly_Cromulent351 Hitler's reasons were many, none of them were realistic.
God Bless Winters.
@The Homies Thank you for sharing a Bulgarian perspective of WW II. I've never heard that side of it.
On a real technical Level the USA had no choice but to enter the war even if pearl harbor wouldn't have happen over fears that Stalin would take advantage of the situation and conquer Europe after defeating germany.
Uh...Germany declared war on the US. Not the other way round.
My name is Rodrigo, I'm from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and I recently met your channel and I'm loving it. I also follow them on twitch. Hugs from Brazil
So a little info about how medical treatment works on the battlefield. You have different types of medics. Combat life savers are soldiers who have been trained in first aid, similar to emts in the civilian world, combat medics are on the frontlines and try to stabilize the patent, similar to a paramedic, medevac helicopters are basically the same in civilian world, going into an area to pickup the world. And lastly field hospitals are similar to a trauma ER headed by a field surgeon. After that the wounded are sent to a actual hospital somewhere in friendly lands.
I LOVE Bulgarians! I was a manager in Yellowstone National Park and had Bulgarian/Ukrainian/Romanian employees for a few months each summer. My friend Dimitar is one of the nicest and funniest people I've ever met. He is from a place called Plovdiv.
"Can you imagine if Germany had won the war?"
If you want a glimpse into the kind of hell that would have been, watch the series "The Man In The High Castle" based on the book by Philip K. Dick.
Episode 9 is probably the most rough to watch in my opinion
It’s really not that bad. Everyone knows what happened during the war.
Yeah it's just one of the few cinematic pieces that will always make me cry because of how well it is executed
@@robbypollitt465 I agree. It's hard to watch because it puts what happened in perspective.
@@Boringunguy Reading about it and hearing about it is one thing. Seeing it....damn, that was something else entirely. My father was in the army during Korea and had an NCO who experienced something similar to Ep 9. Only time he ever saw a hint of a tear from the man while telling the tale.
The people playing the camp survivors were so thin. Incredibly realistic looking.
I love both of your reactions. IF you cry, that shows evidence of your humanity. Both this show and Chernobyl make me cry like a baby at times and I am a 54 year old guy. Keep up the good work.
You didn't show the classic Spiers jumping through the explosion shot. It's the money shot of the whole series.
did you notice his helmet is undamaged when he started the sprint from the treeline, but when he reaches Lipton his helmet's peppered with shrapnel, probably from that shell he ran through
There's also the scene where a shell flies in front of him and blasts a building to the left of Spiers, and he just flinches and keeps running lol
That scene inside the church, talking about the men that were lost, is one of my favorite scenes!
It's not known how the Luger went off and shot Hoobler in the inferior vena cava (main blood vessel in the thigh, typical bleed out in 30 seconds) since it's a fairly secure firearm, unlike the Japanese Nambu pistol series which are prone to misfires, especially the Type 94 with its exposed main sear lending it the nickname "Suicide Gun" by the US Marines
@ Right, inferior vena cava is the vein
Because it wasn't a Luger in real life. It was probably a Belgian pistol of some type, without a mechanical safety and it is known why it went off, the trigger got snagged on a piece of barbed wire during an advance.
Just realized that the actor who played Foley was Lee Adama in Battlestar Galactica. Adding to someone who commented about several other actors who appeared on BoB before becoming famous.
Interesting to hear your takes on medics. I always fall under the mindset that if the situation arises that I would be one just because idk if I could be the one taking lives. Glad to have found y’all for this series and hello from Knoxville, Tennessee (USA)
Larry mentioned how the Russians overwhelmed the Germans with numbers. To find out how bad it was look at this video "The Fallen of WWII" th-cam.com/video/DwKPFT-RioU/w-d-xo.html No need to react to this but some staggering numbers. Really surprised that Ellie liked this episode. For me this was the 2nd hardest episode after number 9.
I saw Elli drop a tear here, and I dont know if I dare see her reaction in episode 9.
So next one (8) isn’t that bad. It’s episode 9 that’s the roughest.
Thank you for hanging in there. Thanks for sharing.
I heard a story that Dick Winters was angry at Buck Compton for breaking down. His reasoning was that, why was other members of Easy able to hold on while Compton broke down? Winters calmed down throughout the years about that, but he was still annoyed.
Don't know if this is true, but this was among the things I found while I was doing a small research of this series.
The Germans were too hypnotized to shoot by the clanking of Speirs' ... well, use your imagination.
America's contribution against Germany was mostly material...both supplying it and blowing it up. If America was not in the war, the Allies would have been in a very bad position with regards to oil. Oil was the key commodity of the war...the fact that the Allies had it and Germany and Japan did not gave the Allies many gigantic advantages over the Axis.
Out of a total of 7 billion barrels of oil used by all the Allies from December 1941 to September 1945, 6 billion of those barrels came from the United States.
