If they wanted to showcase the heroism of the “average jane” during the war, they could have shown the thousands of nurses working in field hospitals across the world. These women saw the absolute worst ravages of war, treated injured soldiers in hellish conditions, usually while shelled by enemy artillery and still managed to save so many people.
I remember when I was a little girl, my grandmother told me, "I dont care what they told you in school, Cleopatra was in the Postal Directory Battalion."
Still,I have to thank this movie for curing my grandfather's disability and blindness. I showed him this movie,and halfway through,he got up from his wheelchair,turned off the TV and told me it was the worst thing he's ever seen.
What is ironic is that those postal workers themselves respected the troops in the front lines a ton. And that is why they wanted to do whatever little they could to help. I'm pretty sure none of them would claim their feats to have been heroic to the point that it overshadows the people actually on the field.
Not what little they could, what little they were allowed to. They wanted to do field work. But they were given postal duty because of racism and misogyny.
@@justinkador2496oh please... you ever think maybe there's a reason behind those ideals? Wonder why throughout history military is almost always male? Women aren't built for war, period.
@@justinkador2496yeah and the fact that ppl are hating on it so bad without knowing what it is about at its core proves that we have a long way to go at acknowledging unsung hero’s. they’re making it seem like this is to say that they did more for the war than anyone else which isn’t the point at all.
Check it out. Stranger Things, looked Netflix, acted Netflix, not Netflix. Solved mysteries, fought Demogorgons. Weird, sho'. Not Netflix. You know The Crown. Slow, yes. Netflix, maybe. All those royal rules. But it charmed the Emmys and won global acclaim. That ain't Netflix. It was a prestige drama. You know any Netflix prestige dramas? You went full Netflix, man. Never go full Netflix. You don't buy that? Ask 13 Reasons Why. Remember? Went full Netflix, went home with mixed reviews.
Yes, The Woman King was a travesty of epic proportions. Especially when they fought the "evil British slavers" when, in reality, the British anti-slavery patrol blockaded their coast, trying to stop them from selling their (fellow) Africans into slavery. An insult to every unfortunate soul sold by King Ghezo and his henchmen/women.
My grandad drove an ambulance in the Blitz. One night an entire shift were killed. He never claimed to be a hero and never talked about it. I am not sure if he sorted any mail though.
Yeah but his story wouldn’t work for Netflix to make into a series because he isn’t the chosen demographic that they want to get brownie points for showing off movies about…
Everyone knows the order of heroes is: Mail Carrier Lunch Lady Soldier Newspaper Boy Ambulance Driver (This was a joke by the by. I have far more respect for someone who jumps in a truck and dodges bombs to save a life than someone whose greatest risk is a papercut)
the fat electrician has covered so many people of all stripes that did insane things that are just totally forgotten. Its incredible how super human some of these peoples' contributions were and yet they get ignored.
There is also the book "We Band of Angels" which deals with the Army nurses, *who were captured at Bataan* before the Bataan Death March. That would be something to make a movie about. *Corrective edit*
Ohh there’s so much they could do if they DO care about ‘diversity’ but they don’t. There’s a story of a black nurse who fell in love and married a German soldier-the black nurses were chosen because they didn’t want any of the German men to fall for the nurses. But they won’t. Why? They stayed happily married until their deaths surrounded by beaming great great grandkids. Unfortunately. Apparently he was ‘the best’ and loved by all. Oops.
My grandmother was a communications officer during WW2 as she spoke fluent French. She openly admitted time and time again that my grandfather was the real hero as he was an RAF pilot and actually flew countless missions dodging enemy fire and facing death every time he took off whilst she got to stay in a nice warm office, have regular tea breaks and translate and relay messages.
@@whippinsaw Because the movie in question has already shown it's going out of its way to denigrate the real heroes and play up how 'important' the mail ladies were. It'd be one thing if the subject was just about them, like a period piece, but it's not.
@@whippinsaw Depends on how the movie portrays it. I mean I doubt that the movie will be realistic and say that what they did was pretty much irrelevant and that anyone else could have effortlessly done it just as good.
@@whippinsaw that's not the issue. This movie is trying to portray as heroic something that on its face is really mundane. While also failing to make this very mundane operation look compelling to watch. The real life women this media is misrepresenting did volunteer to do something useful in times of war and managed to handle and solve complex logistic problems to bring back and keep operational the internal mail system of an army at an unprecedented scale, but we are not getting any of that.
"When you think of the heroes of the Second World War, what do you imagine in your mind?" As a German my lawyer has adviced me against answering this question.
@@ThwipThwipBoom Most Japanese seem to ascribe to the modern unified global narrative but some really get into the philosophy of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, which is barely mentioned in the west. It's Wikipedia article isn't even locked.
My great grandmother's PTSD still gives her panic attacks if the postman is late. And sometimes I catch her staring off into the distance whilst thumbing through an imaginary book of stamps. War is hell
@oscarholloway4443 reading this I imagined a movie about how Postman Pat got his PTSD after studio loses copyrights something similar to Vinnie the Pooh horrors, but its like a dense Vietnam/WWI ahh setting
@@Adelina-293 the ranger who saw their friend get his legs blown off and slowly drowned in the waters on Omaha Beach : yeah..... you had it worse......
In 1944 my mum was 16. She worked in a munitions factory. The actual work wasn't dangerous, but the environment was. Nothing glamorous there, but every day she was risking life and limb just by going to work.
That was a different generation of women. My Grandmother also worked in a textile factory making uniforms, etc during WWII. Women are very different today.
@@paulware4701 Same as my grandmas, both helped the war effort, one was a nurse, the other ran a laundry operation cause she was the only literate one there and could do the paperwork. They were both regarded as war heroes where I live. I’m always going to be thankful to them for raising me and teaching me discipline and manners. You don’t talk back to women like that or question them, unless you want a slap that’s gonna spin you around 😀
I disagree about the work not being dangerous. Having researched obscure munitions plants constructed specifically for wwii there were several really bad accidents, like leveling the entire town accidents.
@@sprprops1 Hi there. Sorry, that was the point I was trying to make. It was where the women and girls worked that was dangerous, not the actual jobs they had to do. Women weren't allowed to handle explosives, but the explosives were being handled in the same buildings so if something went wrong - as it did on several occasions - they would suffer just the same as anyone else.
"When I was a young boy I used to watch marsh-warblers swooping in my mothers undercroft... And I remember thinking will men ever dare to do the same?" - Capt. Blackadder
My grandmother served in Women’s Balloon Corps. They went on strike in WW2 in Liverpool and it was bombed the night they went on strike, killing hundreds of people, very nearly including my grandmother herself. Not her finest moment.
Of note, Virginia Hall had a prosthetic leg and still made it out of France into Spain having to walk many miles over the mountains to avoid capture. The night witches flew old biplanes which had a very slow stall speed which allowed them to cut their engines over enemy lines and glide silently to a position where they could drop, sometimes by hand, a rather meager bomb load. Then restart the engine and make their way home, only to refuel and have another go. All under cover of darkness.
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The Night Witches weren't intended to kill a lot of Germans. They kept the Germans on alert all night and shattered their nerves so they were less effective during the day.
I was hoping you'd mention the Night Witches. Not only did they not have parachutes, they would also fly at low altitudes and slow speeds and would cut off their engines and glide over their targets so they would be harder to detect. All the Germans would hear before getting bombed was a sound that, supposedly, was like someone sweeping with a broom (which, incidentally, is where the Night Witches got their nickname). Those pilots were legitimate badasses who don't get nearly enough attention.
The six triple eight sounds like an incredibly good idea for a documentary rather than an entire show. Like it’s a cool idea that a group of women were able to help keep morale up by making sure the men were able to get letters from their families.
A documentary would’ve been so much better it’d be such a sweet story especially if any of the women are still alive or family members of the women and if they can read some letters This fake drama version plus Oprah going WHITE LADIES when Oprah hasn’t had much good will in such a long time it's going to make this show a laughing stock and some people will ridicule the efforts of the women when in actuality it’s just really lame story telling
Windtalkers (2002) - Underrated movie about Native Americans fighting in the Pacific. Long before Hollywood went woke, they made good movies about real underdog heroes. As always Nic Cage was ahead of the times. Happy Holidays Everyone!
I call that movie "how many close ups of Nicolas Cage's face can you stomach" other than the lame love story and gratuitous close ups of Nicolas cages face it at least tried to tell an interesting story
My wife was watching it last night. I checked on her after about 10 minutes and said, "Did they get the mail delivered yet?" She just glared at me and said, "They're trying to!" Lol
My grandpa was a bomber. During one of their missions, the bomb bay door was stuck after they ignited the bomb; they were all about to be blown up. He climbed outside the plane and opened the bay door from the outside mid-flight. He earned the Medal of Honor years later. ❤
When Whoopi Goldberg delivered that letter on Christmas night, in a snowstorm, during an earthquake.... powerful, just powerful... It made me want to lick a stamp and cry at the same time. The bravery, the heroism.... bold!
0:15 *"This is our mission. WE WILL NOT FAIL."* - this is exactly the pep talk the assistant manager would give when I was a teenage pizza delivery boy. (I'm open to offers if Netflix wants to buy my story...)
Something like that cracked the German moral. Somehow the Germans got a hold of U.S. air drop and found a birthday cake while they were eating worms and bugs.
Laughing aside, as someone that served, I can tell you we lived for those letters. Back in those days, no facebook, no cell phones, no text. Not even a phone call.
And I was thinking about that angle on the story. There could be a truly great film or series looking in to these women far from home and the real issues of culture shock as it must have been. There is humor and humanity and poignancy in this, particularly juxtaposing stories of real letters that had actual consequences symbolically for thematic reasons. The sad thing is that these days there are few writers up to the task, let alone production teams that could pull it off well..
I find it interesting that the majority of the people in these comments thought that these women signed up to serve in the military to sort mail…the story was also about the “war” they fought internally trying to serve their country…why do you think these women were giving this relatively menial task by their superiors I. The military?
In just the last month I have discovered that the 2nd WW was in fact won by these postal workers and about 35 members of the British SAS. What a time to be alive.
