Must have been quite an experience. We haven't had a pitch battle between 2 powerful countries in a long time. It must have been impossible to describe this experience to people back home
I mean, I saw Saving Private Ryan at the age of 7. I think it was that year or the next where my folks took me to the White Cross fields at Normandy Beach. That made me realize it pretty well too. It's a shame Hollywood has turned what is one of the toughest things to go through as humans (war) into action-based excitement stories. But I suppose the saying remains. "War is glorious to those who have never experienced it."
@@minh-tienvu306 he had 2 (or 3?) brothers in the Army, in the D-day amphibious assault. Too bad they were KIA, hence the mission to bring him back safely was carried out. So you're right.
“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.” -Ronald Spiers
Exactly right, my father who was one of 20 in his company to survive being overrun in the jungle in Vietnam and an uncle that was the sole survivor of his squad after landing in a hot LZ told me this before I went to Iraq the first time. Powerful words, and very true.
Being in Afghanistan with the much lower causality rate, better tactics and technology of today is still bad. But this? Fuck that. Can not word the amount of respect for all who served in this war.
Yeah, I know a lot of people who came back from Afghanistan and Iraq. They said it was bad, but I can't imagine any of this. My grandfather fought in WWII.
Agreed, I also served in Afghanistan as an infantry paratrooper, I never did a combat jump though... yeah this looks like it sucks, it takes a hard knuckle dragging son of a bitch to do this, it goes against every human instinct to survive.... I have respect for these guys at the highest level.
@@munichrebel1993 My great-grandpa served in Serbian Army in WWI. There was this battle at the Kajmakčalan mountain where they had to take Bulgarian positions which were heavily entrenched and on the high ground, above them. Only way for them to succed in that was to charge while our own artillery shells Bulgarian positions as our infantry charged at those positions, directly at our own barage. It was a real slautgerhouse, a lot of good men died there, but offensive was succesful in the end.
The two pilots for Winter's stick are; pilot Lt. William Sammons and co-pilot William Ogletree. Though we see the co-pilot's head get smashed by a flak burst in the series, in actuality, Ogletree survived D-Day unharmed. Sammons received a minor wound from flak that day and was awarded the Purple Heart. Both they and the rest of the C-47 crew survived the war and lived to old age. Sammons was the last to go, he died in 2011.
Sadly, Colonel Edward Shames peacefully passed away yesterday December 3rd, 2021 at his home at age 99. RIP all you great men of Easy Company and all the men who served! Tears to my eyes...God speed men! Looking forward to meeting up face to face to personally thank them one day in Heaven.
Something about seeing each plane fall from the sky and be destroyed in a gulf of fire disturbs me. Each plane is filled with trained pilots and soldiers, the best our country has to offer, fighting like hell to stay alive yet that is not enough to find many of them fall and extinguish in a split second. Thats the reality of war: years of living, effort, and youthful skill collected in one plane ending just like that. This isnt like the star wars movies you see with x wings blowing up in the sky.
@@sr3982 Good effort with the sarcasm but you aren’t quite there yet, I’m guessing you are from America. Interesting that you don’t even ask why I think BOB is better than The Pacific
If you ever get the chance, look up Lt. Meehan's last letter to his wife the day before D-Day. Definitely gets the emotions going. His last words to her were "I want nothing more than to hold you in my arms right now"
Pretty much all of us wrote a letter like that to spouses, girlfriends or family before going into combat. The letters were all collected and put in a shoebox and stored in the admin space in case. It was the hardest letter I ever had to write. When we were mobilized back home, we were given the letters back. I still have 3 of them
I use to parachute in the eighties I use to love it but I sure as hell had nothing being fired at me What an absolute terrifying nightmare that was for them RIP You young and brave boys my heart is with you all ❤
This scene is masterful. The way the clouds cover the chaos and then open up into hellfire blew me away as a kid. Watched this series as a 10 year old with my dad.
After qualifying 5 jumps and finally graduating tomorrow, I respect this scene to the fullest. No words can describe the honor WW2 paratrooper have served.
This shit looks like it was hectic. Jumping out of plane in a sea of tracer fire and explosions. I can imagine these guys wanted to descend as fast as possible
@@stevencoardvenice if they knew what was waiting for them I doubt it. Rommel decided, in order to deter paratroopers, to flood the countryside. A good portion of these guys dropped into the swamped areas and drowned under the weight of their gear or tangled in their parachutes. Honestly it makes the success of the whole thing that much more batshit crazy.
@@stevencoardvenice ...as accurately depicted in saving private Ryan, correct. These guys had to carry their balls around in wheel barrows. Not only were they attacking the most fortified position in human history, but they were greenies going up against four-year Eastern front veterans. They truly had nerves of steel it's insane. Hard to believe these people really did this stuff.
My first parachute jump wasn't that exciting. Although I jumped through a layer of stratocumulus, it wasn't night and there wasn't flak nor enemy fighters trying to kill me. Those guys were tough as nails.
***** Nope. Not in this case. This movie was not about those soldiers. And the Americans had NOTHING to gain from this fight like the Russians, Germans, British, Japanese, etc., who were fighting for something close to home. This was far from our home and we drug in by Axis expansionism.
hrdknox2000 The US had to gain most of it. You really think they went into the conflict at that point just for honour and valour? They had realized by now that Germany was defeated in the east, and that the Russians would be replacing them soon as a ruling power in Europe, so to avoid that, they went in. The individual soldier fought for his pals, but they knew nothing of the bigger pictures which sadly is one of power and dominion between governments and the invisible forces behind those who rule and ruin our lovely world.....still, they"re heroes, even some, not all, of the so called enemy...the majority of german soldiers died horrible lonely deaths, like all soldiers do, when your time"s up, you have to face it on your own, no matter what uniform you"re wearing, they were all scared of dying. And look at what's happening right now in Ukraine? Think WW2 is over? Why do we the West confront Russia in that way? It"s unfinished business. Only problem this time, finishing it will be the downfall of all of us....
