Albert Blithe Did Not Die in 1948 | Why Band of Brothers Killed Him Off
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- Опубліковано 21 лис 2024
- The WW2 series Band of Brothers makes the huge mistake of depicting Albert Blithe as being mortally wounded in WW2, stating that he died from these injuries in 1948. We explain why Band of Brothers got the true story of Albert Blithe so dreadfully wrong in Episode 3 'Carentan'. #BandofBrothers #ww2 #EasyCompany #AlbertBlithe #ww2history
Thank you so much for honoring this hero. I have been a student of WWII for more than 40 years. "Band of Brothers" was an amazing retelling of an entire company of heros. In 2004 I worked at Lowe's as a paint specialist. A friend in lumber was named Joe Lesnewski. I rented the series from a movie rental place and, as you know, the first soldier who speaks is Joe Lesnewski. I went to work the next day and mentioned this to Joe and he said, "Yeah, that's my dad"! I was blown away. Unfortunately, I never had the honor of meeting his dad. He passed away before I had the chance. I would heve loved to shake his hand and thank him for his sacrifice. Joe Sr was a mailman here in Erie, PA until he retired. That's what I find most incredible about "The Greatest Generation". They lived through literal hell and came home and continued to build the country. We will never know MEN like that again. Thank you for remembering Sergeant Blithe. (BTW; Lesnewski is pronounced
Les-NEV-skee. Just thought you'd like to know)
I'm a couple hours-ish south of you, in Butler. 😁
Not having his story correct is a true disservice and shame to a hero like Albert Blithe.
they could easily update the panel at the end of the episode on all future releases. It's a travesty that they didn't do this one simple act to honor a fallen hero. The pox on them.
The used his story to encompass what happened to a lot of other Men not mentioned at all. His character portrayed what many guys went through, the only hard part was they were misinformed that he died in WWII. Many of the cast were actually doing things that 2-3 other folks did as they kept the main cast limited.
I agree with you 💯 percent!
They didn’t know till after someone saw the series
Ambrose and the producers didn't know his full story until after the show aired, so I give them some slack at the original airing. However, HBO has had 25 years and the technology to change the final plackard, but has chosen not to do so. That is shameful in my opinion, especially when you consider all the shows they have had on where "offending" content has been deleted out.
I don’t think they “chose” not to change it. It just wasn’t in their to do list, not for any nefarious reason. I doubt HBO is even aware of it.
Actually there is evidence that Ambrose was informed of the error after the first publication and before the second, but CHOSE not to correct the error. I think it was the 3rd or 4th publication before it was changed. The film crews were working off the 1st publication of the book, and again Ambrose CHOSE not to inform them of the error.
RIP
Albert Blithe
(1923-1967)
Bravery isn't the absence of fear, but to function in spite of it.
"We're all afraid, any man out here who isn't afraid is lying or dead", Lt. Hillbilly Jones - USMC Pelielu, WW 2.
Any man who says he's not afraid during conflict/battle is either a pathological liar or a sociopath...best to steering clear of those types
All of Ambrose's writing's need to be reviewed and verified due to the numerous inconsistencies and plagiarism of his other writings
100%
Good video, A man will always remain immortal as long as someone remembers his name.
So he served with another member of Easy Company in Korea, and he went to a Bastogne reunion....but no one knew he'd survived his WW2 injury?
He served in the same regiment as Ronald Spiers….. a regiment is a very big place. And consider when Blithe was evac OUT of easy company, NEVER TO RETURN , spiers was not even in Easy company yet …. So how likely was it that Either of them would notice the other, and then make contact?
NEXT POINT …. The 1973 fire destroyed the service record of 80% of soldiers discharged between 1912 and 1960
Third point…. blythe attended exactly ONE reunion, and its unknown who he spoke with at that reunion.
4 th point Heffron and Garneer attended the funeral of someone named almost exactly the same back in 1948.
Its not that “no one knew”
Its just that of the fraction of the company that were still alive and were interviewed the only memory was a misunderstanding
Not everything is some psycho conspiracy theory man, misunderstandings and oversights do happen quite often. What you are doing is just as disrespectful to Easy veterans as what Band of Brothers did.
@@brettkozak3479 Strange statement. What do you mean "What you are doing.." ?
@@brettkozak3479 I don't believe I was pushing any particular conspiracy. It just seems odd that he was at a reunion yet when the book was written people said he was dead. And wow, I'm being disrespectful? You should really take a breath and smell the roses.
My dad, a WWII and a good, good man got worn down by life and found comfort in Gin. He was at his very best then, loved singing & tinkling Ivory keys and was a natural leader in any Royal Canadian Legion in good work.
Sure do miss that old drunk. He was a good man.
I love how awesome the casting for Band of Brothers was. The actors looked just like the real life heroes. 🙂
Wow. Not only did he not die. He waived his military disability payments to rejoin and go to Korea. Thats crazy. RIP.
Stephen Ambrose is a careless writer, not just in this book.
🫡🇺🇲 A very great big wonderful salute to Albert Blithe for his Valiant Heroic service of one of our greatest generations and may He truly Rest in Peace!.
