Easy Company Assault on Brecourt Manor - A Historian Reacts

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[@nighthasfallen456]

I remember reading a recounting from a German soldier who was in Normandy during D-Day. The airborne infantry were dropping all over the region, and he comes across a paratrooper private who had died in the jump under a tree. He figures he should grab what he can, opens his pack, and when he sees what's inside, he recalled that _that_ was the moment he knew that Germany had lost the war. Inside were cigarettes, coffee, sugar and chocolate. These were so rare for German troops that only officers were allowed to have them, if they could get them at all. The fact that a regular Private had all these luxury goods showed just how well equipped they were and the vast resources they had, which the Germans just didn't. Interesting little tidbit.

[@jakepotrebic]

The Operations Room channel is pretty epic. Their war animations and story telling are very captivating.

[@jakehotchkiss6093]

Seriously. I think he should react to more of Operations Room videos

[@ToBeZucc]

@@jakehotchkiss6093 Agreed

[@tannerwenrick9898]

yeah the gulf war air war video is very impressive

[@Autobotmatt428]

Though they do get some facts wrong

[@Folse]

Hey man, I’ve only just found your channel after your oversimplified reactions, and I have to admit, you’ve made me more interested in history than 12 years of grade school teachers and 4 years of college professors could. Really appreciate the content. Keep it up!!!

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

That’s high praise, Matt. Thank you.

[@jasonbode1242]

@@VloggingThroughHistory maybe the next June 6th. You could gloss over the movie, Ike Operation Overlord? I thought that Tom Selleck as a kid, was just someone driving around in a Ferrari in Hawaii solving crimes, until I watched this movie.

[@coxmosia1]

@@VloggingThroughHistory Can yoú do a video on Operation Market Garden and why it failed? Apparently, Churchill wasn't going to sack him, but wasn't opposed to Eisenhower doing it.

[@Wtiberon]

"wouldn't that give your position away?" Remember, they are firing 105mm shells; it's deafening.

[@Chivaltic]

Also that German could have alerted the MG's and gun crews. Winters wanted to surprise momentum. Getting shot at must be scary when you dont know where it is coming from.

[@spanqueluv9er]

@@Chivaltic Er… wtf does “wanted to surprise momentum” mean, we wonders?🧐🧐🧐🙄🤦‍♂️

[@currahee]

@@spanqueluv9er i mean it's pretty easy to understand to me. English isn't everyone's first language

[@fionnodonnell5956]

@@curraheefr fr I’m late but how many languages do you think he speaks? 😂 your English is good, don’t worry

[@thatguyliam6506]

You need to watch a lot more from this channel it’s so good.

[@thatguyliam6506]

@@spanqueluv9er VTH saying he needs to watch more of the channel he just watched

[@gnarlsley]

Your videos are really fun, I started off by watching your ERB reactions. The way you explain and react to these historical videos allows me to watch and understand videos I otherwise would've never clicked on.

[@drrakw2432]

Nice, I always like seeing more about Easy Company, especially after watching Band of Brothers. Thanks for posting!

[@FckedYaDayUp]

Love your videos sir. The algorithm blessed me with your content recently and I never looked back. Love this one covering one of my favorite companies of WWII!

[@SpaceMan-z5z]

I'm very happy to see more history focused channels like this on KZbin. You are doing a amazing job always loved history and I'm glad to see others invested as well keep up the amazing work!

[@stephendominguez9369]

Fun fact: Winters signed up to be an officer after sitting in a training as an enlisted man and an officer was using a bolt action rifle to teach the men about the new Semi Automatic M1 Garand... This gave him motivation to become an officer

[@psychozero1173]

Ok you gotta admit using a bolt action to teach about the M1 just means youre very stupid

[@trail-wolf4x4]

My utmost respect to these men, for their courage and sacrifice. Special note to the only man who made all combat jumps and never fired a shot. Captain Nixon

[@stevewixom9311]

Good point.. your right, never thought about it before

[@CJ_esc.artist]

Thats so cool that you and History Underground are buds! I love both of these channels!