Goosebumps every single time I hear Winters scream "one ok!" and when he says "let's go!". Such courage and professionalism is the most chaotic scary moments
The worst part is your plane survives the initial flak barrage, other planes crashing, stray bullets, parachute actually working and THEN your mission starts...
I remember watching this when it aired.. that date was September 9th, 2001.. two days later America was at war..the remaining episodes took on a new meaning after that 🇺🇸
we see the perspective of the americans jumping but can you imagine how scared you would be on the ground seeing a crap ton of planes flying over with thousands of parachutes on your position then in the morning you have a whole costal invasion ! god damm
And to think that a good amount of those Germans were young, sometimes 17-18. Others were boys or young men conscripted from occupied countries and forced to fight. Seriously hell for everyone involved
I always try to imagine how you feel when you realize that you are starting the most important operation in the most important war with just a knife, like (in that moment) Lt. Winters did.
@@Orkenspalter14 I don’t get why people always try to diminish the importance of the second front. Stalin was demanding that the Allies open a second front, so much so that they opened three second fronts. In the Mediterranean, in the Air bombing most of Nazi occupied Europe, and again in France. In the Mediterranean the Western Allies destroyed the Italian Empire on their own, and captured over two million Wehrmacht soldiers by the end of the war. The air campaigns in Southern Europe devastated oil wells and directly helped the USSR by making it impossible for Germany to field enough tanks and aircraft to properly defend itself and made it difficult for it to even supply its armies in the east. The Western Allies also bombed Axis industry, every factory bombed resulted in more and more tanks that wouldn’t make it to the front. Then there’s the Western front itself which by its end involved huge portions of the German military, counting the Volksturm , about 8 million. Without the help of the Western Allies, the Axis would have been able the muster its full military might against the USSR, and would have the resources of all of Europe to fight against the Soviets. So yeah. The Western front did matter, the Allies did help. Defeating fascist tyranny was a team effort, people from all over the world put in effort to win the war. My grandfather from Nigeria fought in Burma, half way across the world to help beat the Axis. An entire generation of people put their blood, toil, sweat, and tears to beat the life out of the worst tyranny to bar the progress of mankind. Never forget the sacrifices made by these people, regardless of where they were from or the politics of their nations.
@@osedebame3522 Yeah Stalin’s men had a fun time murdering and plundering anything on sight. You know the Red Army isn’t better than the Nazis or the Japanese.
I watched this series when it first aired on UK television, back when I was learning about the second world war in school. It really made it come alive.
@@evaabdullahi5240 yeah. This jump and especially Baston were they told the Germans to f off with their surrender under one of the coldest winter in recorded history is fascinating. Massive respect
I really believe those men and women of Allied countries who served and fought so hard for freedom were made by God especially for such a time as that.
@@wendigo445 I can assure you that you are overestimating Great Generation and underestimating modern one. Parents of the Great Generation also thought their kids are weaker than them, every single generation has parents like that.
This jump scene is the closest I can come to experiencing what my Grandfather, RIP and may Yeshua have mercy on his soul, must have gone through as a WWII B-24 Liberator ball (belly) turret gunner in WWII with the 459th bomb group based at Coffee Tower in Italy... survived 32 missions behind enemy lines - he went through this 32 times.
My dads boss and Best friend for 25 years was crewman on a b 17 shot down a few months before d day over france evaded capture for a month got betrayed into POW camp spent rest of war in Stalag Luft 1🤕 miss ya Bill 🤕( Technical Sgt William E. Smith)
As I understand it, a crewmember says on the radio, "We have a paratrooper on our wing! I repeat, we have a paratrooper on our wing!" That did occur during the drop. But there was a response that was left out. Another pilot replied, "Slow down. He'll slide off."
That happened. I remember one story duringOperation MArket Garden. I think it was the 82nd Airborne jumping into Holland, a stick jumped over their DZ, the C-47 flying behind their aircraft was hit and rapidly lost altitude. One of their engines chewed up two of the descending paratroopers.@@thecrtf4953
Can't even begin to imagine that mission...and I'm ex-military. For the most part, just a bunch of ordinary schmucks that came from civilian live. However, they became heroes because their country called, they answered that call, and refused to fail their country or each other. Yes, they deserved to be called the "Greatest Generation." Magnifect men!
Every 6th June, I come back to this video to just have a sense of what our grandfathers went through at such a young age. 6th June 1944 was D-Day in case you're wondering. Just imagine at 20 plus they were going through this .... my god. We cannot and must NEVER forget their sacrifices.
My dad was in the US Army oversees for 3 and a half years during WWll drafted. He was a truck driver. He said they landed first in North Africa, then on to 2 campaigns in Italy Rome-Arno and Naples-Foggia, and then on to France. He said by the time he got to France, the US was in Germany.
I served as a paratrooper in my country almost two decades back..A war jump cant be compared with military jumps or every other jump..Huge respect for both the pilots and the paratroopers that had to do this.
So there was a documentary about Paratroopers made by the Discovery Channel about 2 decades ago. A young paratrooper is telling an old man how he has over 30 jumps to include foreign jump wings and helicopter jumps. The old man then said "I only did 2 jumps. Normandy and Market Garden."
The shot where they come out of the cloud bank into absolute chaos is still some of the best CGI work ever done. It puts even recent movies and shows to shame.
0:03 the sound of a clicker is used as a code device during WW2, serves as a signal to check if there's a friendly nearby. Should a friendly able to recognize the sound, he too will click as a reply to that code signifying a friendly near the soldier who clicked first. Once your clicker jams like that, you're f'ed.
david fazenbaker That’s right. “Flash” was yelled out and “Thunder” was the reply. But in Saving Private Ryan, it was the opposite. They yelled “Thunder” first and “Flash” was the reply. I don’t know which one was historically accurate.
