In September 1944 an act of humanity took place in the middle of the most deadly war in human history. Across a mine field lay a wounded American soldier that had been left behind. Lieutenant Friedrich Lengfeld was the commander of a platoon of Germans. He ordered his men not to shoot anyone going to the assistance of the wounded American. When it became obvious that no one was coming to help the wounded man Lt. Lengfeld gathered up some first aid supplies and a couple of volunteers and headed out to help the American soldier. The soldier was treated and survived but Lt. Friedrich Lengfeld tripped a mine and was killed. Today, you can visit Lt. Lengfeld's grave where you will see a small monument near it with a plaque written in German and English that reads, "No greater love hath a man that he giveth his life for his enemy." The monument and plaque were placed there by the U.S. 22nd Infantry Division.❤
Such a moving story - a reminder that even in the midst of war, there were those who could rise above and show compassion for another human being in need.
9:50 The hatred towards the women who slept with Germans stems from that a lot of them did collaborate with the Germans, giving information that resulted in the deaths of loyal Dutch people. One woman, for example, lost her father and three of her brothers due to such collaboration, so I'm sure a lot of Dutch people would likely have wanted the women executed, just like the male collaborators were. 15:25 Just some info on Winters (the guy who didn’t get his helmet shot off) and Nixon (the guy who did). Winters came from a poor family and needed to work his way through college. Nixon came from a rich family and attended Yale for two years before leaving to enlist in the Army (this will become a minor point in a future episode). Winters was a monkish introvert who read all the infantry manuals he could get his hands on. Nixon was a party animal who loved to drink. Winters was a field commander, while Nixon was in Intelligence, which meant that he helped translate the data received from the field into information that people could use. The pair met up during Officer Candidate School, and their friendship started from there.
by the time the Americans had reached the Netherlands, they had been under German occupation for years. The Germans were starving them and working them to death to feed their war machine.
@@Pedrogog He just wouldn't be assigned to the airborne but he could still be an officer. There are plenty of colorblind officers but they're limited in the specialties they can be assigned.
No. Anyone who pays attention to the show knows that there are two separate lights. One on top to get ready, one on bottom to jump. If he were colorblind, he’d still see the top light come on to get everyone ready. He’d still see the top light go off and the bottom light go on to tell everyone to jump. It was simply fear and he just needed someone to give him a nudge out the door.
The girl on the roadside with the baby , they weren't looking at her with disdain. They want to help her but they cant do anything all they can do is look and give her a bit of food.
another great react! Thank you! I know these can be very stressful to watch. BoB is wonderfully acted and directed! There are a lot of GREAT episodes coming!!!
Market Garden failed for several reasons. At the top of the list is that it required perfect timing. The British paratroopers actually held their position twice as long as they were supposed to but the relief column was still too late. There was also a shortage of troop carrying planes which delayed reinforcements. The Brits were dropped 8 miles from their target bridge because of concerns about anti-aircraft positions defending it. The operation was hastily planned. Commanders leading the Operation didn't get their orders until September 12 with the operation due to begin September 17th. I know we have Operation Maps for all our major battles but I don't think one exists for Market Garden. Another key factor that led to its failure was the belief that the German Army was a spent force. Montgomery didn't expect the level of ferocity with which the Germans fought. He also dismissed the presence of German Panzer units in the area. There were several leaders involved with Market Garden that questioned the probability that it would succeed. Field Marshall Montgomery was a bit of an egomaniac. It was well known that he wanted Eisenhower's job and was involved in a rivalry with another egomaniac, American General George Patton. It's anyone's guess how much all this had to do with all the errors that led to the Battle's failure.😮🤔
@@Markus117d In war failure means men's lives will be lost, which is why leadership must weigh the probability of failure against the probability of success. Nimitz, Spruance, and Fletcher did this at Midway. They looked at every element of the battle plan. Patton and Bradley were no different. Now compare that to Montgomery and MG or MacArthur's defense of the Philippines and what you find are 2 men who ignored certain facts and lost because their egos got in the way. Admiral King's ego and stubborness cost the lives of over 1000 men and 500 ships early in America's entry into the War because he didn't want to be told what to do by Great Britain. The pattern of failure is almost always the same. It is one thing to miss certain elements of a battle; it is quite another to dismiss them altogether. As for "almost" succeeding; if you are jumping across a 1000 foot cliff and you almost make it across you're still dead.
