Band of Brothers 1x6 REACTION!! "Bastogne"

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  • @BlindWave
    @BlindWave  Рік тому +10

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    • @ScarriorIII
      @ScarriorIII Рік тому

      Modern studies on tourniquet placement show you can leave a TQ in place for over 24 hours with no lasting effects. It's kind of fudd lore that TQs cause lost limbs. Placement and correct pressure level are what matters.

    • @ScarriorIII
      @ScarriorIII Рік тому

      @@highcountrydelatite Yes, eliminate threats/secure the scene/get off the x, then medical. Thats also why we went to high and tight rather than directly above limb. Keep it simple or you'll lose to the adrenaline spike. Hard enough to do things right when you're not in the red.

  • @albinorhino6
    @albinorhino6 Рік тому +604

    The nurses Renée and Anna were based on real people.
    Renée Lemaire was a nurse who was visiting her parents for Christmas 1944. Bastogne was not near the front lines until the surprise German offensive. Renee’s fiancé was a Jewish man who was taken by the Gestapo earlier in the year. When Bastogne became surrounded, Renée volunteered at the American aid station. On Christmas Eve 1944, the Germans bombed the town of Bastogne. The building that the aid station was in was hit. Renée was not inside the building when it was hit. She managed to rescue six people from the bombed out aid station. Unfortunately, when she went back into the building to get more people, the building collapsed, and she was killed. Her body was recovered, and the Airborne returned her to her parents wrapped in a parachute.
    Augusta Chiwy (Anna) was also a trained nurse, who was also visiting her family in Bastogne for Christmas 1944. Her father was a Belgian soldier who fought in WW1, and her mother was original from Congo. When Bastogne became surrounded, Augusta first worked with her uncle, who was a doctor in Bastogne, helping treat wounded civilians. Eventually, she volunteered at the American aid station and helped mend wounded soldiers. During the Christmas Eve bombing, Augusta was in a building beside the aid station when it was hit. She was blown through a wall, but survived with only minor injuries. After the war, Augusta continued to practice nursing, becoming a specialist in neck and spinal injuries. She married a Belgian soldier, and they had two children together. In 2012, both the American and Belgian governments formally recognized Augusta’s contributions to the Siege of Bastogne, awarding her the highest civilian awards each government can bestow. Augusta Chiwy passed away in 2015, at the age of 94.
    Together, Renée Lemaire and Augusta Chiwy are known as the ‘Angles of Bastogne’.

    • @everettleach
      @everettleach Рік тому +16

      This comment needs more likes.

    • @ibuprofriends
      @ibuprofriends Рік тому +25

      i’m glad people are finally giving credit to augusta chiwy. the fact that she continued to serve even after what happened in bastogne is so impressive.

    • @PSvarang
      @PSvarang Рік тому +4

      Thank u for sharing this

    • @jackflash8218
      @jackflash8218 Рік тому +11

      Acute... or obtuse?

    • @arashimiyazawa8165
      @arashimiyazawa8165 Рік тому +4

      @@jackflash8218 The Rouge Angles of Satin strike again.

  • @orcanimal
    @orcanimal Рік тому +398

    The reason Winters kept shaving every morning throughout their entire time in Bastogne (and he's the only one who did it) is that he figured it helped keep his men's moral above despair. He figured if he stopped shaving, it would essentially signal to them that thing's have gotten really bad. And because he kept shaving, they'd joke around saying things like, things can't be that bad, the Captain's still shaving every morning.

    • @generic_sauce
      @generic_sauce Рік тому +33

      Gotta maintain the grooming standards 😂

    • @joshuaortiz2031
      @joshuaortiz2031 Рік тому +30

      @@generic_sauce police that moostash!!!!!!!!

    • @pabloc8808
      @pabloc8808 Рік тому +32

      I believe he also washed himself a couple of times, which involved taking off his uniform above the waist despite the bitter cold. His discipline and dedication were astonishing

    • @mitrooper
      @mitrooper Рік тому

      True leader that cared about his men.

    • @DarkxSonxOfxDathomir
      @DarkxSonxOfxDathomir Місяць тому

      @@joshuaortiz2031I wish the guys would react to Gen Kill! Ik this is a year old comment but I love the reference.

  • @Rmlohner
    @Rmlohner Рік тому +216

    Roe is even more impressive due to something the series doesn't mention: He had ZERO medical training, and was given the job simply because the army was just that desperate for more medics. And yet, the rest of Easy Company gave him tremendous praise, saying he had a nigh-supernatural ability to suddenly appear immediately after someone was hurt.

    • @HenryInHawaii
      @HenryInHawaii Рік тому +34

      Sadly, probably due to the trauma of war, Eugene battled alcoholism in later life

  • @snerdterguson
    @snerdterguson Рік тому +75

    "This is television, in 2001!!!"
    It would be an amazingly well made piece of cinema if it were made last Tuesday. The fact this was filmed and edited around 23 years ago is mind boggling.

    • @snerdterguson
      @snerdterguson Рік тому

      @@PeterPi-wt2uc more mind boggling is there are assholes who spend their time insulting strangers on the internet. Worse, my own son. Me and ma are gonna speak to you later tonight. Don’t come upstairs now, your mom and I are, well, busy in the kitchen. Fear not my boy. We’ll disinfect when we’re through. Don’t want anything getting in your sippy cup.

    • @snerdterguson
      @snerdterguson Рік тому

      @@PeterPi-wt2uc Sad is being an asshole to strangers on the internet who said nothing offensive to anyone. Sad is also being obviously outmatched and not having the intelligence to just disappear.

  • @DJhinckley
    @DJhinckley Рік тому +143

    When you know the story of Renee Lemair, the actual Angel of Bastogne, it's even more tragic. On Christmas eve during the air raid she returned to a bombed building six times to rescue wounded. On the 7th time she went in, she was killed. Augusta Chiwy the real Congolese nurse who helped Renee survived the war and died in 2015.

    • @MoviesAndTvShowsAreSubjective
      @MoviesAndTvShowsAreSubjective Рік тому

      Damn

    • @iammanofnature235
      @iammanofnature235 Рік тому

      Renée Lemaire and Augusta Chiwy were volunteer nurses at the aid station of the 20th Armored Infantry Battalion, Combat Command B, 10th Armored Division. Renée Lemaire does not appear to have ever met Doc Roe (Eugene Roe) and she did not die in a church.

