@@Sam-pv1hz No - it's a direct quote from the same episode. The whole first (or maybe second, can't remember) Bastogne episode is from Lipton's perspective after Winters gets promoted to... whichever rank gets him off the front line. He monologues a lot of the major events in the episode, notably during the first few artillery barrages, commenting on Muck and Penkala dying and in the church at the end, counting losses and listening to the children sing
God I can’t even imagine how luz felt after seeing two of his mates get blown to pieces then less than a minute later he comes close to death in the same situation but the shell was a dud.
Whats even worse, I think in reality Lipton and Luz went to their foxhole to dig up their dog tags, so they could return them home. They had to look at them, blown to pieces. :/
Babe and Guarnere said how there was absolutely no sign of Muck and Penkala in their foxhole after the shell hit. They just dissapeared. Into tiny bits and pieces. No grave for those two lads, only a tombstone. I cried during this scene.
Attended a convention where Richard Speight Jr (Muck) spoke at a panel. He said how while attending an event for the show an elderly man approached him. The man had served with the real Skip and kept crying, taking Richard's hand, only able to repeat, "I'm sorry, Skip. We tried. We really did. We couldn't find you. I'm sorry." Richard also spoke on how when he got the part he tried to find Muck's family, and getting in contact with them discovered they not only didn't know there was a book but also had never been told how he had died.
Should also mention that the scene where Muck talks about swimming in the Niagara River was not originally in the script. It was a story Richard heard from Muck's sister. As it obviously was a special memory for her Richard asked if he could tell it in an episode. The director agreed.
I was there in Bois Jacques today. The silence in those woods was deafening. You can still see the foxholes where they lived, died, fought, survived.... Crazy
Losing Skip in this scene always breaks my heart every time. What a wonderful man he was, literal human sunshine. We should all try to be more like him.
Their likeness to the real soldiers was apparently so on point that someone(I can't remember if it was the real Babe or someone else) apparently started breaking down when he talked to the actor playing Skip Muck. High emotions for those veterans
They're directing another mini series. Hopefully it delivers the same. The Pacific was horrible. The acting in this was good because most of these guys are broadway actors.
Lipton was an awesome leader! The way he handled the situation with Lutz was impeccable! Acknowledging how good it was but informing him that it wasn't a good idea was great! And the way Lutz responded with the yawn was him letting him know he understood but still can't stand the fucker was also epic!
@@thedoctor4327 You're correct lol. Luz was jokingly calling Lipton a dicksucker - slang in the US for someone sucking up to someone else, especially in a higher position. Both know he doesn't mean it, hence Lipton laughing and calling him a wiseass.
Years afterward, Donald Malarkey, who was best friends with Skip Muck, could barely mention his name without getting choked up. The series does a good job of showing just how badly Muck's death affected Malarkey.
What's good about this scene is how at 0:50, the shell explodes without any warning. That's how artillery *really* is - If you hear the shell first, it wasn't aimed at you. Accurate arty comes out of nowhere.
Not sure about the speed of artillery rounds, but I would guess many if not most ballistics are supersonic, so literally any sound from them would come after they've already hit you. Course even just below supersonic would probably be similar-ish. Your brain would barely have time to process it. All that said, not sure you'd be able to discern much anyways in a bombardment like that.
@@tuckervfx That doesn't disprove what they were saying. You would definitely be dead before you saw the flash anyway. I might be misunderstanding what you were saying tho.
At first I started crying because I thought Luz was gonna die. But when Muck and Penk just so quickly got hit, I needed to pause the show and composed myself. War is hell.
Rewatching the series when it comes to Muck and Penkala is so much more upsetting and foreboding knowing what happened to them. Seeing how they were the guys who generally seemed like the more funner and well liked in the group. Losing anyone is hard but losing anyone who provides an uplift in morale is even harder
@@Phanheal And probably when Heffron had to leave Juliet behind. Those kind of experiences will stick with you forever, doesn't matter if the war ended or not.
@@Phanheal yeah, right there with when Buck saw Toy and Guarnere. Bastogne really encompassed the terrtfying nature of war for me, you can be the best soldier you can, but still be blown to pieces without a chance to do anything about it.
I hadn’t watched Band of Brothers since I was too young to connect names, faces, and places. Watching it again, it shocked me how many guys who jumped into Normandy got it in the Ardennes.
George Luz was killed in a mechanical accident. 1600 people showed up at his funeral. Which shows how many lives he lightened...one of a kind. Maybe 5 will show up at mine...3 of them for the free food.