Quit looking at me like that! Am I alright??" Is one of my favorite moments. Between Winters and Nix, the love an care is is there. Not bad for Nix, with bullet holes in his helmet, having never fired his weapon in combat. ♠
Steph & Liam, great reaction! Thank you for sharing with us. Love to see you while watching, and your thoughts & interpretations during & after. You’re fantastic!
Another enjoyable reaction, guys. The superior production of this series really honors the story of these brave men. For us yanks, we refer to them as our greatest generation; however, none of this would've happened if it hadn't been for "the few" who fought and won the battle of Britain. We owe a debt of gratitude to the generation of brave Americans, British, and Soviets who saved the world from tyranny in the 1940s.
Intelligence reports for Market Garden underestimated the quantity and quality of German units in this part of the Netherlands. At Arnhem, the drop zone for a British Airborne division, two SS Panzer divisions had recently arrived for refitting. They jumped into a hornet's nest and most of the division was killed, wounded or captured.
Even in modern operations Intel can be spotty, incomplete or downright wrong, even with the radios, satellites and real-time datalink of now. I can’t even imagine how difficult raw intel was then to gather, coalesce, analyze and try to disseminate something actionable from. And that’s assuming that by the time you’ve done that the intel isn’t weeks old and irrelevant.
Hey Liam and Steph....All the episodes are heavy but all create this epic journey of what these men encountered in Normandy, Holland, Belgium and Germany as the war came to an end. Looking forward to your reaction to Ep 5.......🦘
Just a heads up, there's an unofficial Episode 11 called 'We stand alone" a Band of Brothers documentary. It is really worth watching. I never read the Book, but I'm pretty sure the guy asking to be told when the green light comes on, was colour blind.
There's fairly decent movie made in the 70s about "Operation Market Garden" called a Bridge Too Far". Goes into a lot more detail about what all the units did not just the 101st. If you like to read the movie is based off of a book with the same name that is really good if you're a history buff.
Green light. Looks like he was red green colour blind. if that was Hershey chocolate he still hasn't tasted chocolate. For 'Operation Market Garden' you may want to watch the 1977 film A Bridge Too Far; contains many famous actors of the day
I took a math course with a guy who was a US Army sniper in Vietnam. He said the first time they came under attack, he dove for the ground. His sergeant kicked him in the butt and asked him who he thought he was going to be able to hit lying prone.
When the officer told him to tap him when the green light came on, it's because he's color blind. He can't see the difference between red and green. But if that was found out when he tried to join up, they wouldn't have let him fight. He would have been stamped "4F" meaning he failed his physical, and can't join the army. Many young men lied to get to go.
7:15 Someone else mentioned the cameo in the comments here but I think that's the real Babe Heffron sitting at the table waving the flag while the soldier is sitting down kissing the woman. If my memory holds, he was present when they were filming the scene and asked if he wanted to be a part of it. Maybe someone can confirm or correct me.
I love the scene with the British tanker and the American SSG Martin as it is a true reflection of how both armies typically fight The British are very deliberate, tactical and cautious where as the American is like he is right there shoot him (goes around doctrine) a very much aggressive decisive F this we will do it live style Very great writing if you have ever been with either unit
The British and Free Polish Airborne landed on the 1st Waffen-SS "Leibstandarte" Panzer Division and the 2nd Waffen-SS "Das Reich" Panzer Division, the 82nd Airborne landed on the General Kurt Student's 1st Air Army of Fallschirmjaegers and part of the 9th Waffen-SS "Hohenstaufen" Panzergrenadier Division, and the 101st Airborne landed near the 2nd Panzer Division and several Volksgrenadier Battalions.
If youre really liking that series might be good yo consider reafting to the pacific someday, preety much the sister series of bob all the same producers and also based on the actual vets portrayed accounts
Part of the problem with Market Garden was that it was over-ambitious. The plan called for rapid capture of the bridges and then exploitation by armor but the Germans managed to blow some of the bridges up and the armor was late. The other problem was that Allied intelligence of German strength in the area was dead wrong. The Germans had moved 2 divisions of SS Armor into the area where U.S. paratroops landed. The 1st British Airborne took the worst of it, landing right in the middle of the Germans. Daring plan but it started falling apart almost right away.
A glider carrying a British Airborne command post crashed near Field Marshal Walther Model's headquarters. The Germans captured detailed schematics of the operation and were able to swiftly counter the Allies' moves.