That drone shot going over literal fields of unsorted post brought a tear to my eye. Oh, the humanity. Lest we forget! Not a single postcard should ever be left behind.
@@LW13rc oh just say it, you only defend it BECAUSE it's a bunch of black women. See, the bs works both ways. Maybe, just maybe, people are lampooning it because it's over dramaticized and a bit silly
I would watch the shit out of a series about the night witches. When they got to their targets they would cut their engines, and dive super low before dropping their bombs. Which is what gave them their name, the Germans wouldn't hear or see any planes, then all of a sudden shit would just start exploding, THEN they'd hear the engines start up and fly away. It was like the planes just appeared over their bases out of thin air. Like magic.
The germans gave the nickname "die Nachthexen" Night Witches because they used to idle the engine and the only noise giving up their attack run was the wind passing thru the wires between the wings. They were very difficult to intercept by german fighters because the top speed of their planes was slower than the stall speed of Bf-109 and FW-190.
The Germans didnt do anything bro… there isnt a single German source on them. Heck the German wiki page quotes a populist historian book translated from English based on Russian propaganda books… Not doubting the unit existed but they very likely werent called night witches and were not perceived specifically prominently by the Germans… Not to mention some of their supposed strengths are just beyond ridiculous- no, being in a slower old plane doesnt make it more difficult to shoot them down…
Fighting Postmen from the rear. Delivering mail, they have no fear. 500 tons were delivered today. And it was done the Netflix way! Geez, I can't even...
"There are no boring subjects, only boring writers". --H.L. Mencken A movie that showed the ironical and comical experiences of a military mail service trying to deliver the personal amid the inhumane could have expressed the understated heroism of the everyday people involved. But then, "understated" is something Hollywood lost track of decades ago.
They gave them obsolete planes so they flew only at night and turned their engines off when nearing the target. The germans couldn't see or hear the attacks coming. They were devastated and believed they were under attack by something supernatural when it was really just Russian women in canvas biplanes.
My great Uncle Chuck flew as a B-17 bomber pilot in both the African and European theatres. He was originally going to fly his first sortie with the crew he trained with, but was held back State-side for specialist wing navigation training. His original crew were all lost in combat flying with a different pilot while he was at this training; they were shot down and flamed out in the French mountains. His original plane, the Rangey Lil, was transferred to another bomber wing and went down in the Mediterrenean. Uncle Chuck was the only survivor of the Rangey Lil and her crew. Uncle Chuck would continue to have crazy luck the rest of the war. He was routinely sent into literal hell; swarms of Luftwaffe figthters, flak ripping chunks off the plane, and he still made it back every time. In one of the 1943 sorties, he was tasked with a bomber mission over Dresden. They made their targets after heavy losses, but Uncle Chuck's plane was so badly shredded by flak that they had to jury-rig the flight controls to have any elevational control. Uncle Chuck got his crew to bail out over Allied North Africa, and then he and his co-pilot managed to land the plane. Both of them fully expected to die making the attempt, but planes were in desperate need at that point in the war. (Edit: managed to find his plane's name, Dirty Gerty) After VE Day, Uncle Chuck became a favorite pilot to shuttle top brass around Europe. Not because he was a good pilot, he'd say, but because he was "safe". Meaning he somehow always came back alive. Uncle Chuck was a hell of a guy. He liked Jameson whiskey and unpasteurised illegal Stilton he bought from an Amish community. He was kind to everyone and treated all with dignity. He managed to get back to Europe one last time in his 90s; I can only imagine the ghosts he saw. And if you'd have asked to make a movie about him, I bet he would have turned you down. Because there were guys like him everywhere in that generation; he never considered himself special. (Edited this to make sure it's accurate. Uncle Chuck deserves no less.)
Man, that's a story! Salute to your great uncle!! My father-in-law served on a submarine in the Pacific in WWII and had stories...being depth charged, sinking ships and hearing the Japanese sailors drown.... but, he survived! How? Because of the stress he developed bleeding stomach ulcers and while recuperating in a Navy hospital in Hawaii his sub went out on a mission and didn't come back... it was sunk, mistakenly depth charged by a Navy Destroyer....
My dad was in the US Army as a machine gunner, infantry, in the Pacific. He was in New Guinea, on one of the islands off the NG coast, then Philippines, and then Hiroshima as an MP during the occupation of Japan. On NG he and his company were trekking along a ravine-road en route to take a Japanese airstrip; some US fighters passed by overhead and mistook them for Japanese somehow and started strafing them. My dad--who never told this story until very late in life, after his stroke--saw the two men directly on either side of him suddenly lose their heads. As in, suddenly their heads did not exist anymore. That's a moment that stayed with him the rest of his life.
Between the ink running out, the paper cuts, the over utilization of commas… it was madness… many of these ladies never left the glorified UPS with the same mind. My hats off… so strong and independent!
i think its a good thing. What people don't realize is this is what the military is for the majority of people in the military. tedious and mind numbing. In the US Army at least the majority of served never saw combat. Most were truck drivers, supply clerks, mechanics, medical personal etc.
Imagine the horror... a letter with no postal code, no street, just a city... how does one even begin to figure out where this should go?!?!? The drama! The suspense!
"I am sorry madam , your stunning and brave daughter fell in Operation Market Garden, fighting her way through the Black Friday crowds." - Band of Sisters
Yeah that's hilarious. Even though the real Operation M.G. was anything but funny, except for maybe bein' a comedy of errors 'cause of a bunch of dumbshit politicians in uniform's hubris. But yeah, seriously focus on the legit female heroes of WW-2 who were in actual danger.
Getting your mail in the army from your family gives you strength and hope people like them are the backbone of the military they deserve credit but i cant imagine the show having mutch excitement
why not ? Everything making the boys less lonely, less depress in the front in 1943 woth been know. Imagine how many boys got a moral boost thanks to that. Everyone has a task to do in time of war. Now I didn't see the show. I t always how you can make it interresting. I suppose it's bad because it wants to push the "message" instead of telling a story.
you're intentionally simplifying the movie to hate. "sorting mail" because that was the only task they were given due to discrimination. "mail" that was a lifeline for the many soldiers who served. maybe provide context before commenting.
@@chelseapoet3664 this is the assignment they were given!! They wanted more but the ignorance the comments is the same ignorance that was pervasive during that time.
@@lynne4948And, like Cleopatra and The Woman King, there are plenty of genuinely heroic and fascinating stories they could have made a movie about. Instead this is another piece of nonsense, at least this one is historically accurate, but seriously no one cares. At the very least don't try to stretch it into having the vibe of a story about heroism. A slow burn drama would be better.
@@lynne4948 Doing all necessary jobs for war effort is 👍 But it's beyond ridiculous to display job in postal office in 100% safety area as belief-shattering heroic.. You're the ignorant one if you are too ignorant to understand this simple fact. You want to know who were the heroic women in truest sense of the word ''heroic''? The women who worked in medical field - working long exhausting shifts dealing with gruesome sight, attending severely wounded soldiers. And sometimes some of those female medics paying with their lives to aid wounded soldiers in active combat zones. But yeah, go with your ignorance cuz blowing facts out of proportion is typical for leftie Hollywood for the sake of grabbing cash from lefties who are blindly throwing money at anything that contains THE MESSAGE 🤡
Soon as i saw this pop up on Netflix i knew exactly what it was going to be like without ever having to actually burn up minutes of my life viewing it im glad others feel the same now being close to Christmas i think ill go watch "Its a wonderful life" and bring back memories of childhood watching with mum and dad Merry Christmas to everyone!!
I saw an ad for it on my phone and with all the filters going on and the dialogue, it looks like an AI generated movie, but it isn't. That's how bad I think it looks
Oh my god, this film is amazing, i clapped when that guy had his mail delivered in the end...such a heart racing, tense moment, i cried and blubbered like a baby, good on you Netflix for making a monumental, brave, epic movie, god bless all of you!!
Thank you for the real-examples that really illustrate your point. Very inspiring to honor them. Hopefully they get honored in an even bigger way in the future. And your corporate examples were hilarious.
Next up from Netflix: "Peeler". The heroic tale of an Army cook who peeled over 10,000 potatoes in the European theater of WWII. Plot twist: He wasn't Irish.
Meanwhile my grand-grandfather lost his leg fighting for his family to have a better future and returned home a different man... I don't know how to deal with this amount of disrespect from Netflix.
@@f500raptor One of my grad professors told me that the UofT combined all the worst aspects of the American university system and the British university system into one.
Ha Canadians are smart my grandfather worked his way up the trench line in WW1 and ended up with them If he hadn't the British would of inadvertently accidentally killed him
My father was drafted into the Army in the fall of 1944 (he hadn't even graduated from high school yet). He went to Basic at Camp Roberts in California and was eventually shipped overseas, just in time to participate in the Battle of the Bulge and live outdoors for months in freezing temperatures, trying his best not to be killed. He ran all over France and Germany, clear to the Czechoslovakia border as part of the 90th Infantry Division, Patton's 3rd Army. He witnessed many friends die a horrible death, he was wounded and hospitalized for months, and even walked into the Flosenberg concetration camp, where he saw bodies stacked like firewood. I can't imagine how he processed all of this death and destruction as an 18-19 year old young man. He never talked about any of this, we had to drag it out of him towards the end of his life. He never wanted any credit, accolades, or nothing. To the day he died, he suffered from his experience. To think, if he had been a postal worker in England in 1945, he could have been part of a Netflix series and called a "hero." Miss you dad, you'll be a hero in my eyes.
My dad worked 48 hours straight pulling bodies out of the water, after the attack on Pearl Harbor. In the ensuing struggle for the control of the Pacific, he had two aircraft carriers blasted out from under him, once leaving him floating in the frigid waters off the Aleutian Islands. He eventually succumbed to the permanent damage done to his kidneys at age 44. And to think that had he only been a military postal worker he could have been honored with a Netflix series. I guess he should have aimed higher.