@@jiveassturkey8849 i think it depends, because Saving Private Ryan was centered around the 2nd Rangers who were ground infantry while Easy Company is Airborne infantry
I wonder which was worse in real life? Both look like crap your pants many times over situations...I think I'd rather be a ground troop than go down in a fiery crash on a plane though, or drown in a marsh like some of these guys did after landing.
@@chadford8500 The ground troops also had it really bad. If you were on 1st or 2nd wave, your chances of survival were really low. In a plane, you would die instantly most of the time from the blast. Many of the ground troops who were hit by MG42's would die painfully and slowly while their guts spilled out.
@Technique it was proper hell down there. Those beaches had many layers of defences and each of them were as deadly as the other or even more as you progress. Romel said the faith of the war will be decided by what happens on d day. Fortress Europe was such an unthinkable hell to send troops there after all bombs fail to hit their targets
@@brrrrrtenjoyeri would think the one thing these soldiers didn’t feel, was pain. the amount of shock from something like this, soldiers had to check for bullet holes after a battle bc they don’t feel the bullets hitting them
Can’t imaging the anguish of that pilot flying back to England with your friend and copilot dead with half his head blowoff. 80 years ago. Only a few are left from that generation.
Whenever you are feeling miserable, angry about how bad your life is, mad that your cell phone can't get a signal, ticked off about being stuck in traffic... watch this and remember what so many men did for us and for generations still to come.
As economic despair rises, wages stagnate, inequality widens, and underneath it all we begin to feel a collective sense of humiliation creeping over us, remember what led the Germans to adopt supremacist narratives that in turn drove them inexorably toward war and expansion. We must obtain economic justice for the working class before this evil happens again.
D Day was truly a day that revealed what a man is capable of both bad and good. Countless acts or Bravery and Heroism its unbelievable. The Courage of Man is the reason our species is where it is today.
You are right. I was there on a tour a few years back and had the good fortune to actually have a couple of D-Day vets with us. The 101st Airborne museum has a C 47 simulator, where visitors sit and the entire flight up to the jump is simulated in the windows and the fuselage actually jerks, tilts and moves around. It terrified me and was actually realistic enough to make the veterans turn pale and sweaty just remembering it.
I don't know if I'm just lost in a life where everything is too easy or what, but a part of me desperately wants to be a part of something like this. Just to be a part of a fight for something good, with people who have your back, something that is bigger than yourself. My grandfather was a part of the war, and used to tell stories about when Germany invaded our country and how they built the country afterwards. They had problems and found the solutions. Today I feel like the problems we have don't really have a solution. I'm not depressed by any means, just searching for something meaningful to use my life on I guess.
It's the paradox of war. Being a soldier combines the greatest and worst aspects of life. The adrenaline, the death, the camaraderie, the trauma, the sense of accomplishment and the pain are intertwined.
No one of us can even imagine how it was for those guys to get into combat, but I guess we will never get a closer look on what they did than through this series - and for me this scene is for sure one of the most impressive battle scenes I have ever seen. Thanks to Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, to the actors und the personell working on this film making a terrific job and bringing this piece of history back. And thanks to the men of Easy Company and all those whose story will never be told.
After Saving Private Ryan there was so much renewed interest in Ww2 European theatre that this series was a must to bring to life and it was awesome series.
I’d shit my pants if I were in their shoes, these are the bravest men in US history embarking on one of the most important missions in the the history of the world
I can't understand for the life of me the bravery of these men. Jumping into such horrible antiaircraft fire. They put it.on the line for our freedom and I truly appreciate every single one of them. I read this book in 2 days. I could not put it down. I would have loved to serve under Captain Winters. He was one hell of a leader. Ronald Speirs as well. They were true leaders.
It’s amazing how much courage and bravery these men have, just jumping out of a plane into a barrage of non stop bullets and an inferno of flames is terryfying enough
I don't think they were jumping out to go fight, they jumped out because they were burning alive while falling out of the plane or were already dead and falling out of the plane.
This is but only one reason why World War II soldiers were called the greatest generation (as per Tom Brokaw). The whole airdrop operation would have terrified every single one of us -- a genuine nightmare of unimaginable horror.
MY DAD..PVT. LEONARD VILLA WAS WITH THE 82ND AIRBORNE DIVISION..D-DAY..MY DAD RECEIVED A PURPLE HEART FOR BEING WOUNDED IN COMBAT..HE WOULD ALWAYS SAY..THE REAL ARE THE ONES THAT DIDN'T COME HOME..🫡🇺🇸🙏
When they came outta the clouds and I saw the darkness filled with the terrifying lights of explosions... It really opened my eyes on how scary war can be.
World war 2 was insane. If you think what went wrong on D-Day, you wonder why. So many Europeans died in 5 years time, the young people nowadays hardly realize what has been done.
I keep coming back to this clip for years now. There is no way that even with the proper training and superiors, I would have the courage to jump off of that plane. Same goes for Normandy beach landings as well.
Incredible when it first premiered and just as incredible now. The Greatest Generation was what was necessary and what we got. Saviors of the civilized world.
I’m not the religious type but god bless these men. To think that they were only my age and they went through this hell to make the world a better place.
God, just imagine how terrified and nervous you'd be during this flight. I remember reading a story once about how the Allies gave their paratroopers pills to help with altitude sickness, but it also inadvertently made them fall asleep. Crazy times.
IIRC, this episode ( Ep. 2) aired on the Sunday before 9/11/01. I often think of those who died two days later, especially the firefighters, who probably watched this and were overcome with a wave of emotions like so many of us did that Sunday night in 2001. Never forget.