  • @picktrees4206
    @picktrees4206 Рік тому +175

    the constant screaming of medic, shows the horror the doc's faced, constant running in the fire to save anyone they can

    • @BambiBreaker
      @BambiBreaker Рік тому

      How'd ya comment 3 weeks ago though

    • @picktrees4206
      @picktrees4206 Рік тому +1

      @@BambiBreaker early access on patron

    • @BambiBreaker
      @BambiBreaker Рік тому +1

      @@picktrees4206 aight thanks fam

    • @AnikaJarlsdottr
      @AnikaJarlsdottr Рік тому +4

      it takes a special kind of courage to leave the foxhole as hell is landing all around you, running headfirst through the firestorm of shrapnel towards the sound of people you most likely know personally who are wounded or already dying.

  • @iluvyummywaffles
    @iluvyummywaffles Рік тому +87

    "The Battered Bastards of Bastogne" well earned nickname for 101st and by the end of episode BlindWave looked prety battered.

  • @VerinYT
    @VerinYT Рік тому +46

    My absolute favorite episode that I think about often. As a paramedic on a fully stocked ambulance very rarely more than 20 minutes away from a level 1 trauma center, this episode gives just a sliver of what others in the past have had to deal with. Whenever I'm feeling stressed or overworked it helps bring of a bit of context on how good I actually have it.
    I love that they dedicated an episode to showcase the job of a medic. It's not as intriguing as the grand strategy of the generals point of view, or as exciting as the run-and-gun soldiers, but I would argue that those soldiers can only fight to their fullest extent because they know if they get hit, there will be someone there by their side.

  • @chaost4544
    @chaost4544 Рік тому +209

    Unfortunately, the "Christmas Truce" during WWI is a rare moment in human warfare.

    • @krisfrederick5001
      @krisfrederick5001 Рік тому +44

      What sickens me the most about the "Christmas Truce" is that it displays the pointlessness of War to begin with. If that makes sense.

    • @DovahFett
      @DovahFett Рік тому +5

      And it was during the first year of the war when all sides thought victory was just around the corner.

    • @DovahFett
      @DovahFett Рік тому +32

      @@krisfrederick5001 Depends on the nature of the war. If your cause is just (defending your country from an invader, stopping a genocide, etc.) than the war is far being pointless.
      WWI _was_ pointless however, and everyone involved knew it, even back then. Kaiser Wilhelm II even wrote to the Austro-Hungarian Emperor on the eve of the war, pleading with him to not invade Serbia because there was no good reason to. He did anyways because he wanted to expand his empire's influence in the Balkans and avenge Franz Ferdinand's death. Then Russia declared on Austria-Hungary because of its self-appointed title as protector of all Slavic peoples, and Germany declared on it in turn as it saw the war as an opportunity to cripple Russia before it became an industrial powerhouse. Likewise, the French went to war because of irredentist claims over Alsace-Lorrain and a bruised ego over the events of 1870, and Britain got involved because it wanted to halt Germany's naval expansion and the global empire that they were building with it. It gets more ridiculous when you think about the fact that the ruling houses of Britian, Germany, and Russia were all closely related.
      WW1, a family spat that killed 20 million.
      So wars have a ton of points, 90% of them are just petty ones that only serve the interests of the few. Truly righteous wars are rare.

    • @saltwatertaffybag
      @saltwatertaffybag Рік тому +6

      Upon learning of the "Christmas Truce" high commands on both sides pulled Senior Non Commissioned Officers and Officers from the line. They were charged with offenses related to fraternizing with the enemy, cowardice, and treason. Some of their sentences could have been as serious as execution by firing squad. However, it was deemed that this would have a catastrophic effect on morale, the charges were dismissed, and the Officers in question were subject to non judicial demotions. Following on all holidays throughout the war, soldiers on both sides were subjected to particularly heavy and constant bombardment to discourage any repeated "fraternization".

    • @chaost4544
      @chaost4544 Рік тому +4

      @@DovahFett the outcome of all that pointlessness too was one of the worst peace treaties in modern history.

  • @mark-be9mq
    @mark-be9mq Рік тому +4

    The scene when Eugene says the "St. Francis prayer,".. to Love rather than be loved, with all my heart...with all my heart", with kind of desperate conviction, just stops me each time. A short sincere window into his soul.

  • @Bugeye0704
    @Bugeye0704 Рік тому +34

    Doc Roe was a real person, however his character in the show and this episode, is a representation of the numerous medics that served throughout the 101st.
    As Eric said a medics normal day is somebody’s worst day. A truly horrible role to play in war, saving people.
    Easily my favourite episode.

  • @becca_bee97
    @becca_bee97 Рік тому +95

    I've been waiting for this one, it's one of my favourite episodes of tv ever

    • @Nalpha
      @Nalpha Рік тому +9

      Same, the storytelling and progression/pacing of this episode is 10/10

  • @phj223
    @phj223 Рік тому +46

    My maternal grandfather (long since passed away) served as a Finnish soldier in the Winter War against the Soviet Union in WWII. When we'd visit him and his family when I was a kid, I had such a hard time sleeping cause they would always have the heating cranked up to the max, no matter the season. In addition, my grandfather would wear a full set of pyjamas to bed, and woolen socks and a cotton vest. He had just done a lifetime's worth of freezing during the war, and woved to never be cold again. Also, and this is speculation on my part, I would imagine feeling ever so slightly cold would take him back to those dark events.

  • @em8066
    @em8066 Рік тому +5

    My grandpa was a medic in Normandy during WWII. He was running into gunfire in situations like this. Once, he was working on one soldier when he saw another take shrapnel to the neck. So he left his partner and ran to the next guy. The shrapnel pierced the trachea and blocked his airway, and he was turning blue. So my grandpa performed the first field cricothyrotomy; he blew the ink out of the tube in his fountain pen, cut it to size, and inserted it into a vertical slit he made in the man's neck to reconnect the airway. The man was taken to a field hospital and survived. My grandpa was dubbed "the foxhole surgeon," and was decorated with various medals for his other efforts and wounds. He was only 19. Field cricothyrotomies have been depicted in several medical dramas, inspired by his story. He also inspired me to become a PA in emergency medicine.