Poor Malarkey! It’s not shown to well in the movie but I red Malarkey’s book: Easy Company Soldier good read would highly recommend for big WW2 fans or big band of brothers fans in his book he talks about how Muck was his best friend and he was not there when he was he said he didn’t shed a tear but it shook him to his core and it broke him
I can't imagine how Luz would have felt witnessing that. Literally the last thing Muck said was his name, seconds before being blown to nothing :/ everyone of them are heroes.
Bastogne is the best episode of the series. I like that it used Doc Roe as the conduit of narration as it gave you a different point of view yet it allows us to be an intimate observer. It showed the ebb & flow of the war & indeed of life as things drifted between the catastrophic artillery strikes & intimate personal conversations between the guys. Also, the little side story of Roe & the nurse connecting gave you an extra emotional link to the story. Such a great episode. Action packed & intense but those little intimate personal moments here & there in the episode gave it so much depth & power.
My dad was at Con Thien in 67 with B co 1/9. He said the NVA would shell them with 152 mm HE. He was in a hole one night with a couple other guys. I shell landed a few meters outside the hole. The shockwave traveled through the ground and knocked chunks of rock off from a Boulder inside the hole. One Marines rifle was broken in half another had opened a new pack of cigarettes and had them in the pocket of his flak jacket. The vacuum sucked the cigarettes out and left the empty pack in his pocket.
this scene is scarier than most horror movies. true horror is imagining living through artillery strikes seeing your best friends wiped off the face of the earth.
This scene made my jaw hit the floor. I hadn't read the book, so I expected that if anyone were to die, Luz would. But to see both Muck and Penkala taken out in one swift blow...in a fraction of a second, they just disappear. I was crying, I'm not gonna lie.
One minute you’re a thinking, breathing human. You have a life. You told jokes. You were in love or thought about it someday. You had bad days. You had days where you didn’t want to do anything. Then you turn into a red mist and that’s that. Unbelievable.
What is being done to this country by the current regime makes me weep for all of the sacrifices our vets have made. I pray we the people regain the country this year.
This isnt exact science. Of course every shelling dont have the same pace. The amount of guns, caliber and time between salvos make each one different from the other
If you see Penkala real photo you see a handsome young man. All of them were kids but they had a certain age and they left on the time that was suppose for them to leave but the youth in war are victims of the old.
They were YOUNG as hell. The oldest ones in Easy were Liebgott at 27 and Perconte and 25, I think. Lt. Compton and Speirs were 21 at the time, I think Nixon was as well. The whole bunch (Randleman, Martin, Muck, Penkala, Malarkey, Luz, Lipton) was barely in their 20s. They had to grow up fast because they had to go into war.
I know. Just saying it’s not simply a network fantasy like the Sopranos or Breaking Bad - the characters were actual people, present in that time and place, which makes you reflect. Some went home after it was all over, some never did. It’s sometimes easy to get caught up in the drama and forget all that.
The thing is, with a non discriminate ariel shelling of that magnitude, those guys were no safer in a foxhole than they would have been out in the open, it was just down to luck, with tree bursts you could have been severely or terminally injured by trees splintering.
god this show was brutal. people died when you saw it coming ten minutes away, and people died like this, instantly and with no warning. I guess thats how war is. just absolutely unpredictable and absolutely brutal.
I read an article once about artillery guys in WW2 on both sides. Both had the same view. You couldn't see the enemy all he was was a target on a map. But later you think about the men in that target area and what they must have been thinking. How scared they were. How many died. War is hell. And death follows you with every step.
I think it was Lipton who maybe said it or luz, they said that they couldn’t even find the bodies, the shell hit them so hard directly that they just vanished and was just their remains of clothing scattered everywhere 😓
The shelling scenes in breaking point are genuinely terrifying to watch. You really got the sense and understanding that no one was safe, these guys we have been following for near 7 episodes could die at any second. All this happened, no plot armour for characters
George must have had a legion of angels protecting to go through all he did without a scratch. Or his sense of humor made bullets and shrapnel stop and fall down laughing.