This must of been so terrifying. Your being dropped behind an unknown enemy's lines literally going deaf from the explosions. There were two types of men, "there's no way I'm going to live through this" and the lucky.
I've seen plenty of war films but this show is the only to make me take a step back and think holy shit people actually did this stuff
these where superheroes , God bless them
Must have been quite an experience. We haven't had a pitch battle between 2 powerful countries in a long time. It must have been impossible to describe this experience to people back home
100%
I mean, I saw Saving Private Ryan at the age of 7. I think it was that year or the next where my folks took me to the White Cross fields at Normandy Beach.
That made me realize it pretty well too.
It's a shame Hollywood has turned what is one of the toughest things to go through as humans (war) into action-based excitement stories. But I suppose the saying remains.
"War is glorious to those who have never experienced it."
I know exactly what you mean. It is completely surreal that all this actually happened.
Private Ryan was somewhere in there parachuting
LOL..SOMEONE DID HIS ASSIGNMENT.
Or maybe on a landing craft
@@minh-tienvu306 he had 2 (or 3?) brothers in the Army, in the D-day amphibious assault. Too bad they were KIA, hence the mission to bring him back safely was carried out. So you're right.
James frederick Ryan? Minnesota?
A pathfinder?
“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.”
-Ronald Spiers
Spiers was total kookoo-bananas but you can't deny he had a point
@@angelomastri1416 He was right! After my 3rd mission I came to that conclusion. I had another 125 after that.
Damn... >
Exactly right, my father who was one of 20 in his company to survive being overrun in the jungle in Vietnam and an uncle that was the sole survivor of his squad after landing in a hot LZ told me this before I went to Iraq the first time. Powerful words, and very true.
Man you got that right, that was one bad jump.
When I'm stressed or worried I watch this video and think my problems ain't shit
ill start doing that
Works well for me. Wild respect for all of these guys. They didn't have anything to turn to. This was about as bad a situation as they could get.
Sage advice. We could all use a bit of perspective.
Well said
Just because someone had/has it worse shouldn’t invalidate whatever you are or were dealing with.
Being in Afghanistan with the much lower causality rate, better tactics and technology of today is still bad. But this? Fuck that. Can not word the amount of respect for all who served in this war.
Yeah, I know a lot of people who came back from Afghanistan and Iraq. They said it was bad, but I can't imagine any of this. My grandfather fought in WWII.
Agreed, I also served in Afghanistan as an infantry paratrooper, I never did a combat jump though... yeah this looks like it sucks, it takes a hard knuckle dragging son of a bitch to do this, it goes against every human instinct to survive.... I have respect for these guys at the highest level.
@@munichrebel1993 My great-grandpa served in Serbian Army in WWI. There was this battle at the Kajmakčalan mountain where they had to take Bulgarian positions which were heavily entrenched and on the high ground, above them. Only way for them to succed in that was to charge while our own artillery shells Bulgarian positions as our infantry charged at those positions, directly at our own barage. It was a real slautgerhouse, a lot of good men died there, but offensive was succesful in the end.
@@EricPudalov Many thanks to your grandfather
Well, the US was fighting against a developed country whereas the Taliban don't have heavy weapons
The two pilots for Winter's stick are; pilot Lt. William Sammons
and co-pilot William Ogletree. Though we see the co-pilot's head get smashed by a flak burst in the series, in actuality, Ogletree survived D-Day unharmed. Sammons received a minor wound from flak that day and was awarded the Purple Heart. Both they and the rest of the C-47 crew survived the war and lived to old age. Sammons was the last to go, he died in 2011.
Wow... Thanks for this info!
These are real people?
@@stevencoardvenice obviously
Balls of steel.
@@stevencoardvenice Yeah they’re based off of the story of actual Jumpers from WW2
As of June 2020, Edward Shames is the last surviving Easy Company member. Salute to him and the brave men he served with.
Yes He is still with us
Sadly, Colonel Edward Shames peacefully passed away yesterday December 3rd, 2021 at his home at age 99. RIP all you great men of Easy Company and all the men who served! Tears to my eyes...God speed men! Looking forward to meeting up face to face to personally thank them one day in Heaven.
@@flyingdutchman8321 One of the Great Generation has passed away. RIP Edward Shames🌹😭
*Last officer, not last remaining member.
Bradford Freeman is the last remaining member with now the sad passing of Edward.
@@User-ju3zg no one is alive now
Something about seeing each plane fall from the sky and be destroyed in a gulf of fire disturbs me. Each plane is filled with trained pilots and soldiers, the best our country has to offer, fighting like hell to stay alive yet that is not enough to find many of them fall and extinguish in a split second. Thats the reality of war: years of living, effort, and youthful skill collected in one plane ending just like that. This isnt like the star wars movies you see with x wings blowing up in the sky.
Dae Kim it’s such a waste not being able to do what you were trained to do. To be extinguished in a blink of an eye. It’s just cruel.
@@jolieapuzzo861 that's exactly what war is cruelty
Completely random.
The Moment those planes crossed the lines into Nazi controlled air space. The Germans had already lost!
@@arceusthecreator9746 They might have lost but they put up one hell of a fight
I don't think I can imagine a more terrifying baptism-by-fire to enter a warzone
+beta0blaster Maybe Stalingrad?
+beta0blaster I think the normandy beaches were just as bad, in their own way.
your life in the mix wether you lived or died aroll of the dice
cant imagine the fear nor horror
Being on Omaha Beach? Or being in an Enemy at the gates-like scenario in Stalingrad?
Try the crossing the Dnepr River
My Grandfather was there. I can't imagine going through hell like that.
God bless our troops.
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@33kaus holokaust and ww2 win goes to the Allied forces.
Two words: Sitting ducks.