I would love to hear about the battle where American, German, and an SS officer successfully fought against an entire SS battalion in a castle in france
When he said that first line about the problems they're having with the mail, I honestly thought he meant 'male' and it seemed perfectly believable that someone would say that on a Netflix show.
My Grandfather was drafted into the US Army right out of high school. He fought in Europe, was captured by Germans, spent six months as a prisoner of war, and when liberated, he went right back to fighting. He even made it to Berlin not long after it had been taken. And do you know what recognition he received for it? Not much. Just a thanks from the Army, the appreciation of his family, and a wax figure of him in some small WW2 museum in France. That's it. No movie, no statue in a large public square, no book detailing his heroics. And you know what, that was fine with him. He didn't do it for recognition; he did it because...well he was drafted...but he didn't have to keep fighting once he was liberated. He did so because he wanted to make sure those back home were safe. Because that's what a true hero does. So for this movie to say that those that sat in a nice building and sorted letters deserve just as much respect and faced just as much hardship is not only demeaning, but also setting a bad precedent for WW2 stories in the future. My Grandpa would be ashamed that this is how the conflict he fought through is being portrayed.
Did he ever tell you how he felt when the mail was called and there was something for him? Sorting mail is not risking life and limb. But I'm willing to bet that those letters he got, helped him get through it all.
@@AlejandroDiazadiaz201 Letters from home certainly help with morale, but I think having functioning supply lines with food and ammunition, or finally breaking through enemy fortifications after days of fighting in the same spot probably boosted morale even more than letters from home. On the order of things important for soldiers to fight on, communication with family members at home isn’t very high. At least compared to necessary supplies and victories
@Engieman909 Keep in mind that there was no internet, no international phone, no satellites. People need to remember what and who they fight for. Otherwise...what's the point?
@@basilmagnanimous7011 Well there were a ton of Jewish resistance groups who really gave ze Fuhrer a proper ass whoopin' along with pretty much anyone who was pissed off at Uncle Adolf.
@@DrJhengsman sure those people exist but the minority isn't the majority. Then there's the aspect of rewriting history as you see fit. Because editing history changes everyone's perspective. Then there's also misrepresenting the person and thier person achievements beliefs and values. Also historicapl all the nastiest most oppressive regimes always rewrite history as they see it. In short no one should be seeking to rewrite history as they see it
@@DrJhengsman The thing is a lot of modern US movies try to project it on the rest of the world. I’m from Eastern Europe, we experienced nazism, communism, all flavours of death camps….so when I watch a movie and it’s like “white people don’t know oppression” it honestly triggers me
Really appreciated your substantive and detailed list of better alternatives. Thank you for the respect and thoughtful attention to some of these real life stories.
Most people don't even know that St. Petersburg was under siege for basically the entire war, that something like **1.5 MILLION** civilians died there. That one city's civilian toll is very nearly greater than all American, French, and British war losses COMBINED. There's never been a single Western movie or show about that battle. But they'll make one about the ladies who sorted the mail cause they fit the right woke category.
I’m a black woman and I approve of this message. I’m so sick of this sh*t. Hollywood has me so tired, that I’m at the point where I don’t want to see ANY stories whatsoever about black people pre-civil rights. They’ve beaten this horse to death. 🐴 ☠️ So much so that now when a black person even pops up on my screen on any new show or film, no matter what time period, I roll my damn eyes.
That is interesting because I do the same thing. It’s only because I hate when people shoehorn race into things or how they change history like they do. It just really bugs me
@@colincolombo2095So the show is not historically accurate? I have to ask because I’m balck and I don’t care to watch it either, so there’s no way for me to tell.
THANK. YOU! I feel the same way about this and any western media with a "strong female lead". When did any black people ask for this cheap pandering? Did we ask to replace every redhead in media? Hollywood is fake and lazy. This is lowest effort of progressivism. We see right through it. 😣
Strange how they were supposedidly treated so badly yet...they weren't sent to clear minefields, mine coal, smelt steel, defuse bombs or get shot at...they were conscripted to sort mail, do laundry, cook and do paperwork...boy...those racist white folks sure showed them getting slaughtered by the hundreds of thousands to show who was really fit to fight for the good old USA 🤦
Let it be known after the war the 6 triple 8 battalion had a hard time coping with post traumatic stress disorder after experiencing relentless incoming mail that keeps on coming and coming and coming. There are some of these hardy soldiers that went postal afterwards
@@SkittishEgg There are rumors Newman's great grandfather served in this batallion. There was a time during the war they where almost ran over but he urged other soldiers to keep on sorting and because of that they where able to hold the line During reunions they offer a moment of silence to all the mail that has been lost but never forgotten
my great-aunt was in this unit, however I feel like a documentary would have been a more appropiate choice, but I think it's still cool to hear these untold stories
My granny was a part of the team responsible for protecting Moscow in 1942 when the enemy was approaching the city. She wasn't fighting herself but she helped to construct barricades and disguise buildings of cultural importance so they wouldn't get bombed. It was still a dangerous job because of air strikes and the possibility the enemy sezing the city. She was only 22, my age now and I can't imagine myself in her shoes. After the war she got a medal and was considered a veteran of labor. My grandfather had five brothers and three of them never made it home. We don't even know where and how they died, they just stopped writing one day. One of they died because of an accident near Berlin in the april of 1945, a couple of weeks before Germany declared its defeat. I swear the people living in my village have so many stories to tell, had so many men whose fate is still unknown, so many people returning from labor camps and people who fought and got injured. And now you wanna tell me that post workers living in a (relatively) safe area have suffered the most? Really now?
Who the Hell said they suffered "the most?" They weren't the Jews. They weren't the Russians. They weren't the German women who were retaliated against with rape. They weren't Chinese peasants caught between Japs on one side and civil war on the other. They weren't comfort women. They weren't office workers in Nagasaki. They weren't at Nanking, Bataan, Baba Yar, Auschwitz or any of those places. And they weren't the infantrymen who stormed the beaches. But if you want a movie about the infantrymen who DID storm the beaches, I DO have an entire stack of those. And I literally ONLY mean about the D-Day landing ALONE. I could EASILY make a similar stack about the troops who fought in Market Garden or the Bulge or the push into Germany. Now...your GRANDMOTHER has the right to say that she deserves a movie about herself more than a bunch of postal workers. But instead of you going out and making one, all YOU did was bitch that somebody else didn't make one about her. And the guy who made THIS video? He DIDN'T even make it UNTIL Netflix made this show. It sure got under HIS soft, smooth and sensitive skin. EVERYBODY'S got a WW2 story. My great uncle was a photo recon pilot serving in a squadron who's number, still, to this day, doesn't exist due to the extremely sensitive and specialized nature of the work they were up to. But MOST stories ARE mundane. My mom's father was an Army quartermaster on Okinawa and my dad's father was a Naval postal clerk.
One of my granddads volunteered in 1941 during the draw to defend Moscow, and went on to liberate Belarus and "ukraine". He got in SMERSH eventually, and for all the bullshit about "zagrad-otryads" people have no idea how many Nazi collaborators were on German-occupied territories of the USSR, unfortunately, and how vital it was to root them out, especially amongst the troops. My other granddad was conscripted a couple of years before the war, he was in the cavalry, and during the course of it was re-trained as an artillerymen, fought at Stalingrad. In 1944 was captured and sent to a death/labor camp in France, from which he ran when the camp infrastructure began to fell apart with the US troops were approaching their area. They both survived, they both were heroes of that war. But hey, there's critical wanker denigrating the heroism and sacrifices of the Red Army with the usual westoid "starving conscripts" schlock.
In a world..... where determined soldiers faced a mountain....of bags of mail....... facing illegible addressing, and sometimes inadequate postage. oh, the horror !!!
It's more about the fact that these men likely hadn't heard back from loved ones, or thought that maybe they were forgotten completely. Boosting morale by getting those letters to troops would have made a world of difference. I'm not sure why this true story was made into a movie, but it is an interesting one nonetheless (could have made for a decent documentary).
The 442nd Infantry Regiment was a unit almost entirely composed of second-generation Japanese Americans. They volunteered to fight on the front lines in Europe while their families were back home imprisoned in internment camps.
Weren't they the most highly decorated regiment in the entire US army? And didn't they do Banzai charges at German lines? They definitely deserve a movie.
Yep, the Nisei regiment. Fought in some of the nastiest fighting in Italy, gained a host of honors and were literally writing home to their families interned in US concentration camps in many cases. All volunteer ( making them unique in the US Army, even the paratroops had draftees who later volunteered) and the Germans were absolutely terrified of them. When assigned an objective they took it. 800 members of the 442nd died in WW2, versus ZERO members of the "Six Triple EIght"
Or if they want to be REALLY spicy they could make a movie about the Czechoslovakian men forcefully conscripted into the German army after the invasion of their country, to fight against people who wanted to liberate them.
The only 2 notable things this battalion did during the war were: 1. They created a card index to sort through millions of parcels efficiently while living in crowded living conditions with an unsupportive command. 2. Their Captain told the General to kick rocks when he tried to get someone else to do it (respect) That’s… it. Not worth a whole Netflix story. Respect to the women that served in this battalion, they did more than the people of Netflix can ever hope to achieve.
Or maybe it is netflix that isn't worth wasting another story on? I didn't regard this as a war movie but more of a black emancipation movie - as that, it's not that bad.
@@raftonpounder6696 in the story the white women were already employed on a diffrent job so thats why the 6888 batallion was their last option that were forced to take it. also i dont think the color of your skin will make you better than the other person in work, work is about sheer dedication.
Pushed a mail cart in the Army, it was FUN!!! Everyone loves you, everyone wants their packages, it's always goodies from home or letters from lovers that raise morale so much that mail becomes essential, people move out of the way for the cart, let me cut in line for food, give me smokes, it was a hoot.
Mariya Oktyabrskaya's story would make a great film. Husband killed by Nazi's, sold stuff to buy a tank and donate it to the war. Requested and got permission and training to use it. Used tank to kill Nazis. Tank got damaged during a battle. Got out and repaired it but was fatally wounded doing so.
Yes, she was an interesting person. An actually interesting person that didn't make her identity some type of heroic struggle. I suggest people look into her.