Muck and PENKALA: Luz! Stay down! Come on!bGet in here! Come on! Come on! Come on! ... Lipton: Luz! Luz: MUCK AND PENKALA! Lipton: WHAT? Luz: MUCK AND PENKALA GET HIT! 😭💔
Man, when I watched this scene as it first aired, I couldn't believe what I had seen. It took me a minute to process it because it was so quick. I was literally like "wait where did they go? Did they duck down at the last second?" But the way Muck & Penkala's voices just cut off mid-scream is brutal & takes you completely by surprise which is how it was for them in real life. It's not like some TV fictional drama where they foreshadow a character's death. Most of the deaths in Band of Brothers are literally rapid-fire where one minute someone is talking or doing something and the next, they are gone save for a few like Hoobler and Jackson who lingered for a few moments. I think Muck & Penkaka's deaths hit so hard because we really got to know them, particularly Muck who seemed like a funny and nice guy. My great-aunt is actually from Muck's hometown Tonawonda. I asked her once if she knew him and while she didn't know him personally, she knew of the family and said they were good people. RIP to Muck, Penkala and all the men of Easy company.
I cannot fucking imagine being surrounded by explosions like that. Kind of morbid but I wish there was some kind of simulation tour that lets civilians experience this type of sensation to better understand what soldiers under artillery go through, better understand ptsd, etc
No, the problem with that is, they may suffer the exact same thing that the soldiers faced. it's absolutely dangerous to think that can ever be replicated.
I don't think you could ever recreate an experience of pure terror and the sensation that any moment could be lights out forever. Would be completely different from being in VR and seeing shells go off around you.
For those that don't believe PTSD is real..... watch this video a few times.... Now, imagine that's two of your family in that hole............. now you get it
In the garden of my first apartment in the Czech Republic, I moved there about twenty years ago, a town called Kolín, there was a massive bomb crater that was big and deep enough that my neighbors used to put a giant tarp in it over the summer and voilá😀, one decent swimming pool🇨🇿🤘🇺🇲
My grandfather was in fox company germans were using 88s and rapid fire neblewefer rocket motors in real life This is why the artillery was so intense and inaccurate all the same
Looking back, foxholes were basically graves for something like a mortar or artillery shell. A near vertically descending explosive munition traveling faster than you can notice into a hole multiple times bigger than it is filled with at least 1 guy, likely as many as 4. Trench warfare was Hell, but I wouldn't call this much of an improvement. Sort of a "safety in numbers" strategy. Spread out clusters so if one gets hit with 4 guys, the rest with 4 each still form a large mass despite losses for the next day. It makes it hard to retreat or advance as much as a trench, and are more easily surrounded because they cannot be linked or traversed. Without local cover by terrain or growth, they're just wide open holes in the ground that may as well be bulls-eyes surrounded by treadmills facing inward and downward.
@@colloquialsoliloquy6391 sexual deviancy, gluttonous overconsumption, abandonment of traditional values and a government infested with foreign citizens. No. Not better.
@@glasstuna Wow,you are such a bitter person. Sexual deviancy didn't exist in the 40's? Gluttonous over consumption didn't exist in the 40's? You are straight up lying there. Abandonment of traditional values? Slavery used to be a traditional value Discriminating against women and black people was a traditional value in the 40's So thank FUCK we have (mostly) abandoned those traditions,and your type of person. A govt infested with foreign citizens? Ah yes Eisenhower was a good strong American name lol. We are moving ahead with or without pricks like ye,all ye do is hinder progress LOOOOOOLZ,you have a nice day! :D
I have deployed and you have two things that helps your buddies and comedy. If I had to pick one to always, always be with me, I am going with the buddies, we can laugh when we all go home.
"The shell that hit the foxhole Luz and I were in was a dud. The one that hit Muck and Penkala's wasn't. That's just the way it was." - Carwood Lipton
Good reason to start smoking
Not English speaker here, what does dud mean? Like a defective shell?
@@xsangrezulx Exactly. A defective shell.
Was this a sopranos reference?
@@Sam-pv1hz No - it's a direct quote from the same episode. The whole first (or maybe second, can't remember) Bastogne episode is from Lipton's perspective after Winters gets promoted to... whichever rank gets him off the front line. He monologues a lot of the major events in the episode, notably during the first few artillery barrages, commenting on Muck and Penkala dying and in the church at the end, counting losses and listening to the children sing
Sharing a joke with your buddies just to see them die in front of you minutes later. War is hell indeed
😭it waz damn heart breaking.RIP MUCK AND PENKALA
🇺🇸♥️🇺🇸♥️🇺🇸
I never realized Lipton talking to Luz probably saved his life.
At the very least, Luz gave them something to laugh about before they got hit.