@@arceusthecreator9746 And it needed so many of them
22 years later and Band of Brothers is still the daddy when it comes to war series / movies. Nothing beats it.
the pacific
@@e.g.o.m.e great shout and it’s absolutely superb, but doesn’t beat Band Of Brothers I’m afraid.
@@Jonesyb90 Damn I was hoping it would beat it. Too bad.
@@sr3982 Good effort with the sarcasm but you aren’t quite there yet, I’m guessing you are from America. Interesting that you don’t even ask why I think BOB is better than The Pacific
@@Jonesyb90 Nothing gets by Jonesy here
If you ever get the chance, look up Lt. Meehan's last letter to his wife the day before D-Day. Definitely gets the emotions going. His last words to her were "I want nothing more than to hold you in my arms right now"
Pretty much all of us wrote a letter like that to spouses, girlfriends or family before going into combat. The letters were all collected and put in a shoebox and stored in the admin space in case. It was the hardest letter I ever had to write. When we were mobilized back home, we were given the letters back. I still have 3 of them
@@stevehammond9156why do they make soldiers write those letters? A keepsake of sorts should they be killed in action?
@@highball5550 In the event you are killed in action, the letter will be mailed to whomever you designate as a last letter to express your feelings.
80 years ago tonight. God bless these men and the sacrifices they made
I can't imagine doing what those legends did.
Well said
Amen
I use to parachute in the eighties I use to love it but I sure as hell had nothing being fired at me
What an absolute terrifying nightmare that was for them
RIP
You young and brave boys my heart is with you all ❤
They fought for gays and feminist.
I really feel for the guys that didn't even make it to the ground.
Alive, at least. We’ll never forget their sacrifices.
Yeah ... that one bit of the burning C-47 with the paratroopers on fire jumping from it ...
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They were heros the moment they got on the plane. Didn't matter if they landed or not in my eyes.
@@BobSmith-dk8nw A terrible way to die
@@rithvikmuthyalapati9754 Yep.
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This scene is masterful. The way the clouds cover the chaos and then open up into hellfire blew me away as a kid.
Watched this series as a 10 year old with my dad.
Saw it first time also as a kid with dad. A stunning experience.
Me too!
Late reply but same, everyone that grew up watching this with there Dad had a W childhood
@@Alex-sz8idI’m watching it with my dad rn I’m 15 tho
After qualifying 5 jumps and finally graduating tomorrow, I respect this scene to the fullest. No words can describe the honor WW2 paratrooper have served.
Congratulations man!
This shit looks like it was hectic. Jumping out of plane in a sea of tracer fire and explosions. I can imagine these guys wanted to descend as fast as possible
@@stevencoardvenice if they knew what was waiting for them I doubt it. Rommel decided, in order to deter paratroopers, to flood the countryside. A good portion of these guys dropped into the swamped areas and drowned under the weight of their gear or tangled in their parachutes. Honestly it makes the success of the whole thing that much more batshit crazy.
@@declansmyth1973 Normandy had a lot of drowning too
@@stevencoardvenice ...as accurately depicted in saving private Ryan, correct. These guys had to carry their balls around in wheel barrows. Not only were they attacking the most fortified position in human history, but they were greenies going up against four-year Eastern front veterans. They truly had nerves of steel it's insane. Hard to believe these people really did this stuff.
I'm jumping at Normandy for the 80th Commemoration on 5 June 2024. AATW!
US Airborne really commemorate it?
And my friend talked me out of not going to France for D-day! I was going to go to the beach on June 5!!
Gutsy!!. Good luck.
How did it go?
My first parachute jump wasn't that exciting. Although I jumped through a layer of stratocumulus, it wasn't night and there wasn't flak nor enemy fighters trying to kill me. Those guys were tough as nails.
After the jump most of them landed with no gear and some right onto of German positions too
Got chills watching this. D-Day movies always put me in awe as to the courage of the American Soldier.
And british and canadian I hope, they where there too
The most bravious soldier is Polish and we don't left our allies when they need our help. Think about it.
wojtc17 My wife is Polish, so don't pull that bullshit on ME! I served and her father served.
***** Nope. Not in this case. This movie was not about those soldiers. And the Americans had NOTHING to gain from this fight like the Russians, Germans, British, Japanese, etc., who were fighting for something close to home. This was far from our home and we drug in by Axis expansionism.
hrdknox2000 The US had to gain most of it. You really think they went into the conflict at that point just for honour and valour? They had realized by now that Germany was defeated in the east, and that the Russians would be replacing them soon as a ruling power in Europe, so to avoid that, they went in. The individual soldier fought for his pals, but they knew nothing of the bigger pictures which sadly is one of power and dominion between governments and the invisible forces behind those who rule and ruin our lovely world.....still, they"re heroes, even some, not all, of the so called enemy...the majority of german soldiers died horrible lonely deaths, like all soldiers do, when your time"s up, you have to face it on your own, no matter what uniform you"re wearing, they were all scared of dying.
And look at what's happening right now in Ukraine? Think WW2 is over? Why do we the West confront Russia in that way? It"s unfinished business. Only problem this time, finishing it will be the downfall of all of us....
Damn bro, whether it's on land, sea, or sky, the wars of hell knows no bounds.
Ku Dastardly soon to be in space too
@@Boxman5618 bruh just imagine looking up and seeing "rods from god" streaking down.
or drop pods landing groundside.
Who’s watching on June 6th 2024? Happy 80th D-Day anniversary everyone. May we all be free men for 80 years more!
Goosebumps every single time I hear Winters scream "one ok!" and when he says "let's go!". Such courage and professionalism is the most chaotic scary moments
This puts your bad day at the office into perspective
The worst part is your plane survives the initial flak barrage, other planes crashing, stray bullets, parachute actually working and THEN your mission starts...