  • @dastemplar9681
    @dastemplar9681 Рік тому +17

    I’ve been to the Netherlands and Belgium and visited several American soldier cemeteries. Seeing how well maintained and respected they are by the local people brought tears to my eyes. I am proud to have our fallen warriors die on such worthy foreign soil and forever thankful for the Belgian and Dutch people for treating and honoring our fallen as if they were their own. ❤️

  • @TheGirlonfire25
    @TheGirlonfire25 Рік тому +3

    I'm grateful for Easy's bravery as they helped out my Grandpa's division, the 28th Infantry (112th Regiment) that was caught right in the German offensive. They were in that area to begin with because they and other units needed a break after the losses suffered in the Hurtgen Forest and months of fighting. He told and wrote down for us his stories, including when, as a noncom, he had to tell his men to hold the line at all costs before they got word of the relief that was coming. Last year my sister and I got to visit not only the Champs Elysse where he marched in the Liberation of Paris, but also Colmar, France, another area he helped to liberate. We went to the Musee Memorial des Combats de la Poche de Colmar in the nearby Turckheim. Not only was the museum a wonderful and educational experience, but the Alsace region is beautiful. So thankful to get to watch this show to see a glimpse of what he and Easy went through, and to get to experience and witness the places that they helped to save. I can't wait to go back and discover more of the places that Easy or my grandfathers saw. Bastogne is my favorite episode.

  • @fakecubed
    @fakecubed Рік тому +6

    Eric's insights into the psychology of being a medic were really on point. I haven't been a battlefield medic, but I've been a civilian EMT and this will always be my favorite episode of Band of Brothers because of how well they covered the reality of emergency medicine. Maintaining a professional distance from your patients is very important. You need to be able to compartmentalize, and when you're in the job you just do the job, you don't really think about it, but everyone has to deal with it later, in some way. It's not a job that anyone can do, even if they can handle the blood and gore and all manner of unspeakable fluids and traumatic injuries. I was always fascinated by the biology, but I was also very good at compartmentalization. After a call was done, unless something incredible happened, something I'd call miraculous, or something hilarious, I just forgot it all immediately afterwards. And even then I don't remember the patients, just the things that happened that were so unusual. I do remember the medicine, if something went wrong, if there was some lesson to be learned, those stick with me, but most of the time, no matter how serious an emergency, it was mostly routine and forgettable. What got me was kids. I still remember the name of every single pediatric patient I ever had. Going out on a call, where it was a kid who was the patient, that was always hard for me. Not in the moment, doing my job, but afterwards, I always remembered every little detail. When I got off shift, I had to take some time for quiet reflection, and like I said, I still remember all the names. I think about those calls a lot, all the time, many years later.
    I can imagine the level of stress medics like him were under, for a sustained, multi-day battle, seeing so many of his soldiers getting blown up and shot, but I do have some idea of how he prepared for it, and how he dealt with it afterwards, whenever he did get a quiet moment. At the end, when he finally calls somebody by their nickname, it's really a sign that his mental defenses were breaking down, and the stress was really getting to him. He needed a human connection, and a sense of normalcy.

  • @Tensen01
    @Tensen01 Рік тому +8

    "Smokey" Gordon, the one who was shot through his shoulders and paralyzed, dropping his coffee, he survived, regained his mobility and decades later returned to Bastogne as part of a tour of the battle. While there he found his old foxhole and still in the bottom of it was the mug he dropped the day he was shot.
    Also, all of the Bastogne forest shots were indoors, on a set, and yes, it was actually quite warm.

  • @RampantFirefly
    @RampantFirefly Рік тому +54

    The fact that this episode has so much gore, and then when the nurse is killed all we see is Eugene’s face makes it hit all the harder.

  • @Philbert-s2c
    @Philbert-s2c Рік тому +24

    Colonel: "Sir, General McAuiliffe turned down the German demand for surrender. Know what he said?"
    Patton: "What?"
    Colonel: "He said 'nuts.'"
    Patton: (laughing)" Keep em moving Colonel. A man that eloquent has to be saved."
    -Patton (1970)

  • @HistoryWarCinema
    @HistoryWarCinema Рік тому +22

    All these scenes in the woods were shot indoors, pretty good acting looking like you are freezing. The hangar in which it was filmed was actually pretty hot.

  • @shyslayer
    @shyslayer Рік тому +56

    My favorite episode with my favorite 'character'. Every time I saw Eugene after this I was like "it's him!"

    • @Cornberry
      @Cornberry Рік тому +11

      Haha same here, they almost feel like cameos on a second watch it's a weird feeling

    • @steriopticon2687
      @steriopticon2687 Рік тому +19

      @@Cornberry Doc yelling at Winters after the friendly fire episode on subsequent watching is something.

    • @angelleach6866
      @angelleach6866 Рік тому +2

      @@steriopticon2687And the fact that all the officers took it!

    • @Commander_Shepard.
      @Commander_Shepard. Рік тому +3

      it's ridiculous but it has the same feeling as seeing a superhero cameo in another superhero's movie. lol

    • @QuantumFerret
      @QuantumFerret Рік тому +1

      A bunch of the actors on this show played characters in Justified, I always loved seeing them. Especially Buck Compton’s actor and Malarkey’s actor, their characters in Justified were phenomenal (bad guys).

  • @roryowens9703
    @roryowens9703 Рік тому +8

    This is my favourite episode of the series. Watching war through the eyes of a medic was an incredibly effective conceit. He doesn't fight, he just tends to the wounded, going out into the worst firefights to do so. And he's constantly running from foxhole to foxhole, checking up on guys, gathering supplies, handing out blankets and boots and whatever else. Also, Shane Taylor's performance in this episode was fantastic. Seeing how he assiduously keeps himself apart from everyone, how he holds his distance emotionally so he can do his job. And seeing him finally start to falter as that distance breaks down. So good.
    As for the real life Roe, I know that Lt Foley (I think) said he recommended Roe for a Silver Star, for all he did at Bastogne, for all his work keeping the company as ready to fight as possible. He may well have met Renée and Anna/Augusta in real life, but if he did, I don't think he ever said.