Badass. Were I the director, I would've gone with Doris Miller. Worked in the mess hall of a carrier in Pearl Harbor, won the boxing tournament they had on board. During the attack, he helped aid injured soldiers, then manned a turret and took down somewhere between one and six planes. They sent him on leave afterward, but he asked to be sent back out. His ship was torpedoed and went down while they celebrated victory after the Battle of Makin on the eve of Thanksgiving -- the only ship lost in the operation. Absolute hero
Anything perpetuating the "evil Nazis" narrative is pure cringe. The leveraging of that junk is how we ended up with absurd movies like one this video is reviewing. Normies never learn though.
Wow, this movie made my 3 deployments as an Airborne Infantry man seem like a cake walk. The way this movie was made seems like most of these women should get medal of of honors. I'm so inspired that I'm embarrassed to have had a job in the army in the front lines. Without these women, we would have lost the war, at least thats what I see in the commercials.
If they wanted to showcase the heroism of the “average jane” during the war, they could have shown the thousands of nurses working in field hospitals across the world. These women saw the absolute worst ravages of war, treated injured soldiers in hellish conditions, usually while shelled by enemy artillery and still managed to save so many people.
"Well sure but were most of them diverse? I mean if not you don't even have a show there." - Netflix, probably
A war show about women caring for men in need from Netflix? Doubtful
Yea but they be whiteys yo
That one episode of Band of Brothers with the French nurse did way more than this movie.
@@kyslippyexactly. They don't wanna show women doing women's work
I remember when I was a little girl, my grandmother told me, "I dont care what they told you in school, Cleopatra was in the Postal Directory Battalion."
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Massively underrated
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Please keep the miss spelling. It makes it better.
@@Sheriden.Wah
Still,I have to thank this movie for curing my grandfather's disability and blindness. I showed him this movie,and halfway through,he got up from his wheelchair,turned off the TV and told me it was the worst thing he's ever seen.
Awesome! Sending good vibes. 😂
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Why were you torturing him in the first place 😂
What is ironic is that those postal workers themselves respected the troops in the front lines a ton. And that is why they wanted to do whatever little they could to help. I'm pretty sure none of them would claim their feats to have been heroic to the point that it overshadows the people actually on the field.
Not what little they could, what little they were allowed to. They wanted to do field work. But they were given postal duty because of racism and misogyny.
@@justinkador2496oh please... you ever think maybe there's a reason behind those ideals? Wonder why throughout history military is almost always male? Women aren't built for war, period.
@@justinkador2496 at that point I don't even know if it's a Netflix apology or just historical fact... Great job, Netflix
@@justinkador2496yeah and the fact that ppl are hating on it so bad without knowing what it is about at its core proves that we have a long way to go at acknowledging unsung hero’s. they’re making it seem like this is to say that they did more for the war than anyone else which isn’t the point at all.
@@rayla.c0m Are you seriously calling them unsung heroes?
We fought too. In the office. Sorting mail . For 6 months. Backlogged mail. There was blood , papercuts , cold coffee everywhere......
In the second month the rubber stamps wore out and we had to requisition new ones. War is hell.
Ergonomics salutes you!
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@@newtpondskipper- I cringed thinking how they were forced to improvise when they ran out of red ink. 😮
The facts dont matter to THE MESSAGE
Now Netflix is gonna Netflix harder than any Netflix movie has ever Netflixed before
Never go full Netflix.
They Netflixed all over the place
Check it out. Stranger Things, looked Netflix, acted Netflix, not Netflix. Solved mysteries, fought Demogorgons. Weird, sho'. Not Netflix. You know The Crown. Slow, yes. Netflix, maybe. All those royal rules. But it charmed the Emmys and won global acclaim. That ain't Netflix. It was a prestige drama.
You know any Netflix prestige dramas? You went full Netflix, man. Never go full Netflix. You don't buy that? Ask 13 Reasons Why. Remember? Went full Netflix, went home with mixed reviews.
Netflixing harder than last time.
Its netflixin' tiiiiime
I expect that it’s every bit as historically accurate as The Woman King, that made the slavers the good guys
They are making a sequel called the "Man Queen" the "Wrath of Trans" and it will start Rupaul.
"We wuz postmen and sheet".
Yes, The Woman King was a travesty of epic proportions. Especially when they fought the "evil British slavers" when, in reality, the British anti-slavery patrol blockaded their coast, trying to stop them from selling their (fellow) Africans into slavery. An insult to every unfortunate soul sold by King Ghezo and his henchmen/women.
Don’t forget about Cleopatra. I don’t care what the history records say, that lady’s black grandma knew the truth better obviously.
I think you are the only person who realizes The Woman King made slavers the good guys. Nobody else watched it.
My grandad drove an ambulance in the Blitz. One night an entire shift were killed. He never claimed to be a hero and never talked about it.
I am not sure if he sorted any mail though.
"I am not sure if he sorted any mail though."
Fookin' quitter
ambalamb! ambalamb! abulamb!!
He drove ze bondulance i jsut didn't get what you saying, your grand killed the guys? If so thats fucing amazing
Yeah but his story wouldn’t work for Netflix to make into a series because he isn’t the chosen demographic that they want to get brownie points for showing off movies about…
Everyone knows the order of heroes is:
Mail Carrier
Lunch Lady
Soldier
Newspaper Boy
Ambulance Driver
(This was a joke by the by. I have far more respect for someone who jumps in a truck and dodges bombs to save a life than someone whose greatest risk is a papercut)
Respect that you not only criticize, but also give practical examples of people whose courage and sacrifice is ignored.
from all demographics, so if they wanted to show it was not just white men they still had plenty to choose from.
@@caesarjergens But it has been overwhelmingly majority white men, so still an injustice to the real heroes of freedom.
the fat electrician has covered so many people of all stripes that did insane things that are just totally forgotten. Its incredible how super human some of these peoples' contributions were and yet they get ignored.
@@darylmcnaughton748and he’s an amazing storyteller to boot
Srsly The Night Witches alone would have been a fukin banger of a show tbh. That is something i would have watched for sure if they wanted Girl power.
This show's gonna push the envelope
Like that time my cat pushed an envelope off the counter and dropped a deuce on it?
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Brilliant.
It's not a show.
There is also the book "We Band of Angels" which deals with the Army nurses, *who were captured at Bataan* before
the Bataan Death March. That would be something to make a movie about.
*Corrective edit*
Ohh there’s so much they could do if they DO care about ‘diversity’ but they don’t. There’s a story of a black nurse who fell in love and married a German soldier-the black nurses were chosen because they didn’t want any of the German men to fall for the nurses.
But they won’t. Why? They stayed happily married until their deaths surrounded by beaming great great grandkids.
Unfortunately.
Apparently he was ‘the best’ and loved by all. Oops.
Fuck that. Let’s rewrite history
That actually sounds interesting
But were they all black?
WOW. I didn't know army nurses were on the Bataan Death March,I'm gonna buy that book you listed,thanks.
The American accent was absolutely worth it. Bravo!!
In a *MAIL* dominated society, these women pushed the *Envelope* to become the Greatest Heroes of WWII
Dad,stop it
You must be a father
I thought puns were outlawed in modern warfare.
@@HerrEllsworth My dog has no nose.
@@mudageki How does it smell?
My grandmother was a communications officer during WW2 as she spoke fluent French. She openly admitted time and time again that my grandfather was the real hero as he was an RAF pilot and actually flew countless missions dodging enemy fire and facing death every time he took off whilst she got to stay in a nice warm office, have regular tea breaks and translate and relay messages.
Jesus. Yes combat is more heroic. But having a movie not about that, why is this a problem?
@@whippinsaw Because the movie in question has already shown it's going out of its way to denigrate the real heroes and play up how 'important' the mail ladies were. It'd be one thing if the subject was just about them, like a period piece, but it's not.
@@whippinsaw
Depends on how the movie portrays it.
I mean I doubt that the movie will be realistic and say that what they did was pretty much irrelevant and that anyone else could have effortlessly done it just as good.
@@ramigilneas9274 No it will be the most important job ever and in reality they where the reson why the soldiers keeped fighting XD
@@whippinsaw that's not the issue. This movie is trying to portray as heroic something that on its face is really mundane. While also failing to make this very mundane operation look compelling to watch. The real life women this media is misrepresenting did volunteer to do something useful in times of war and managed to handle and solve complex logistic problems to bring back and keep operational the internal mail system of an army at an unprecedented scale, but we are not getting any of that.
"When you think of the heroes of the Second World War, what do you imagine in your mind?"
As a German my lawyer has adviced me against answering this question.
Big mistake mentioning your lawyer, now I really want to know.
Don't ask the Japanese that question either lmao
@@ThwipThwipBoom Most Japanese seem to ascribe to the modern unified global narrative but some really get into the philosophy of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, which is barely mentioned in the west. It's Wikipedia article isn't even locked.
DRANG NAH OSTEN! BAJONETTE AUFPFLANZEN!
G*rman men who wanted to protect the integrity of their motherland.
Thankfully Sabaton gives light to the lesser-known stories of WW2. Night Witches is a banger
Actual Female Heroes, Sry Wrong Colour
My great grandmother's PTSD still gives her panic attacks if the postman is late. And sometimes I catch her staring off into the distance whilst thumbing through an imaginary book of stamps. War is hell
LOL!
LOL!!
Haven't laughed that hard in a while. Good job!
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War... War never changes.
"Gallipoli was nothing compared to the insane efforts of Postman Pats brothers and sisters!"
Get a grip, Netflix
@oscarholloway4443
reading this I imagined a movie about how Postman Pat got his PTSD after studio loses copyrights
something similar to Vinnie the Pooh horrors, but its like a dense Vietnam/WWI ahh setting
That's brothas and sistas to you MISTER
"Those papercuts are deadly, you just can't know how bad we've got it" - The mailroom Rangers to the actual Rangers who survived Omaha Beach.
These are the same people who think one small protest on January 6th 2021 was equally as destructive and deathly as Pearl harbor and 9/11. 🙄
@@Adelina-293 the ranger who saw their friend get his legs blown off and slowly drowned in the waters on Omaha Beach : yeah..... you had it worse......