Yeah. All of that was just you getting on the battleground.
This whole scene feels like a nightmare, and what's worse is that it actually happened.
This has to be one of the most hopeless, intimidating scenarios a human being can find themselves in.
I remember watching this when it aired.. that date was September 9th, 2001.. two days later America was at war..the remaining episodes took on a new meaning after that 🇺🇸
It’s quite something that many people don’t know that this show aired around the same time as the most challenging time our country has faced.
あ～、ちょうどあの頃アメリカでテレビ放送されてたんですね。あの後も色々ありましたね。貴重なお話ありがとうございます。
we see the perspective of the americans jumping
but can you imagine how scared you would be on the ground seeing a crap ton of planes flying over with thousands of parachutes on your position
then in the morning you have a whole costal invasion ! god damm
And to think that a good amount of those Germans were young, sometimes 17-18. Others were boys or young men conscripted from occupied countries and forced to fight. Seriously hell for everyone involved
@@Gopniksquat against people who were trained for years to be elite elite...
war is hell
I always try to imagine how you feel when you realize that you are starting the most important operation in the most important war with just a knife, like (in that moment) Lt. Winters did.
Like Winters said in the book - two years of training and preparing took charge
Öhm....the really Important Operations in this War were in the East.
@@Orkenspalter14 I don’t get why people always try to diminish the importance of the second front. Stalin was demanding that the Allies open a second front, so much so that they opened three second fronts. In the Mediterranean, in the Air bombing most of Nazi occupied Europe, and again in France. In the Mediterranean the Western Allies destroyed the Italian Empire on their own, and captured over two million Wehrmacht soldiers by the end of the war. The air campaigns in Southern Europe devastated oil wells and directly helped the USSR by making it impossible for Germany to field enough tanks and aircraft to properly defend itself and made it difficult for it to even supply its armies in the east. The Western Allies also bombed Axis industry, every factory bombed resulted in more and more tanks that wouldn’t make it to the front. Then there’s the Western front itself which by its end involved huge portions of the German military, counting the Volksturm , about 8 million. Without the help of the Western Allies, the Axis would have been able the muster its full military might against the USSR, and would have the resources of all of Europe to fight against the Soviets. So yeah. The Western front did matter, the Allies did help. Defeating fascist tyranny was a team effort, people from all over the world put in effort to win the war. My grandfather from Nigeria fought in Burma, half way across the world to help beat the Axis. An entire generation of people put their blood, toil, sweat, and tears to beat the life out of the worst tyranny to bar the progress of mankind. Never forget the sacrifices made by these people, regardless of where they were from or the politics of their nations.
@@osedebame3522 Imagine the Muricans trying to fight 15 million Axis. Lmao.
@@osedebame3522 Yeah Stalin’s men had a fun time murdering and plundering anything on sight. You know the Red Army isn’t better than the Nazis or the Japanese.
When I first watched this scene, I remember feeling sick. I can't imagine the horrors those men went through. It gives my chills.
I watched this series when it first aired on UK television, back when I was learning about the second world war in school. It really made it come alive.
R.I.P to all the man of easy company... I hope you all reunite in haven 🙏❤
They’ll all be there because they’ve certainly served their time in hell. (There a poem about that.)
@@evaabdullahi5240 yeah. This jump and especially Baston were they told the Germans to f off with their surrender under one of the coldest winter in recorded history is fascinating. Massive respect
To me this scene is as impactful as the D-Day Landing seen on Saving Private Ryan
Look, every time I hear the "GET READY ..." I get the shivers
the amount of rising anxiety you could feel from the opening shots alone is unmatchable
Giants. Gods. That generation was unbelievable.
I really believe those men and women of Allied countries who served and fought so hard for freedom were made by God especially for such a time as that.
Every generation is like that, it is just not every generation there is a world war...
@@OrkosUA Uhhh no. Minus 10% or so if there was a draft this generation of 18-25 year old would fold faster than an old card table.
@@stephencrutchfield2032 it would be same now like it was then. Back then they would do the same. Then there were also great losses unlike now.
@@wendigo445 I can assure you that you are overestimating Great Generation and underestimating modern one. Parents of the Great Generation also thought their kids are weaker than them, every single generation has parents like that.
2:15 Always got me.
Yeah man, I cried, I was like wow, some soldiers didn’t get to jump out...
May god and the Holy Spirit have mercy on their souls😭🇺🇸✝️
Those are young men:(
Imagine training for 2 years just to have that happen to you. Poor men.
@@whatthef-9772 if you look closely, some of them jump out (still on fire)
This jump scene is the closest I can come to experiencing what my Grandfather, RIP and may Yeshua have mercy on his soul, must have gone through as a WWII B-24 Liberator ball (belly) turret gunner in WWII with the 459th bomb group based at Coffee Tower in Italy... survived 32 missions behind enemy lines - he went through this 32 times.
My dads boss and Best friend for 25 years was crewman on a b 17 shot down a few months before d day over france evaded capture for a month got betrayed into POW camp spent rest of war in Stalag Luft 1🤕 miss ya Bill 🤕( Technical Sgt William E. Smith)
As I understand it, a crewmember says on the radio, "We have a paratrooper on our wing! I repeat, we have a paratrooper on our wing!" That did occur during the drop. But there was a response that was left out. Another pilot replied, "Slow down. He'll slide off."
Jesus christ....I cant imagine being able to jump out only to be smashed by another plane
That happened. I remember one story duringOperation MArket Garden. I think it was the 82nd Airborne jumping into Holland, a stick jumped over their DZ, the C-47 flying behind their aircraft was hit and rapidly lost altitude. One of their engines chewed up two of the descending paratroopers.@@thecrtf4953
Can't even begin to imagine that mission...and I'm ex-military. For the most part, just a bunch of ordinary schmucks that came from civilian live. However, they became heroes because their country called, they answered that call, and refused to fail their country or each other. Yes, they deserved to be called the "Greatest Generation." Magnifect men!
