I'll never be the same after *BAND OF BROTHERS* (part three)

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Original Series: Band of Brothers

[@charlize1253]

The scene in which Speirs ran by himself to link up with I Company actually underplayed the truth. In real life, he ran over a hundred yards under fire with no cover, but the show shortened it because the director didn't think audiences would believe it. The same when Shifty shot the sniper in the tower, the real shot was, incredibly, over 400 yards away.

[@TheRezarrrr]

also episode 2 where buck compton throws the grenade into the germans back, i believe he actually hit his head but they didnt show that for the same reason

[@guyjperson]

Shifty also saved 'em just by noticing that the trees were different in Bastogne. He noticed that THE FOREST looked different. And they found a gun emplacement that had been snuck up.

[@FrenchieQc]

Shifty's shot was like 75 yards. The buildings still stand in Foy. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oovSZ3ijiLapiLc

[@natecloe8535]

Funny you should mention Shifty. I can't verify this but I have heard it more than once. Right before the Battle of the Bulge, When everybody was in the foxholes getting shelled. Shifty apparently noticed a careless German walking the German line with a lantern at night and killed him from about that far away.

[@ayeshaakhtar4727]

Yeah whatever!! 😡😡😡😡

[@dgpatter]

Yes, both men survived losing their legs. Guarnere in fact lived so long that he saw this series air. He was present during some filming and actor who portrayed him was honored to become close to him. If you remember back to episode 4 when Bull Randleman returns and Guarnere says “I don’t know whether to slap ya, kiss ya, or salute ya”, Guarnere told them what he said and the writers immediately rewrote the scene to include that dialogue.

[@terminallumbago6465]

Guarnere passed away in 2014 at the age of 90.

[@kyjasehall]

Grant (the soldier who was shot in the head by the replacement) had some problems with speech and paralysis in his arm, but he recovered enough to own a tobacco store in San Francisco after the war. The German surgeon was a guest at one of the Easy Company reunions, and asked the soldiers if they were really going to shoot him if Grant didn't make it. They cheerfully told him, "Oh yeah, we were going to shoot you."

[@american_cosmic]

Imagine being a fly on the wall at those reunions, when the drinks started flowing... imagine the stories you'd hear.

[@madmandan1982]

The fact that the guys invited the surgeon after the war is so wholesome!

[@cigansky]

The classic journey of Band of Brother watchers: "Spiers terrifies me, I don't trust him" --> "Spiers still terrifies me, but also I love him"

[@solofilmproduction]

Spiers was a perfect soldier. Detached and calculating, he was possibly a high functioning primary psychopath. They're very productive and often successful people. Ideal for war.

[@Nloveru]

It's Speirs.

[@ald1144]

Truth.

[@brianashley100]

“Salute the rank not the man” is an actual military saying. Not just for this show.

[@NathanS__]

It's also at play with the German colonel and general. They were being shown respect as fellow officers & veterans, politics were not considered.

[@powerpointpaladin6911]

true, but that event never happened because Winters never outranked Sobol. Both men ended the war at LTCs.

[@Knight-Bishop]

When I was a starry-eyed kid who just default idolized anyone formerly or currently in uniform, my dad explained it to me as: "It's alright to have respect for the job any of us do or did, but... We're still people. And people are assholes. You don't have to respect an asshole." 😂😅

[@jake5773]

​@@powerpointpaladin6911that's completely untrue. Winters was never promoted past Major and Sobel was a captain at the end of the war. He stayed in the reserves and was later promoted twice to lieutenant colonel.

[@powerpointpaladin6911]

@@jake5773 you are right Spiers made LTC not Winters. But as Rgmt S-4, Sobol would have been a MAJ, at least temp grade. His permanent grade may have been CPT but he would wear the oak leaf in that staff position.

[@jonathanross149]

Speirs coming in like Captain America, and Lipton being acknowledged.

[@actaeon299]

I thought the same thing. Captain America.

[@BigGil103]

Bit of a comic relief fact/story lol: During the battle of Bastogne, there was a private in the 501st Airborne's H company named Vincent Speranza. He went to visit a wounded friend being cared for in the ruins of a church and asked if there was anything he could do for him and his friend asked him to get him some beer. So he searched through the shell damaged streets looking for destroyed bars and taverns until he found one with the tap still working. He poured the beer into his empty helmet and ran it back to his friend where they shared a glass and he shared some with others until it was gone. He went back for more but was met by the angry Regimental surgeon who read him the "riot act" and sent him back to his foxhole lol 65 years later, Speranza visited Bastogne with his daughter and discovered his "beer run" was stuff of legend and visited a microbrewery where they had a beer called "Beer Run" that was served in helmet shaped mugs lol Speranza recently passed away on August 2, 2023. Before his death he appeared on a veteran themed podcast called "Battleline Podcast" where he tells the story, it can be found here on youtube.

