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Band Of Brothers - We Stand Alone Together - The Men Of Easy Company - REACTION
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- Опубліковано 18 сер 2024
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In June of last year we sadly lost the last member of Easy Company, Bradford Clark Freeman, who was a mortarman with Easy who jumped in with them in Normandy and was with them for the remainder of the war. He lived to 97, and his obituary that i read was posted on the 6th of June, 78 years to the day of the D-Day landings.
Incredible men, one and all. Thank you for this series of videos, I've really enjoyed your reactions.
One of the stories out of this mini series that I've heard has always stuck with me. Major Winters was invited to visit the place where they were filming and so they flew him out to meet the cast and crew and when he arrived most of the crew were on the back of one of the trucks with the tarps over them. Major Winters went over to the truck, lifted the flap and didn't say anything. Stood there for about 10-15 seconds and then lowered the flap, turned away and left and went home. He later told the actors that it was too much seeing them all like that, and when he lifted the tarp he saw all of his friends from those years ago and all the emotions hit him at once and overwhelmed him.
Oh man. I felt that. 😔
A beautiful end to the series gents! I highly recommend that you (and anyone reading this) read about the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. They were a unit compromised of mostly Japanese-Americans (many of whom had family in internment camps in the US) and were the most heavily decorated combat regiment in US history. The stories of their bravery, the discrimination they faced from everyone, and their achievements is incredible. Nothing would make me happier than one day having a Band of Brothers type of series made about them.
One story that's always resonated with me... In Italy there was a German regiment dug in at the top of Mount Belvedere that three American units had been trying to displace for days without any success and heavy casualties. The 442nd asked to try an assault and were given a chance. They climbed, freehand, up the side of the mountain in the dead of night. Eventually they reached the top and took the Germans completely by surprise, killing and capturing all of them. The craziest part? A ton of the 442nd fell off the mountain during their climb up, but none of them screamed out because they knew that it would give away the position of their friends. They fell in silence to their deaths.
They were denied Medals of Honor for decades as well due to racism, and they weren't allowed to fight in the Pacific even though German-Americans had no problems being sent to Europe. Seriously, anyone who wants to learn some amazing stories should check out interviews and documentaries with them on UA-cam. ESPECIALLY watch the interview with Senator Daniel Inouye about how he got his Medal of Honor, it's something out of a video game.
I should think that it would have been very dangerous for them to fight in the Pacific. If they had been captured, the Japanese would have tortured them mercilessly as "traitors".
Wow. This sounds like an amazing story. I hope someone makes it into a movie/tv show as well.
@@RamblersIncthey did, its an old movie called “go for broke!” Funny thing is the movie is named after there motto which they chose because they had nothing to lose and everything to gain
Well the reason they weren’t sent to fight the Japanese honestly makes sense considering how the IJA/IJN treated normal American POWS i dont want to think what horrors the Japanese-Americans would have gone through
Excellent reaction Gentlemen. I pray yet doubt we'll have such men ever again.
They were a different breed
When Winters gives the german officer his sidearm back, he was talking to a Colonel. The pistol he's talking about in this doc comes from a Major. So I think he's talking about a different interaction here.
Awesome react series guys, loved it. Also loving the expanse reaction you're doing too. Keep it up!
It was the same interaction they just changed a few of the facts in the series.
@@Smoshy16Hardly. Winters accepted the surrender of dozens of officers. The OP is correct.
@@catherinelw9365 Not at all. Listen to his interviews. There was only one. Also BoB is based on Ambrose's book. At no point does Winters differ from the interviews. Prove me wrong.
@@Smoshy16 read his memoir. He accepted the surrender of many officers. 🙄 The fact that it was a colonel depicted in the episode and major that Winters referred to clearly indicates that they were two separate events. It’s absurd to assume Winters accepted the surrender of only one officer. 🤦🏻♀️
Thank y'all so much for going the extra mile and watching this Grand Finale. This was the appendix episode in the Box DVD set I got in the early 2000s. There is also a behind the scenes, that shows the boot camp that the actors went through to prepare for this epic mini series and the lengths they went to make it as realistic as possible , from the sets to the costumes to the lingo. If you can find it.