He was also born and raised in Philadelphia, and Band of Brothers portrayed him with a Southern accent, for some reason….
He was considered one of the immortals he had a combat infantry badge with 2 stars we2, Korea, Vietnam. The band of fakes threw him under the bus .
Fakes? I kinda doubt that.
@robbrowning1937 if they lied about him oh yes there is and interview with Winters talking about it. What else did they lie about!
This is heartbreaking. It's a real shame AB's life was incorrectly portrayed in BoB. I'd be pretty hurt by this if I was his family.
Well done for doing the work to set this straight. In the USA there is the 'Tomb of the Unknown Soldier' In the UK we have the Cenotaph. Those who gave their live in the first two disagreements (Kudos to Autoshananigans for the term) and from either side in the many smaller disagreements since then. As such the truth must outshine the need to make money. Those who fell should be remembered and those who returned having seen so many horrors, should NEVER be left to rot!
This one is on Stephen Ambrose. He was a trained historian and, in the first part of his career, a good one. Among other things, he wrote the official biography of Dwight D Eisenhower. Unfortunately, later in his career, he produced a lot of material that was lacking in basic historical professionalism. Band of Brothers was one such work. A professional historian would be expected to corroborate the surviving members’ (faulty) recollection of Blithe’s fate, but he chose not to and ended up putting faulty information into the historical record (which was then parroted by “Hollywood”).
You say “good one” but watch his talking head in World at War….the man is a cretin with stupid, uneducated points of view
Looking at my copy of Band of Brothers, I see in the index where Albert Blithe is mentioned on two pages, 98 and 103. Page 98 is the story from Dick Winters about Blithe recovering his sight. Page 103 mentions Blithe being on point and getting a sniper's bullet in the neck, but that's it; nothing more about the severity of the wound or of the eventual outcome of Blithe's wounding. There are no other references to Albert Blithe in the book, from what I can see.
Man! Thank you so much for this video and for telling this man's story. It completely changes my perception of his character in the series. Hanks and Spielberg should be ashamed.
Another disservice was Sobel and Norman Dike (sort of, kind of). A lot of Easy members including Winters credited Sobel and his training as a main factor on how well they performed in combat. Shifty powers said he admired him. He attempted to self delete (YT rules) but only blinded himself. He would die in a VA nursing home from malnutrition and no service was held. Norman Dike on the other hand was a bigger disservice. He was awarded a bronze star during operation market garden for: "organized and led scattered groups of parachutists in the successful defense of an important road junction on the vital Einhoven (sic)-Arnhem Supply Route against superior and repeated attacks, while completely surrounded.". During the battle at Bastogne he was wounded several witnesses said, he didn't panic though Lipton claimed he had "fallen apart", but this contested. He was awarded a second bronze star at Bastogne for: action at Bastogne, in which "he personally removed from an exposed position, in full enemy view, three wounded members of his company, while under intense small arms fire" on 3 January 1945.". He would then go on to serve in Korea and achieve the rank of Lt. Colonel, I believe doing several more combat jumps during that conflict.
Its a shame they got his story all wrong. Kudos to this channel that got his story correct and put it out there for all to know the real truth and story. Afraid in the beginning but one of the many heroes that bravely served our country. May he rest in peace.
Thank you brother for this great video.😊
Its good that somebody got the story right for a real hero who served in both WW2 and Korea and was a veteran of both the 101st and 82nd Airborne .
I am glad to learn of the 'real' story and from the book and show, had a fondness for the character. I know a lot of post war stories and such personal destructive aftermath of war as well as much better outcomes. I watch my combat veteran USMC Son like a hawk.
If making a semi-documentary style film of real people especially of such sensitive subject matter the Producers and filmmakers of such do have a responsibility to portray those involved as accurately as they possibly can.
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Great video and research
There are a number of bad inaccuracys in BoB. Captain Sobel is another wierd inaccuracy. Same with Lt Dike, i mean why do sutch a thing in a series?🤷
Great insight into MSGT Albert Blithe. His memory shall live on. RIP
His tombstone only reflects his Purple Heart (PH) and not the Silver or Bronze Star. I wonder why that is.
Ambrose is less of an Historian, and more of a gossip columnist.
Ambrose became known for sloppy work. This is yet another example.
Thankfully Albert Blithe real story has come to light. To serve in two conflicts and be awarded for his actions. Truly shows Albert's dedication to the Paratroopers. Sad to hear how Albert died of Kidney Failure. 💪👃✨
BEAUTIFULLY DONE. THANK YOU.
Out -f'n- standing report on Blithe.👍👍🇺🇸 Thank you for such.
I am glad that the real story on Blythe came out. B.o.B. portrays Blythe as almost too frightened to fight, which is not at all who the man truly was.
This reminded me of something my dad talked about a few times. He was on a Liberty ship in the Pacific. One of the men who piloted the landing craft failed to return to the ship during the landings Iwo Jima. The ship's crew assumed he'd died. Years later he showed up at a reunion.
Blythe should have his own movie!