[@FiNCain]

Speirs did actually kill a US Soldier for being drunk while on duty. "Seargent Harrington, confronted Lt. Spiers regarding an order he thought was "chicken-shit." The confrontation escalated with Spiers saying that if Sgt. Harrington raised his gun to him, Speirs would shoot him. Harrington reached for his gun and Speirs put 10 rounds in his chest, killing him. Apparently, the company commander, Captain Gross, arrived soon after and determined it was self-defense." Edit: This is just a small paragraph I got but it there was way more to it i just simplified, look up a video called “Winters talks about “sparky” speirs. Speirs admits to the things in the war and told winters he could use it in the film or book “do you need my signature?”.

[@andromidius]

I mean, he did warn him.

[@charlize1253]

The scene in which Speirs ran by himself to link up with I Company actually underplayed the truth. In real life, he ran over a hundred yards under fire with no cover, but the show shortened it because the director didn't think audiences would believe it. A legend.

[@CarlosRamirez-wb7zu]

Speirs reminds me of Draymond Greene. Unlikable personality, but gets the job done.

[@aysuppatruck6185]

actual perfect way to describe him is almost mythic. He's actually a man a myth and a legend.@@charlize1253

[@Zenon0K]

Not exactly that. They recieved an order to halt, wait, and consolidate forces in order to launch a larger assault soon (minutes not hour/s or days). Guy, drunk, wanted to have his and the other platoons get them while they could but Speirs reiterated the "hold" order. Stopped him again and told him he was too drunk to perform his duty and just go to rear. I can imagine the explitive begining with F and "that" being bandied before the rifle got raised. Han didn't shoot first, Speirs did. Their commanding oiffcer, Captain Gross visited the scene just after it happened and with a round of eye witness interviews deemed it a classic open shut case. Gross was killed the following day in battle before being able to write several days of reports, and it was never followed up on. It only ever came to light when the series came out and modern day lawyers were concered about it being a murder/crime. Winters wrote to Speirs, who said he couldn't give a shit about whatever happened and wrote a full account. A private who was sitting next the Sgt. in question and the main eyewitness was still alive at the time and wrote another letter corroborating Speirs' story, which would have been as a slam dunk dismisal of wrongdoing in court today as it was to Cpt. Gross 30 minutes after it happened. Situation actually ends up being a perfect snapshot of Speirs future. Gave him a chance as a man, understood he was drunk and pulled into a situation rather than drunk ON PATROL, a green replacment officer not even factored in. 2nd time, it's as a Army commander, giving a man an order. And the second he says a third thing and got to shoot Speirs plugs him like a western sherrif at high noon. Guess what, the waiting 5 minutes got them an entire brick and mortor operation capuring the entire town rather than the couples slices of pizza that the drunk Sgt. wanted to snag by continuting the assault with their current forces. Competency reading the situation, then some good wokrplace skills, hucks some more Kerosene on the "Speirs is a bad, bad man" bonfire, and tops off to proving your capability in battle by winning a sizable and important victory/situation at the time.

[@jeanieceusters]

"No, but I served in a company of heroes" gets me every.fucking.damn time, I've been faithfully watching this show every year since I was a little kid (it's been around 20 years now), and every time I hear Winters' words, it never fails to move me to tears

[@Coopy76]

I'm a 47-yo giant of a man with military training. And yes, I, too, cry each and every time I see that. Partly because he reminds me of my grandfather, who fought in WW2 and shared a few selected stories of it.

[@BradWilson1969]

Same here. Every single Memorial Day weekend starting in 2002, and some years another time or two just because I was in the mood. The big difference is that I was 33 in 2002. 😔 I even still have the DVD set in the metal box, my only DVD's now, even though I haven't had anything to play them on since I built a new computer without an optical drive like 6 years ago.

[@swansong487]

@@BradWilson1969 I bought the steelbook DVD set too. I later upgraded to a standard case Blu-Ray but couldn't bring myself to sell the old DVDs. I still have both.

[@josebarrozo7620]

You watched it as a kid?

[@jeanieceusters]

@@josebarrozo7620 Yes, have been "fascinated" by WW2 since I can remember! Each year, my family and I went to the Ardennes, and without fail, my dad and I would visit the same museum in Bastogne 🙂 My dad would also bring back bullets fired on the Normandy beaches as "souvenirs" for me (if you can call it that) when I was a little girl when he went over there

[@myohmyDesign]

One of the absolute BEST shows ever made. A gold standard of quality television.

[@heffatheanimal2200]

Absolutely. I personally prefer The Pacific, but I still think BoB was better made

[@myohmyDesign]

@@heffatheanimal2200 have you been watching the new one 'Masters Of The Air'? It's been really compelling too.