[@alexanderthered5603]

I just want to say that your videos fascinate me. It was a random recommended to me since I don't even watch a lot of historical content videos, the one where you ranked the Presidents from Washington to Bush Sr, but since then I've been checking your videos left and right. You have some very good commentary on some of these topics, and I gotta give you props for that. I'm a fan, please keep making them.

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Thank you! Glad to have you.

[@marvinthemartian9584]

My second suggestion would be Battle of Savo Island by Montemayor. He does animation similar to operations room and this is a battle that I don't think gets enough attention from historians.

[@renanooliveira]

Midway's Japanese perspective is a good one too.

[@carkua6512]

I bought a horse her name is Easy Company. Didn’t know what it meant till I looked them up. Crazy stories. Now I love the name

[@zachm2331]

Watch Band of Brothers. You won’t be disappointed.

[@wedgeantilles4712]

Or that she's easy to socialize with and easy to be around.

[@canadian__ninja]

@Tim Halloran You must be unfamiliar with the weird names horses get.

[@ChuckJansenII]

Again, very good insights. The 1st and 29th landed on Omaha and the 4th landed on Utah, or close to it. My favorite exchange in Band of Brothers was when Randleman asked why Sobel hates us and Winters replies, "Sobel doesn't have Easy Company private Randleman. He just hates you." I think that bit of humor showing he felt the companies pain made them aware that this officer was in it with them. Dick Winters is one of the finest officers to serve in the US military.

[@ramal5708]

That is why Winters assault is used as textbook "assault on a fortified enemy position" in few US Army book also being used as example in few Infantry schools on US Military

[@dayztuttle9760]

Keep in mind four 105's continuously firing is a nice mask for the sound and the Germans hearing would be impaired either because of hearing protection or again the 105's.

[@briansonnenfelt7125]

The operations room makes some great videos. The ones he has made on desert storm are amazing.

[@ShadowMk3]

Operation Room is my feel good channel - when they do part 2 of the Black hawk down incident, I'll be the happiest man alive (as of the writing of this comment of course)

[@thezomby5015]

.... it's close to midnigh, now I have to watch the first 2 episodes of Band of Brother

[@H9092-2]

"And it always seemed to be the right decision." If it wasn't the right decision, Dick Winters wouldn't be around to be making any more decisions!

[@Razza681]

This is easily the best KZbin channel that ive stumbled upon. Always reacting to videos ive already watched and expanding my knowledge 10 fold. Thankyou :D

[@dbach1025]

The interesting thing about the vets from Easy is the consensus about Sobel being instrumental in keeping many of them alive later after they got rid of him, despite hating the SOB for his cruelty and tyrannical leadership. No substitute for physical fitness and being a well disciplined and gelled killing unit. It's also said they thought so much of their training after the war realizing how it benefited them, some embraced Sobels son at Easy reunions decades later. All the men of this war are heroes, including both of my grandpas, but there is something special about Easy Company and their accomplishments.

[@coxmosia1]

True. But Sobel attempted suicide and ended up living in a VA assisted facility. I guess some mental issues were at play for him.

[@reppinTV]

Love you’ve finally done a video on The Operations Room channel. Great channel and hope to see you do some more reactions on their videos!

[@WaywardVet]

Apologizing for getting injured is ingrained in some units. I had to be medevaced to Baghdad for an eye injury, nothing to serious. I was told now they're a man short, and I immediately said "No excuse, Sergeant". (I did enjoy getting time off and strolling the Embassy grounds, but I was profusely sorry for such a silly injury)

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Thank you for your service Dominic!

[@TheMasonK]

Thank you for your service Dominic!

[@WaywardVet]

None of that. Ain't here for recognition, I'm here to learn and contribute to the conversation.

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

@@WaywardVet glad to have you!

[@livinlifeadventures6711]

Came over from The History Underground. Enjoying your vids. 🙂

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Thanks! JD is a great dude. Love his channel!

[@garypacey5006]

I've been to this field and the easy company memorial that's at the side of the road and it's amazing how close together all of the guns were the immense amount of fire they were under is indescribable in such a small area. How they stayed calm in those circumstances is an achievement on its own

[@kokolekroko882]

Oooo boyyyh the Operations room! I love this Channel !