Bull can't move back, the camera wouldn't be able to see them properly for the scene, it's just a compromise made to be able to show the story on screen.. lol
Watch the 1977 film A Bridge Too Far for more detailed and overall view of Operation Market Garden. Packed with stars, it's difficult to work out who's NOT in the cast of the film, from actors of the 50', 60' and 70's. It's a long film, over 2 hours but a good one.
This is going to sound mean, but if you meet an older Brit who tells you Montgomery was the best allied general understand that is based on old info. MI5 documents not declassified until the '80s about the breaking the German Enigma code make things like his insane victory at El Alamein look mortally brilliant not god-like. You can either explain that to him or say "Market Garden" and walk away.
Montgomery wasn't in command of, nor did he plan, Operation Market Garden. That was down to the American, Lt Gen Lewis Brereton, whom Eisenhower had appointed to command the 'First Allied Airbourne Army' which was tasked with carrying out Market Garden. The British Lt Gen Fredrick (Boy) Browning, who actually had seniority, was appointed as his deputy. Montgomery was no more responsible for the outcome of Market Garden than Eisenhower was.
You could also point out that Market garden nearly worked. And even though it failed in it's objectives it did manage to liberate much of the Netherlands. Although it did also force a temporary regrouping and reset of allied war efforts..
In September 1944 an act of humanity took place in the middle of the most deadly war in human history. Across a mine field lay a wounded American soldier that had been left behind. Lieutenant Friedrich Lengfeld was the commander of a platoon of Germans. He ordered his men not to shoot anyone going to the assistance of the wounded American. When it became obvious that no one was coming to help the wounded man Lt. Lengfeld gathered up some first aid supplies and a couple of volunteers and headed out to help the American soldier. The soldier was treated and survived but Lt. Friedrich Lengfeld tripped a mine and was killed.
Today, you can visit Lt. Lengfeld's grave where you will see a small monument near it with a plaque written in German and English that reads, "No greater love hath a man that he giveth his life for his enemy." The monument and plaque were placed there by the U.S. 22nd Infantry Division.❤
Such a moving story - a reminder that even in the midst of war, there were those who could rise above and show compassion for another human being in need.
9:50 The hatred towards the women who slept with Germans stems from that a lot of them did collaborate with the Germans, giving information that resulted in the deaths of loyal Dutch people. One woman, for example, lost her father and three of her brothers due to such collaboration, so I'm sure a lot of Dutch people would likely have wanted the women executed, just like the male collaborators were.
15:25 Just some info on Winters (the guy who didn’t get his helmet shot off) and Nixon (the guy who did). Winters came from a poor family and needed to work his way through college. Nixon came from a rich family and attended Yale for two years before leaving to enlist in the Army (this will become a minor point in a future episode). Winters was a monkish introvert who read all the infantry manuals he could get his hands on. Nixon was a party animal who loved to drink. Winters was a field commander, while Nixon was in Intelligence, which meant that he helped translate the data received from the field into information that people could use. The pair met up during Officer Candidate School, and their friendship started from there.
by the time the Americans had reached the Netherlands, they had been under German occupation for years. The Germans were starving them and working them to death to feed their war machine.
The reason he wanted to be tapped when the green light came on was because he was color blind.
I think he must have to lie about it, otherwise he would never be a lieutenant.
@Pedrogog True, that's why he wouldn't tell the soldier why he wanted to be tapped.
@@Pedrogog He just wouldn't be assigned to the airborne but he could still be an officer. There are plenty of colorblind officers but they're limited in the specialties they can be assigned.
No. Anyone who pays attention to the show knows that there are two separate lights. One on top to get ready, one on bottom to jump. If he were colorblind, he’d still see the top light come on to get everyone ready. He’d still see the top light go off and the bottom light go on to tell everyone to jump. It was simply fear and he just needed someone to give him a nudge out the door.
@translatorjoe He was colorblind, he likely did his best to remember which light was which but as a good leader he's not leaving anything to chance.
The American's Felt Sorry for that Woman along the Road, That's why they gave Her some Food
Not to mention the innocent baby of hers.
The girl on the roadside with the baby , they weren't looking at her with disdain. They want to help her but they cant do anything all they can do is look and give her a bit of food.
another great react! Thank you! I know these can be very stressful to watch. BoB is wonderfully acted and directed! There are a lot of GREAT episodes coming!!!