[@Mikevdog]

Breaking Bad too

[@RichardDicksondlyrch68]

That last line gets me every single time, even seeing it out of context.

[@taylormaines9909]

bawl like a baby. every. single. time.

[@mmmtsp]

@@taylormaines9909 I thought I was the only one 🤣🤣🤣

[@kaojinn]

After seeing everything we saw Winters and the rest of the men endure... That he was always such a humble man to look back at his experience not with consideration for his own accomplishments, but with reverence for the men he served with... Thats what gets me with that line. The delivery, and knowing who he is, and just what he means by it. To know that he was such a kind and supportive person, and he went on to find peace after the war, I can think of fewer things more heartwarming or deserved.

[@chaost4544]

"Why We Fight" is one of the most beautifully devastating hours of TV ever put to film. A perfect episode but one that's always a gut punch.

[@flankspeed]

I'm a teacher, and I show it to classes. You can hear a pin drop.

[@Eric-ff4bf]

Just a bit of Trivia: "Why We Fight" was also the title of a series of films sponsored by the US Government but produced and directed by the great film director Frank Capra (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, It's a Wonderful Life), to explain to Americans the reasons for going to war. Great film series, great choice of titles for that episode

[@magicwv]

Pretty sad a Jewish reaction channel just poorly edited episode 9 and just lumped it together with 3 other episodes. Not even the decency to upload that episode by itself.

[@chaost4544]

@@magicwv get out of here with that nonsense. You're just wanting to start needless controversy with that silliness and serve no real point here other than to be annoying.

[@scrazzle]

I'm sure you've already heard... the interviews were from a separate documentary We Stand Alone Together, and Ron Livingston was asked to do a sort of vlog of the boot camp the actors had to go through before shooting the series. Both of those are a fantastic watch.

[@actaeon299]

I also vote for the documentary

[@Mikevdog]

Agreed

[@taylormaines9909]

Liebgott having to tell them in German that they have to get back in the camp is one of the most devastating moments in TV / Film history. Such an amazing scene and was acted perfectly. Its a gut punch every time I see it. I watched your reaction on Patreon, but sad others didnt see that part, but understand you had to edit for time.

[@TonyTylerDraws]

Oh yeah. I seriously sob every time

[@Dularr]

They were also talking about the women and children camp.

[@oldfrend]

for real i've rewatched BoB probably a dozen times and i skip that scene most of the time cuz it's so hard to watch even though it was the right thing to do.

[@7bootzy]

It was kinda undercut a bit for me at the time as the actor's German is the worst I've ever heard in a movie. I mean horrifically bad. I just told myself the real Liebgott's pronunciation might have been awful due to his upbringing in a English-speaking culture, or something. Even still, absolutely heart-wrenching drama. Destroyed me.

[@blatherama]

There were actually jews stuck in Bergen-Belsen until as late as 1947, albeit most of the time in a newly built camp. They were relabled as Displaced Persons and many stayed there until the creation of Israel.

[@variable57]

It’s not in the video but when Colonel Sink yells at Winters to get back/and about his attachment to Easy company, I LOVE that part where Winters straight up ignores Sink when yelling for Spiers.

[@jakesanchez7235]

In real life that wasn’t what happened though, winters stopped himself from running. Sink didn’t yell at him, but he chose to make the decision to go back and ask for spiers. Some things are oddly changed like that. I want to say it’s in the books winters wrote.

[@spaulagain]

​@@jakesanchez7235 I think it helps the audience understand why he sent Speirs in instead. He had to follow a proper hierarchy so having Sink shout it out makes that more clear to the common audience.

[@GobanShodan]

@@spaulagainI think it also helps the audience grasp how tense and dire the situation was becoming, for Winters to act completely out of character like that. Like during Carentan when he was yelling and swearing at his men to keep moving, some even said they were more scared of him than the Germans in that moment lol

[@jakesanchez7235]

@@spaulagain that makes a ton of sense when you put it that way! I love that insight!

[@stevencortez7057]

​@@spaulagain Great catch! I never thought about it like tgat. Perfect example of show, not tell from the episode.

[@pufferfish8239]

I'm not sure if many people catch this, but when they are choosing to see who goes home, the only name in the helmet is Shifty.

[@tristinbeyda]

Yes! They briefly show that his name is the only one in the helmet but you can easily miss it if you aren't glued to the screen.

[@nathannelson6676]

I haven't seen a single reactor catch this.

[@scottsumner2998]

I caught it the first time I saw the scene, but also believe it was so obvious that everyone else did too.

[@rollomaughfling380]

@@nathannelson6676 I believe I've seen one catch it. One.