[@asikmort2530]

While firing before a suprise attack might be considered a mistake, a gunshot among artillery can go unnoticed. I don't know modern american/german tactics about artillery but in Greece, an artilery like that with 4 canons, when it starts firing in a barage it goes like this. The first fires and immedietly the second then the third and then the fourth, and the artillery men in Greek army train to reload really fast so the first canon will fire right after the 4th canon fires. So a single rifle gun shoot I assume wasnt heard from the artillery men, which would be 100% focused on reloading and firing again and again. So that one single german if not been immedietly shoot he could turn and alert the canon crew, which would I assume as in Greece stop firing and pick up their guns to defend their possition, and if they had done so it would be imposible for Winters to assult them. The machine gun thats on the look out, its taken out I think almost at the same time as winters drops the man. And it might be a few seconds, but if you even trained to reload artillery you know you are so focused (especially I assume even more in a real war than I was in training) that you can almost miss the grenades exploding. So you have *CRAZY ARTILLERY NOISE* repeating with just less than a second of "calm" and you have a riffle shoot and 3 grenades that make WAY less noise than what we see in movies. If a 105 canon is a 10 in noise an assult grenade would be a 3 compared to it. So yeah Winters shooting was smart and the right choice, had the man escaped and run back I think it would had been a different story, I dont think they would have lost cause the men takng the trench in the machine gun possition would be able to move in trench and throw some grenades while Winters machine gun kept the artillery men heads down, but maybe there would more than just 3 casualties. (And a rifle firing noise next to the 105 I would give a -1 )

[@JCYanksDevs24]

Awesome to hear you’re possibly going on the trip to Normandy JD is trying to put together. Depending on the details of the trip, it’s one I’m hoping to make as well. Normandy and the Ardennes are two “bucket list” places for me.

[@JavierRodriguez-gl2eg]

You should come down to New Orleans and visit the World War 2 museum and the Chalmette battlefield (Battle of New Orleans)

[@vbkdkfkfkfkfn596]

0 dislikes after 3 hours this man is simply built diffrent

[@coreyhutchonson1368]

thanks for listening to your fans!

[@greenriverviews6819]

legend has it, Winters was not a very fast runner though, on account of his huge balls of steel..

[@ekuLsemaN]

Looking forward to watching another banger of a video! Any chance of a episode on the history of cannabis, DARE and the war on drugs please? 😊

[@Chooopy]

It's always a running theme that men perform and respect their leaders more if their leaders, not only fight alongside them, but head the charge. You see this with Winters and Spiers throughout their careers, Napoleon, Alexander the Great, and Caesar in battles like Alesia.

[@randynewton832]

I prefer the Operations Room channel over anyones anyday. Those guys really have their shit together and build their own really cool content

[@jamesconner3056]

You know, 50 artillery men vs 12 or 24 infantry and it starts to click. 8404 devil doc here and what I would like to add is perspective on mentality. Paratroopers trained both physically and mentally to kill the enemy close. Small unit tactics, room clearing, fire and maneuver versus people who thought all the shooting was going to happen far away. So it starts to make sense why winters said it was training and guts. It doesn't diminish, just perspective.

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Fair point, though I will add those weren't artillerymen, they were paratroopers. The artillery batteries' men had deserted and the German 6th Fallschirmjägerregiment (Parachute Infantry) were manning the guns.

[@djilledam5760]

Very interesting videos! I'd love to see some content regarding Alexander the Great, which always fascinated me.

[@lightwalker222]

The Operations Room is an awesome channel, I hope you do more videos by them

[@mattstakeontheancients7594]

Not entirely history related but have you ever seen the d-day invasion shown completely with cardboard. Think you would find it really fascinating. It’s called cardboard warfare.

[@derekleach6815]

YES! You're finally doing this channel.

[@amazingkook143]

Probably the greatest board game about D-Day is Normandy '44 where you can control the germans or the Allies and fight for the control of Normandy right after D-Day. It asks "what if the Allies could not get a significant foothold in France before the germans sent Massive reinforcements.

[@Andrew-ep4kw]

I may be missing something, but it also looked like the German battery had a poor defensive design. The convex shape meant a machine gun placement could not easily get assistance from another if assaulted.

[@phixxer_isherelol]

Im happy every time he posts

[@hatchetscoured]

Thanks for another great commentary !

