Digging Up A Real WW2 Easy Company Dog Tag!

'Digging Up A Real WW2 Easy Company Dog Tag!'
In the third and final episode of the Digging Band Of Brothers series, Richard Osgood reveals to Luke a haul of remarkable finds discovered throughout the week at Operation Nightingale, including two dog tags belonging to real members of Easy Company.
Later, Luke speaks to two cast members of the hit tv series 'Band Of Brothers', Rick Warden and Tim Matthews, both of whom share their experiences filming on set. Finally, Dan Snow and Giselle Kiraly reveal the news of the dog tag discovery with relatives of an Easy Company veteran across the pond.
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00:00 Introduction
02:14 D-Day Helmet
06:41 Band Of Brothers Cast Interviews
11:14 Dog Tag Finds!
19:02 Andrew Fenstermaker Reaction

[@jimbob5726]

Band of brothers has to be one of the best TV shows of all time.

[@monkeytennis8861]

It is great, but I found the Pacific to be better

[@ronniespeirs1808]

Anyone need a cigarette?

[@jimbob5726]

@@ronniespeirs1808 ummmm....no ty

[@incognitoburrito6006]

I absolutely love it. Still have the whole set

[@Tribalsanne1984]

It is.. i was and still is. Way better than the Pacific.

[@jeffbeaver4419]

I have a book plate that was signed by Bradford Freeman. He was the last surviving member of Easy Company. Mr. Freeman passed away on July 3,2022 at the age of 97. RIP Mr. Freeman.

[@kapten-awesome]

Penkala has one of the best lines in the entire series in a fox hole in Bastogne "i am shaking so much I'm feel like I'm dancing" i just love that line!

[@Neaptide184]

The old dog tags were made by company or battalion administration on a small portable hand press. It was not unusual for mistakes to be made. What is most probable, a company clerk came round to the tent to make replacement or updated tags, perhaps for more than one soldier. He would have stamped the tag in the tent, and handed it to the soldier for inspection. Any mistake would have rendered the tag useless, and it would have been bent and tossed, probably missing the container it was supposed to go in. A new blank would have been inserted in the hand press, and another made on the spot. The tags were very important in every day service, not just to identify the soldier if he perished. The religious “preference” was optional, but was most useful in identifying soldiers in need of last rites, religious observances, etc. The tags carried mandatory Geneva and Hague legal information, along with (later in the century) allergies to medicines, food, marital status, etc. I still have the last tags I was required to wear, as well as the first pair issued. These small hand presses were still in use when I first took the oath of enlistment back in 1973.

[@khelmikyahvyer6000]

People are still talking about that series till this day that’s how impact it made in history

[@benking4367]

As far as series go , in my humble opinion, “Band of Brothers” is the best .. every actor made his character come to life , made each character their own . Very few actors can do this , you usually get the same character from the same actors over and over again…This time was different ! This time the story was told the people portrayed were spot on and history came to life .. Thank you folks for these artifacts and the stories behind them, thank you to the cast and crew of B.O.B.

[@karlmaddox1209]

I live in Alton in Staffordshire which, as some of you will know, is the home of Alton Towers. During WWll the Towers was requisitioned by the MOD & was used as an Officer cadet training unit. I just wonder how many artefacts lay beneath the surface and will lay there forever because the theme park is there now.

[@davidgarswood8329]

The guy whos helmet that was, was very very lucky. St Come Du Mont wasn't a good place to land, they landed right on top of a German gathering area where there was a field kitchen and basically a small base. it was a bit of a turkey shoot and Lt Col Bob Wolverton who was in charge of 3rd Batt was caught up in a tree and shot dead before he even touched French soil. Most of his stick were killed or taken prisoner as it was an area heavy full of enemy. The German 6th Fallschirmjager headquarters were nearby.

[@twinsonic]

Carl fought with Easy to the end of the war and was honorably discharged Jan, 1946 at Fort Dix, NJ, holding the rank of Sergeant. He married Monica in 1946 and had 5 children. He worked as a salesman and tax collector. He passed June, 1988, aged just 65.

[@klausschaap1834]

He is not on the official members list.. ?

[@timmys8823]

That's from him being a pathfinder who ended up volunteering for a lot of different things and was rolled into different units during some of the heaviest fighting periods of the whole war. You got to remember bro this was in 1944-1945 during a bad period of the war where papers records etc other than dead living or units weren't a big priority at all especially the dropped in airborne units who linked up and rolled into a bunch of mish mashed units to go fight.

