BAND OF BROTHERS Episode 3 Breakdown & Ending Explained

[@BrainPilot]

The third breakdown of Band of Brothers is here ahead of the Masters of The Air finale! Where does this episode sit in your ranking? Let me know your thoughts below!

[@richardarmstrong6513]

I'm so pleased that they in the end acknowledged the error regarding Blythe

[@spookerredmenace3950]

ya he died in the 60s

[@nuru666]

I went from really not liking him to seeing a man who found his bravery, I had no idea he went on to not only survive but serve again in Korea.

[@spookerredmenace3950]

@@nuru666 ya his son Gordon actually also served years later in the air borne in the 80s, very awesome man, sadly no longer around. was an honour to have known him, i met him yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaars later in 2010,

[@plantfeeder6677]

When? As far as I know they still have that last lie in their dvd. Couldn't be bothered to spend the money to correct it going forward. And of course low informed people who worship hollywood for telling the truth will keep on believing it. That's the real travesty here.

[@CzechImp]

15:30 ''Spiers, the one person who's not going to give you any emotional support!'' Strangely enough, I think he actually does. Blithe: ''I was scared''. Spiers: ''We're all scared''. I think that must have helped - for Spiers to admit that even HE was scared. Plus explaining that the way to cope with fear was that you are already dead...

[@GytisStankevičius-y8o]

yeah i thought it too it was very straight to the point and supportive, but in a very different way than the most might expect

[@plantfeeder6677]

​@@GytisStankevičius-y8oexcept Albert Blyth was nothing like they portrayed him. He found his courage long before he jumped into France

[@noahlavicky1027]

Talbert wasn’t injured he was wounded. “Injured is when you fall out of a tree or something.”😂

[@andreraymond6860]

I like how Spiers seems to be paraphrasing Virgil's Aeneid 'The only hope of the doomed is to not hope for safety'. It shows he is a well read and educated young man. This is reinforced in a later episode when he cite the battle of Carthage.

[@CzechImp]

Excellent as always. Just a minor point. 07:26 Edelweiss grows between 5,900-11,200 ft. The highest German mountain (Zugspitze) is 9,718 ft.

[@johnharris6655]

Dramamine was a relatively new drug and did have some serious side effects, including drowsiness and blurred or reduced vision. It is possible that Blithe's blindness was caused by Dramamine and None of the medics knew it was causing it.

[@plantfeeder6677]

Except he never went blind. Ambrose made up half the crap in that book.

[@petermitchelmore2592]

As fascinating postscript is the fact that Spiers was governor of Spandau prison after the war. He would have personally met Rudolf Hess and Albert Spear.

[@theallseeingmaster]

My father saw German prisoners marched into a ditch and killed a day or two after D-Day. He said that at that stage of the invasion, they could not confine or care for prisoners; prisoners just had to go.

[@Spitnchicklets]

Point of correction, Nixon made the comment about the flower not Winters.

[@BrainPilot]

Ah my bad!

[@Spitnchicklets]

It’s all good 👍

[@jacobdeforest5113]

17:32, there’s a theory that Blithe at this moment was actually hallucinating Winter’s hand on his shoulder, and that Winters probably wasn’t by his side at that point. And that Blithe had been taken back, to when Winter’s touched his shoulder, -and that actually took away his blindness. If you watch ‘Winter’s hand’ during that fire fight, it wasn’t frantic or tense, it was totally relaxed, almost dreamlike.

[@BrainPilot]

That's an interesting theory!

[@RockyStar02]

I felt more for Blithe than I did upham in saving private ryan. I was truly mad when I saw Upham just sit there while he’s partner was done in like that. 20:36 I’m glad to hear he survived. Thanks for the video!

[@zlatko8051]

It wasn’t malarkey that smashed open the door of the house with the family it was Luz

[@lindsayjohnston7465]

Prisoners were shot on D Day because they didn't have the capability to secure them or bring them to the rear

[@Bartolomeus-dl5ec]

10:30 what you didnt mention how they were just tossing names into the buildings in order to clear them and they were about to toss one into the building with the family. Makes you wonder how many civs died.

[@Jeffrey-l1d2f]

I was with the 101 AB Division Veterans' Association on June 6, 1994, when they drove into Carentan and encountered the Fallschirmjager Regiment Six reunion. Our Screaming Eagles, even after 50 years, refused to fraternize. The only good Germans, they felt, were in La Cambe.

[@GR-bn3xj]

Are you a hundred years old?

[@Jeffrey-l1d2f]

@@GR-bn3xj Almost. Born 1954.

[@GR-bn3xj]

@user-ke5yv3zi5j I misread lol. I thought it said 1944, not 1994. My mistake!

[@justinwonfor4427]

Great content. Please could you do the Pacific next?

[@BrainPilot]

Yes, i'm planning on covering that!

[@daveyboy_]

They did Blyth dirty at the end . He seemed to want to overcompensate when he started to lead on point

[@BrainPilot]

Yeah I know what you mean! We did get a good journey of his development though. It's good that he did actually survive as well

[@jimepley1210]

Episode 9, Why we fight. I visited Dachau while I was stationed in Germany in 1990. There was still a strong sense that something very evil had happened there, even after 45 years. I can not image the impact that experience had on Easy Company.

[@phaedradg]

So strange to read this...I had this same intense emotional experience when I visited it in 1993, and I can't explain it. It had a tremendous impact on me, just being there. It sure was pure evil what took place there, and we can't forget what happened. I saw little groups of people conducting some sort of ritual, and that made me cry, as it brought home how these events still have impact on so many people, so many years after it all happened.