[@AtomicAus]

I'd be really interested to see this guy react to some internet historian stuff. Especially the Cost of Concordia. I feel like he'd really enjoy the humor, and there's definitely room for input.

[@MattMajcan]

the thumbnail looks like you're viewing a slide under a microscope

[@---gk9ve]

Unsure where my comment is: Richard winters d-day Uniform can be seen in normandy in the museum dead man corner

[@2104dogface]

also 2 other uniforms (M43, from Holland) and his 1911 pistol and a bunch of other Easy co items or on display in Gettysburg , PA

[@Nilphinho]

He’s from my area and rests about 40mins away from me. Always wanted to get over there to pay respect

[@j.hurley5510]

Great vid man! Id love to see your reaction to the desert storm videos this guy has done, they offer the same top down viewpoint seen here. Might be too modern for this channel though so I get it if not so as to not rile up any feathers. Keep it up!

[@hank780]

Good video. Didn't know about that channel before. A suggestion: can/will you react to eastory's videos about the eastern front? It's worth watching. They did videos about the western front as well. From (one) of your hungarian fan. Also, have you played with company of heroes?

[@horseshit1503]

D-Day never fails to interest me

[@rhett1029]

Interesting fact because they sustained the most causalities all US Army Infantryman who received the combat Infantryman badge and all medics who received the combat medical badge were ALL eligible the get the Bronze Star but with no V

[@neilely3252]

Enjoying your videos. Also you seem like a man integrity and good morals. Keep up the good content!

[@CostanSpina]

Excellent commentary! I am curious about the German perspective on this action. Apparently there is no documentation on their responses during it. It seems that Winters' decision for a flank attack diverted their attention from his presence until it was too late. In particular, I am curious about the quality of German troops in this action. Regardless, Winters' leadership seemed exemplary.

[@scopeless22]

6:37 I wonder if this is why later, at the battle at the crossroads, he gives his men specific targets and they all start shooting at once. Like he learned from this and thought of ways to take out more before the enemy can return fire.

[@chuckiesthis]

Was watching band of brothers again and realized that one of the German solders said they were from Eugene, Oregon while Malarkey said he was from Astoria, Oregon. I was born in Portland, Oregon and raised in Beaverton. Crazy that that American was taken back to German because his parents answered the "call". According to the show.

[@marvinthemartian9584]

My first suggestion would be World War II field kitchen overview by Tri-State living history Association. It's a quick 5-minute video but it's pretty interesting about what daily life looked like.

[@Autobotmatt428]

He does call Ranney and Malarky Sgt's here. They were not. Ranney was demoted before the jump and Malarky was just a Private at the time.

[@LawL_LawL]

I'm not sure if it would be long enough to be a worthwhile video to feature like this, but it's definitely worth checking out the climactic action sequences of the Russian movie Union of Salvation, if not the entire movie itself. Anyone with a fascination with history can probably appreciate it as it is easily some of the most viscerally impactful and kinetic depictions of early 19th century artillery in any form of media I've seen, not to mention based on a historic event which not many seem to be aware of.

[@yoehonjohn4832]

You should review D day pointe du hoc. That was a very bloody battle.

[@Presidentchip-]

You should react to armchair historians d day from a German perspective

[@NebulusDerg]

Reaction Ideas: -More Sabaton History -More Sabaton Reactions -Japanese Unit 731 -Battle 360 -More SImple History

[@joekoke1]

Awesome Information! Thanks!

[@hwheelez24]

Let's also not forget that Winters was about 24 or 25 years old when he led this assault

[@dariuslundragon3147]

You should do a vid on the death of stalin. Great movie and very funny, but I would love to see some analysis of how accurate it is

[@michaelpieczynski9340]

It took 30 seconds. It’s in winter’s book

[@2104dogface]

listened to Maj. Winters talk about this along with wild Bill a few times back in the day. (Esp when trying to out Drink Wild Bill and Babe during the Prop Blast Bash ) while in Gettysburg,PA in 01? at Ike's Farm we broke out a org map and the Maj drew on it the the Route of E co and the 506th from D-Day to the end of the war sharing little stories that never made any of the books

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

What an amazing experience.