[@kevinwheesysouthward9295]

My dad was a WWII vet. He fought in the pacific. He died 14 years ago. Yesterday, going through some old boxes, I found his dog tags. It was strange seeing this pop up on KZbin today.

[@pamelaoliver8442]

What a cool find 🥰

[@kkpenney444]

So great to see Rick and Tim!

[@sairayasmin1]

One of my favorite shows ever, loved the cast. Thank you for the video!!

[@andrewwebb-trezzi2422]

Amazing his aunt remembered his name.

[@doitatit]

This is simply incredible. Thank you.

[@edwardfletcher7790]

Been waiting for this update.. That helmet is amazing, you can see the imprint ! The bullet was tumbling and hit it side on ! What an incredibly lucky guy ! 👍😲 Dale Dye was their Drill Sergeant ? Oh boy that would have been tough !

[@samholdsworth420]

Bullet didn't tumble it just glanced off the side of the helmet. 8mm Mauser don't tumble bruh

[@samholdsworth420]

I'm sure it was a Kar 98k that shot the bullet. He would have been dead if the guy had an mp 40

[@edwardfletcher7790]

@@samholdsworth420 How do you know what gun shot the bullet ?

[@thurin84]

@@samholdsworth420 8mm mausers not going to glance off of a helmet.

[@haroldmckinney1612]

@@samholdsworth420 I doubt that the 9mm fired by the mp40 would have penetrated the helmet at all let alone at any distance. 9mm back then were not as powerful as they are now with the advancement of the powders.

[@sayedmeah9823]

Just reading the title of this video is giving me goosebumps.. Thanks for the video guys

[@diver11b1p2]

Based on my personal experience seeing dog tags made while in the Army, I will surmise that the one you found was most likely bent in half and discarded immediately after it was made when it was discovered that the name was misspelled. It was folded in half so it was not used/worn by the person named - a common practice.

[@l7846]

Agreed. This is the way mis- stamped tags were handled then. BTW. The myth of the divot being to somehow to hold tag in place in dead soldier's mouth... ah. No. Divot is to hold tag in place in stamping machine!

[@thenikonjones]

Very well done. I do have a question...why not show a little more of the places in Aldbourne as far the room where Winters stayed? I know it's a private residence, but did anyone ask if they would mind showing the view from Winter's room? It would have also been nice to see the pub and anything interesting there as well.

[@qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm3937]

U can go inside the blue boar on google earth street view if u don’t live near enough to actually visit. Street view is brilliant to explore the village if u can’t go there, only small. Go round the square, u can see the entrance to where the Able company stables were behind the pub, loads of stuff u can find

[@alitlweird]

This is awesome!! 🤩

[@raindog8684]

That was great!

[@_-ronin-_5521]

10:30 Yes my favorite tv show brand of brothers

[@BrianPeloso-ln4ry]

Best comment section I've ever visited...Thats the America I love!👍🇨🇦🙏

[@CartoonHistory]

13:17 fantastic find of the coin with the american eagle. such lovely detail.

[@Struwex]

Its a button

[@dave623]

The eagle et al is the Great Seal of the United States. It’s too big to be a button on a military uniform. It looks like a challenge coin.

[@wendymaddock7705]

Wow this was amazing 🤩 to find out the history of there’s brave men xx it made me feel as if I was there with them I live in Warrington Cheshire I use to go to Burtonwood American air force live there and it closed back in the 80s it not there now there’s houses there xx but I remember going there a was a floral decorator/ florist and gardener x and I use to decorate the stage for the American dinner dances they also had a store there that was good to xx

[@thomasbullock6416]

Great video 🇺🇸

[@mikehammer6909]

Gettysburg museum of history in Pennsylvania has Dick winters military belongings on display with letters he wrote metals he earned the side arm he carried and much more ..his family Grave site I visited once and his headstone is an ordinary one for such an extraordinary person buried next to his mother I placed flowers on her grave because Dick wasn’t the type to want fanfare and was an inspiration to us all !

[@3-2bravo49]

Love their youtube channel

[@classicworld1863]

Wooow finally 😎

[@halamadrid6733]

Harry was one of my favorite characters in the series

[@user-fb2ed2er3m]

respect all

[@franciscojose6496]

Of course continue this history very important information

[@dennycrane2938]

Curahee!

[@edwarddavidson868]

This video is so good I wish I could subscribe again.

[@HistoryHit]

Thanks so much!

[@douglasturner6153]

He probably got new upgraded dogtags and threw the old one's away. Maybe bent and tossed them.

[@louiszemek5058]

Can you tell where Fenstermacher was from?