In 1944 my mum was 16. She worked in a munitions factory. The actual work wasn't dangerous, but the environment was. Nothing glamorous there, but every day she was risking life and limb just by going to work.
That was a different generation of women. My Grandmother also worked in a textile factory making uniforms, etc during WWII. Women are very different today.
There is a already a TV show about that called bomb girls. This was a very important job.
@@paulware4701 Same as my grandmas, both helped the war effort, one was a nurse, the other ran a laundry operation cause she was the only literate one there and could do the paperwork. They were both regarded as war heroes where I live.
I’m always going to be thankful to them for raising me and teaching me discipline and manners. You don’t talk back to women like that or question them, unless you want a slap that’s gonna spin you around 😀
I disagree about the work not being dangerous. Having researched obscure munitions plants constructed specifically for wwii there were several really bad accidents, like leveling the entire town accidents.
@@sprprops1 Hi there. Sorry, that was the point I was trying to make. It was where the women and girls worked that was dangerous, not the actual jobs they had to do. Women weren't allowed to handle explosives, but the explosives were being handled in the same buildings so if something went wrong - as it did on several occasions - they would suffer just the same as anyone else.
i love you found multiple better movie/series ideas for a youtube video than netflix did for a million dollar show💀
"There’s nothing cushy about life in the Women’s Auxiliary Balloon Corps!"- Capt Darling
Ah, Blackadder. ❤
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"When I was a young boy I used to watch marsh-warblers swooping in my mothers undercroft... And I remember thinking will men ever dare to do the same?" - Capt. Blackadder
My grandmother served in Women’s Balloon Corps. They went on strike in WW2 in Liverpool and it was bombed the night they went on strike, killing hundreds of people, very nearly including my grandmother herself.
Not her finest moment.
Nice.
Of note, Virginia Hall had a prosthetic leg and still made it out of France into Spain having to walk many miles over the mountains to avoid capture. The night witches flew old biplanes which had a very slow stall speed which allowed them to cut their engines over enemy lines and glide silently to a position where they could drop, sometimes by hand, a rather meager bomb load. Then restart the engine and make their way home, only to refuel and have another go. All under cover of darkness.
The Night Witches weren't intended to kill a lot of Germans. They kept the Germans on alert all night and shattered their nerves so they were less effective during the day.
"Texan Drinker isn't real, he won't scare you."
Texan Drinker: 1:52 😳
His accent was surprisingly convincing
He sounded sober NGL
Don't worry he's real... and he WILL hurt you!
@@anotherrandomtexan25 Believe that!
Legitimately sounded like an East Texan😂😂😂
I was hoping you'd mention the Night Witches. Not only did they not have parachutes, they would also fly at low altitudes and slow speeds and would cut off their engines and glide over their targets so they would be harder to detect. All the Germans would hear before getting bombed was a sound that, supposedly, was like someone sweeping with a broom (which, incidentally, is where the Night Witches got their nickname).
Those pilots were legitimate badasses who don't get nearly enough attention.
Not only that, but they gained status as an Elite Regiment - renamed 46 Taman Guards Air Night Bomber Regiment in October 1943.
More Soviet propaganda
The six triple eight sounds like an incredibly good idea for a documentary rather than an entire show. Like it’s a cool idea that a group of women were able to help keep morale up by making sure the men were able to get letters from their families.
Its going to be a film not a show
@@SallyGreen-yt7kj doesn't change the point though
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A documentary would’ve been so much better it’d be such a sweet story especially if any of the women are still alive or family members of the women and if they can read some letters
This fake drama version plus Oprah going WHITE LADIES when Oprah hasn’t had much good will in such a long time it's going to make this show a laughing stock and some people will ridicule the efforts of the women when in actuality it’s just really lame story telling
Little do you realize, this was a documentary already, released in 2019.
Windtalkers (2002) - Underrated movie about Native Americans fighting in the Pacific. Long before Hollywood went woke, they made good movies about real underdog heroes. As always Nic Cage was ahead of the times. Happy Holidays Everyone!
windtalkers was nice movie
I call that movie "how many close ups of Nicolas Cage's face can you stomach" other than the lame love story and gratuitous close ups of Nicolas cages face it at least tried to tell an interesting story
That’s a good one , but is somewhat cheesy lmao it’s a John woo war movie 😂😂😂😂
@@ironsoul80 Better than anything Netflix has put together, like ever.
Tbh they should probably remake that movie to be less about Nicolas Cage and more about the Windtalkers.
My wife was watching it last night. I checked on her after about 10 minutes and said, "Did they get the mail delivered yet?" She just glared at me and said, "They're trying to!" Lol
on a scale how angrey was she with your question?
I got a cramp laughing at this!
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Must be one hell of the show!
I think the only mail being delivered during the duration of the show were the divorce papers she served you! haha
My grandpa was a bomber. During one of their missions, the bomb bay door was stuck after they ignited the bomb; they were all about to be blown up. He climbed outside the plane and opened the bay door from the outside mid-flight. He earned the Medal of Honor years later. ❤
At most, the story deserves a 30-minute mini-documentary.
I agree.
Agreed!
It should have premiered on History channel on a Sunday.
It's about interesting enough for a 5 minute segment in a compilation of lesser known WWII stories.
One episode of Drunk History.
When Whoopi Goldberg delivered that letter on Christmas night, in a snowstorm, during an earthquake.... powerful, just powerful... It made me want to lick a stamp and cry at the same time. The bravery, the heroism.... bold!
Caryn Johnson therefore created Christmas. We must salute them for it.
Persons with medical conditions should be warned against becoming over excited.
So STUNNING AND BRAVE! 🤦♀
@@bubbajones5905 yes and never touch any entertainment industry
Actually, she had decent movie on the subject - "Jumpin Jack Flash".
0:15 *"This is our mission. WE WILL NOT FAIL."* - this is exactly the pep talk the assistant manager would give when I was a teenage pizza delivery boy. (I'm open to offers if Netflix wants to buy my story...)
Netflix will definitely be interested. I'm assuming you're a body positive black woman, of course. Any chance you're trans or lesbian as well?
Something like that cracked the German moral. Somehow the Germans got a hold of U.S. air drop and found a birthday cake while they were eating worms and bugs.
30 MINUTES OR LESS! THAT IS OUR MISSION!
@@orlock20 Wait, is that an actual thing that happened? Thats hilarious.
@@jaywerner8415 The concept was depicted in the movie "The Battle of the Bulge."
You wrecked these mail lady hero's stories of sorting mail!! 😆 🤣 😂
I've seen someone ask "Why isn't this called 'Madea Goes Postal'?"
Perry is so angry he didn't get to make it first.
We already had Madea goes to space
Even Tyler Perry thought this was a terrible idea.
It would be a lot better if it was Madea
@@mcnuggetappleMadea goes to the moon*
Laughing aside, as someone that served, I can tell you we lived for those letters. Back in those days, no facebook, no cell phones, no text. Not even a phone call.
Thank you for your service❤
Well maybe they should have told the story about you and your fellow service people.
And I was thinking about that angle on the story. There could be a truly great film or series looking in to these women far from home and the real issues of culture shock as it must have been. There is humor and humanity and poignancy in this, particularly juxtaposing stories of real letters that had actual consequences symbolically for thematic reasons. The sad thing is that these days there are few writers up to the task, let alone production teams that could pull it off well..
@@Rebecca-dm1coThey have....it's called Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, Dunkirk, Fury, Hacksaw Ridge, Pearl Harbor and plenty others
I find it interesting that the majority of the people in these comments thought that these women signed up to serve in the military to sort mail…the story was also about the “war” they fought internally trying to serve their country…why do you think these women were giving this relatively menial task by their superiors I. The military?
MY BOY! as soon as you mentioned the Night Witches you got my like. They are an unbelievably forgotten part of WWII that should be brought up.
Amazing, insane story
Modern writers will never make them justice.
I really appreciate Sabaton for bringing them into the limelight. They were so cool.
nacht hexen!
They chose a great title!
In just the last month I have discovered that the 2nd WW was in fact won by these postal workers and about 35 members of the British SAS. What a time to be alive.
That drone shot going over literal fields of unsorted post brought a tear to my eye. Oh, the humanity. Lest we forget! Not a single postcard should ever be left behind.
Oh just say it. You don’t like the show because it’s a bunch of black women
@@LW13rc oh just say it, you only defend it BECAUSE it's a bunch of black women. See, the bs works both ways. Maybe, just maybe, people are lampooning it because it's over dramaticized and a bit silly
When it started with "the problems we are having with the mail", I definitely thought it was talking about "the male".
I guess they wrote this script on purpose.
Lol
The male gaze
The white mail!
Get it because the envelope was white. Hello.
OHHH COME ON DON'T LEAVE!
That was the intention, yes.
Drinker's american accent is an extra christmas present.I didn't expect I'd get this year. God bless you. You magnificent bastard.
I was actually impressed with his Texan accent there.
He and Mauler can have a legit conversation in their Texas style American accents and nobody would know something was off lol.
I would watch the shit out of a series about the night witches.
When they got to their targets they would cut their engines, and dive super low before dropping their bombs.
Which is what gave them their name, the Germans wouldn't hear or see any planes, then all of a sudden shit would just start exploding, THEN they'd hear the engines start up and fly away. It was like the planes just appeared over their bases out of thin air. Like magic.
Inglorious Wahmen
Inglorious Blacksterds? 🤔
Imposteus wahmen
Saving Private Ryan's....... letters.
Stalingrad: The mail run.
Das mail sorters.
Underrated comment!!
Inglorious batt whaman.....
The germans gave the nickname "die Nachthexen" Night Witches because they used to idle the engine and the only noise giving up their attack run was the wind passing thru the wires between the wings.
They were very difficult to intercept by german fighters because the top speed of their planes was slower than the stall speed of Bf-109 and FW-190.
I would totally watch that movie.......