Market Garden failed for several reasons. At the top of the list is that it required perfect timing. The British paratroopers actually held their position twice as long as they were supposed to but the relief column was still too late. There was also a shortage of troop carrying planes which delayed reinforcements. The Brits were dropped 8 miles from their target bridge because of concerns about anti-aircraft positions defending it.
The operation was hastily planned. Commanders leading the Operation didn't get their orders until September 12 with the operation due to begin September 17th. I know we have Operation Maps for all our major battles but I don't think one exists for Market Garden.
Another key factor that led to its failure was the belief that the German Army was a spent force. Montgomery didn't expect the level of ferocity with which the Germans fought. He also dismissed the presence of German Panzer units in the area. There were several leaders involved with Market Garden that questioned the probability that it would succeed.
Field Marshall Montgomery was a bit of an egomaniac. It was well known that he wanted Eisenhower's job and was involved in a rivalry with another egomaniac, American General George Patton. It's anyone's guess how much all this had to do with all the errors that led to the Battle's failure.😮🤔
It very nearly succeeded though, and it's much easier to criticise in hindsight, a war will be very difficult to win without ever taking some risks..
It did come close to complete success, as they say, one bridge too far.
@@Markus117d In war failure means men's lives will be lost, which is why leadership must weigh the probability of failure against the probability of success. Nimitz, Spruance, and Fletcher did this at Midway. They looked at every element of the battle plan. Patton and Bradley were no different. Now compare that to Montgomery and MG or MacArthur's defense of the Philippines and what you find are 2 men who ignored certain facts and lost because their egos got in the way. Admiral King's ego and stubborness cost the lives of over 1000 men and 500 ships early in America's entry into the War because he didn't want to be told what to do by Great Britain. The pattern of failure is almost always the same. It is one thing to miss certain elements of a battle; it is quite another to dismiss them altogether.
As for "almost" succeeding; if you are jumping across a 1000 foot cliff and you almost make it across you're still dead.
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The chocolate bar was my favorite scene in this show.
Quit looking at me like that! Am I alright??" Is one of my favorite moments. Between Winters and Nix, the love an care is is there. Not bad for Nix, with bullet holes in his helmet, having never fired his weapon in combat. ♠
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Steph & Liam, great reaction! Thank you for sharing with us. Love to see you while watching, and your thoughts & interpretations during & after. You’re fantastic!
Another enjoyable reaction, guys. The superior production of this series really honors the story of these brave men. For us yanks, we refer to them as our greatest generation; however, none of this would've happened if it hadn't been for "the few" who fought and won the battle of Britain. We owe a debt of gratitude to the generation of brave Americans, British, and Soviets who saved the world from tyranny in the 1940s.
Winters: "Never put yourself in a position to take from these men"
Buck: "Alright...I'll throw left handed then..." 🎯
Intelligence reports for Market Garden underestimated the quantity and quality of German units in this part of the Netherlands. At Arnhem, the drop zone for a British Airborne division, two SS Panzer divisions had recently arrived for refitting. They jumped into a hornet's nest and most of the division was killed, wounded or captured.
Even in modern operations Intel can be spotty, incomplete or downright wrong, even with the radios, satellites and real-time datalink of now. I can’t even imagine how difficult raw intel was then to gather, coalesce, analyze and try to disseminate something actionable from. And that’s assuming that by the time you’ve done that the intel isn’t weeks old and irrelevant.
Hey Liam and Steph....All the episodes are heavy but all create this epic journey of what these men encountered in Normandy, Holland, Belgium and Germany as the war came to an end.
Looking forward to your reaction to Ep 5.......🦘
Just a heads up, there's an unofficial Episode 11 called 'We stand alone" a Band of Brothers documentary. It is really worth watching. I never read the Book, but I'm pretty sure the guy asking to be told when the green light comes on, was colour blind.
There's fairly decent movie made in the 70s about "Operation Market Garden" called a Bridge Too Far". Goes into a lot more detail about what all the units did not just the 101st. If you like to read the movie is based off of a book with the same name that is really good if you're a history buff.
Green light. Looks like he was red green colour blind.
if that was Hershey chocolate he still hasn't tasted chocolate.
For 'Operation Market Garden' you may want to watch the 1977 film A Bridge Too Far; contains many famous actors of the day
Yeah American chocolate, i was thinking the same thing lol
I took a math course with a guy who was a US Army sniper in Vietnam. He said the first time they came under attack, he dove for the ground. His sergeant kicked him in the butt and asked him who he thought he was going to be able to hit lying prone.