There are nice monuments to America's "mostly material" contribution in Lorraine and Colleville-sur-Mer, to name a few.
I have visited some of them myself. I am sorry if I came off as dismissing any of the sacrifices made by American servicemen. My point was only to note how critical oil was to the Allies, and thus how indispensable the USA being in the war was for the Allies. To think that Russia would have rolled back the German advances without American diesel to fuel their tanks and planes is pretty wrong. Even if the Soviets were willing to sacrifice double the casualties they did, without US oil in the war, the USSR probably never beats Germany.
@@iKvetch558 No worries friend, my apologies for the misinterpretation.
As Stalin said, WWII was won with American steel, British intelligence and Russian blood.
Stalin also enabled Herr Hitler's rampage with Molotov-Ribbentrop. ✌
Episode 9 is really Sad, it even made me Cry I still cry when I Watch it
20:36 what would happen if Germany won the war? There is a TV Show about that called "The Man in The High Castle".
The Soviets not having enough guns is true for the early part of the war. By the end of 1944 the Soviet army was armed to the teeth.
After you finished the series I would recommend you to watch a video named " The Fallen of World War II
" . Its really eye opening about the human cost of these battles. You guys are great keep the videos coming :D
Never expected one of the New Kids On The Block to be such a great actor
Alfaqwad His brother ain't bad either.
@@dew02300 yeah but did you see Donnie in Dreamcatchers? I didn't even realize who it was until halfway through
So glad you're continuing this.
Hooblet was fiddling with the gun I'm his pocket... and a branch load of snow fell on his back and his and clenched up and pulled the trigger
Many US soldiers ended up shooting themselves with the Luger because they were unfamiliar with it and in particular it's safety mechanism.
RE: 20:40 "Can you imagine if Germany won?"
Google, "The Man in the High Castle". And, yes. It is bad.
Or "Fatherland" with Rutger Hauer...
I love your reactions to this series, greetings from Argentina, keep it up
If you are wondering why he dies at 3:20 it is because Parabella pistol is some kind of special gun. Try to Google it.
Your reactions are so beautifully genuine
You two should react to a movie called Restrepo. It's a documentary that follow American soldiers in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan aka "Valley of Death". One of the best war movies because nothing beats the real thing.
I think the fact that you didn't feel this was as brutal is really valid. By this point in the war, this episode wanted to showcase how bad the mental effects were. Since Physical damage or wounds are very clearly and painfully obvious, not a lot of audiences are ready for that. So, portraying mental trauma or showing PTSD symptoms in film just really goes to show how dedicated the actors were. Because we might not actually experience what they went through in history but these episodes and films give us an idea and that's mostly what they try to go for. Just a depiction so that we can try to understand.
Lt. Dyke was always making a call. Who the hell did he call? And how? A pay phone? In the middle of the forest in Bastogne? Also, it goes without saying that there were no cell phones during WWII.
Hey Larry, as a suggestion it would be amazing if you guys shoot a reaction to the movie "1917" which released last year to universal acclaim. It's a very personal war story, but I cannot begin to describe how emotionally touching, well acted and impactful the movie is. Cinematically it's very interesting and fresh as the whole movie is shot in a "single continuous take" from start to end. I think it is one of those movies that leaves a lasting imprint on your being and brings out the humanity in you and it would be amazing to see your reactions to it❤️
my only regret in life is i can't tell these brave men thank you!
Great videos guys ! Greetings from Greece! After this series could you do the series of sherlock ?
Thank you for your reactions. It was a hard episode, but I loved the ending.
In the last episode, they had medics in the camp and medics on field because some soldiers on the field needed immediate care. For some, going back to camp would be too late so they would have a few medics on field with medical equipment on hand. Medics had weapons too but most of the time they were busy tending to the wounded then actually fighting.
Fasiapule kaufusi They have medics to this very day. I was one🙂
@@susanmaggiora4800 thank you for your service
Was just commenting on their intro. I am very interested in this channel.
Good points about Ukraine and Bulgaria, just to say that if Britain had surrendered (or made a compromise) with Germany, the Germans could have got all the oil and supplies they needed from across the Atlantic, plus it would have freed up nearly a million extra men to fight against the Soviets. Britain and British Commonwealth forces couldn't have invaded Europe without the Americans as well, but don't think for a minute they won in the West on their own - they didn't.
if Ellie is curious about how "soviet style warfare" looked like... heres a nice Polish film (1978) about battle of lenino, where Polish 1st infantry division fought wehrmacht for a small village in todays Belarus...
th-cam.com/video/5Rsbz0BUyzI/w-d-xo.html
Lugers, those German pistols, were, especially later in the war, notoriously temperamental. The soldier who got one, stuck it in his belt and it went off. There’s a horrible scene in ‘Schindler’s List,’ where a Nazi intends to shoot a Jewish prisoner with a Luger and he CAN’T get the pistol to fire. That prisoner actually survived the war. Maybe in those two scenes there’s some sort of karma-equivalence, if you believe in that sort of thing
On Luger’s unreliability, it was common later in the war that production shortcuts, variability in production materials and even active sabotage by slave-labor meant that the losing side’s equipment was often defective. I read that Jewish slave labor knew that dumping a handful of metal shavings into, for instance, Panther tanks would utterly destroy the tank’s entire drive-train. I’ve always marveled at that. An enormous tank, powerful gun, thick armor designed to lead attacks could be completely incapacitated by a handful of metal shavings from the shop floor.