  • @FrenchieQc
    @FrenchieQc Рік тому +7

    This episode and the next were filmed on a sound stage inside a giant hangar somewhere in England. They used about 300,000lbs of shredded paper and plastic pellets to simulate the snow. It was actually really warm on set and the actors needed to wipe their faces between shots to not be seen sweating on screen.

    • @flaggerify
      @flaggerify Рік тому

      Which is why we never see their breath, unfortunately.

  • @azncorgilord
    @azncorgilord Рік тому +12

    I cry every time when he finds the blue cloth near the end and laugh every time I read that the 101st didn't need 'rescuing.' Such a good episode.

  • @Ravenblade86
    @Ravenblade86 Рік тому +11

    I don't know how many times I've watched Band of Brothers but it still hits as hard as it ever did

    • @flaggerify
      @flaggerify Рік тому

      The nurse dying came a mile off.

  • @benschultz1784
    @benschultz1784 Рік тому +8

    One of the big issues with Bastogne being surrounded is that an SS officer was captured on Dec. 19 detailing an Operation Grief (Griffin), where English-speaking SS commandos led by the notorious Otto Skorzeny were to infiltrate the American lines and wreak havoc behind the front lines. While in reality the operation was a failure due to a lack of captured American equipment and soldiers who could pass as American, the psychological aspect was a success as American troops were on edge, unsure of who they can trust. The captured officer even spun a plot to assassinate Generals Eisenhower, Bradley, and Montgomery in Paris led by Skorzeny himself, which led to Ike spending his Christmas in a bunker.

  • @hafor2846
    @hafor2846 Рік тому +21

    To be fair, Congo was a Belgian colony at the time, so it'ws not totally out of left field that someone from the Congo would be working on the side Beglium was also fighting on.

    • @iluvyummywaffles
      @iluvyummywaffles Рік тому +4

      The nurse from Congo survived the blast, and her name was Augusta Chiwy (died 2015). The Angels of Bastogne.

    • @albinorhino6
      @albinorhino6 Рік тому +5

      Augusta Chiwy (Anna) wasn’t from Congo. Her mother was from Congo, and her father was a Belgian soldier who fought in WW1. Augusta’s parents lived in Bastogne, and she was visiting them for Christmas 1944 when Bastogne became surrounded by the German advance. She was a trained nurse, so she volunteered at the American aid station set up in Bastogne. She survived the war, had two children, and finally passed away in 2015 at the age of 94. In 2012, both the American and Belgian governments awarded Augusta with their highest civilian awards for merit and bravery.
      The other nurse, Renée, was also a real person. She was killed during the Christmas Eve bombing after rescuing 6 people from a building hit by a bomb. She went back in to get more people, and the building fully collapsed.

  • @bigporknation195
    @bigporknation195 Рік тому +24

    If you guys thought the gore was bad in this episode, wait till you watch The Pacific, its on a whole other level in that series.

    • @australianwi-fi
      @australianwi-fi Рік тому +5

      I always remember Mr Robot throwing pebbles in a half-skull brain soup

    • @donpaladino
      @donpaladino Рік тому

      On a "whole other level" for damned sure. My uncle was in a German stalag for between 6 months and a year after his B17 was shot down. I remember him telling me Germans in charge of the stalag let the allied prisoners have a baseball league. That's not to say their captors were angels but, from the time I was young I'd heard enough about the Japanese treatment of prisoners to know they were as bad as if Satan himself was telling them what to do.

  • @shannonmanning6166
    @shannonmanning6166 Рік тому +1

    Also a medic (10th Mountain Division, spent a few months in Somalia) and also a Cajun, I can honestly say that, being from such a rich, loving, hard-working, hard-playing culture has helped. The nightmares can be rough, on some nights, but protecting the greatest nation in the history of the world is more than worth it.

  • @nancychilton2366
    @nancychilton2366 Рік тому +2

    I watch this series every year the week between Christmas and New Years. I feel like these episodes epitomize the series because of the time of year the battle was fought. Make me so much more grateful during the holidays.

  • @sleepngnight
    @sleepngnight Рік тому +3

    Band Of Brothers actually filmed almost everything in England. Except a few locations in I believe the last two episodes.
    For snow they used frost powder.

    • @FrenchieQc
      @FrenchieQc Рік тому

      For snow they used shredded paper and plastic pellets

  • @Farbar1955
    @Farbar1955 Рік тому +6

    The unique thing about a company medic (there were several in a company) is that they interacted with all the men in the company at one time or another. It's very possible that Doc Roe touched and treated every man in Easy Company at some point for some reason, probably the only man in Easy who could claim that distinction. The medics were considered the real heroes by the soldiers.

    • @MikeSmith-lh5fq
      @MikeSmith-lh5fq Рік тому +3

      Yes in the book they say unambiguously that Doc Roe was the most respected man in the company.

  • @stevemartegani
    @stevemartegani Рік тому +18

    This is the episode that makes everyone squirm... Episode 9 is the one that makes everyone cry :(

  • @johnwright7976
    @johnwright7976 Рік тому +4

    They built many of the sets in large refrigerated buildings. That’s why the actors really look cold and you see their breath.

    • @RandomGuy285
      @RandomGuy285 Рік тому

      I've heard the actors say that set was hot as balls

  • @glonn4738
    @glonn4738 Рік тому +40

    Aaron: *blood and guts* meh
    Also Aaron *needle for 1.5 seconds* Why did they zoom in!?

  • @SungJaeUng3
    @SungJaeUng3 Рік тому +3

    This was the period when my grandpa's division had a replacement rate over 100%. They'd get blown to hell, get replacements, replacements get killed or wounded, and they'd get sent more replacement.
    Over 100% for the division.

