BAND OF BROTHERS | Part 6: Bastogne | First Time Watching | TV Reaction
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- Опубліковано 7 лип 2022
- Thank you for joining me for episode 6 of Band of Brothers:
It's the dead of winter, and Easy Company find themselves in the Belgian forest attempting to fend-off frostbite, hunger and battle fatigue.
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Original Show: Band of Brothers
The story of Easy Company, 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division from 1942 to the end of World War II. A collection of fifty portraits illustrated by archive footage and recounted in voice.
First episode date: 9 September 2001
Adapted from: Band of Brothers
Directed by: Phil Alden Robinson; Richard Loncraine; Mikael Salomon; David Nutter; Tom Hanks; David Leland; David Frankel; Tony To
Producers: Gary Goetzman; Tony To; Erik Bork; Erik Jendresen; Stephen E. Ambrose; Mary Richards
Budget: $125 million
Written by: Erik Jendresen; Tom Hanks; John Orloff; E. Max Frye; Graham Yost; Bruce C. McKenna; Erik Bork
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The Belgian nurse who died in the church was Renee Lamaire. Today she's known as "Angel of Bastogne". she had evacuated 6 wounded men and was going back for a 7th when the church was destroyed.
This is from the book: “Lieutenant Foley had special praise for Pvt. Eugene Roe. “He was there when he was needed, and how he got ‘there’ you often wondered. He never received recognition for his bravery, his heroic servicing of the wounded. I recommended him for a Silver Star after a devastating fire-fight when his exploits were typically outstanding. Maybe I didn’t use the proper words and phrases, perhaps Lieutenant Dike didn’t approve, or somewhere along the line it was cast aside. I don’t know. I never knew except that if any man who struggled in the snow and the cold, in the many attacks through the open and through the woods, ever deserved such a medal, it was our medic, Gene Roe.”
Gordon, the soldier who got shot through the shoulder and was paralyzed eventually made a full recovery and, in fact, years later went back to Bastogne. While on a tour he found his old foxhole and discovered it still had the coffee cup he dropped in it. At least this is the story I've heard shared.
My Grandfather was in Bastogne. He was in Company C of Patton's 3rd Army. It wasn't over when they came in. The Battle of the Bulge lasted a few more weeks. He lost his coat in a bombing. He was freezing and as it so happened, his brother-my Grand-Uncle was also there and took a coat off a fellow, deceased, soldier and sent it to him by runner. My Grandfather NEVER talked about the war. When a war movie would play on the TV, he would walk out. When the GREAT movie Patton came out, my Mother wanted him to watch it. He said "I don't need to watch it, I lived it.". He never got a good night's sleep the rest of his life. I remember him pacing the halls in the middle of the night. He was the best man I've ever known. He came back, raised 4 successful kids and was well respected in the community and never complained. He was also the toughest man I've ever known. He passed when I was 13. I wish I could talk to him about the war. Only after he passed and we got his war record and he got 3 Purple Hearts, a Bronze Star and even a Silver Star!!! Just like everyone else that was in Bastogne, he HATED cold weather. He would curse it up and down and we never knew why.
There is a photo of Babe Heffron visiting John Julian's grave in Luxembourg in 2004, sixty years later. "You never get over something like that," he wrote.
Blithe 'dying' in 1948 wasn't 'creative license' by the script writer(s), but an error by the men of Easy who had never seen him after Carentan and believed he passed.
Renée Lemaire was a nurse who was visiting her parents for Christmas 1944. Her fiancé was a Jewish man, who was taken by the Gestapo in Brussels earlier in the year. When Bastogne became surrounded, Renée volunteered at the American aid station. On Christmas Eve 1944, the Germans bombed Bastogne. The building where the aid station was located was hit by a bomb, and caught fire. Renée managed to rescue 6 people from the building. When she went back in to get more, the building collapsed, and she was killed. Her body was recovered, and the Airborne returned her to her parents, wrapped in a parachute.