Good wrap up, Gentlemen. Edit: BTW, don't give the German Army (Wehrmacht) too much of a free pass when it came to atrocities. It was a mixed bag. It was Wehrmacht officers who were asked by the Allies to write the after-action reports from the German perspective after the war and they some took the opportunity to write/infer that all atrocities were the work of SS units. While by doctrine the SS was generally more brutal, people being people, not all hands were clean in the Wehrmacht either. The Eastern Front was a particularly uncivil confrontation.
Amen
Yes, and the bringing in of many Wehrmacht officers into the Bundeswehr after West Germany was formed also led to a great whitewashing. A lot of them wrote books, and in none of them, any of them have ever done anything wrong. The "Clean Wehrmacht myth" is very well known and studied.
While I agree with this comment, it shouldn’t be overlooked that there were good German soldiers and officers who actually helped Jews and civilians. They were caught in the middle of a war they didn’t agree with and some died as a result of their actions or inaction to do the right thing. Wilhelm Canaris was head of the Abwehr (German intelligence) and he was secretly helping the Allies because he saw the atrocities committed in the Eastern Front and opposed the war. He turned a blind eye to Allied espionage and activities, allowed German secrets to be exposed to the Allies, until he was caught. He was horribly tortured and executed as a traitor.
There were the German officers who led an attempted assassination of Hitler, and many other incidents where individual officers helped Jews escape from capture such as Capt. Wilhelm Hosenfeld portrayed in The Pianist. I recently read an account of a Russian woman who told of her grandmother and mother, whose home was taken to house a German officer. He warned them that the SS were coming and to hide in a cave in the woods to evade execution.
No, I don’t adhere to the clean Wehrmacht story, but it’s equally wrong to dismiss or ignore those decent Germans in the Wehrmacht who tried to help others and were killed for it. They should be remembered.
@@catherinelw9365 Agreed.
I wouldn't give any faction a free pass in war
So Easy was in training until September 43 then shipped to England and trained until dday 44. Meanwhile, the marines in the pacific were in combat from june/July 42.
For scale of the battle of the bulge, the operations room did an animated series showing the to and fro. Recommend that.
Hello from California! With our Memorial Day holiday just passed in May and with the upcoming 80th D-Day anniversary this week, I searched for Band of Brothers reaction videos, especially from non-US channels to get different perspectives. Thank you, I really enjoyed your reviews after each episode.
And now, just having watched the Ted Lasso series for the first time, I look forward to watching your reactions next and maybe The Pacific (not sure if I'm in the mood to watch that heavy show again though). Subscribed.
Thank You 🙂
Mellet was one of those killed by the sniper that Shifty shot while Lipton ran to draw his attention.
Fun tidbit, Mellet was one of the very, very few guys Shifty Powers really did not get along with, as he mentioned in his book. In fact, during Bastogne, Shifty had a dream that he killed Mellet. It was so realistic that he went looking for him, fearing that he might have done it in his sleep. Shifty said it was the one time he was happy to see Mellet.
Poor Mellet
The reason they are referred to as the Greatest Generation, they literally saved the world. The readtion was instilled in me by my granddad a WWII Seabee, Pacific war, my uncles, cousins who served before I enlisted in the US Navy. My brother who retired after 24 years in the Army ( coincidentally he retired out of the 101st) to nephews and children of cousins who served after me. Boot Camp reinforced that shared history. My time in service was 10 of the best years of my life. We still owe them yet we're losing them at alarming rate. My Legion Post has only one member of WWII left.
You're all legends in my book. Different breed of men.
There is also another documentary that you should watch after you have watched the Pacific. It has both Easy Company men and some of the guys and their families from the Pacific. So it needs to be watched after the Pacific. It is excellent and is called "He who has seen War". It is available on UA-cam also. It addresses how the war affected all the guys that came back from WWII and what the happened to them on their return. The Pacific is really good but brace yourself since it is a lot more brutal than Band of Bros. Definitely something everyone should see to make sure it is not forgotten.