[@martensjd]

Winters took a chance when he didn't send that last patrol; the colonel's expectation was that his orders would be followed. Winters didn't really know Jones, but I think Lt Jones read the room and learned something about leadership.

[@charlize1253]

Winters and Nixon really went out on a limb for the men, they both could have been court-martialed for disobeying a direct order and then lying about it in an official report.

[@przemekkozlowski7835]

The series added a bit extra drama to the scene. In reality, Jones had been with Easy for a month already at that point so Winters would have known that he could trust Jones.

[@dirus3142]

Sadly Jones died about 2 years later. Hit by a drunk driver on the road while in Germany.

[@godusopp2752]

it was a risk but he was a well respected and decorated captain who led one of the most well known companies in the history of the army, jones would not have gone over his head to sink like that

[@animusvids]

the scene where Winters let the german officer keeps his side arm was a gesture of respect and honor from Winters to the officer, it had nothing to do with hate

[@JayneCobbsBunk]

In actually Winters took the pistol. He shows it during the interview at the end of the series.

[@terminallumbago6465]

Isn’t it common military practice to allow surrendering officers to keep their sidearms to maintain order among their own troops, like a good faith sort of thing?

[@Masterfighterx]

Winters took the Colonels weapon from the beginning of Ep. 10, he kept it for the rest of his life and it was never fired.

[@crispy_338]

You can’t really tell if a pistol was fired or not if it was cleaned well enough. It may have been fired before the colonel got it, in fact it most likely was test fired at the factory before being issued

[@terminallumbago6465]

@@crispy_338 Maybe it meant Winters never fired it.

[@JavinAich]

What a series, you definitely glazed over a lot of the emotional scenes in order to squeeze this all into one upload. Buck Compton dropping his helmet in reaction to seeing bill and joe torn up is one of the most impactful scenes. The last few episodes definitely needed individual reactions. Glad you enjoyed it

[@nullunit]

That bit from Toye randomly pops into my heads usually at inappropriate moments. "I need my helmet!"

[@TomEMaddox]

Very sad to see how many scenes had to be cut to make each of these reactions fall between 6-10 minutes an episode.

[@JavinAich]

@@nullunit "I gotta get up" 😭

[@wittyreviewer]

An interesting fact about knowledge of the concentration camps is that prior to D-Day, Allied command actually had been hearing rumors about them, and even scout planes claimed to have seen what they thought was them, but the idea was so horrific that nobody believed the rumors could possibly be true.

[@Masterfighterx]

There were even plans on bombing them

[@jonathanrichwine1996]

The Soviets also told the western allies but the thinking was that not even the Nazis could be that evil.

[@marianne5055]

With the exception of perhaps children, I doubt there was anybody in that town who didnt know what was going on. Maybe not to the full extent but they would have known. They either just didnt care/supported it...or were just helpless to do anything about it. Vocalising your disdain of the nazi party would be a surefire way to get yourself killed.

[@edwardstrong5613]

There was some discussion about whether they should bomb the main gates/train lines going to Auschwitz. The idea being that they could free some prisoners if they were lucky and disrupt transport to the camp. They ultimately decided not to because they couldn’t guarantee not hitting prisoner housings & they might just make things worse for people in the camps (somehow)

[@Dularr]

The Nazis had concentration camps for years. In pre-war and early war, the Nazis would keep them for a few months and then release everyone. So everyone knew the Nazis were holding people in concentration camps. But they didn't know they were working them to death or killing them as the final solution.

[@mattskeens803]

Shifty Powers is from about 20 minutes away from where I live in Virginia. He worked alongside my great grandfather in the coal mines here and is buried in the same graveyard as many, including my family, are. I was lucky to have heard him speak after the series came out and he spoke at the local high schools and colleges. A lot of war heroes from this tiny area in coal country Appalachia including Francis Gary Powers (pilot shot down in Bridge of Spies) and hell, even George C. Scott who played Patton in “Patton” is from here. Lol

[@thomashiggins9320]

I spent my elementary school years on the other side of the mountains from you, in Kentucky, but remember similar things. Life is so hard there, for so many, that military service seems to offer a way out. That's why a lot of my mother's generation volunteered in the '60s and didn't wait to get drafted. I miss Kentucky's forests, sometimes, but not much else. Even the house we lived in when I was a child fell apart, not long after we left for Colorado.

[@LockeNarshe]

One of my favorite bits about the final episode is getting to hear about the endings for most of the remaining men from Easy. I got a lot of help from the IAVA (Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans of America) after I discharged post-surgery from a knife wound in my chest during my time in Iraq. I lost contact with a lot of my guys, only hearing about them through the grapevine of connecting friends. Getting tossed back into the civilian world so abruptly & without the support of the guys you stood next to for years--it'll shake your confidence. As a former medic, it also racks up a lot of guilt about getting to come home while there's still a war to be fought. So to see those guys, even if later in life, get some kind of closure on what happened to their friends... that really meant the world to hear the first time I saw it.