@@EchoBoomer1987 well if Luz got in with them they probably would have ducked down more so maybe they would have lived.
@@redlizerad8268 or died horribly. Artillery shell point blank.
George is the classic example of "Those who smile the widest, hide the pain the best."
That day tore him up. Took him years to get over it.
yeah thats probably the exact reason why 1,500 people attended his funeral. he made a lot of people feel happy. Reminds me of that movie Big Fish
God I can’t even imagine how luz felt after seeing two of his mates get blown to pieces then less than a minute later he comes close to death in the same situation but the shell was a dud.
Truly terrifying. 8m thinking if uploading more parts of the show. Stay tuned!
Hector Solis please do. Band of brothers is one of the greatest series ever made and it’s one of my top favourite series. I’ve seen it multiple times.
Whats even worse, I think in reality Lipton and Luz went to their foxhole to dig up their dog tags, so they could return them home. They had to look at them, blown to pieces. :/
Quasaricemage I’m British. We call friends mates.
Fitting reaction after the dud: Immediately sparked a cigarette, holding his breath.
Babe and Guarnere said how there was absolutely no sign of Muck and Penkala in their foxhole after the shell hit. They just dissapeared. Into tiny bits and pieces. No grave for those two lads, only a tombstone.
I cried during this scene.
no grave😢
Attended a convention where Richard Speight Jr (Muck) spoke at a panel. He said how while attending an event for the show an elderly man approached him. The man had served with the real Skip and kept crying, taking Richard's hand, only able to repeat, "I'm sorry, Skip. We tried. We really did. We couldn't find you. I'm sorry."
Richard also spoke on how when he got the part he tried to find Muck's family, and getting in contact with them discovered they not only didn't know there was a book but also had never been told how he had died.
This one got to me too. I was thinking maybe their last thought was hoping to get Luz to safety.
@@stephw1702 😭
Should also mention that the scene where Muck talks about swimming in the Niagara River was not originally in the script. It was a story Richard heard from Muck's sister. As it obviously was a special memory for her Richard asked if he could tell it in an episode. The director agreed.
Penkala was my namesake. My great great uncle. Pretty cool to see him featured and his sacrifice honored in the series
He was a hero.
"George Luz, you have never been hit. You are one lucky bastard."
"Takes one to know one, Skip."
That line is way sadder after this scene
I was there in Bois Jacques today. The silence in those woods was deafening. You can still see the foxholes where they lived, died, fought, survived.... Crazy
A very sobering comment. RIP, Heroes.
Losing Skip in this scene always breaks my heart every time. What a wonderful man he was, literal human sunshine. We should all try to be more like him.
Their likeness to the real soldiers was apparently so on point that someone(I can't remember if it was the real Babe or someone else) apparently started breaking down when he talked to the actor playing Skip Muck. High emotions for those veterans
He grew up in my neighborhood or I did his. Either way.
You grew up in his hood. ❤😢
It was quick, a lot of guys didn’t have that luxury
It seems easy talking From your sofa
My dad was a tanker....he said ....it was all awful...never talked about it...just said he was happy I didn't get drafted to Vietnam.
@@steveg6978 he'd be dissapointed you think the battle of the Buldge was during nam
@@udomannheim2119 the point he’s making is that no matter what war it is. It doesn’t do any good for anybody.
@@udomannheim2119 you should be disappointed in yourself for not reading a comment properly, and then talking shit in a guy for no reason
To this day, Band of Brothers is the best WW2 series I have seen.
They're directing another mini series. Hopefully it delivers the same. The Pacific was horrible. The acting in this was good because most of these guys are broadway actors.
@@genericwhitemale1114 the pacific was amazing you that’s just stupid that you said that
@@spencerjohnston2079 proof read what you type before saying that what someone else says is stupid.
@@genericwhitemale1114 well the pacific is still one of the best shows ever made
Agreed
Lipton was an awesome leader! The way he handled the situation with Lutz was impeccable! Acknowledging how good it was but informing him that it wasn't a good idea was great! And the way Lutz responded with the yawn was him letting him know he understood but still can't stand the fucker was also epic!
Was that a yawn? With that accompanying hand gesture I was thinking he was jokingly implying something a bit more “adult”
@@thedoctor4327 You're correct lol. Luz was jokingly calling Lipton a dicksucker - slang in the US for someone sucking up to someone else, especially in a higher position. Both know he doesn't mean it, hence Lipton laughing and calling him a wiseass.