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You commented on how, just looking at the scenery, you could "feel the cold." All of the Ardennes Forest were actually shot indoors, on a giant soundstage, with fake trees and snow, and the set was refrigerated so that the actors' breath would show up on camera.
Everyone always has the same reaction to the general being unhelpful but you have to keep in mind he's in the same boat as the rest of them. He can't magic up another division to reinforce them, he can't pull supplies out of his ass he doesn't have. They're encircled and entirely cut off. The only way to get supplies in is to air drop them and, as he said, the fog makes that impossible. He can move men around from one area to the other but they're just as thin and spread out everywhere else. It sucks to hear but there really isn't anything he can do to help them.
In 2016 we were visiting our daughter and her family in Germany, where her husband was stationed with the U.S. Air Force. For my birthday she bought tickets to the Band of Brothers actor's reunion in Bastogne where I met many of the men from this production including Dale Dye and the man who played Doc Roe. Shane Taylor is a lovely, intelligent man and his portrayal of Doc Roe was awesome. Doc Roe's grandson designed a challenge coin for Easy Company that's very beautiful and my daughter got one for me.
Just so you know that story about the reply to the German Commander saying simply “NUTS” is 100% real! Love that!
Usually you are supposed to have one medic per platoon (about 30 to 40 guys), however medics were in short supply. There bravery is dang near unparalleled
I was a Navy Hospital Corpsman (Medic) in Vietnam (3 Tours). I had 4months of basic medical training and two months of combat medical training when I was assigned to the Marines. The army medical training is similar. According to the Geneva Conventions Medics are not to carry offensive weapons. During times not in combat the medic is supposed to give first aid lessons to his whole platoon frequently. So anyone can take over if the medic is killed. They can carry a pistol for their own protection and the protection of the one they are working on. Those two medics in the same fox hole should never be close to each other during combat (That’s one of the first things you learn). One of my tours in Vietnam I was on a ship on the Saigon River in the Mekong Delta. Me and another corpsman were the only medical personnel on board. We were taught that during combat conditions we were to be on opposite ends of the ship. The 2 corpsmen we replaced were together during a fire fight and they both got killed.. You never remember all the ones that you have treated but you never forget the ones you can’t save.
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My uncle fought in this battle near St. Vith. He and his men got cut off and had to evade behind enemy lines in the snow and cold from December 16th until Christmas. Milo finally made it back to safety on Christmas day, but he had trenchfoot and frostbite and had to be evacuated to an aid station. Only he and one other man from his platoon survived. Two of the three regiments of the division were captured and many who were not killed ended up in German POW camps. I really with that someone (looking at you Tom Hanks) would make a series about the 106th, because their story is absolutely amazing. They were fresh from the US, and their first combat was the Battle of the Bulge. They entered Belgium on December 10th, and 6 days later the Bulge kicked off.
Shane Taylor was fresh out of dinner theater when he got the role of Doc Roe.
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Being in the U.S. Army for 10 years as an Infantryman I can say for certain that medicine has evolved so heavily in the last 80 years. Just in the last 20 years since the beginning of the war on terror , we have seen a massive jump in medical technology. What sucks is that many of the new medical techniques and medicine we see today was invented through war and most of them are used in the civilian medical sector as well. Tourniquets you saw in this episode for example, evolved to ones that are very easy to use and apply and it's all just thick plastic and velcrow compared to using cloth and sticks during these times. Sadly they were invented in the early 2000s during wartime after military medical staff realized that the leading cause of roughly 90% of all military deaths is from bleeding from your extremities(arms and legs), and because of that and other combat injuries or deaths, we have newer and better medical equipment and medicine to save more lives. Now once a year in the military we have to be taught how to use our basic medical equipment and be told about using a tourniquet before we do anything else. Ugh the tourniquet is all I think about when I talk to someone about how to take care of an injured person. War is hell.
It's crazy most of these scenes were actually done in a giant studio. All the trees that were exploding were fake including the snow. Major respect to the props and special effects department because, like you said, it looks freezing cold just looking at it.