The Germans didnt do anything bro… there isnt a single German source on them. Heck the German wiki page quotes a populist historian book translated from English based on Russian propaganda books…
Not doubting the unit existed but they very likely werent called night witches and were not perceived specifically prominently by the Germans…
Not to mention some of their supposed strengths are just beyond ridiculous- no, being in a slower old plane doesnt make it more difficult to shoot them down…
But did they refer to themselves as Boss babes though? No? Then you won't get a movie
Now that's a story I would like to see turned into a mini series or film.
@@FeralPlumber it would be declared Russian propaganda.
Fighting Postmen from the rear.
Delivering mail, they have no fear.
500 tons were delivered today.
And it was done the Netflix way!
Geez, I can't even...
Totally on par with any Sabaton Song my good Sir! 🤣
Fucking great reference I swear I have never seen someone reference the ballad of the green berets despite all the military history I watch
Post”men”? You’re never gonna make a successful Netflix minion, soldier!
Propaganda, proper gender, tomato, tomeido ^^
You forgot the line- "The route to your address is not clear. A doggo bit my derriere. "
Anyone who got my mail and care packages to me on deployment was GDamn hero idc who they were
Of all the movies of 2024 this was definitely one of them.
"There are no boring subjects, only boring writers".
--H.L. Mencken
A movie that showed the ironical and comical experiences of a military mail service trying to deliver the personal amid the inhumane could have expressed the understated heroism of the everyday people involved.
But then, "understated" is something Hollywood lost track of decades ago.
Right! I could actually see this being a decent war dramedy in the MASH vein, but that clearly isn't what they're going for.
Sounds like a Red vs Blue bit.
100% - actually a good premise but its Hollywood we're talking about so 🤷♂
personnel in logistics always gets shafted and hated upon. not surprised why the CriticalDrinker hates them
Kind of like Good Morning Vietnam, which is a about a radio DJ in a war zone. I mean, I hate Robin WIlliams, but it was an entertaining film I admit.
The rest of us will be spending the Christmas holidays watching Band of Brothers.
Hoora
Currahee!
CURAHEE!
Yep. Somehow I’ve never actually seen that yet but seeing this is the final push I needed to finally sit down and watch the whole series.
CURAHEE!
"Night witches"
Sabaton intensifies.
Real
FROM THE DEPTHS OF HELL IN SILENCE!!!
@@taudvore259 CAST THEIR SPELLS, EXPLOSIVE VIOLENCE!
@@taudvore259CAST THEIR SPELLS, EXPLOSIVE VIOLENCE
They gave them obsolete planes so they flew only at night and turned their engines off when nearing the target. The germans couldn't see or hear the attacks coming. They were devastated and believed they were under attack by something supernatural when it was really just Russian women in canvas biplanes.
My great Uncle Chuck flew as a B-17 bomber pilot in both the African and European theatres. He was originally going to fly his first sortie with the crew he trained with, but was held back State-side for specialist wing navigation training. His original crew were all lost in combat flying with a different pilot while he was at this training; they were shot down and flamed out in the French mountains. His original plane, the Rangey Lil, was transferred to another bomber wing and went down in the Mediterrenean. Uncle Chuck was the only survivor of the Rangey Lil and her crew.
Uncle Chuck would continue to have crazy luck the rest of the war. He was routinely sent into literal hell; swarms of Luftwaffe figthters, flak ripping chunks off the plane, and he still made it back every time. In one of the 1943 sorties, he was tasked with a bomber mission over Dresden. They made their targets after heavy losses, but Uncle Chuck's plane was so badly shredded by flak that they had to jury-rig the flight controls to have any elevational control. Uncle Chuck got his crew to bail out over Allied North Africa, and then he and his co-pilot managed to land the plane. Both of them fully expected to die making the attempt, but planes were in desperate need at that point in the war. (Edit: managed to find his plane's name, Dirty Gerty)
After VE Day, Uncle Chuck became a favorite pilot to shuttle top brass around Europe. Not because he was a good pilot, he'd say, but because he was "safe". Meaning he somehow always came back alive. Uncle Chuck was a hell of a guy. He liked Jameson whiskey and unpasteurised illegal Stilton he bought from an Amish community. He was kind to everyone and treated all with dignity. He managed to get back to Europe one last time in his 90s; I can only imagine the ghosts he saw. And if you'd have asked to make a movie about him, I bet he would have turned you down. Because there were guys like him everywhere in that generation; he never considered himself special. (Edited this to make sure it's accurate. Uncle Chuck deserves no less.)
Man, that's a story! Salute to your great uncle!!
My father-in-law served on a submarine in the Pacific in WWII and had stories...being depth charged, sinking ships and hearing the Japanese sailors drown.... but, he survived! How? Because of the stress he developed bleeding stomach ulcers and while recuperating in a Navy hospital in Hawaii his sub went out on a mission and didn't come back... it was sunk, mistakenly depth charged by a Navy Destroyer....
My dad was in the US Army as a machine gunner, infantry, in the Pacific. He was in New Guinea, on one of the islands off the NG coast, then Philippines, and then Hiroshima as an MP during the occupation of Japan. On NG he and his company were trekking along a ravine-road en route to take a Japanese airstrip; some US fighters passed by overhead and mistook them for Japanese somehow and started strafing them. My dad--who never told this story until very late in life, after his stroke--saw the two men directly on either side of him suddenly lose their heads. As in, suddenly their heads did not exist anymore. That's a moment that stayed with him the rest of his life.
Godspeed, Uncle Chuck.
No disrespect to your uncle, but stories like this are hard to come by! I still want to see this made in some way.
Now THIS is an inspirational story. Your Uncle Chuck lived through a time I pray none of us have to see, but I fear will come again.
Between the ink running out, the paper cuts, the over utilization of commas… it was madness… many of these ladies never left the glorified UPS with the same mind. My hats off… so strong and independent!
The horror of seeing all those body bags. Oh wait, they're just postal bags. Well, back to work then to do heroic sorting.
And don't forget, brave and stunning!
i think its a good thing. What people don't realize is this is what the military is for the majority of people in the military. tedious and mind numbing. In the US Army at least the majority of served never saw combat. Most were truck drivers, supply clerks, mechanics, medical personal etc.
Imagine the horror... a letter with no postal code, no street, just a city... how does one even begin to figure out where this should go?!?!? The drama! The suspense!
@@siegehardtwell, what did you think the movie would be about??
It was a pretty good movie. I never even thought about how the mail got delivered in WW2 until I watched the movie. They did very important work.
When Netflix needs to fill their DEI quota before the new year
They just do this and Cover Their A’s for the year
That and giving a Humm job to bureaucrats, your not everything wrong with modern society. Your heroes 😂
Oh, they've done that many times over in a single year.
DEI according to Netflix.
an all white movie = racist
an all black movie = diversity
an all Hispanic movie = diversity
an all Asian movie = diversity
Literally the only reason this was made.
0:36 ... well i am german so i guess i am not really supposed to answer this o_O
bruh 😂
Lol hahahahaha
😂
Ehre dem Vaterland
The main thing is that you already apologized to some random people on the streets... for somethin' 😅
"I am sorry madam , your stunning and brave daughter fell in Operation Market Garden, fighting her way through the Black Friday crowds."
- Band of Sisters
"Sista's"😂
*Sistahs
Yeah that's hilarious. Even though the real Operation M.G. was anything but funny, except for maybe bein' a comedy of errors 'cause of a bunch of dumbshit politicians in uniform's hubris. But yeah, seriously focus on the legit female heroes of WW-2 who were in actual danger.
That's band of sistahs, tyvm
Getting your mail in the army from your family gives you strength and hope people like them are the backbone of the military they deserve credit but i cant imagine the show having mutch excitement
“I don’t care what they taught you in school…” my grandmama always said “…The postmaster general was BLACK”
they actually are making a show on... sorting mail. We have peaked
Guess the point of the movie actually blew over your simple mind
why not ?
Everything making the boys less lonely, less depress in the front in 1943 woth been know.
Imagine how many boys got a moral boost thanks to that.
Everyone has a task to do in time of war.
Now I didn't see the show.
I t always how you can make it interresting.
I suppose it's bad because it wants to push the "message" instead of telling a story.
Yeah I thought it was bad when people were working delivery and other shit jobs in video games for fun….but humans out did ourselves with this one.
@@Orly90 What's the point of the movie? Blk glorification? Not again! LOL
you're intentionally simplifying the movie to hate. "sorting mail" because that was the only task they were given due to discrimination. "mail" that was a lifeline for the many soldiers who served. maybe provide context before commenting.
The Drinkers American accent had me in tears of laughter. 😂 Bless you and Merry Christmas from across the pond.
Best part of this video hahaha Merry Christmas!
Yeah it was great
Tried watching it but Netflix kept throwing errors. Thanks for saving me two hours of my life.
1:53 Wow, the Critical Drinker does a pretty good American accent.
I love that @chinaUncensored watches Critical Drinker. Two of my Favorite Channels.
That completely threw me off guard
It's were his pay cheques come from....his right boys
Dude I love this crossover
Shame he can't do an English one because he's a Jockanese.
"I love the smell of envelope glue in the morning. It smells like...VICTORY!" ;)
I really enjoyed the part where a woman affixed a stamp very firmly to an envelope. The music was intense and the lighting dramatic
@@chelseapoet3664 this is the assignment they were given!! They wanted more but the ignorance the comments is the same ignorance that was pervasive during that time.
@@lynne4948 liberal found :P
@@lynne4948And, like Cleopatra and The Woman King, there are plenty of genuinely heroic and fascinating stories they could have made a movie about. Instead this is another piece of nonsense, at least this one is historically accurate, but seriously no one cares. At the very least don't try to stretch it into having the vibe of a story about heroism. A slow burn drama would be better.