[@franciscojose6496]

Very very important information

[@ejbeekeeper4360]

Had to watch this video because of Band of Brothers ofcourse. But as a HAM I found the antennas @22:00 very interesting too. First time I saw a picture of a 3 element Yagi in use with the US army

[@carbidejones5076]

so cool, I was born in Wilkes-Barre and still live near there.

[@secondworldwarnerdman2905]

Easy company is my favorite American unit of the war, this is so cool

[@ThirdDegreeWitchExplores]

We have a dogtag found at Upottery Aifield , we know who he was etc etc but not what division he was in , anyone on your team help us with that ?

[@Milsolen]

Every person no matter american, canadian, german or any other person that is somehow involved to do the good thing in ww2 i feel as a obligation to never forget what they did here

[@bouuhhhh2777]

Interesting fact... It seems that not all D-Day heavy M1 helmets used by paratroopers were equipped with "D" ring chinstrap bales...

[@RicktheCrofter]

A few days after my mother had passed away, several of us, her extended family, were in her home arranging for the final disposition of her belongings. When my niece came out of her bedroom and asked me: “Do you know what these are?” Although I had never seen them before and didn’t know they even existed, I replied, “Yes, I do.” Two small aluminum disks on a leather cord. They were my (maternal) grandfather’s dog tags from World War One. I have them now.

[@littleshimmyboopag0921]

Bro I just made it 1k let’s go

[@survivehistory]

😲😲😲

[@davidcreager1945]

Band of brother's is the best show on ww2 bar none ! It shows what the greatest generation went through from beginning to end to rid the world of fascism .

[@SRNF]

"Visited"

[@edwardfletcher7790]

Please help report all the SPAM msgs plastered on this comments section 😠

[@HistoryHit]

We're on it!

[@edwardfletcher7790]

@@HistoryHit Me too, it's maddening that KZbin is making no effort to deal with it !😠

[@stemack1975]

Why did he not give the helmet back to gilbert ?

[@Strawberry-12.]

Maybe Gilbert didn’t want it

[@jogo1666]

I got band of brothers on VHS. :) Original box with all movies and in good condition

[@keithrosenberg5486]

The guy with the German sounding name might have been Jewish. A lot of them were marked Protestant on their Dog Tags.

[@generationyoutube7104]

The dog tag cold be bent because many soldiers wore them in their boots so this could have been the reason it bent .

[@iconoclastic12007]

Ok, let’s be thorough here. Why would 2 G.I.s remove at least one of their dog tags and discard it if they weren’t injured or KIA? This would seem to be unusual behavior as the tags were very important in identifying you if you were KIA.

[@Strawberry-12.]

Maybe he lost one and had it replaced

[@davehoward22]

lost in training

[@kornkraker]

The chain could have broke, misspelling is a definite problem. Tags are not difficult to produce, literally a five minute task for a clerk in the orderly room. I've had multiple sets issued to include a set with misspelled name that was replaced within the hour.

[@thurin84]

the short section beaded chain probably broke, or just came undone and the tag just fell off without them noticing it.

[@pamelaoliver8442]

People still lost things then

[@mauricematla8379]

And ? A lost bit of matla with a name on it.

[@thurin84]

your helmets pretty farbe my friend. if you believe that 101 helmets original i have a bridge to sell you. cool to see the actors all these years later. great job guys!!! those dogtags are awesome!!!fenstermakers story is fascinating.

[@dave623]

It’s too big to be a button. It looks like a challenge coin.

[@pamelaoliver8442]

What is this music tho? Not typical American 🤣

[@valentinaroldan7764]

luke is so handsome 🥰

[@stephenblake2196]

GREAT STORY BAND OF BROTHERS!! CASTING?? THEY COULDN'T CAST AMERICAN ACTORS!!! THE ACCENTS ARE SO FUNNY !! THEY SPEAK CLEARLY AND YET CHANGE BACK ?? IT DOESN'T MAKE THEM ANY BETTER AS ACTORS!! LOL!!

[@nikkibaugher2427]

Tin hat....

[@deeeeeeeench1209]

More interested in the British and commonwealth forces tbh.

[@robertbernard6410]

1

[@CaribouDataScience]

Over paid, over sexed and over here....

[@maxineblick2002]

Bit like the Dinghy Divers 🚤

[@3-2bravo49]

​@@maxineblick2002 lmao

[@collinsoconnor5843]

Fake

[@frankryan2505]

Ok Mr expert..

[@thurin84]

the helmet yes. the dogtags, 100% original.