@@thedoctor4327 Lt. Dyke yawned quite a bit, it's a friendly dig at Lipton's authority.
Years afterward, Donald Malarkey, who was best friends with Skip Muck, could barely mention his name without getting choked up. The series does a good job of showing just how badly Muck's death affected Malarkey.
What's good about this scene is how at 0:50, the shell explodes without any warning. That's how artillery *really* is - If you hear the shell first, it wasn't aimed at you. Accurate arty comes out of nowhere.
I love how the artillery makes contact the second Luz flicks his cigarette. Small detail but pretty cool
Not sure about the speed of artillery rounds, but I would guess many if not most ballistics are supersonic, so literally any sound from them would come after they've already hit you. Course even just below supersonic would probably be similar-ish. Your brain would barely have time to process it.
All that said, not sure you'd be able to discern much anyways in a bombardment like that.
@@EricLing64 light travels faster than sound.....
@@tuckervfx That doesn't disprove what they were saying. You would definitely be dead before you saw the flash anyway. I might be misunderstanding what you were saying tho.
@@raymickens440 you definitely misunderstood what I was saying.
I don't recall seeing George joke or smile again after this in the series...
Holy Hell i think you're right... the closest would have to be when he told Randleman to hit picante towards the end
Nah he still do some after that. As far as I remember, he mocked O'keefe when singing Oklahoma song.
Don't forget.."says the German's, are baaad"
@@johnnyjarrett8166 True.
@@abhy1702 That was Christenson.
At first I started crying because I thought Luz was gonna die. But when Muck and Penk just so quickly got hit, I needed to pause the show and composed myself. War is hell.
Exactly the same for me. For me it is Luz reaction after it happens, when he is yelling to Lipton about it.
@@Phanheal “MUCK AND PENKALA GOT HIT!” 😓
Just try to imagine that for a second. One second you are yelling at your friend to make it to the foxhole and the next.... NOTHING... just nothing.
Years of growing, learning, dreaming. Gone, in an instant. We have to stop doing this to each other...
Rewatching the series when it comes to Muck and Penkala is so much more upsetting and foreboding knowing what happened to them. Seeing how they were the guys who generally seemed like the more funner and well liked in the group. Losing anyone is hard but losing anyone who provides an uplift in morale is even harder
“During the second barrage I wasn’t smiling anymore” - Lipton
I'll probably have nightmares every night after witnessing my friends go out like that.
Same. This scene is the saddest for me in the entire series
@@Phanheal And probably when Heffron had to leave Juliet behind. Those kind of experiences will stick with you forever, doesn't matter if the war ended or not.
@@Phanheal yeah, right there with when Buck saw Toy and Guarnere. Bastogne really encompassed the terrtfying nature of war for me, you can be the best soldier you can, but still be blown to pieces without a chance to do anything about it.
@@anthonyxavier6300 oh yeah that was a very tough scene.
@@hisdud3ness93 imagine the nightmare they lived during ww1, really wish there was more film/series about it..
I hadn’t watched Band of Brothers since I was too young to connect names, faces, and places. Watching it again, it shocked me how many guys who jumped into Normandy got it in the Ardennes.
Once you see your friends leave like that, you are Never gonna be the same again.
George Luz was killed in a mechanical accident. 1600 people showed up at his funeral. Which shows how many lives he lightened...one of a kind. Maybe 5 will show up at mine...3 of them for the free food.
Same
malarkey’s two best friends, obliterated in less than a second. can’t imagine how he felt.
Yeah
Malarkey lost all 5 of his best friends in Bastogne
Poor Malarkey! It’s not shown to well in the movie but I red Malarkey’s book: Easy Company Soldier good read would highly recommend for big WW2 fans or big band of brothers fans in his book he talks about how Muck was his best friend and he was not there when he was he said he didn’t shed a tear but it shook him to his core and it broke him
its shows how he is basically just a shell of a man in the episode "The last Patrol"
The voices when the shell hits. That always stuck with me.
I can't deal with that. I cry sooooo hard
Muck was my personal favorite character, and in moments, him and Penkala were gone
Penk's my favorite... 🥺🥺
I can't imagine how Luz would have felt witnessing that. Literally the last thing Muck said was his name, seconds before being blown to nothing :/ everyone of them are heroes.