  • @reecedignan8365
    @reecedignan8365 Рік тому +6

    So the story behind the “NUTS” reply is a bit interesting:
    During the Battle of the Bulge a pair of German Officer were sent to the American lines to deliver a offer of surrender - they were met by commander of F Company tho I can’t remember of which regiment.
    Sending a reply up the chain of command, they’d get told to bring the two Germans to the 101st headquarters.
    Both were blindfolded, loaded into a jeep and took on a nice long route up to the headquarters so they couldn’t map it by memory.
    At the Headquarters the deputy commander of the 101st Airborne was filling in for the main officer who was not in Bastogne.
    On hearing of the Germans arrival one of his aid woke him up to which he relied “nuts” (in old American slang, it meant ‘go to hell’).
    Getting woke up he’d be given the full briefing of surrender by the two German officer and asked for a reply. Sending them away to sit against some trees why he went back into the headquarters to think up a reply they kind of just waited a while as he tried to think of something.
    After a bit of time and asking some of the men around him, his aide replied “why not what you said to me”.
    So having his transcriber type it up. He formally wrote.
    “To the German Commander
    Nuts!
    From the American Commander.”
    Walking out they’d take both the Germans back to F Company’s line and hand them the letter there after removing their blindfolds (note they were blindfolded the entire time as to prevent them seeing even where the headquarters were).
    Both looked surprised reading the letter and asked for translation to which one of the officer in F replied “it means go to hell”.
    Delivering the response back to the German commander they were both confused and then mighty annoyed at the reply so began a large offensive straight after - more as they were already planning so but the reply just saw them give a more intensive order to their men to take the positions.

  • @Cabur_Skirata
    @Cabur_Skirata Рік тому +5

    The "bulge" in Battle of the Bulge was the bulge in the lines the Germans managed to push into allied forces, effectively surrounding Bastogne for weeks

  • @bradleys-straw-7084
    @bradleys-straw-7084 Рік тому +5

    What makes this episode so intense, on top of everything that's on screen, is that there's zero music until the very end

  • @vinniemoran7362
    @vinniemoran7362 Рік тому +1

    "His normal is somebody else's worst day ever. Great reaction. Great comments. 👍

  • @Easy_Skanking
    @Easy_Skanking Рік тому +5

    Eric talked about the emotional content of the theme music of this show. Shortly after the series came out, I was playing "Medal of Honor: Allied Assault" or maybe "MOH: Spearhead" and the community put out a mod that used the BoB theme as the game's theme. It really helped sell the game for me just due to the emotional impact of this series music and the quality of the show itself. It's amazing what great music can do.

  • @cardiac19
    @cardiac19 Рік тому +1

    You know the fourth best line in the series might just be Penkala with the "I'm real sorry Frank" as they load him on the jeep for the aid station. Great delivery.

  • @miguelgomes2542
    @miguelgomes2542 Рік тому +10

    The definition of raw sadness is the entire fucking episode man, war is terrible.

  • @CBO4evr
    @CBO4evr Рік тому +4

    I think a lot of time people don't give a lot of thought to the medics. They weren't fighting the same battle as the other guys they were trying to save lives while everyone else was having to take them. Then they had to go out in the midst of the chaos in hopes the other side would respect the idea that you don't kill each other's medics to try to administer help to as many people as you could with limited supplies. The mental toll though of constantly fighting to keep people alive just to see them get injured again or killed over & over again. MASH Is an older show but did 'a really good job of showing the life of military medical teams.

  • @mikecarew8329
    @mikecarew8329 Рік тому +3

    Great reax to an excellent episode. A reminder to finish your Band of Brothers reactions with We Stand Alone Together - the accompanying HBO documentary that is the perfect “episode 11” capstone to the miniseries. Provides lots more context from the vets along with archival footage. All with the mens’ names revealed / names you will know well by end of the series.

  • @KenjiMapes
    @KenjiMapes Рік тому +7

    Been looking forward to your guy’s Ep6 reaction. Best episode of a superlative series without one bad to mediocre or not at least very good episode in it.🙂👍
    “Tye production quality on this is nuts! This is a 2001 TV series.” Here, here. And also “i want to shut it off but it’s so good.” This episode shows the sheer objective brutality of war that wreaked havoc on the guy’s subjective experiences. The choice of using Medic Eugene “Doc” Roe’s POV in this episode was pure genius. The constant artillery barrages, exploding trees & incessant screams & cries of “medic” really hammer the reality of war & makes you feel there. I’m sure this episode triggered many a WW2 & other vets PTSD. As a former Army tanker I can tell you that artillery is one of the most feared & God awful potent weapons out there outside of modern RPGs & ATGM’s. The barrage & bombing of Bastogne proper was brutal & sadly poignant with Eugene’s finding of Renee’s head scarf in the church’s wreckage. Just another of the hard hitting emotional points hammered home to the audiende members. Each of the incidents: Hubler, Julian, Harry, Gonorrhea, Toye, Muck, Renee, etc is the barrage of injuries & casualties that mimics the randomness & sheer firepower of artillery. Foxhole, building, arty shell dud or not it doesn’t matter…sometimes it’s just not your day & some times it is.

  • @patrickwaldeck6681
    @patrickwaldeck6681 Рік тому +9

    My grandfather fought in the Battle of the Bulge as the sergeant of a mortar team, 103rd Infantry Division. Something that wasn't all the way shown in this episode is that the Germans threw an absolutely crazy amount of armor at the Allies hoping to break the lines. My grandpa told stories of how good his guys got at nailing half-tracks because they had so many armored targets they needed to eliminate.

  • @paulcurlin2789
    @paulcurlin2789 Рік тому +1

    It was called The Battle of the Bulge due to the German's attack making a large protrusion/incursion into the Allies line. Hence, their maps had a large bulge representing the front lines drawn on it.

  • @kevenpinder7025
    @kevenpinder7025 Рік тому +15

    There was a saying. When German planes fly over, Brits duck. When Brit planes fly over, Germans duck. When American planes fly over, everybody ducks.

    • @kennethdawson7774
      @kennethdawson7774 Рік тому +1

      It's funny; not really fair, though. The Germans typically could shoot at anything since they were either operating solely over enemy territory in their early war offensives and then weren't able to do much "close air support" later in the war since the Allies had them outnumbered in planes and about equal in quality by late in the war. The British had some "friendly fire" incidents of their own but they also tended to go after the enemy on the ground considerably behind the front lines.
      The U.S. tended to turn their fighter-bombers loose to try precision bombing and strafing of enemy armor and troop movements more often closer to American front lines. This both yielded pretty good returns in blunting German offensives AND endangered Allied forces when the pilots couldn't make out exactly what troops or vehicles they were shooting at.

  • @dawnfallon6812
    @dawnfallon6812 Рік тому +6

    Every damned time I see this one. I'm going to go and cry for an hour or so after this. What the medics went through, having to try and save people mauled by the war. Renee being a real person, The Angel of Bastogne. Knowing she won't survive the battle. A friend of mine is a paramedic. He'd never seen the series. I had him watch it just for this episode. He still serves as a medic; he has a far greater appreciation of how important it is.