There's a village where they stayed at in England, Aldbourne, and in the local pub there's stuff on the walls about the history of it. Stayed there by chance and was so surprised to realise where I was!
That must have been an amazing visit. Was it The Crown ? Also was it the still the same building or rebuilt ?
@@RamblersInc yes it was The Crown! It was 10 years ago when I stayed so unfortunately have forgotten details but it was definitely openly remembered that Easy company was there and memorabilia on show. Pub was cozy and at least looked like it would be the same building still, but can't be sure of course. There were other buildings too around village square where soldiers were housed. Definitely a nice place to visit, quite close to Stonehenge too, two birds with one stone.
Great reaction and good commentary by you both!
Well done. Thank you fellas for doing this.
It was a hell of a documentary. Worth it.
Thank you for watching.
James Campbell, the friend Babe said "took a shot" for him, had recently received a "Dear John" letter.
😞
Bill Guanere is such a character!
Would have loved to have shared a pint with him, just hearing stories
From what I hear, nobody shared a pint with Guarnere. If you tried to stop at one he’d shame you. The next thing you knew an old man had drunk you under the table.
Thanks for putting a cherry on top of this series.
So many requests that we just had to...and it was worth it.
This more than bears repeating and elaborating. "Easy Company" is the most tragically ironic name in military history. From D-Day, all the way to Hitler's Eagle's Nest. There was nothing easy about it. I'm so glad they didn't reveal the characters, but instead allowed us to focus on their stories. The German Generals speech is incredible in the last episode, the way it ties the entire point of the story together, and heartbreaking because it shows how pointless it all is. Now the actors who portrayed these hero's are having reunions of their own. When Winters says "Grandpa wasn't a hero, but he served in a company of heroes" Always brings me tears. I will absolutely always love this series. Currahee!♠
I loved Perconte's bitching about that. "We're the fifth of nine companies, Able through Item, and we're NEVER in the middle!"
I also implore you to see The Fallen of World War 2. It puts everything into perspective....
One thing that’s not shown in BoB, is how some of the men didn’t get along with each other. Malarkey wrote in his memoir that Buck Compton and Lewis Nixon despised each other. At one reunion, Malarkey almost got into a fist fight with Nixon for bad mouthing Compton, who was one of his closest friends. Nix had been drinking heavily and started an argument and criticized Compton for his PTSD at Bastogne. Malarkey and another Easy vet (can’t remember which) started arguing back at Nix and Malarkey wanted to sock him in the face but refrained. I guess that’s just another facet of brotherhood!
Laugh sometimes, fight sometimes, but always brothers till the end.
Two good videos just to watch, not necessarily react to, are "Band of Brothers - Emmy Awards Ceremony" from 2002 that includes Major Winters and some of the BOB in a hotel ballroom nearby; it's 3:10 in length. The other one is "Major Dick Winters Memorial Service: TOM HANKS Interview" which is just 4:30 in length. Both of those just seem to put the wrap on the entire series as well as the full life of Dick Winters.
Unfortunately, all the men of Easy have died now. The last man to pass was Bradford Freeman who died on Sunday 3rd July 2022. The last officer to die was Ed Shames who passed on 4th December 2021. You did a great job guys.
RIP to those legends
D-Day and the Normandy invasion was a very curious thing. Hitler had fortified the coastline to make an invasion difficult, meanwhile, air raids from the Luftwaffe harassed cities in England with firebombings for over a year with little resistance. The motto phrase "Keep Calm and Carry On" was created as a propaganda tool to keep citizens who spent large portions of their time huddled in underground metros and bomb shelters during this period going and to not let morale dip. The only way to combat the German army from the West would be to re-take portions of Europe. Italy had fallen in defeat, but the mountains at its north made any attempt to funnel an invasion force difficult, costly, and impractical for the rest of Europe. The Nazis had largely been pushed back in Africa as well, but the Mediterranean was also not practical given German naval presence and control over its canals. This made the English Channel and Normandy France the best invasion point, but the Allies had to make their intentions secret. German's defensive forces General (I forget his name at present, apologies.) advised Hitler that the Allied invasion force would likely be at one of two spots along the French Coast. A location in the North, and one further South. To help put on a ruse for German intelligence the Allies constructed a faux-army consisting of inflatable rubber tanks, empty barracks, unoccupied tents, prop jeeps, trucks, munitions, you name it, and set them up along the northeastern coast of southern England, easily detectable by German spy planes and reconnaissance to make the German defenders believe that the invasion would happen at the northern proposed location and concentrate their forces there.