[@2104dogface]

@@VloggingThroughHistory they were all very humble men and never like being called hero's , while at Ike's Farm do to the size of crowed of people who wanted to meet him and hear him talk we had to at as a security detail for him and his Wife ( absolute sweetheart ) and I had to escort him back to his car were after many years of meeting him he finally was able to sign my book as every other time Bill got me passed out drunk

[@MrGHOSTMAXX]

Its not DDay related but id like to see you do a video on The Battle of Mogadishu video from that same channel. I know its not the typical time period thats usually on the channel, but I find the US involvment of the Somali civil war interesting, and I think theres a lot people can learn about it too.

[@TheMasonK]

Crazy to think we’re gonna be at D-Day +28123 tomorrow

[@rhett1029]

Another fact 101st Airborne division today is no longer Airborne but Air Assault but they keep the Airborne Name

[@paulenterline3107]

Footnote: Lt. Compton went on to prosecute Sirhan Sirhan.

[@Thraim.]

If you are interested in breakdowns of battles you might like SandRoman History's "Hour By Hour" videos. Here is one for example ( kzbin.info/www/bejne/epWWnYdrf86YrJo ) but I also wholeheartedly recommend the rest of their stuff.

[@mustia3540]

Plz do more of these videos.💯

[@TheMightyKent]

Utah beach was 4th Infantry Division. Omaha was the 29th and elements of the 1st

[@asweettooth1288]

2-508th pir? 1sgt Funk or something would be awesome 👌

[@ambipubgm8352]

To this day I’m still confused as to why they put command on one plane... surely they should of split them up across a few planes so they can’t all die in one crash? Just a thought.

[@Krushak8888]

I love operations channel i love overview of war plans and battles

[@supersaiyandrgnslayr]

You should check out videos by Montemayor. He does excellent analysis on battles and why certain sides won

[@antoninuspius1747]

My first thought was....why the heck didn't the Germans have sentries? They knew an attack was in progress. With those hedgerows there's several great places to position them. A couple well placed MG 42s and Easy Co.s' toast!!!!

[@derekleach6815]

How about a tier list of all the Over Simplified videos

[@ernestchoi4464]

Winters was way better than Sobel in leadership. Anyways Winters is also remembered with a leadership monument at Utah Beach in Normandy, France

[@Gravelgratious]

You should play the Brothers in Arms series on ypur gaming channel. It is extremely historically accurate, and you fight in the same fields and missions as the actual events. You can play the game and tour the battlefields.

[@Ewen6177]

I've said many a time, I served in the British Army for a wee while. I was commanded by many a bad or average officer, but I was also under the command of I would say 4 officers. I would gladly walk into hell and back, if they said we had to do it.

[@comradekommandmentklaus1848]

Saying D-Day for the invasion of Normandy doesn’t make any real sense as D-Day only refers to the launch of the invasion Example there were several D-Days in the Pacific Theater

[@cursedhawkins1305]

If this was told already then sorry for being a broken record but Call of Duty 1 does this event of history very accurately too even down to the small details like the documents that were found.

[@XaviRonaldo0]

It's funny that everyone calls this specific company easy company yet every battalion has an easy company.

[@mallc8874]

i really need to finish the series

[@Dixfolk4]

You should really check out eastory's series on the eastern front of ww2 I think you would really enjoy it.

[@centermassgamer323]

This channel has so many more great videos, should check out more.

[@sethschouten7151]

Hey I'm dutch can you maybe make an video on the bridges at nijmwegen

[@gregorylum1490]

Do more band of brothers

[@shroomlord4206]

Please pause as much as you need We don't mind

[@fantamannen]

You should react to the Great Northern War by Extra Credits.

[@snapmalloy5556]

I wonder what's the tactical reason for having the machine guns withdraw first. I wish I could ask him

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

They move slower and take longer to set up. Makes sense.

[@snapmalloy5556]

@@VloggingThroughHistory My first thought is they would be better for laying down covering fire as the rifleman withdraw

[@joeschmoe233]

God Bless all of the men of Easy, who now reside in Heaven, may we never forget them!

[@darkdrow66]

8 viewers were gunners at Brecourt Manor

[@timmycarver4195]

I love the hair