    • @iammanofnature235
      @iammanofnature235 Рік тому

      Renée Lemaire and Augusta Chiwy, known as the Angels of Bastogne, were volunteer nurses at the aid station of the 20th Armored Infantry Battalion, Combat Command B, 10th Armored Division.

  • @JamesJones-sj4td
    @JamesJones-sj4td Рік тому +1

    SO happy that you all are watching this series!! Great reactions and commentary/questions.

  • @pauldear6660
    @pauldear6660 Рік тому

    The snow was made from a mixture of paper and water and they could adjust the mixture to make different tyes of snow. Also, the winter scenes were filmed in an aircraft hanger and they had to add the cold breath later because it wasn't really cold. The Congo used to be a Belgian colony.

  • @Cerridwen7777
    @Cerridwen7777 Рік тому

    My uncle Milo fought in this battle, outside St. Vith. He was the Staff Sgt of a heavy machine gun squad (like Smokey, who gets shot and paralyzed in this episode), and he and his men got cut encircled and cut off behind enemy lines. He spent from 12/16 to 12/24 on the run in the woods, and eventually got separated from his men. When he finally reached safety on Christmas Eve, he was alone and had trenchfoot and frostbite. He was eventually evac'd to an aid station and then a hospital. Eventually he ended up on POW duty in post-surrender Germany, which was fitting because a huge number of men in the 106th ended up POWs after the Battle of the Bulge. I have the typewritten story he wrote up about that battle when he got home, with his signature on it. It's one of those family heirlooms I will never let go of.

  • @burrichgrrl57
    @burrichgrrl57 Рік тому +1

    I loved Stephen E. Ambrose's books. He said that he always planned to write a book about medics but unfortunately he never got around to it. He said that before the soldiers went into actual battle, medics were generally looked down on because they were non-combatants. Originally many were conscientious objectors. After being in battle though their opinions changed. During the heaviest fighting when others were hunkered down in foxholes the medics were constantly running through the firefight to bring aid. The veterans that Ambrose interviewed often said the bravest man they ever met was their units medic. Wish he wrote that book. I'd love to read it, this is my favorite episode.

  • @Torarz01FIN
    @Torarz01FIN Рік тому +43

    The aim of the german offensive was to split the western ally lines and capture Antwerp port to make the allied supply situation more worse. Hitler believed this would allow germany to make peace with the western allies and focus back to the eastern front against the soviets. What the offensive in the end achieved was to reduce the last german reserves and much of the armor. It was also the last stand of the Luftwaffe. In the end the whole offensive probably fastened the end of the war.

    • @iluvyummywaffles
      @iluvyummywaffles Рік тому +7

      A greats series on UA-cam on The Battle of the Buldge can be found on The Operations Room channel.

    • @Omnipotentmonkey
      @Omnipotentmonkey Рік тому +8

      I mean it was a hail-mary, they had absolutely lost the war at that point, their only prayer at victory was to neutralise the western front, because the US' industrial capacity was unfathomable in comparison. it was a war machine that could just keep on rolling, near-inexhaustibly, as noted by Tadamichi Kuribayashi, who visited America in the late 20s, noted the sheer, absurd volume of vehicles and opined that "America is the last country in the world Japan should ever fight"
      Feasibly either the USA or Russia could have defeated Germany alone, but both pushing from either side, with aid from the UK, Canada and the manpower of liberated nations... the war was essentially over once the Allies got a foothold in Normandy.

    • @Torarz01FIN
      @Torarz01FIN Рік тому +4

      @@Omnipotentmonkey Indeed. Fascinating how Hitler declared war against the US without any thought when they went to war with Japan.

    • @joshuaortiz2031
      @joshuaortiz2031 Рік тому +1

      Even if it succeeded, even if they managed to push the Americans and British out of continental Europe the Germans would have been screwed. The US would have eventually resorted to the use of atomic weapons on central Europe had Germany still been in the fight when the trinity test was successfully completed.

    • @Torarz01FIN
      @Torarz01FIN Рік тому

      @@joshuaortiz2031 yes. But Europe could look a lot more different if it was left to the soviets to liberate it all.

  • @TheREALJohnL
    @TheREALJohnL Рік тому

    One of the best things about this mini series was that every episode, you followed someones perspective (ex. LOST) and you got to see from their eyes exactly what went down and how it effected them. I think thats why this excelled as good as it did cuz you got to learn every piece of Easy Company from the replacements, medics, to the officers in charge.

  • @brianshultz3222
    @brianshultz3222 Рік тому +1

    This is the battle where the 101st became famous. The papers back home kept printing maps, and they showed this little circle of troops surrounded and everyday they would expect that they would be overrun. Screaming Eagles became legendary.

    • @iammanofnature235
      @iammanofnature235 Рік тому

      There is a myth that the 101st was alone in Bastogne, they weren't. Over 100 tanks and tank destroyers of the of CCB\10th Armored Division, CCR\9th Armored Division, and the 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion\10th Armored Division were at Bastogne as well, and they are what kept the German armor from running over and through the 101st.
      Though it is implied that Renée Lemaire and Augusta Chiwy, known as the Angels of Bastogne, were associated with the 101st, they were in reality volunteer nurses at the aid station of the 20th Armored Infantry Battalion, Combat Command B, 10th Armored Division. Renée Lemaire does not appear to have ever met Doc Roe (Eugene Roe) and she did not die in a church.

  • @kapten-awesome
    @kapten-awesome Рік тому

    A thj g that is absolutely incredible is that all of the filming in the woods of bastogne is actually done inside a massive airplane hanger. They made a full forrest inside, and the trees exploding are made from like fome to have them look like spliters. So cool the see the btc on the filming on the show.

  • @SungJaeUng3
    @SungJaeUng3 Рік тому +3

    From the air, it was hard for pilots to be sure that the people they were seeing on the ground were american or german troops. If they were german troops, the pilots wouldn't want them getting the supplies.
    And that general, as the story goes, really did reply to the german general "Nuts!"