Grandfather was in WW2 8th USAAF flying in B17s. Missing most of his intestines so weighed 100 pounds tops. He was a tall man. Rumors were flak, got a shot gun blast to the gut doing ganster stuff after the war, my grandmother shot him, and others whispered he was shot in a gangster thing gone wrong and my grandmother covered by saying she shot him in an arguement. Good time charlie, life long drunk along with my grandmother since ww2. They rode Harleys and Indians in the 50s, all around hell raisers until their late 80s. Wild lives these ww2 vets had.
My wife's grandfather was an Australian artillery gunner, captured in the Fall of Singapore in 1942 and spent the rest of the war as a POW in Japan. All my wife remembers of him as she grew up was he drank a hell of a lot of alcohol. He drowned his bad memories before passing away in the late 60s.
I think it was shameful they never put a disclosure at the end of the episode that they were wrong.
It’s a TV show,not a documentary.Renowned Director Diddly Squat has never concerned himself with historical accuracy in his stuff,either.
His drinking probably had a lot to do with his ulcers. Sad.
So the lazy fact checkers working on the series didnt think of reaching out to AB's family to verify . but took the words from an author instead.. GJ fantastic work.. i know BOB is looked upon as one of the best and most historic but really the amount of "histori" artistic liberty " is astounding made only for entertainment... saving pvt Ryan, Fury, Midway you can list so many more in the same category
Great video! Thank you!!
The real Albert Blythe was not a coward either.
Thankfully so much has been learned about psychological disorders and current generations of service members get help when needed.
Good, it shows how here say can help create an amazing series like band of brothers but research is important too to establish facts like this. Remember they gave everything the least we can do is remember them.
Thank you SIR YOU ARE A HERO ,,our fathers had to deal with the horrors of war ,it wasn't there fault,,GID bless you Albert
Its not miss information its lies and deformation of character
Thanks for the real story
The band of brothers producers were interested in selling a narrative, they weren't interested is pursuing the truth.
I do not agree, if fact, that sounds like a very negative attitude. Stephen E. Ambrose wrote his book based on many interviews with veterans and often there were differences between the way different men remembered things, (what do you expect after forty or fifty years?). Ambrose could only work with the information he had. My copy of the book is a later print and at the back of the book there are corrections for many things because after the mini-series was aired, a number of people wrote to Ambrose with information he did not previously have.
@ My comments were directed at the show’s production staff. Stephen Ambrose may have started out as an objective academic but he became a known plagiarist and was notorious for producing work of questionable veracity so that he could monetize the narratives.
Not sure why they thought it was necessary! Perhaps you should ask the director or production crew!
There’s quite a few mistakes
WWII was over in 1945. How would he have died at Normandy in 1948?
Blithe was hit by a wooden bullet.
Knowing a thing or two about bomber crew, evaders, would be evaders and the interesting folk chasing after them, was inteviewed by two of Hanks staff. Both were very young, low level college grad types and I got now where trying to explain what actually happened to the air crew they featured in their last BoB effort
Left me disappointed. Could have made a series appealing to all Dutch, Belgian, French & even Spanish civilians who fought bled and died in WWIi.
This sounds strangely similar to my Dad’s story. He too was a veteran of WW 2 and went back as a Parrot Trooper in Korea. I only got him to talk about combat once. He got a blank stare in his eyes and said, “ I was in Korea. He was coming at me with a big machete like knife. I couldn’t get to my rifle fast enough so I took my .45-- Son I saw his whole brains fly out his head.” I never asked him about war again. He was a daily drinker too but could hold his liquor. He was fun when he drank too. As soon as he sobered up, the Master Sargent came back. After another night and day of drinking, my sister came home and found him dead in his bed. I’ll always believe the Wars took him.
He didn’t get killed off. After being shot in the throat he appeared still alive at the hospital in the Purple Heart scene! Watch the show!
Airborne Brother, may you always have a chute full of air and a soft landing. R.I.P. See you in Heaven with the rest of us Paratroopers.
WHO?????
Shows the importance of leasership
*Regarding Albert Blythe's rumored Death* --------- _'Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated'_ --------------- *Mark Twain* ---
Not sure why 20 years later people are still making this video. This old news not a shocking new revelation. They used Blithe's character in the series to show what happened to a lot of the young men as his character arc ended early. A few of these characters were 2 or 3 different Men rolled into one in order to keep the cast smaller.
Respect.
Blithe had bigger balls than me...
I hate when they deviate from the truth. As long as you're using real names, you shouldn't be killing off people willy-nilly.
RIP TOP
And?
the actor demanded more money, so they killed him off!..
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?????????????????? What has 1948 got to do with WW11? The war ended in 1945. idiots1
Buddy, the first six minutes of this is rubbish... You dont need to describe the episode of BOB... we all saw it right? Having said that, everything after that was good. Next time, just get to the nitty gritty of the story. Cheers, its all good. ; ]
Ambrose is a lazy historian
Band of brothers, although a terrific show was not 100 percent accurate. They said at the end that Lt Harry Welsh became the superendent of the schools in Wilkes Bare Pa. My brothers father in law, who in fact was the superentdent of the schools in Wilkes Bare for over 20 years, had never heard of Harry Welsh.
rest in peace albert! thank you !