[@emil87th]

You got knifed in battle or..? Shot, blown up by an IED, stepped on a mine I get but knifed? Dope PFP btw.

[@LockeNarshe]

@@emil87th Just intended to be background info to give the comment some relevance, but yeah, bad luck. Nervous teammate, his first deployment--pie'd the door, he went left, I went right. Called his sector clear, I called mine clear. Backed out into the stack in the hallway. Partner didn't check behind the door where the insurgent was hiding. He came around the corner and caught me just above my plate. Team cauterized it on the spot and rushed me out. Woke up in the hospital with a stent.

[@LockeNarshe]

@@emil87th The point was more that I just didn't get to find out much about the fates of the guys I served with & it's good that the Easy boys got some of that closure for all they'd been through.

[@AgedBacon]

Spiers isn't a soldier, he's a warrior. Someone who lives and shines on the battlefield. He didn't come here to fight and go home. He's home. And he has a mind of a warrior, which is why he looks so hard and weird to us. He's here to fight and win, whatever it takes.

[@caydonsoleno4967]

Perfectly said👌🏼

[@CarlosRamirez-wb7zu]

Well said. Speirs isn't good or bad, but suited for a violent environment.

[@carlosoto6245]

To function as soldier's supposed to, you need to accept the fact that you're already dead. He told that to Blithe.

[@emil87th]

“Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn't even be there, 80 are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.” - Heraclitus

[@helifanodobezanozi7689]

And yet, the humble, more approachable Winters is the better warrior......

[@BlueCore2010]

The extras who acted has the prisoners where actual Cancer Patients getting or awaiting treatment. When making the concentration camp scene, behind the scenes people asked many of the actors if they want to see a memorial in order to get ready for it, all of them said no because they wanted to see the concentration camp with virgin eyes like the real E Company did over 80 years ago. The shock and awe from the actors are raw and real. I cry every time when I reach to Episode 9 because has someone who has a degree in history, we can never forget the atrocistes of the Holocaust. Many people of today especially the young who are forgetting that the Jewish people have lost so much because of one man and many of his followers did to them. That is why Mossad was created in Israel "Central Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations," because when Nazi Germany was losing many high level Nazis escaped to other countries especially to Buenos Aires, Argentina. When Mossad agents get information on a Nazi escapee they go and get them, send them back to Israel, put them on trial, and finally hanged. Mossad even today are still looking for any Nazis from WWII, even though many are old men and women, Mossad still will hang them for murdering their people.

[@RPGryphus]

Damn, and here goes a perfect example of why degrees mean nothing today. "Many people of today especially the young" - False, many people DURING WW2, and right after it and up until today, have no clue what transpired during WW2. I know more young people who knows about WW2 than boomers. Most people are busy with their lives to take a moment and meditate on history and get history lessons. "the Jewish people have lost so much" - A very supremacist aka zionist way to put it. A lot more people that weren't jews suffered because WW2. Death is death and its devastation is the same to everyone, it doesn't matter how the death occurred when it comes to how it impacted people close to the victims. Also, as an historian, you ought to have known that this "jewish" people you are talking about weren't a "people" per se, they were french, germans, poles, romanians, austirans, etc. The "jewish people" are the Israelites of today, or academically speaking, the people who lived in Judea/Palestine in antiquity. If you want to refer to the people's religion, it's called the Jews. Now the Jews haven't lost more than any other humans who was involved in this war, so that zionism you know where you can stick it. "because of one man and many of his followers did to them." - Wrong on so many levels. There are layers to this and only in movies or fantasy books, which I suspect you love very much, there is such unidimensional power dynamic. In real life, one man is as powerful as his network. Hitler wasn't the all mighty and powerful and unstoppable dictator people are misled to believe he was. He had to keep a lot of people satisfied to keep his "throne", same as any emperors/dictators/kings in history such as Marcus Aurelius, Oda Nobunaga, and even dictators such as Julius Caesar. You clearly have no clue how many powerful people are behind what you perceive as only one man or small group of man being powerfully influential. Had not Hitler have a very, uncommonly high acumen for politic and culture, he wouldn't have last long since anyone close to him could have fomented a coup and succeeded easily compared to the July coup co-led by Stauffenberg.

[@caleidoo]

They'd be at least 97 years old now if they joined the Nazis at the age of 18 in the final months of the war. I doubt there are many left, let alone played big parts in the war at that age. They could of course look for stolen treasures and reclaim them, even if its in the hands of offspring.

[@littlelostphoenix]

Of the 3 series, Band of Brothers, Pacific, and currently being run Masters of the Air, this one is hands down the best. I do highly recommend you see all 3 through. Bring on the Pacific!