  • @Gearzilla117
    @Gearzilla117 Рік тому

    I'll preface by saying i have NOT been in combat but throughput my time in the military ive always appreciated the dedication and knowledge that medics carry with them. they always knew some sort of remedy or tip to help with anything.
    In California my current National Guard unit has been pulled to help fight the wildfires that pop up each year and docs were always one of the most valuable members of each team.

  • @bixito4791
    @bixito4791 Рік тому +1

    It's called the Battle of the Bulge because the German frontline had a bulge west towards the Ardennes.

  • @Maca494
    @Maca494 Рік тому +3

    this episode and the next one are my favourites. this freaking show is so well done and the actors are all so freaking talented.
    the fact that the whole forest wasnt a real forest but a set on some warehouse...cheffs kiss. this show is tremendous
    that "och..you got blood all over my trunks!!!" haahahah Perconte
    Eugene is my favorite. and to this day if in a show or movie they yell "medic", he is the person that comes to my mind

  • @OctoStar20
    @OctoStar20 Рік тому +3

    Ah yes, the episode that made me go from "This show is really really good" to "This is one of the best shows I have ever seen"

  • @tharukaepaarachchi814
    @tharukaepaarachchi814 Рік тому +1

    I just finished this show few days ago for the very first time. Including this one and the next couple of episodes are my favourite(6-9). One of the best shows I have ever seen 😊

  • @boyscouts83712
    @boyscouts83712 Рік тому +2

    my Grandfather was driving thru Bastonge and ended up trap with the 101st Airborne during the Battle of the Buldge.

  • @afrocomber
    @afrocomber Рік тому +1

    There are some great 'Making of' featurettes on the DVD/BluRay box sets that are well worth watching. The stuff on set design for the Ardenne forest, especially the 'exploding' trees is really fascinating!

  • @ktvindicare
    @ktvindicare Рік тому +6

    There's a point in this episode where I just CAN'T put myself in the shoes of the soldiers in this episode. The lack of sleep from constantly being shelled, the constant fear of what is coming next through the dark or the fog. The lack of food in your stomach and what little you do get is shitty scraps of whatever they can find. The cold, the never ending CONSTANT cold that leaves you wet and miserable. The smell of dead bodies, and fresh shit. The being half deaf (or completely deaf) from all of the gunfire and explosions. And that's just what's on the physical side of things. That's before you get into the state of mind of what you've seen and experienced. It's just too much. How could anyone be in a situation like that and come out ok?
    And yet despite all of that. Fucking Winters is still doing his best to follow Army regulations as the CO of the Battalion by making sure he's clean shaven every day.

  • @kapten-awesome
    @kapten-awesome Рік тому

    The actor playing Nixon did a film diary throughout the filming. They had a 2 week army camp before the filming started so they could get a glimpse of what they real guys went through. And a lot of the guys atill meet and hang out with each other, they have said that they made a real bond to each other just like the real guys did.

  • @athanakop7775
    @athanakop7775 Рік тому +1

    14:00 that particular foxhole still exist. And years later Walter ' Smokey' Gordon revisited and retrived the coffee mug. And it was Moe who jumped into the foxhole and grab the machine gun.

  • @jefruscione6214
    @jefruscione6214 Рік тому +1

    I remember watching this show when it came out and these guys are obviously juts as affected by it as I was...it's the most compelling TV that I have ever watched, without exception.

  • @distillmyheart2455
    @distillmyheart2455 Рік тому +3

    I finished this series a couple weeks ago. And it was either after this episode on the next, but I had to take a break for two days to get my mind right and keep watching it. It’s a hard watch but worth it in the end. Cheers.

  • @gtaclevelandcity
    @gtaclevelandcity Рік тому

    If you wanna know something crazy, they filmed all these scenes in the woods on a giant indoor sound stage.

  • @batmanslarynx
    @batmanslarynx Рік тому +1

    I completely forgot about this episode, I probably washed it from my memory because it is absolutely devastating.
    That feeling of helplessness, that actor portrayed it so well.

  • @BritBox777
    @BritBox777 Рік тому

    My favourite episode of the show. Stuck with me for many years.

  • @NartOfficial371
    @NartOfficial371 2 місяці тому

    While it was never documented that Doc ever met Renee Lemair, the scenes with her are an awesome tribute to her. The part where Doc uses her cloth to patch up babes hand always makes me tear up.

  • @lauramartin7675
    @lauramartin7675 Рік тому

    Joyeux Noel is a 2005 movie based on the christmas truce in 1914. It's a really good representation of each country involved and even a little foreshadowing of what would come in WWII.

  • @picktrees4206
    @picktrees4206 Рік тому +21

    also, the planes shot at them because they ran out into the open where the german's were also facing, the planes shot at them to get them back into cover, they werent gonna be dropping the supplies on the line

    • @LykosShadowmane
      @LykosShadowmane Рік тому +1

      I don't believe this. Why in the world would it be the fighter escorts' job to get the men back to their position by spraying them with machine gun fire?

    • @picktrees4206
      @picktrees4206 Рік тому

      @@LykosShadowmane i wouldnt say that was their sole role during this escort but they probably saw the smoke and thought they need to get them back before they get shot at by germans

  • @-Valyrian-
    @-Valyrian- Рік тому +7

    I'm sure Omaha beach and Bastogne were hell too, but from Dan Carlin's amazing Hardcore History podcasts on WWI and the Eastern front and Pacific theater in WWII, it sounds like many of those battles were actually much worse. It's incredible how many men went through all that and managed to live relatively normal lives afterwards, rather than all being broken by those horrors.

    • @kennethdawson7774
      @kennethdawson7774 Рік тому +1

      Yes, many of the Eastern Front, Chinese area and Pacific Island battles were "worse", in terms of total dead as a percentage of the men fighting and the grinding nature of house-to-house, foxhole to foxhole and "to the last man" combat.
      The Bulge (or the Second Battle of the Ardennes Forest - the first being the 1940 invasion of France) gets more attention in the U.S. since it was the largest initial defeat of whole U.S. divisions in our country's history and the actions of the defenders of Bastone and the counter-attack by the Third Army broke the back of the last German Armies in the West, paving the way for German defeat along with the ongoing rolling offensives the Soviets had churning away in the East. Mention should also go the the British Commonwealth Forces who held the line to the north of these battles and gave their American allies time to regroup.