@@lynne4948 Doing all necessary jobs for war effort is 👍 But it's beyond ridiculous to display job in postal office in 100% safety area as belief-shattering heroic.. You're the ignorant one if you are too ignorant to understand this simple fact. You want to know who were the heroic women in truest sense of the word ''heroic''? The women who worked in medical field - working long exhausting shifts dealing with gruesome sight, attending severely wounded soldiers. And sometimes some of those female medics paying with their lives to aid wounded soldiers in active combat zones. But yeah, go with your ignorance cuz blowing facts out of proportion is typical for leftie Hollywood for the sake of grabbing cash from lefties who are blindly throwing money at anything that contains THE MESSAGE 🤡
@@lynne4948 you are the ignorant one
Thank you, Sir. I'm just glad someone said it....out loud...for all to hear. whew!
Soon as i saw this pop up on Netflix i knew exactly what it was going to be like without ever having to actually burn up minutes of my life viewing it im glad others feel the same now being close to Christmas i think ill go watch "Its a wonderful life" and bring back memories of childhood watching with mum and dad Merry Christmas to everyone!!
You mean when you saw it "poop up on Netflix"...😂
I saw an ad for it on my phone and with all the filters going on and the dialogue, it looks like an AI generated movie, but it isn't. That's how bad I think it looks
Why, you're not grumpy at all. Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas my friend!
Oh my god, this film is amazing, i clapped when that guy had his mail delivered in the end...such a heart racing, tense moment, i cried and blubbered like a baby, good on you Netflix for making a monumental, brave, epic movie, god bless all of you!!
My favourite part was when the postman walked into no-mans land and said "You've got mail" and proceeded to mail all over the Germans. Bravo Vince!
Eventually Netflix will make Bill Burr's Table Tennis movie.
"They're going to steal the paddles."
If Michael Bay is on board for a skibidi toilet cinematic universe, everything is possible
Thank you for the real-examples that really illustrate your point. Very inspiring to honor them. Hopefully they get honored in an even bigger way in the future.
And your corporate examples were hilarious.
Next up from Netflix: "Peeler". The heroic tale of an Army cook who peeled over 10,000 potatoes in the European theater of WWII. Plot twist: He wasn't Irish.
:O not Irish? Tell me more!
😂😂😂😂😂
Not even remotely funny or clever.
@@OniFeezHe was indian
@@based8223ok feminist
This is an injustice to our brothers who died in WW2.
AND everyone who survived.
It's an injustice to everyone even our enemies would side with us on this sheit.
And those in the Women's Auxiliary Corps, and nurses who were killed in the line of duty.
And sisters!
Meanwhile my grand-grandfather lost his leg fighting for his family to have a better future and returned home a different man... I don't know how to deal with this amount of disrespect from Netflix.
" The American and British storming Normandy"
Shows the landing of the Canadians xD
Thanks man...nice to be appreciated
Isn't "British + American" pretty much the very description of "Canadian"?
@@f500raptor One of my grad professors told me that the UofT combined all the worst aspects of the American university system and the British university system into one.
For once, the roles are reversed
Ha Canadians are smart my grandfather worked his way up the trench line in WW1 and ended up with them
If he hadn't the British would of inadvertently accidentally killed him
@@f500raptor well thats upsettingly accurate.
There was a Russian woman from the USSR who, after her husband died, used her own tank to fight the Germans in WW2.
Thank God there are movies made before 2000 that we can watch
I think anything post-Obama is where it went sour.
Bullseye 🎯🎯🎯
Excatly
My father was drafted into the Army in the fall of 1944 (he hadn't even graduated from high school yet). He went to Basic at Camp Roberts in California and was eventually shipped overseas, just in time to participate in the Battle of the Bulge and live outdoors for months in freezing temperatures, trying his best not to be killed. He ran all over France and Germany, clear to the Czechoslovakia border as part of the 90th Infantry Division, Patton's 3rd Army. He witnessed many friends die a horrible death, he was wounded and hospitalized for months, and even walked into the Flosenberg concetration camp, where he saw bodies stacked like firewood. I can't imagine how he processed all of this death and destruction as an 18-19 year old young man. He never talked about any of this, we had to drag it out of him towards the end of his life. He never wanted any credit, accolades, or nothing. To the day he died, he suffered from his experience. To think, if he had been a postal worker in England in 1945, he could have been part of a Netflix series and called a "hero." Miss you dad, you'll be a hero in my eyes.
Sybau this movie did you really make you right all this Bs here, this one movie and your insecurities want through the roof
God Bless his soul and his Glory is forever
What a story... so many broken people forgotten by history that lived lives that would make any popular story look like it was written by a child.
but he fought for the wrong side
he had no reason to be in europe, an Invader he was
My dad worked 48 hours straight pulling bodies out of the water, after the attack on Pearl Harbor. In the ensuing struggle for the control of the Pacific, he had two aircraft carriers blasted out from under him, once leaving him floating in the frigid waters off the Aleutian Islands. He eventually succumbed to the permanent damage done to his kidneys at age 44. And to think that had he only been a military postal worker he could have been honored with a Netflix series. I guess he should have aimed higher.
Well for what it's worth I dont think he signed up to be honored with a Netflix special lol.
How do you feeling we had advanced knowledge of PH and chose not to act on it?
RIP hero... I mean, a REAL hero.
🙏🏽
You're dad was a real and true hero. I'll remember this more than I'll ever put memory into this ridiculous movie.
I would love to hear about the battle where American, German, and an SS officer successfully fought against an entire SS battalion in a castle in france
When he said that first line about the problems they're having with the mail, I honestly thought he meant 'male' and it seemed perfectly believable that someone would say that on a Netflix show.
yep - same here :D
*"DIRTY, YUCKY BOYS! I'M CHOOSING TO BE LESBIAN!"*
My Grandfather was drafted into the US Army right out of high school. He fought in Europe, was captured by Germans, spent six months as a prisoner of war, and when liberated, he went right back to fighting. He even made it to Berlin not long after it had been taken. And do you know what recognition he received for it?
Not much. Just a thanks from the Army, the appreciation of his family, and a wax figure of him in some small WW2 museum in France. That's it. No movie, no statue in a large public square, no book detailing his heroics.
And you know what, that was fine with him. He didn't do it for recognition; he did it because...well he was drafted...but he didn't have to keep fighting once he was liberated. He did so because he wanted to make sure those back home were safe. Because that's what a true hero does.
So for this movie to say that those that sat in a nice building and sorted letters deserve just as much respect and faced just as much hardship is not only demeaning, but also setting a bad precedent for WW2 stories in the future.
My Grandpa would be ashamed that this is how the conflict he fought through is being portrayed.
Did he ever tell you how he felt when the mail was called and there was something for him? Sorting mail is not risking life and limb. But I'm willing to bet that those letters he got, helped him get through it all.
@@AlejandroDiazadiaz201way to miss the point. I bet they appreciated getting toilet paper delivered too. Should there be a movie about that?
@@AlejandroDiazadiaz201
Letters from home certainly help with morale, but I think having functioning supply lines with food and ammunition, or finally breaking through enemy fortifications after days of fighting in the same spot probably boosted morale even more than letters from home. On the order of things important for soldiers to fight on, communication with family members at home isn’t very high. At least compared to necessary supplies and victories
I think he'd still appreciate their work
@Engieman909 Keep in mind that there was no internet, no international phone, no satellites. People need to remember what and who they fight for. Otherwise...what's the point?
Thanks Drinker, for mentioning all these valid examples of unsung heroes of diverse background in WW2
the heroes were the Germans
@@basilmagnanimous7011 Well there were a ton of Jewish resistance groups who really gave ze Fuhrer a proper ass whoopin' along with pretty much anyone who was pissed off at Uncle Adolf.
1:57 lol jesus. Now I know how UK feels when Americans do their accents 😂😂😂😂
My favourite part is when the 6888 liberated Belin, and declared it Neo-Wakanda.
Bro…just…more of this…
My favorite part is when they broke off, went into Africa and liberated the slaves.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
I thought Wotjek aka that Polish bear did that.
Wakanda forever.....
I've watched this man for many years and never heard a US accent. Now he's done 2 in 1 video! Amazing.
Right?! That accent was great! 😆
he reminds me of Fleekazoid lmao
@@CharlieFoxtrot yes sir!
Someone: "hey do you remember when hundreds of millions of men died to change history"
Netflix: "not any more you don't"
Oh please however it does seem many want to suppress knowledge of segregation and Jim Crow. Black soldiers fought a Double V campaign
@@DrJhengsman sure those people exist but the minority isn't the majority. Then there's the aspect of rewriting history as you see fit. Because editing history changes everyone's perspective. Then there's also misrepresenting the person and thier person achievements beliefs and values. Also historicapl all the nastiest most oppressive regimes always rewrite history as they see it. In short no one should be seeking to rewrite history as they see it
@@DrJhengsman”oh please” he said in s high pitched and whiny voice, shaking from emotion, not realizing how pathetic it all is 😂
@@DrJhengsman The thing is a lot of modern US movies try to project it on the rest of the world. I’m from Eastern Europe, we experienced nazism, communism, all flavours of death camps….so when I watch a movie and it’s like “white people don’t know oppression” it honestly triggers me
@@peterk2735It's only ever British afterbirth people who say that. Just point and laugh at them, they're children after all lol
Really appreciated your substantive and detailed list of better alternatives. Thank you for the respect and thoughtful attention to some of these real life stories.
"They worked in a building with no heat and faced discrimination!"
Woould any of them like to trade places with frontline soldiers?
Somehow I think the dudes who landed on Saipan or had to fight at Kursk would glady accept a mailroom job.
@@nickseraphin3988 The film didn't claim they had it worse, it's just you who's making the comparison.
@@fajastata2 its sarcasm bro, c'mon now
Most people don't even know that St. Petersburg was under siege for basically the entire war, that something like **1.5 MILLION** civilians died there. That one city's civilian toll is very nearly greater than all American, French, and British war losses COMBINED.
There's never been a single Western movie or show about that battle. But they'll make one about the ladies who sorted the mail cause they fit the right woke category.
Even Newman from Seinfeld faces more danger than them
I’m a black woman and I approve of this message. I’m so sick of this sh*t. Hollywood has me so tired, that I’m at the point where I don’t want to see ANY stories whatsoever about black people pre-civil rights. They’ve beaten this horse to death. 🐴 ☠️ So much so that now when a black person even pops up on my screen on any new show or film, no matter what time period, I roll my damn eyes.