The plan worked, but, the beaches at the invasion point were still very well defended, and the Germans were well aware that Allied forces were coming. In the end, no matter the subterfuge and level of deception they pulled off, Allied leaders knew that the toll of invasion was going to be high, and costly. Many felt that the war itself may very well live or die by the success of the mission, so the stakes were very high indeed. It is still without question the largest most complicated operation ever conducted in military warfare, and every soldier taking place in it knew that there would be no retreat. Sun Tzu coined a concept in his musings on warfare known as "Death Ground." Death Ground is a space on the battlefield where there is no retreat, and there is no surrender. Those fighting on it must fight, and because they are face to face with their own mortality, they must fight hard to survive. It is because they accept the fact that they are already dead that they can fight more fiercely than ordinary men, and it makes them dangerous. The entirety of the beaches at Normandy and the soldiers dropped from the air that day, was death ground for the allied forces.
That was Field Marshall Rommel.
@@catherinelw9365 I should have been able to recall that so much better, same General from the North African forces that Hitler put in charge of the defenses in France. Ty for that. Some days you just don't manage with some things.
This was a great read.
I think I remember being taught about the “Keep Calm” motto being associated with the Blitz.
Inflatable rubber tanks 😂 Now that’s a sight
If the term “Death Ground” doesn’t give you chills….I don’t know what will.
@@Kamenari37True!
Great reaction, guys, to a documentary that gives us a moving closure to this series. The Greatest Generation, indeed. They lived through the Great Depression and endured so many hardships in the war. I enjoyed watching this with you, and your thoughtful, heartfelt commentary.
Looking forward to The Pacific, although it’s a tougher watch. The Japanese were a ferocious enemy who didn’t sign the Geneva Convention so they ignored all rules and conventions of war. The US fought on the Pacific side while the UK and Commonwealth fought in the Indian Ocean side, like pincers closing in on Japan. The men who fought in this theater endured terrible suffering and conditions. There’s a debate as to whether the island fighting conditions were worse than those of Bastogne, being almost opposite in weather conditions. I’ll let you both observe and make your own conclusions!
Definitely one of the toughest generations.
Thanks for being there with us, especially at times when we needed clarity on events.
We’re looking forward to The Pacific.
Thanks for reacting to this. Perfect capstone to the series. Really see how, even in their 80s or so, Winters and Lipton are natural leaders you'd still follow through fire, you'd want to grab a beer with Babe and Guarnere, and you see how deeply Malarkey cared for the men, Buck's sense of humor, etc. So many men that have smaller to medium parts in the miniseries appear in this: Hashey, McClung, O'Keefe, Alley, Popeye, etc along with men who we lose from the show due to their severe wounds like Moose Heyliger (shot by the sentry in 'Crossroads," and Tipper (fragged in "Carentan." And of course, seeing Buck Compton, Bull Randleman and a few others not shown at the end reveals of Ep. 10.
Wish I could’ve met them
First! I've always wanted to do that! 😂
Say something next time
@@krisfrederick5001 I know. I just got too excited when i saw that blank space! I will say that these reactions have been excellent. Well done lads.
It was an accompanying documentary that was screened after the series, and included in the DVD Box set ... I think you'll agree that it was well worth the watch ...
Definitely
Black & white pic shown at 27:23 is Nixon.
The casting for this show was perfect
You guys may be interested in the Doolittle Raiders that bombed Tokyo months after Pearl Harbor. They met for years until they were too old and almost all have passed away.
ua-cam.com/video/bBVKa7H9OqY/v-deo.html
Doolittle did a lot