  • @scottthomas4779
    @scottthomas4779 Рік тому +1

    I saw a documentary that interviewed an American 101st solider and a German soldier who were there fighting and the American soldier asked the German why didn't you boys just overrun us? The German replied "we thought there were thousands of you, it wasn't until after the war that we found out how few of you there actually were". If that isn't a testament to how hard those airborne boys fought then I don't know what is.

    • @iammanofnature235
      @iammanofnature235 Рік тому

      The 101st was not alone in Bastogne. The tanks and tank destroyers of Combat Command B\10th Armored Division, Combat Command Reserve\9th Armored Division, and the 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion\10th Armored Division were also in Bastogne and destroyed over 200 German armored vehicles, stopping the armored thrust into the city. There were many other units in Bastogne as well, including the all-black 969th Artillery Battalion who were equipped with 155mm howitzers.
      Though it is implied that Renée Lemaire and Augusta Chiwy, known as the Angels of Bastogne, were associated with the 101st, they were in reality volunteer nurses at the aid station of the 20th Armored Infantry Battalion, Combat Command B, 10th Armored Division. Renée Lemaire does not appear to have ever met Doc Roe (Eugene Roe) and she did not die in a church.

  • @DarkxSonxOfxDathomir
    @DarkxSonxOfxDathomir Рік тому +1

    Calvin every time there was an injury this ep “SPLINTERS” 😂😂😂

  • @soflyedits322
    @soflyedits322 Рік тому +2

    i really got into learning about WW2 when captain america first came out. just an interesting fact about and the battle of the bulge - this was germany's last big effort to turn the tide of the war. they threw everything they could at the western front, they had already started to retreat out of the east at this point. when the americans landed in france, germany was already losing in the east, the battle of the bulge was germany's last hope to push the american troops out of europe. the paratroopers of the 101st airbourne and their ability to endure everything you saw in this episode are the reason we're able to celebrate V-E day.

  • @Stryk3r300
    @Stryk3r300 Рік тому

    Best line of the reaction
    “This production is amazing….this is television in 2001”
    Goes to show that tv today just isn’t the same.

  • @jackson857
    @jackson857 Рік тому +2

    27:46 They actually shot a lot of the snow covered forest scenes in a giant warehouse, or maybe it was an aircraft hangar, anyway it actually was just like you're saying, really hot inside this giant space with fake trees and fake snow and stuff blowing up.

    • @FrenchieQc
      @FrenchieQc Рік тому

      A sound stage in a giant hangar, they used about 300,000 lbs of shredded paper and plastic pellets to replicate the snow, and the actors were sweating balls with all that gear on, they had to have their faces wiped between takes to dry off the sweat.

  • @flyflorida2001
    @flyflorida2001 4 місяці тому

    Belleau Wood was the famous Christmas truce in WW1. Garth Brooks has a great song about it

  • @RenThraysk
    @RenThraysk Рік тому +1

    Sabaton released the song Christmas Truce a few years ago. Tells the story of the 1914 Christmas Truce. The music video is well worth a watch.

  • @roguechevelle
    @roguechevelle Рік тому +2

    I'm so glad you guys are doing this series. This is a great episode maybe my second favorite of the show. The next episode, episode 7 is my favorite of the series. It's just so well done.

  • @ZaberFangAT
    @ZaberFangAT Рік тому +2

    You're right that it's a great Doctor Who moment, but it's actually a WW1 soldier, and he just says "Did you say... one?"

  • @ryanhampson673
    @ryanhampson673 Рік тому +1

    The Battle of the bulge used up the last of Germans forces on the western front. They deployed virtually all their available vehicles and the last of their fuel for the attack. The goal for Germany was to break through all the way to the ocean to cut off Allied supplies but Germany was just spent this late in the war.

  • @joshuawells835
    @joshuawells835 Рік тому +1

    The two great one-lines of WWII, typically toward the Germans when demanding a surrender
    •Battle of the Bulge, the Americans replied back, "Nuts!" Basically "Go to Hell!"
    •Evacuation at Dunkirk, the British replied back, "But if not." It's a biblical reference from the Daniel 3:18, when Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego are about to thrown into the fiery furnace, they tell King Nebuchadnezzar, "The God we serve is able to deliver us from [[the furnace]] ... but if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up." Basically "We will not bow to Hitler and serve the Nazis."

  • @bennickell8477
    @bennickell8477 Рік тому

    "Farthest from your mind is the thought of falling back. In fact it isn’t there at all. And so you dig your hole carefully and deeply, and wait, not for that mythical super man, but for the enemy you had beaten twice before and will again. You look first to the left, then right, at your buddies also preparing. You feel confident with Bill over there. You know you can depend on him.”

  • @Brian25091
    @Brian25091 Рік тому +2

    A lot of the shots in this episode and the next one were shot in a plane hanger. They made all the trees and blew them to hell, made them out of this material that makes the trees look ultra realistic and makes them have a splinter effect without injuring the actors and crew. Really cool stuff.

  • @codefreak8
    @codefreak8 Рік тому +1

    I know that my grandfather was at the Battle of the Bulge in some capacity but he died long before I was born so I don't know much more than that about what he did in WWII.

  • @kbob9625
    @kbob9625 Рік тому +5

    This and the next episode are intense as all hell.

  • @caras2004
    @caras2004 11 місяців тому

    General McAuliffe was known not to cuss around anyone, especially his staff.
    When he said, "Nuts!"It was the closest to saying F U

  • @krisfrederick5001
    @krisfrederick5001 Рік тому +2

    Imagine being the only one in battle trying to save lives, while literally everyone around you is doing their best to end them. I dated a nurse once, it takes a special kind of human being to go through what they do. "There's a LOT of shit and it's heading this way" Well, now it's here. Currahee ♠

  • @trottheblackdog
    @trottheblackdog Рік тому

    The Battle of the Bulge was essentially a surprise German counterattack of huge proportions. They pushed the Allies back almost to France. This created a bulge in the front line, where the battle got its name.

  • @Awesomeness42102
    @Awesomeness42102 Рік тому +5

    Best episode in the series imo

  • @Stryk3r300
    @Stryk3r300 Рік тому

    This is my favorite episode, ironically, it’s the most brutal and graphic. Eugene is my favorite character! GO MEDIC!