That is interesting because I do the same thing. It’s only because I hate when people shoehorn race into things or how they change history like they do. It just really bugs me
Prepare to be saved. Resistance is futile.
@@colincolombo2095So the show is not historically accurate? I have to ask because I’m balck and I don’t care to watch it either, so there’s no way for me to tell.
THANK. YOU! I feel the same way about this and any western media with a "strong female lead". When did any black people ask for this cheap pandering? Did we ask to replace every redhead in media? Hollywood is fake and lazy. This is lowest effort of progressivism. We see right through it. 😣
Strange how they were supposedidly treated so badly yet...they weren't sent to clear minefields, mine coal, smelt steel, defuse bombs or get shot at...they were conscripted to sort mail, do laundry, cook and do paperwork...boy...those racist white folks sure showed them getting slaughtered by the hundreds of thousands to show who was really fit to fight for the good old USA 🤦
Let it be known after the war the 6 triple 8 battalion had a hard time coping with post traumatic stress disorder after experiencing relentless incoming mail that keeps on coming and coming and coming. There are some of these hardy soldiers that went postal afterwards
You mean Post Office Stress Disorder right?
its POST traumatic alright
I'm hoping that was a Newman reference
@@SkittishEgg There are rumors Newman's great grandfather served in this batallion. There was a time during the war they where almost ran over but he urged other soldiers to keep on sorting and because of that they where able to hold the line
During reunions they offer a moment of silence to all the mail that has been lost but never forgotten
They pushed the envelope and helped to make sure the Germans were well and truly licked. As for the Japs their fate was self sealed
my great-aunt was in this unit, however I feel like a documentary would have been a more appropiate choice, but I think it's still cool to hear these untold stories
My granny was a part of the team responsible for protecting Moscow in 1942 when the enemy was approaching the city. She wasn't fighting herself but she helped to construct barricades and disguise buildings of cultural importance so they wouldn't get bombed. It was still a dangerous job because of air strikes and the possibility the enemy sezing the city. She was only 22, my age now and I can't imagine myself in her shoes. After the war she got a medal and was considered a veteran of labor.
My grandfather had five brothers and three of them never made it home. We don't even know where and how they died, they just stopped writing one day. One of they died because of an accident near Berlin in the april of 1945, a couple of weeks before Germany declared its defeat. I swear the people living in my village have so many stories to tell, had so many men whose fate is still unknown, so many people returning from labor camps and people who fought and got injured. And now you wanna tell me that post workers living in a (relatively) safe area have suffered the most? Really now?
World war II were man died on mass, women most effected
Tell her you love her shes a good woman
Жаль что ты это все придумал, дуремар
Who the Hell said they suffered "the most?" They weren't the Jews. They weren't the Russians. They weren't the German women who were retaliated against with rape. They weren't Chinese peasants caught between Japs on one side and civil war on the other. They weren't comfort women. They weren't office workers in Nagasaki. They weren't at Nanking, Bataan, Baba Yar, Auschwitz or any of those places. And they weren't the infantrymen who stormed the beaches.
But if you want a movie about the infantrymen who DID storm the beaches, I DO have an entire stack of those. And I literally ONLY mean about the D-Day landing ALONE. I could EASILY make a similar stack about the troops who fought in Market Garden or the Bulge or the push into Germany.
Now...your GRANDMOTHER has the right to say that she deserves a movie about herself more than a bunch of postal workers.
But instead of you going out and making one, all YOU did was bitch that somebody else didn't make one about her.
And the guy who made THIS video? He DIDN'T even make it UNTIL Netflix made this show. It sure got under HIS soft, smooth and sensitive skin.
EVERYBODY'S got a WW2 story. My great uncle was a photo recon pilot serving in a squadron who's number, still, to this day, doesn't exist due to the extremely sensitive and specialized nature of the work they were up to. But MOST stories ARE mundane. My mom's father was an Army quartermaster on Okinawa and my dad's father was a Naval postal clerk.
One of my granddads volunteered in 1941 during the draw to defend Moscow, and went on to liberate Belarus and "ukraine". He got in SMERSH eventually, and for all the bullshit about "zagrad-otryads" people have no idea how many Nazi collaborators were on German-occupied territories of the USSR, unfortunately, and how vital it was to root them out, especially amongst the troops.
My other granddad was conscripted a couple of years before the war, he was in the cavalry, and during the course of it was re-trained as an artillerymen, fought at Stalingrad. In 1944 was captured and sent to a death/labor camp in France, from which he ran when the camp infrastructure began to fell apart with the US troops were approaching their area. They both survived, they both were heroes of that war.
But hey, there's critical wanker denigrating the heroism and sacrifices of the Red Army with the usual westoid "starving conscripts" schlock.
In a world..... where determined soldiers faced a mountain....of bags of mail....... facing illegible addressing, and sometimes inadequate postage. oh, the horror !!!
those papercuts hurt man
It's more about the fact that these men likely hadn't heard back from loved ones, or thought that maybe they were forgotten completely.
Boosting morale by getting those letters to troops would have made a world of difference.
I'm not sure why this true story was made into a movie, but it is an interesting one nonetheless (could have made for a decent documentary).
In other words Jim Crow wasn't bad let's put them back in the lower caste.
Not a bad job with your "'Murican" accent! I'm impressed!
This was all done without post codes, a heroic effort indeed.
The 442nd Infantry Regiment was a unit almost entirely composed of second-generation Japanese Americans. They volunteered to fight on the front lines in Europe while their families were back home imprisoned in internment camps.
Weren't they the most highly decorated regiment in the entire US army? And didn't they do Banzai charges at German lines? They definitely deserve a movie.
@@The_fricken_God_Emperor_of_Man Well they did a black and white movie about them years ago with Van Johnson called 'Go For Broke'. Bakatani!
Yep, the Nisei regiment. Fought in some of the nastiest fighting in Italy, gained a host of honors and were literally writing home to their families interned in US concentration camps in many cases. All volunteer ( making them unique in the US Army, even the paratroops had draftees who later volunteered) and the Germans were absolutely terrified of them. When assigned an objective they took it. 800 members of the 442nd died in WW2, versus ZERO members of the "Six Triple EIght"
Or if they want to be REALLY spicy they could make a movie about the Czechoslovakian men forcefully conscripted into the German army after the invasion of their country, to fight against people who wanted to liberate them.
@@TheresNoFreeUsername History is often messy. Bright side tho *Boss* , they got the better uniforms.
The Night Witches got a badass song from Sabaton,that's more credible recognition than anything Hollywood may produce.
Banger.
Yeah... what a way to miss a good series to watch.
Undetected, unexpected
And you can purchase model kits of the aircraft as well.
FROM THE DEPHTS OF HELL IN SILENCE
The only 2 notable things this battalion did during the war were:
1. They created a card index to sort through millions of parcels efficiently while living in crowded living conditions with an unsupportive command.
2. Their Captain told the General to kick rocks when he tried to get someone else to do it (respect)
That’s… it. Not worth a whole Netflix story. Respect to the women that served in this battalion, they did more than the people of Netflix can ever hope to achieve.
Or maybe it is netflix that isn't worth wasting another story on? I didn't regard this as a war movie but more of a black emancipation movie - as that, it's not that bad.
the director is a black supremacist so I don't know what to tell you
3. they gave morale to the front lines, and people got to hear from their loved ones after months of not hearing from them
@samuelemcnbut white women could have done it better.
@@raftonpounder6696 in the story the white women were already employed on a diffrent job so thats why the 6888 batallion was their last option that were forced to take it.
also i dont think the color of your skin will make you better than the other person in work, work is about sheer dedication.
Pushed a mail cart in the Army, it was FUN!!! Everyone loves you, everyone wants their packages, it's always goodies from home or letters from lovers that raise morale so much that mail becomes essential, people move out of the way for the cart, let me cut in line for food, give me smokes, it was a hoot.
Mariya Oktyabrskaya's story would make a great film. Husband killed by Nazi's, sold stuff to buy a tank and donate it to the war. Requested and got permission and training to use it. Used tank to kill Nazis.
Tank got damaged during a battle. Got out and repaired it but was fatally wounded doing so.
Yes, she was an interesting person. An actually interesting person that didn't make her identity some type of heroic struggle. I suggest people look into her.
Mark Felton has a good video dedicated to her story on his channel.
Badass. Were I the director, I would've gone with Doris Miller. Worked in the mess hall of a carrier in Pearl Harbor, won the boxing tournament they had on board. During the attack, he helped aid injured soldiers, then manned a turret and took down somewhere between one and six planes. They sent him on leave afterward, but he asked to be sent back out. His ship was torpedoed and went down while they celebrated victory after the Battle of Makin on the eve of Thanksgiving -- the only ship lost in the operation. Absolute hero
Anything perpetuating the "evil Nazis" narrative is pure cringe. The leveraging of that junk is how we ended up with absurd movies like one this video is reviewing. Normies never learn though.
@@sandwichninja What the actual hell man
Saving Private Mail.
Behind Mail Lines.
Top Mail.
Inglourious Mailers.
Don’t forget Black Mail Down. 😂
And who can’t forget “Delivering Mail Over the River Kwai”😂😂
@@senecaaurelius1811 LMAO.
Band of Sistas - I can't believe you idiots left that low hanging fruit
Band of sisters
"I had a dream today! And holy balls did it suck! Ya'll don't learn nuthin!" ---Martin Luther King Jr
Martin was a communist that hated Caucasians, why White People think he’s an important historical figure shows indoctrination.
I don't care who you are, that's funny right there now!
Turned out we judged them for their character all along
@@finkamain1621 Good thing nobody's judging yours.
This is the nightmare that was his ‘Dream’
Love how early advertising for this film did not mention what it was truly about
Wow, this movie made my 3 deployments as an Airborne Infantry man seem like a cake walk. The way this movie was made seems like most of these women should get medal of of honors. I'm so inspired that I'm embarrassed to have had a job in the army in the front lines. Without these women, we would have lost the war, at least thats what I see in the commercials.