80 years on today, and we still have some still with us. May we never forget.
I have lived a great life in America. I owe so much to these brave men.
0:26 “A paratrooper on the wing. I repeat, we got a paratrooper on the wing” oh my god dude....
never noticed that.... Jesus..
and the way the pilot and copilot stare at each other like that...
First time I heard that I couldn’t believe it 😳
Every 6th June, I come back to this video to just have a sense of what our grandfathers went through at such a young age. 6th June 1944 was D-Day in case you're wondering. Just imagine at 20 plus they were going through this .... my god. We cannot and must NEVER forget their sacrifices.
My dad was in the US Army oversees for 3 and a half years during WWll drafted. He was a truck driver. He said they landed first in North Africa, then on to 2 campaigns in Italy Rome-Arno and Naples-Foggia, and then on to France. He said by the time he got to France, the US was in Germany.
I served as a paratrooper in my country almost two decades back..A war jump cant be compared with military jumps or every other jump..Huge respect for both the pilots and the paratroopers that had to do this.
So there was a documentary about Paratroopers made by the Discovery Channel about 2 decades ago. A young paratrooper is telling an old man how he has over 30 jumps to include foreign jump wings and helicopter jumps.
The old man then said "I only did 2 jumps. Normandy and Market Garden."
80 years ago to the day, god bless every single one of them
I feel like the beaches are focused on way more then this, but this air drop was probably the scariest damn thing ever.
It’s all scary. But seeing a machine gun fire down on you from a hill with no cover makes for more cinematic drama
@@Nahnotyet268 Yeah but truthfully the beaches weren't as dangerous as saving private ryan makes them out to be.
@@rickyray2794yeah movies show troops being mowed down in waves when in reality and in footage it was still horrible but way less chaotic
Likewise, the drop wasn’t as catastrophic or dramatic as this scene either.
The shot where they come out of the cloud bank into absolute chaos is still some of the best CGI work ever done. It puts even recent movies and shows to shame.
God bless those men that died that night
0:03 the sound of a clicker is used as a code device during WW2, serves as a signal to check if there's a friendly nearby. Should a friendly able to recognize the sound, he too will click as a reply to that code signifying a friendly near the soldier who clicked first. Once your clicker jams like that, you're f'ed.
well thats why you say flash if your clicker screws up or you dont have one, although risky to yell out flash though
You can make clicking sounds with your mouth if worse comes to worst
david fazenbaker That’s right. “Flash” was yelled out and “Thunder” was the reply. But in Saving Private Ryan, it was the opposite. They yelled “Thunder” first and “Flash” was the reply. I don’t know which one was historically accurate.
The Longest Day also featured them and explained their purpose as mentioned in the first comment.
@@jiveassturkey8849 i think it depends, because Saving Private Ryan was centered around the 2nd Rangers who were ground infantry while Easy Company is Airborne infantry
This and the d day scene from saving private ryan are sickening. Bravery at its finest.
I wonder which was worse in real life? Both look like crap your pants many times over situations...I think I'd rather be a ground troop than go down in a fiery crash on a plane though, or drown in a marsh like some of these guys did after landing.
@@chadford8500 The ground troops also had it really bad. If you were on 1st or 2nd wave, your chances of survival were really low. In a plane, you would die instantly most of the time from the blast. Many of the ground troops who were hit by MG42's would die painfully and slowly while their guts spilled out.
@Technique it was proper hell down there. Those beaches had many layers of defences and each of them were as deadly as the other or even more as you progress. Romel said the faith of the war will be decided by what happens on d day. Fortress Europe was such an unthinkable hell to send troops there after all bombs fail to hit their targets
@@brrrrrtenjoyeri would think the one thing these soldiers didn’t feel, was pain. the amount of shock from something like this, soldiers had to check for bullet holes after a battle bc they don’t feel the bullets hitting them
@@jdjshzhhhsushhszjp8969definitely not true. Look up the "reality of a round" by gbrs
Can’t imaging the anguish of that pilot flying back to England with your friend and copilot dead with half his head blowoff. 80 years ago. Only a few are left from that generation.
Whenever you are feeling miserable, angry about how bad your life is, mad that your cell phone can't get a signal, ticked off about being stuck in traffic... watch this and remember what so many men did for us and for generations still to come.
As economic despair rises, wages stagnate, inequality widens, and underneath it all we begin to feel a collective sense of humiliation creeping over us, remember what led the Germans to adopt supremacist narratives that in turn drove them inexorably toward war and expansion. We must obtain economic justice for the working class before this evil happens again.
@@kevinmathewson4272 Step 1 - Bring back manufacturing jobs to the USA.
That generation was tough as shit and this is why
Nah, Generation Zoomer has to worry about getting enough Likes on TikTok ...
D Day was truly a day that revealed what a man is capable of both bad and good. Countless acts or Bravery and Heroism its unbelievable. The Courage of Man is the reason our species is where it is today.
I have never seen any better parachute scene than this.
You are right. I was there on a tour a few years back and had the good fortune to actually have a couple of D-Day vets with us. The 101st Airborne museum has a C 47 simulator, where visitors sit and the entire flight up to the jump is simulated in the windows and the fuselage actually jerks, tilts and moves around. It terrified me and was actually realistic enough to make the veterans turn pale and sweaty just remembering it.
That is wild!
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I don't know if I'm just lost in a life where everything is too easy or what, but a part of me desperately wants to be a part of something like this. Just to be a part of a fight for something good, with people who have your back, something that is bigger than yourself. My grandfather was a part of the war, and used to tell stories about when Germany invaded our country and how they built the country afterwards. They had problems and found the solutions. Today I feel like the problems we have don't really have a solution. I'm not depressed by any means, just searching for something meaningful to use my life on I guess.