Great reaction. It gets crazier.
When the officer told him to tap him when the green light came on, it's because he's color blind. He can't see the difference between red and green. But if that was found out when he tried to join up, they wouldn't have let him fight. He would have been stamped "4F" meaning he failed his physical, and can't join the army. Many young men lied to get to go.
7:15 Someone else mentioned the cameo in the comments here but I think that's the real Babe Heffron sitting at the table waving the flag while the soldier is sitting down kissing the woman. If my memory holds, he was present when they were filming the scene and asked if he wanted to be a part of it. Maybe someone can confirm or correct me.
2:19 - It’s more about the replacements dying at a higher/faster rate. They didn’t have the same levels of training and experience as Easy.
Don't recall the budget for this series, but I do know that it was the largest budget ever spent, at that time. By a large margin.
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I love the scene with the British tanker and the American SSG Martin as it is a true reflection of how both armies typically fight
The British are very deliberate, tactical and cautious where as the American is like he is right there shoot him (goes around doctrine) a very much aggressive decisive F this we will do it live style
Very great writing if you have ever been with either unit
In reality, 30th Corps tankers would have been: "Tiger? Where?" and blasted anything that moved.
Holland was occupied. Operation Market Garden dropped 3 airborne divisions behind enemy lines.
“Kids and old men.” The Brits and the Poles landed practically on top of two SS panzer divisions.
The British and Free Polish Airborne landed on the 1st Waffen-SS "Leibstandarte" Panzer Division and the 2nd Waffen-SS "Das Reich" Panzer Division, the 82nd Airborne landed on the General Kurt Student's 1st Air Army of Fallschirmjaegers and part of the 9th Waffen-SS "Hohenstaufen" Panzergrenadier Division, and the 101st Airborne landed near the 2nd Panzer Division and several Volksgrenadier Battalions.
@5:52 He's colourblind. If he's discovered, he's out of the Airborne! 😟
If youre really liking that series might be good yo consider reafting to the pacific someday, preety much the sister series of bob all the same producers and also based on the actual vets portrayed accounts
Part of the problem with Market Garden was that it was over-ambitious. The plan called for rapid capture of the bridges and then exploitation by armor but the Germans managed to blow some of the bridges up and the armor was late. The other problem was that Allied intelligence of German strength in the area was dead wrong. The Germans had moved 2 divisions of SS Armor into the area where U.S. paratroops landed. The 1st British Airborne took the worst of it, landing right in the middle of the Germans. Daring plan but it started falling apart almost right away.
A glider carrying a British Airborne command post crashed near Field Marshal Walther Model's headquarters. The Germans captured detailed schematics of the operation and were able to swiftly counter the Allies' moves.
You guys going to watch The Pacific after this?
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Bull can't move back, the camera wouldn't be able to see them properly for the scene, it's just a compromise made to be able to show the story on screen.. lol
Watch the 1977 film A Bridge Too Far for more detailed and overall view of Operation Market Garden. Packed with stars, it's difficult to work out who's NOT in the cast of the film, from actors of the 50', 60' and 70's. It's a long film, over 2 hours but a good one.
It's a 2nd town the Germans pulled back to the 2nd one
That is why you wear a helmet. lol
TBH of those women I don't how many slept with the Germans of their own will, some didn't have much of a choice.
Did you spot the cameo from the real Babe Heffron?
Now they know one who will survive the war, 👏👏👏
This is going to sound mean, but if you meet an older Brit who tells you Montgomery was the best allied general understand that is based on old info. MI5 documents not declassified until the '80s about the breaking the German Enigma code make things like his insane victory at El Alamein look mortally brilliant not god-like. You can either explain that to him or say "Market Garden" and walk away.
Montgomery wasn't in command of, nor did he plan, Operation Market Garden. That was down to the American, Lt Gen Lewis Brereton, whom Eisenhower had appointed to command the 'First Allied Airbourne Army' which was tasked with carrying out Market Garden. The British Lt Gen Fredrick (Boy) Browning, who actually had seniority, was appointed as his deputy. Montgomery was no more responsible for the outcome of Market Garden than Eisenhower was.
You could also point out that Market garden nearly worked. And even though it failed in it's objectives it did manage to liberate much of the Netherlands. Although it did also force a temporary regrouping and reset of allied war efforts..
The 101st and 82nd were under British Command during this Operation ! It was a Mess
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