BAND OF BROTHERS Reaction Episode 3 "Carentan" First Time Watching [Reupload]
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- The copyright blocks have been confusing on this series, I apologize about the extra notifications.
We return to Easy Company, and this time we're following Private Blythe's story.
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Lieutenant Meehan was the commanding officer of Easy Company. Meehan's plane was the one in episode 2 that we see engulfed in flames and crashing. Before the engine explodes and sets them on fire, you hear one of the pilots saying, "Tell Meehan to get them out of there!" The soldiers didn't know when they would be leaving for d-day, so they'd likely have left laundry at the shop before they left for the invasion.
If fact they were all listed as Missing In Action until the 1950s when the wreckage of their plane was found in a French field. There is now a memorial at the site.
No spoiler intended here. Joe Liebgott, played so well by Scottish actor Ross McColl, was a hard-nosed killer of the enemy. The way he takes care of Tipper after the storefront explosion always touches me. He is very tender and caring.
Same, it’s very touching. And agreed, Ross McCall is so good in this.
Just a note: They don't mention him again in the series or identify him at the end so I don't think this is a spoiler, but Tipper, the man hit by artillery in the house, who Liebgott took care of, actually survived his wounds. He is the vet in the intro who said that he figured he'd either die right away or get through without a scratch.
He was the man who had so many love letters that Sobel got upset in the barracks inspection. He also handed Sobel the map when the barbed wire fence was cut.
In the end scene with Malarkey, the laundry was left from before they jumped into Normandy. The soldiers didn't know when the invasion would exactly take place, and once announced, all leaves are immediately cancelled for security reasons. The left over bundles were for soldiers like Meehan who was killed during the invasion, and Blithe who was too wounded to pick it up.
Yes, Blithe survives. One of the few mistakes Band of Brothers makes. Then went on to serve, with distinction in the Korean War. "The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function: without mercy, without compassion, without remorse. All war depends upon it.”
- Captain Ronald Speirs. He's more than a man of his word and will soon prove it for the entire company. Currahee
Wow...they really are giving you guys a seriously hard time...I hope it gets easier as it goes. Here is a like and a copy/paste of the comment to match what I did on the first upload...
Quick note about this episode...the makers of the show could not fully portray the terrain around Carentan the way it really was, so it is really hard for people to understand why the troops went straight up the road to get into the town. The Germans had flooded all the areas around Carentan, and the only ways into the town were across the few raised causeways...which the Germans defended heavily. There was no option for the Americans trying to get into the town but to get across the causeways as fast as possible, there was no way to approach the town under cover or concealment. The makers of the show did the best they could, but there was just no way for them to show how really constrained the access points to the town were.
It is one of the reasons I recommend that channel The Operations Room to folks....because they show the real battles so you can see the few important things they could not get historically correct show in the series.
The stories about Spiers were true!!
He did shoot POWs, but it was a standing order to take no prisoners this early in the campaign, if you remember that was D-Day itself!!
As far as the story of him shooting a sergeant it is also true but it was deemed to be self-defense!!
The sergeant pulled his weapon on Spiers and Spiers had to kill him!! But it was for dereliction of duty while he was having an issue with the sergeant in the first place!!
No such order was ever issued. it is a direct violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and for very good reasons which go far beyond ethics or morality. In any event, this was not a case of simply not taking prisoners under whatever bizarre justification one cares to advance; this was a case of killing prisoners who had already been taken. Having already taken them prisoner, there was a duty of care. If there was some actual genuine apprehension that those men could or would somehow return to the fight against the Americans either by escaping or being freed, there were many ways they could have been rendered combat ineffective without killing them. They wouldn't have been very useful to the Germans with a broken leg for instance. It was just a murder, plain and simple. I won't speculate on his motivations for it, but there was no order.
@@andrewcharles459 well since I doubt very highly that you were there and know whether or not there was actually an order then everything you say is really pointless!!
The fact of the matter is Spears out of his own mouth admitted to killing Germans who were taken prisoners!!
Dick Winters, in an interview, talks about it!! But how would you suppose the American soldiers would have handled taking prisoners on the very first day of an invasion operation!???? I Don't understand the reasoning behind your input!! All parties involved have been dead quite a long time!!
I'm going by information that has been told by people that were actually there!!
@@bernardsalvatore1929 If you have a reference for such a criminal order, by all means produce it. But Speirs was not unique. Members of I Company, 2/502 PIR murdered 30 other German prisoners just a few miles away at Audouville-la-Hubert the same day. They did it out of revenge for their heavy casualties. None of them ever tried to justify it by claiming they were ordered to do it. "I was just following orders" is not a defense anyway, as Nuremburg showed.
@@andrewcharles459 once again Ace the so-called "crimes" that you speak of took place 80 years ago and the people that committed them right or wrong are DEAD!!!
SO WHAT IS YOUR GODDAMN POINT!??
@@andrewcharles459 are you trying to impress everybody with your so-called knowledge!??
If you had knowledge you would have seen an interview that dick Winters spoke about Spears being apprehensive to come over when they had the premiere of Band of Brothers into Europe because of what some of the things that he did!!
Haven't watched you guys much since the Expance. Band of Brothers is amazing.
Make sure you watch the Pacific next. The Japanese made America pay in blood for every inch in the south Pacific. It's also one of the most brutal environments in the world.
Adjusting to a historical story, and one that isn't heavily fictionalized, takes a while.
It's worth noting that the US was in the war because of Japan. The US went to war with Germany because Germany was allied with Japan, and Germany wasn't happy about Japan pulling the US into it. They had made a point of not antagonizing the US to avoid that. It's also worth noting that, at this point, people didn't know about the horrendous things the Nazis were doing, or the Japanese for that matter.
Germany declared war on the US on December 11, 1941, though they were under no obligation to do so under the terms of the Tripartite Pact, which was a strictly defensive alliance. Had they not done so (expecting that Japan would reciprocate and declare war on the USSR, which they did not), it is unlikely the American public would have supported a war against Germany at all.
The copyright is insane!!!
It’s pretty confusing
yeah, i'm a 69 year old veteran who loves this series but i am deeply offended by the fuzzy bullshit so i leave you girls to it, i'll go find a reviewer adult enough to not be triggered by a little make believe blood, for real you girls wouldn't have survived the first day of training.
I get your frustration, but it's more youtube being a pussy a** bi**h about it, some people get enough patreon money so they can give less shits, but for upstart ones, I get the censoring. But I hope you find what you're looking for my man!
The show says Albert Blithe died because the men of Easy thought he died. He was evacuated back to the States for surgery and further treatment, and they never saw him again. Compounding that is that there was another man in the 506th -- but not a member of Easy Company -- named Albert Blythe (note the spelling), who was wounded and died. Two men from Easy Company attended Blythe's funeral (he's buried at the American Cemetary in Normandy), thinking it was Blithe's, and they spread the word that Blithe had died.
So when they told Stephen Ambrose the story, they told the story that he died. He actually survived to serve in the Korean War, and did not die until the late 1960s but no one in Easy Company or any of the show's production team knew it until after this episode was first broadcast back in 2001.
Tipper, the guy who got blown all to hell was actually one of the longest surviving members of Easy. The real man was actually in the intro, the guy saying he thought he's die instantly or get through without a scratch.
"Terrifying work have to keep your head in the game"
When you watch videos of Marine Corp bootcamp. And you see a recuit being yelled at given different orders from 2-5 drill instructors. Many ask what does this do to help them. Well it teaches the individual to think during times that are confusing, chaotic, loud and emotional draining.