[@MoA-Reload...]

BoB was lightning in a bottle imo. They'll never match it. I second though, Pacific is still a really good show and while they didn't get us the audience as invested and connected with the characters, it's still a very well made look at what those men went through.

[@matthewgerlach2420]

​@@MoA-Reload...the problem with The Pacific is people go into it with the expectations it will be BoB in the Pacific theatre. In comparison BoB is fairy tale of heroes and brotherhood through combat. People say BoB is so rewatchable because you leave with this warm feeling like just for a brief moment you got to be apart of that brotherhood. The Pacific is not that, its dark and depressing, delving into the psyche of war. Unrelenting.

[@hroz2007]

I’m currently in the 101st, 3rd brigade (rakkasan), 2-506 (white currahee), in fox (Charlie) company…. This show is my companies/battalions legacy. And The expectations to be great like these men is insane !!!! It’s something that we hold to heart, to not let them down and take for granted the sacrifices they made for us. We attended the funeral of the last member (Edward Shames) back in 2021. And before his passing we met a few vets from previous wars. I felt so tiny compared to what they had to do for us. And they still thanked me for my service, it felt wrong to hear that. But I was glad and honored to meet these men who have gone thru hell and back. Watching this series was eye opening to me and moved me to do better in my enlistment to the army, and being in the 101st. I’m glad you enjoyed the series 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

[@justjsse8917]

The documentary where the interview snippets were cut from is called "we stand alone together " its on youtube and free. Highly recommended

[@danielpopp1526]

Episode 9 always hits me hard. Mostly due to what my grandfather experienced when he served in WWII. His platoon was scouting ahead for their battalion when they came across a concentration camp. The camp was in the midst of "liquidation", where they were lining up survivors in front of a mass grave and gunning them down with a machine gun. They had no idea what the place was, or how many Germans were there. So they radioed back to their battalion for orders and were told the rest of the battalion was a day behind and to wait. My grandfather and the rest of his platoon were local French and Basque, many of them poor farmers. My grandfather was 15 or 16 when the Nazis invaded, and not long after they tried to draft him into their military. He made a run for Spain, was caught by Spanish police, and was in a prison camp for a few years. When they could no longer afford to feed the prisoners, they gave them the option of German army, Allied army, or a bullet. He chose the allies because he knew it was his best chance of getting back home to his family that needed him. During his service, his baby brother got sick and died. My grandfather and the rest of his platoon all had families that needed them to return home. That's why they chose to follow their orders to wait for the rest of their battalion. They sat there all night, listening to that machine gun go off like clockwork. When their battalion finally caught up and they went in, they discovered that the whole time there had only been 3 Germans at the camp, with a couple rifles, a pistol, and the machine gun. My grandfather died not long after I was born and my mom had passed on to me what he experienced. I can only imagine the pain and regret he and his platoon felt for not going in sooner for the rest of their lives.

[@Dularr]

This particular work camp was liberated by a Japanese-American self propelled Field Artillery Battalion. Winters didn't arrive until a few days later.

[@oldfrend]

3 germans responsible for hundreds, maybe thousands dead. how can you even follow that order? i wouldn't do that to a herd of cows, nevermind human beings.

[@stevencortez7057]

That is fucking tragic.. They weren't even allowed to recon the camp?

[@miniroseyo]

lmao

[@ruscopcoltrain]

I think the story with Guarnere's accent is that while they were shooting, the actual Guarnere came with some other Easy Company men to visit the set and that's really how he spoke, so the actor changed to sound more like him. They were in the forest outside Bastogne and Tom Hanks said that the real Guarnere tossed a quarter to an actor and said, "Hey kid, why don't you go see if you can find my leg!"

[@ronweber1402]

The whole Bastogne forest set was inside a building and it was wicked hot at the time. The guys were awesome portraying themselves as freezing to death. The same set without all the fake snow was used to shoot the scene just before they came upon the concentration camp and it was a joke between the actors when the one guy says doesn't this remind you of Bastogne?

[@lamprdo]

I remember being shown episode 9 in history class, when we were about 15. We had to get permission to watch it, but all of us sat in silence for the whole thing. I knew that one of my classmate’s grandparents were German, and the scene where Webb confronts the baker really got to them. I looked over and he had his face in his hands. We’d visited museums and had seen textbook images of the bodies and the camps, but there was something about the idea that people would go about their lives just a few miles from these sites of incredible evil which really struck home. The Holocaust is one of those things that is very hard to wrap your head around, and relate to, which is why I think some people chose to remain ignorant or deny it happened. Not being the kind of person who would have been interred in the camps themselves, I at least had to come to terms with the fact that if I were that baker, I probably would not have had the courage to do any different. I never asked my classmate about it, but I’m sure he wondered how complicit his family had been.