Bastogne is the best episode of the series. I like that it used Doc Roe as the conduit of narration as it gave you a different point of view yet it allows us to be an intimate observer. It showed the ebb & flow of the war & indeed of life as things drifted between the catastrophic artillery strikes & intimate personal conversations between the guys. Also, the little side story of Roe & the nurse connecting gave you an extra emotional link to the story. Such a great episode. Action packed & intense but those little intimate personal moments here & there in the episode gave it so much depth & power.
This isn’t Bastogne, this is The Breaking Point
My dad was at Con Thien in 67 with B co 1/9. He said the NVA would shell them with 152 mm HE. He was in a hole one night with a couple other guys. I shell landed a few meters outside the hole. The shockwave traveled through the ground and knocked chunks of rock off from a Boulder inside the hole. One Marines rifle was broken in half another had opened a new pack of cigarettes and had them in the pocket of his flak jacket. The vacuum sucked the cigarettes out and left the empty pack in his pocket.
this scene is scarier than most horror movies. true horror is imagining living through artillery strikes seeing your best friends wiped off the face of the earth.
I remember when I first saw this I just burst in the tears...... it’s still gets me every time. RIP those men that fight in the second war
It’s the yell from luz
“MUCK AND PENKALA GOT HIT” 😓
@@rhysevans4253 😭😭😭
I binged on this series right after a break up. Best move i've ever made.
Perspective?
This scene broke me as well, it really teared me up... helluva way to die...
It’s the yell from luz
“MUCK AND PENKALA GOT HIT!” 😓
better fast then slow
@@johnspence8141 Aye, I'd rather go out like that than the guys in Saving Private Ryan on the beach that are screaming with their guts hanging out.
This whole episode really messed with me in general 😭
Muck never even lived past 1945. Yet was still one of the most memorable in the series.
If I’m gonna die in a war…… that’s the way I wanna go.
You blink and you’re gone.
This scene made my jaw hit the floor. I hadn't read the book, so I expected that if anyone were to die, Luz would. But to see both Muck and Penkala taken out in one swift blow...in a fraction of a second, they just disappear. I was crying, I'm not gonna lie.
One minute you’re a thinking, breathing human. You have a life. You told jokes. You were in love or thought about it someday. You had bad days. You had days where you didn’t want to do anything. Then you turn into a red mist and that’s that. Unbelievable.
Shit happens
"Ehm, first sergeant Lipton, you organize things here and I'm gonna go for help" I love this scene😂
Baseddddddddd
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Today 76 years ago this happened
What is being done to this country by the current regime makes me weep for all of the sacrifices our vets have made. I pray we the people regain the country this year.
The veterans said the shelling in the show wasn't intense enough.
I cannot even imagine what those brave men endured.
This isnt exact science.
Of course every shelling dont have the same pace.
The amount of guns, caliber and time between salvos make each one different from the other
“Goodnight. I’m going to my frozen hole.”
Definitely Infantry
paratroopers
There is so many flashes in this scene , man i watched it at 2 AM it feels like someone threw 20 flashbangs in my dark room
If you see Penkala real photo you see a handsome young man.
All of them were kids but they had a certain age and they left on the time that was suppose for them to leave but the youth in war are victims of the old.
Wtf? Can u even english bro?
They were YOUNG as hell. The oldest ones in Easy were Liebgott at 27 and Perconte and 25, I think. Lt. Compton and Speirs were 21 at the time, I think Nixon was as well. The whole bunch (Randleman, Martin, Muck, Penkala, Malarkey, Luz, Lipton) was barely in their 20s. They had to grow up fast because they had to go into war.
Kevin It's not everyone's first language dummy
@@AIRSOFTRAIDERS1 shut up fool
@@_--Reaper--_ your such a tool
My heart hurts so much 😭😭😭😭
Rip Muck and Penkala 😭😭
Watching this the first time Muck getting wasted is probably the most painful moment of the show up to that point.
Really hits home when you remember it’s not just a Netflix Original - these were real people
... this was made before Netflix existed my dude
I know. Just saying it’s not simply a network fantasy like the Sopranos or Breaking Bad - the characters were actual people, present in that time and place, which makes you reflect. Some went home after it was all over, some never did. It’s sometimes easy to get caught up in the drama and forget all that.
Hard to really understand or relate to it when us people haven’t experienced anything remotely close to it
@@omalleycaboose5937 Netflix was around for 4 years before Band Of Brothers came out
Gunnar Knutson yeah as a movie mail in service not even close to the streaming service it is today
The thing is, with a non discriminate ariel shelling of that magnitude, those guys were no safer in a foxhole than they would have been out in the open, it was just down to luck, with tree bursts you could have been severely or terminally injured by trees splintering.