[@davidciesluk2433]

Nixon explained edelweiss, not Winters. Just clarifying...

[@stevemcglamery5368]

Albert Blithe is the only one from Band of Brothers to be buried at Arlington Nation Cemetery.

[@FIDEL_CASHFLOW_]

I want to give a shout out to All the British actors that were playing American soldiers and their ability to flawlessly convey an American accent. Damian Lewis Who played winters, Rick Warden who played lieutenant Welsh, and Marc Warren who played Blithe. I was convinced that in real life he was born and raised in the deep South based on his flawless Southern accent

[@Misathechamp]

Blithe was the first character of the show I was able to properly recognise and got real attached to. I was devastated when he got shot😭😭

[@BrainPilot]

Yeah os character was an interesting one to follow!

[@behindthespotlight7983]

Per Blythe and the others (Spiers) who chose not to keep in touch after war in the ETO: we must never forget that these men experienced raw carnage. For many, maybe the best they could do was just put one foot in front of the other? Who, among us, can testify that their dads or grandfathers who served in WW2 were unusually quiet human beings? Perhaps that, too, is the longterm butcher’s bill of war?

[@Brodricktucker]

I've seen weiss has been mentioned before I would like to give a bit more, edel in German sounds more like a-del and weiss, when you have ei in a word you pronounce the i and when yoy have ie you pronounce the e I hope this is helpful. Apart from that I really enjoyed the video.

[@mplsfarmer]

It was pronounced correctly in The Sound of Music in 1965. So you would think that the narrator wouldn't have mispronounced it.

[@treycas33]

I think it was Nixon that told Blithe about edelweiss, not Winters

[@BrainPilot]

Yeah that was my bad!

[@lylecampbell9036]

It wasn't Spiers that said they were moving shortly. It was Harry.

[@KKDY28]

A few notes 7:16 it was Nixon who said the fact about the Edelweis 15:10 is called Wounded injured is when you fall of a tree or something 18:33 Just to be clear, 2nd Armor Division and 502 Parachute Infantry Regiment who aided them all in all, this is a great review! the fact that i had to nitpick these points is proof of it im looking forward to see the rest of the series P.S. Please review The Pacific

[@charlesstrang2346]

Kept looking at the Black cloud over his head

[@spookerredmenace3950]

i became friends with Gordon Blythe , he was an awesome dude! sadly we had a falling out on my part bc i dont really talk that often

[@Marcisme]

Nixon tells him about the dead soldier’s flower

[@frankgerace5997]

Albert Blythe was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. There is NO WAY he would have had a Southern accent.

[@BrainPilot]

It seems like they got a few things wrong about Blythe

[@seanentzel9616]

Episode three is my "favorite" episode in the series. Really felt like Tom Hanks and Spielberg brought Saving Private Ryan quality of showing how it was to the show

[@longtabsigo]

The reason they could take and then defend Carentain as they did was because a substantial force was misdropped near Graignes. The unintended consequence of the senior officer present making the decision to stand and fight where they were was that the SS unit dispatched to reinforce and defend Carentan wound up getting chewed up by a large number of what we call LGOP’s. (Lost Groups of Paratroopers). It’s worth making a video of it, if I ever win the lottery I’m paying to find MH370 and make a movie about Graignes!

[@donbasta2475]

Well done.

[@BrainPilot]

Thanks!

[@jerbs5346]

But only 3 Americans died in the siege of Carentan on June 12.

[@fjh3551]

Favorite episode is #6

[@BrainPilot]

Yeah Bastogne is such a good episode

[@GlennDavey]

It's starting to get difficult to tell the difference between AI-written content and human-written. Same with the narrator's voice. (No offense)

[@mlteenie]

It does sound artificial. Not the first time I have come across that.

[@otani8806]

I bet he was 'back there every day' bro.

[@Spitnchicklets]

Not sure how I would react to war, I would like to think I’d have the courage to fight and be able to do whatever was necessary. I know for sure I’d be pissing myself though it

[@EAZY_COLIN]

funny how americans cant say WEISS right when its said like VICE

[@mplsfarmer]

The narrator sounds British and I verified that BrainPilot is produced in the United Kingdom. A glaring example is how the narrator pronounces "contribute" and "contributing" (at time stamps 15:41 & 17:19 respectively) with a British pronunciation rather than an American pronunciation. Perhaps it is an A.I. voice narration; but I don't believe so. I am an American and have studied German, tutored it in college, and lived in Frankfurt for a month. Most Americans pronounce "edelweiss" exactly the way it is pronounced in The Sound of Music that has been enormously popular since 1965.

[@GLJ94]

You actually meet Blithe in the first episode, he is not in pt gear as Winters enters his barracks and asks why he isn't in pt gear yet, Blithe doesn't really speak so Winters just runs off to join Easy.

[@PeterMayer]

Not veess, viss.

[@plantfeeder6677]

I think Stephen Ambrose, Tom Hanks, and Steven Speilberg owe the family of Albert Blyth an apology. None of what they said about this man was true. None!!!

[@beigethursday1352]

Wounded*. Injured is when you fall out of a tree.

[@ejmolloy2954]

I could of done without knowledge of this coward.

[@EtzEchad]

The story of Blythe was pretty much fiction. I don't know why they lied about him.

[@TheFantaazee]

Maybe to portrait that many soldiers still had a fear of death that paralyzed them in the face of combat? He is almost the only one shown in total fear and hiding but i could be wrong

[@LyleH-13]

it's a true story with a wrong ending. Blythe went on to reenlist and served bravely in Korea.

[@saifeddineyahya860]

Just like is_not_real