[@dallassukerkin6878]

Aye .. and your last paragraph there speaks the truth at the heart of it - how many of us would have the courage to *not* do the sensible thing and keep quiet about what was going on? There was nothing you could do to stop it and getting shot for standing on principle sounds good in a story, less good standing on the high street of your town in front of soldiers with little silver lightning flashes on their collars. I would love to swear I would speak out about what was happening to the Jews and the other 'undesirables' but I really suspect that I would have kept my head down and prayed that the horror of it all would one day be over.

[@johannesvalterdivizzini1523]

West Point graduates became 2'nd Lieutenants in the Army. Actually, civilian college graduates during WWII were usually appointed a Second Lt. upon completion of an OCS (Officer Candidate School) program. They were derisively nick named "90 day wonders" by troops. The Army Air Force, lacking a distinct military college/ university, had a cadet program specialized to produce flying officers as the AF was rapidly expanded, and many more officers were needed. My father graduated from the AF Cadet program to become a Senior Navigational Instructor.

[@randystutz1906]

I want to thank you for doing this series of videos. I am an Airborne Veteran, and so this whole thing hit me hard. I felt some of the same emotions you did and I always thought my strong feeling of wanting Dyke to do something and other times was due to my Army and Airborne training. I can now see it wasn't my training, it was this movie that gave everyone the feelings these men had, and the desire to do what was right by the people next to them. Thanks for doing this review.

[@gawainethefirst]

Gotta love that 1st Sgt Lipton. You can tell he’s not just some *New Kid. He’s really *Hanging Tough in this episode.

[@ballymenabob]

Boo! Boo! You're getting an upvote but you should be ashamed of yourself. Shame!

[@bobdonovan34]

Step by Step he got the job done.

[@gawainethefirst]

@@ballymenabob count ‘em again. It seems people think that my comment had…*The Right Stuff.

[@francoisbeaulieu179]

@@gawainethefirstBoooooo!!! 😂

[@conchfritters01]

I think he had the Right Stuff

[@jpkc86]

I adore Lipton and Donnie’s portrayal of him.

[@parlamedia]

Back in the day when I was serving in the Finnish army, this series was playing on loop in the barracks, as it was a good casestudy of different kinds of leadership in a war stituation.

[@seanconroy3567]

Major Winters actually accepted the sidearm when he realized it had never been fired. He kept it his entire life.

[@sannaolsson9106]

Why did you spoil it for her when she's most likely gonna watch the documentary??

[@CodeeXD]

​@@sannaolsson9106 oh boohoo nerd

[@LordBloodraven]

Three ways officers are given their commissions are either by graduating from a military academy (like West Point or Annapolis), attending Officer Candidate School (OCS) after completing Basic Training, or proving their merit while in combat with a battlefield commission.

[@clarkbarrett6274]

You forgot the ROTC program which is going to regular college while also doing training. Battlefield commissions are extremely rare - though less so during WWII. So the real trio is USMA, ROTC and OCS.

[@terminallumbago6465]

@@clarkbarrett6274Aren’t Battlefield Commissions only used during times of major war

[@clarkbarrett6274]

@@terminallumbago6465 Yes. It's in the name "battlefield" commissions.

[@emwungarand]

For what it's worth. Popeye, Alley, and Guarnere were able to get back to Easy after being wounded because they were treated in Belgium/Holland/France area. Webster had been moved to England, so without a boat or plane, he's not able to easily return like the other guys were.

[@cahill22]

Man this was emotional. Dick Winter's story about his grandson asking if he was a hero in the war never doesn't bring me to tears since the first time I watched it so long ago. Thank you for watching this as it's my favourite mini series of all time.

[@ForgeofAule]

You actually bleed out slower when you lose a limb then if the artery is severed. This is because the body has a mechanism that pinches off veins and arteries when a limb is lost, stopping blood flow for a while. When an artery is severed, the body has no way to stop you from bleeding out.

[@nathanchenery1075]

The appearance of captain sobel at the end was awesome.