The emotions that go through a soldier's mind, no-one can imagine. Brave men and women who served their country
When I saw this when it premiered I literally jumped back in my seat. It was shocking to see that happen.
I slowed it down for me, and muck was hit directly, then penkala, i dont know why this matters but
Had to pull this out to explain what fireworks represent in American history
god this show was brutal. people died when you saw it coming ten minutes away, and people died like this, instantly and with no warning. I guess thats how war is. just absolutely unpredictable and absolutely brutal.
I read an article once about artillery guys in WW2 on both sides. Both had the same view. You couldn't see the enemy all he was was a target on a map. But later you think about the men in that target area and what they must have been thinking. How scared they were. How many died. War is hell. And death follows you with every step.
I always thought they were called Pik and Pinkala, but now I see I was wrong for 20 years!
the only solice is that atleast they didn't suffer or saw it comming...
I think it was Lipton who maybe said it or luz, they said that they couldn’t even find the bodies, the shell hit them so hard directly that they just vanished and was just their remains of clothing scattered everywhere 😓
@@rhysevans4253 Omg... 😓😓😓😓
The shelling scenes in breaking point are genuinely terrifying to watch. You really got the sense and understanding that no one was safe, these guys we have been following for near 7 episodes could die at any second. All this happened, no plot armour for characters
Great scene. The devastation George must’ve felt after that, god, it’s making me sad just thinking about it
George must have had a legion of angels protecting to go through all he did without a scratch. Or his sense of humor made bullets and shrapnel stop and fall down laughing.
Luz did receive a Purple Heart at one point, so he must have been injured, but not shown on screen.
Muck and PENKALA: Luz! Stay down! Come on!bGet in here! Come on! Come on! Come on!
...
Lipton: Luz!
Luz: MUCK AND PENKALA!
Lipton: WHAT?
Luz: MUCK AND PENKALA GET HIT!
😭💔
😭💔
After that Muck became an Archangel
Gotta love a supernatural reference
This series and the real people explaining their experiences is now deeply in my soul
I love when he flicks the cig and the mortars start dropping... 0:50
I was a marine in Vietnam and the same thing happens to me except I survived
When I’m playing Hell Let Loose as artillery this is how I envision the battlefield.
those were Malarkey's best friends.
What could be more terrifying than being in a artillery barrage those brave men went through hell
being a Japanese guy burned alive in a cave, I guess
Man, when I watched this scene as it first aired, I couldn't believe what I had seen. It took me a minute to process it because it was so quick. I was literally like "wait where did they go? Did they duck down at the last second?" But the way Muck & Penkala's voices just cut off mid-scream is brutal & takes you completely by surprise which is how it was for them in real life. It's not like some TV fictional drama where they foreshadow a character's death. Most of the deaths in Band of Brothers are literally rapid-fire where one minute someone is talking or doing something and the next, they are gone save for a few like Hoobler and Jackson who lingered for a few moments. I think Muck & Penkaka's deaths hit so hard because we really got to know them, particularly Muck who seemed like a funny and nice guy. My great-aunt is actually from Muck's hometown Tonawonda. I asked her once if she knew him and while she didn't know him personally, she knew of the family and said they were good people. RIP to Muck, Penkala and all the men of Easy company.
I cannot fucking imagine being surrounded by explosions like that. Kind of morbid but I wish there was some kind of simulation tour that lets civilians experience this type of sensation to better understand what soldiers under artillery go through, better understand ptsd, etc
No, the problem with that is, they may suffer the exact same thing that the soldiers faced.
it's absolutely dangerous to think that can ever be replicated.
I wouldn’t want to experience it because I know war is hell.
I don't think you could ever recreate an experience of pure terror and the sensation that any moment could be lights out forever. Would be completely different from being in VR and seeing shells go off around you.
@@jerd1245 yeah, cause you'd know it isn't real, maybe if there was some drug that made you forget it's vr but then you'd get real ptsd
You and me and everyone must pray to never live a actual war because nothing on earth can you prepare for those situations.
For those that don't believe PTSD is real..... watch this video a few times.... Now, imagine that's two of your family in that hole............. now you get it
Actually, you don't need to go that far. Imagine those are new friends of yours you just met at the neighborhood...that would be enough painful.
Another perfect example of how hellish and scary war is
When I watched this the first time, I was speechless, I like Penkala a lot
His impression was funny af, my mans comedy
Man,. the echo in that Forest...