Even the gasoline that both sides used was different. The Germans were almost always short of gasoline as a nation. The octane rating of the German gas was, I believe, lower. Either way, they diluted their gas because they didn’t have as much. You’ve seen that basic US Army car, the Jeep. Of course the Germans captured some Jeeps and drove them. The German assessment was they were good vehicles but they didn’t like what low gas mileage they got. Americans never complained about the Jeep’s low gas mileage because the Americans always had so much gas. It was a vehicle designed for the American way of war, with the expectation of lots of gas available.
Pls react to The Pacific after you finish band of brothers it is basically the sequel to this
Still cant believe that Band of Brothers finally got a sequel... 😆
PO8 Lugers had a very poor Safety mechanism so could fire at any time 😱
I hope you guys watch we stand alone together the documentary on easy company when you finish
are you going to watch the pacific?
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spiers actually did shoot a guy who was drunk but if iirc the drunk guy had pointed a rifle at him
Y'all really need to get tissues. It doesn't get any better than this. It actually gets worse.
Wait till you get to the episode why we fight.
Why we fight always gets me.
For an alternative look on why Germany didn't win WW2, look up Potential History's "Why Germany couldn't win WW2" on TH-cam.
Capturing a German Luger was a very dangerous thing because if the Germans saw a prisoner carrying one, they'd immediately execute them
And now we know where the term Foxhole Norman came from.
I think this is my favorite episode. Theres alot in it
Just an incredible series
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Ultimately, Germany was doomed to defeat. Any strategic changes they may have made in hindsight ultimately wouldn't have prevented their defeat. Perhaps the only thing that could have was to have come up with the a-bomb on their own in 1941 or 1942. I don't think their scientific efforts in that direction were as serious as the allies though. The Germans just didn't have the population, raw materials, or production capacity to take on the rest of the world. Even allied with Japan and Italy and occupying much of Europe, it just wasn't enough to offset what Russia could provide in manpower and the USA could provide in production capacity.
Vey good reaction what county are you guys from ?
Bulgaria, I believe.
@@dallassukerkin6878 thank you for the information and you have a great day
@@jimsmith6547 You are welcome and may you have a fine Friday too, good sir.
By the way, if this is your first time with the Homies, it will be well worth watching the Band of Brothers reactions from the start.
Ellie (I am unsure of the spelling I am afraid :O) not only looks like an angel but she has a lovely heart and more than once has sprung tears from my eyes by the genuine intensity of her emotions as the horror of war unfurls before her.
@@dallassukerkin6878 I will take your advice about watching the reactions from the start and again thank you from the USA for your recommendation
You guys are adorable, thanks for your reactions.
That happened to my great uncle in Okinawa, Japeneese shell landed in his hole. A dud..
#SPEARS is my favorite charactere
Aren't you glad you weren't there? I sure am
the Soviets drowned the Germans in blood..in theirs..
more people than bullets
if you wanna know how look world where germans win ...man in high castle is your series
Germany lost 6-8 million people during WW@, Russia lost 24 million people.
pls watch The Pacific :)
So... A message for Ellie... I REALLY think you should skip episode 9. If you do watch, please, please, please be prepared for a heart wrenching episode. I wont give any spoilers, but it is a really rough one.
New here, where are yall from?
Watch WW2 in Color and WW2 HD, detailed explanation.
Shames wasn't a hated guy exactly... the men liked him as a person... but he was a dreadfull leader and they were happy he got that trip home so he would be away.
Why so short?
Why did he giggle when hoob shot himself, for christ sakes does he not know this actaully happened and he did kill himself
Because of the absurdity of it…even Doc Roe cracked a joke “Did you think it was a German leg, Hoob?” On screen and watching, no one realized how bad the wound was and no one was laughing once they realized Hoob had died.
You may want to read more on ww2 as the usa didn't just send troops we supplied russia the uk and others for the war. If the usa didn't help no way could russia and the uk survive. The usa was feeding and sending food,Trucks, Tanks, planes ammo you name it. I know people love trashing americans yet the US tax payers have done a great deal for europe in more than one world war. The first battle the uk won in africa was with 300 us made tanks and weapons and ammo so if you take a look into the facts we heled all along one one way or another.
Wassuuuup
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America fuck yeah!
love the armpits
for this shit, the americans belive that they won the war, xD
Hmm... a "reaction" video from two people who don't react.