It's the paradox of war. Being a soldier combines the greatest and worst aspects of life. The adrenaline, the death, the camaraderie, the trauma, the sense of accomplishment and the pain are intertwined.
Do not cry in sorrow for the deaths of these men, but cry with joy that such men had lived.
Stand up! Hook Up!Equipment check! G-d our grandfathers had balls!
The greatest generation of all time
No one of us can even imagine how it was for those guys to get into combat, but I guess we will never get a closer look on what they did than through this series - and for me this scene is for sure one of the most impressive battle scenes I have ever seen.
Thanks to Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, to the actors und the personell working on this film making a terrific job and bringing this piece of history back.
And thanks to the men of Easy Company and all those whose story will never be told.
Shit and I thought I was having a bad day stuck at work on a monday >_
0:41
When Captain Winters is going through the normal instructions to stand up and hook up. You know sh1t is about to go down. Godspeed.
After Saving Private Ryan there was so much renewed interest in Ww2 European theatre that this series was a must to bring to life and it was awesome series.
I’d shit my pants if I were in their shoes, these are the bravest men in US history embarking on one of the most important missions in the the history of the world
That night 23,400 of the Bravest Mf'ers you will ever meet. And it was just the beginning of the battle campaign for these guys.
Commenting on the 80th Anniversary of D-DAY.
I can't understand for the life of me the bravery of these men. Jumping into such horrible antiaircraft fire. They put it.on the line for our freedom and I truly appreciate every single one of them. I read this book in 2 days. I could not put it down. I would have loved to serve under Captain Winters. He was one hell of a leader. Ronald Speirs as well. They were true leaders.
Does that light look green to you 😩 gah damn the level of discipline and dedication on these boys
Trillion% respect for folks that lived and died on both sides
It’s amazing how much courage and bravery these men have, just jumping out of a plane into a barrage of non stop bullets and an inferno of flames is terryfying enough
2:30 That part is amazing. Even while on fire and death a certainty, they jump. "We're all gonna die, might as well die fighting!"
I don't think they were jumping out to go fight, they jumped out because they were burning alive while falling out of the plane or were already dead and falling out of the plane.
That was their COs plane.
The greatest generation
I can’t imagine training as a paratrooper for 2 years then dying before you even get to pull your chute.
This is but only one reason why World War II soldiers were called the greatest generation (as per Tom Brokaw). The whole airdrop operation would have terrified every single one of us -- a genuine nightmare of unimaginable horror.
MY DAD..PVT. LEONARD VILLA WAS WITH THE 82ND AIRBORNE DIVISION..D-DAY..MY DAD RECEIVED A PURPLE HEART FOR BEING WOUNDED IN COMBAT..HE WOULD ALWAYS SAY..THE REAL ARE THE ONES THAT DIDN'T COME HOME..🫡🇺🇸🙏
If you think you are having a bad day imagine yourself in one of those planes about to drop.
Great men that gave their lives for our freedom! Thank you
No matter how many times I watch this, when the plane clears the clouds and the flak comes in, I get chills.
Certified bad asses, all of them.
Thank you for your service.
When they came outta the clouds and I saw the darkness filled with the terrifying lights of explosions... It really opened my eyes on how scary war can be.
World war 2 was insane. If you think what went wrong on D-Day, you wonder why. So many Europeans died in 5 years time, the young people nowadays hardly realize what has been done.
Just imagine the fear..
This scene reminded me of the Nightmare scene from the movie Apollo 13, they both capture the feeling of sheer terror and helplessness.
God bless all of those brave and young men who came from far away for liberate us.
We will never forget their sacrifice
My Uncle Chris’s Grandfather was part of D-day landings, uncle Chris told me the whole story, it made cry!
Send prayers to that man✝️🇺🇸
Lets be honest, none of us would be brave enough to do this ourselves
É por isso que eles foram os melhores.
Just sitting ducks in that plane no amount of training will keep your ass alive for that.
@@Vaultboythefightingmachine all that training for nothing
I keep coming back to this clip for years now.
There is no way that even with the proper training and superiors, I would have the courage to jump off of that plane. Same goes for Normandy beach landings as well.
Incredible when it first premiered and just as incredible now. The Greatest Generation was what was necessary and what we got. Saviors of the civilized world.
I’m not the religious type but god bless these men. To think that they were only my age and they went through this hell to make the world a better place.
Don’t forget to thank the bus driver
No parachute. Very LITTLE chance of escaping the aircraft.
makes me want to play Brothers in Arms
That game was so good. I’m still pissed my original Xbox and my entire set of video games got stolen.
Best TV series ever made!
1:34 my favorite visual shot of the C-47’s in formation as the fly into the war zone surrounded by flak.
God, just imagine how terrified and nervous you'd be during this flight. I remember reading a story once about how the Allies gave their paratroopers pills to help with altitude sickness, but it also inadvertently made them fall asleep. Crazy times.
IIRC, this episode ( Ep. 2) aired on the Sunday before 9/11/01. I often think of those who died two days later, especially the firefighters, who probably watched this and were overcome with a wave of emotions like so many of us did that Sunday night in 2001. Never forget.
Really? I thought it aired in 2008 or 2009. Thats when i first saw this series. I didn't know it was that old
Damn it I love this series. I think I watched every episode ATLEAST 3 times.
As a paratrooper hearing "HOOK UP" gets you keyed up pretty good! AIRBORNE!
Cringe
@@staymad2075 Imagine replying to an 8 year old comment. Loser
This must of been so terrifying. Your being dropped behind an unknown enemy's lines literally going deaf from the explosions. There were two types of men, "there's no way I'm going to live through this" and the lucky.