The Real Hero's are the ones that never made it home.
@Joseph Cribari
Well Said.
That’s what babe said at the end
“The real heroes, are the fellas that are buried over there” 😓
I know George Luz Jr. and tell you.. the best way to describe him.. the way his Dad was portrayed in the series.., that's who George Luz Jr. is 🖒
The Real Babe Heffron told the Actor playing Skip Muck. "I was there when you bit it."
Imagine trying to ever sleep after witnessing that. My brain would not fucking process.
a fine pink mist
this scene is so so good
Wrong way to put that, bud.
@@AlexPenkala_and_SkipMuck 😂you know what i mean
@@nickfm8747 it’s the best and saddest scene in the whole series I think, the yell on luz:
“MUCK AND PENKALA GOT HIT!”😓
@@rhysevans4253 i definetly agree one of the best movie death scenes ever
@@nickfm8747 so sad that luz probably had to witness that :(
In the garden of my first apartment in the Czech Republic, I moved there about twenty years ago, a town called Kolín, there was a massive bomb crater that was big and deep enough that my neighbors used to put a giant tarp in it over the summer and voilá😀, one decent swimming pool🇨🇿🤘🇺🇲
Missed a train from Prague to Budapest, ended up in Kolin trying to catch another one.. Nice place, walked around
they're buried in the same cemetery as Patton, tho not next to each other...was there in 2018...
poor guys,getting obliterated by an 88 shell.May them rest in peace
8 cm Granatwerfer most likely. Those rounds are coming straight down.
You certainly mean rest in pieces?
My grandfather was in fox company germans were using 88s and rapid fire neblewefer rocket motors in real life
This is why the artillery was so intense and inaccurate all the same
@@donjorge8329 That's so wrong. Don't joke like that. They died and that's just disrespectful
@@donjorge8329 that’s disrespectful mate, can’t say that
Did anyone else get annoyed with my mouse on screen? Lol. I just watched the video and tried to scratch it off.
your good, the whole point of why we we're here distracted us from why we weren't.
Jeez now that you point it out.
@@Weshopwizard 😭
Lol i thought it's something on my screen
Don't worry about it. It's kind of funny really; I thought it was my mouse and tried to move it off screen. :)
When I first watch that scene was real shocking
Looking back, foxholes were basically graves for something like a mortar or artillery shell. A near vertically descending explosive munition traveling faster than you can notice into a hole multiple times bigger than it is filled with at least 1 guy, likely as many as 4. Trench warfare was Hell, but I wouldn't call this much of an improvement. Sort of a "safety in numbers" strategy. Spread out clusters so if one gets hit with 4 guys, the rest with 4 each still form a large mass despite losses for the next day. It makes it hard to retreat or advance as much as a trench, and are more easily surrounded because they cannot be linked or traversed. Without local cover by terrain or growth, they're just wide open holes in the ground that may as well be bulls-eyes surrounded by treadmills facing inward and downward.
Deep.
Man i was so scared Luz was gonna buy it here.
I think those bombshells were a lot deadlier than the ones that took out Toye and Gaurnere legs
So sad. But at least it was instant. No pain.
They died for a nation they would not recognize.
As in a better nation?
@@colloquialsoliloquy6391 sexual deviancy, gluttonous overconsumption, abandonment of traditional values and a government infested with foreign citizens.
No. Not better.
@@glasstuna Wow,you are such a bitter person.
Sexual deviancy didn't exist in the 40's?
Gluttonous over consumption didn't exist in the 40's?
You are straight up lying there.
Abandonment of traditional values?
Slavery used to be a traditional value
Discriminating against women and black people was a traditional value in the 40's
So thank FUCK we have (mostly) abandoned those traditions,and your type of person.
A govt infested with foreign citizens?
Ah yes Eisenhower was a good strong American name lol.
We are moving ahead with or without pricks like ye,all ye do is hinder progress
LOOOOOOLZ,you have a nice day! :D
@@glasstuna You do know they more than likley wouldn't have supported Trump right?
I know The actor of Alex in real life he’s a cool person
I did cry when I saw this scene, shit, it was quick but, damn
this is scary
When the mortars hit it was just get in a foxhole and hope one didn’t hit you
Those were artillery shells, mortars don't hit that hard.
True story.
I have deployed and you have two things that helps your buddies and comedy. If I had to pick one to always, always be with me, I am going with the buddies, we can laugh when we all go home.
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