[@SoloRenegade]

when I was 19, we were at Ft Irwin in CA training for our deployment to Iraq. During training, we found 2 live unexploded rounds from WW2 M4 Sherman tanks in 2 days. We found them in roads people had been driving on for many days. While were were sitting on one waiting for permission to blow it up, off in the distance a truck full of soldiers rolled over and started on fire. the driver died. we were the first to see it, first to report it. A typical company like ours should have 120-150 men. We deployed with only 100, came home with about 90 (2 dead, 8 wounded badly enough to be sent home). Yet we outperformed the rest of our Battalion combined (one understrength company outperformed 3 other full companies, in combat).Strange things happen in the miltiary, especially during a war. Some things are so strange most people wouldn't believe it if you told them. In combat, when an officer ever hesitated or wasn't sure what to do, we just didn't ask, and simply did what we already knew how to do. We acted without hesitation even without orders. if the officers couldn't figure out what to do, or figure it out fast enough, we'd simply act independently. There is Zero tolerance for dealing with an incompetent person in combat. Move on without them, make decisions with out them. We were professional soldiers, and we all volunteered because of 9/11, so we knew how to do our jobs. I personally did this many times in training as well as in Iraq and Afghanistan and was even praised for it. And others did it was well. We actually had decent officers overall, but they don't always have the picture of what's going on nor how to react appropriately. Fortunately most of our leadership understood this as well, and we all knew that so long as you did your job, nobody would criticize anyone for acting without orders or even ignoring a bad order and doing the right thing instead. And we all just kept trucking along. The leaders that mattered allowed the enlisted to take charge when they knew what they were doing. We became a highly effective and decorated unit as a result, achieving unmatched results in combat. It doesn't mean we just ignored orders at will willy nilly though. We only acted when necessary. If you have a team who overall doesn't follow orders and work in skilled and timed discipline, certain maneuvers and such can't be accomplished, and you're more likely to suffer casualties. but there are other times when hesitation or delay gets everyone killed, and if those in charge can't act fast enough or freeze with indecision, you just make the call yourself to save your guys.

[@jamesthompson3674]

You ask "Why is Dike always yawning". When Capt Winters is talking to Lt Dike and Dike yawns, it is not because he is not listening or that he is not interested, in fact he is scared. In my day it was called the “Combat Yawn”. Yawning can be a response to high levels of both anxiety and stress. When we are in a heightened state of tension, our body's natural response is to take deep breaths and increase oxygen intake. Yawning helps regulate breathing patterns and can serve as a subconscious mechanism to alleviate stress. This was what the program captured here, yet another attention to detail point among so many.

[@ungenerationed9022]

As a vet, it makes my heart happy that you appreciated this series the way you did. Well done young lady! Thanks for a great ride through this series

[@sethheasley9538]

The Tom Hardy character is the only person to salute someone twice at the same time.

[@DatDudeJakeC]

Whew, Episode 9. Hits every time.

[@magicwv]

she barely edited 10 minutes of that episode into this reaction. most reactors dedicate a single upload to each episode, shows her lack of respect for being Jewish and for this entire series in general.

[@kingdancekiller]

Oh also also, I didn’t comment this because usually someone else beats me to it but Spier’s run was actually MUCH farther in real life. Just like malarkey, bumping into somebody who he knew and worked across the street from on D Day, the writers assumed no one would believe the real story.

[@bobdonovan34]

Regarding Lt. Jones. In the simplest terms the army is broken up between Enlisted Men and Commissioned Officers. The lowest officer (usually a college grad) (2nd Lt) outranks the highest Enlisted man. The corporals up through the sergeants are non-commissioned officers (NCO's) and still underneath the lowest officer. There's more to it, but that's the basics.

[@mikeljenks]

That closing line makes me cry every time.

[@stephentaylor9630]

Well done Natalie! Well done. What also struck me during this series was the sense of overwhelming fatigue increasing within each individual, and the unit as a whole as they progressed through the war.

[@AspyreFGC]

This series was pretty amazing. The cast was just spot on. I remember watching this many years after it came out... we see a young Michael Fassbender, Tom Hardy, and James McAvoy. All of which turned out to be huge stars later on.

[@matrix0897]

You are right. This show needs to be shown to many people these days. Especially after what happened since October.

[@hathorliderc]

20:49 I recommend you look up the story of Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler. Both were pilots on opposing sides of World War II. Charlie and his crew flew a B-17 bomber on a bombing run and their plane was badly damaged. Franz was sent to finish off the plane, but after seeing it so badly damaged, but still flying, he ended up sparing Charlie and his crew, leading them out of German-occupied airspace. The story was kept secret until both pilots found each other in 1986 and became extremely good friends and Franz Stigler was the only German pilot invited to WWII reunions.

[@scorp77snake]

The black ribbon on the German Officers photo was to show he'd died. Winters actually excepted the officers gun and saw it had never been fired.

[@andreallaodeazevedo8101]

Well, now that´s wrapped up... this series is phenomenal. The design production, the cinematography, the ENTIRE cast, the soundtrack, the stories told, no matter how gruesome or tragic or heroic... this series is such a landmark in the portrayal of war, of the losses, the camaraderie, the sacrifices made and the prices each of them veterans paid. I remember my granpa on my mother´s side, a "Pracinha" in Brazil´s Air Force, who´s fought in Italy and was the last of his battalion to rest in peace. The stories told to me and my brothers about the horrors of war, all he learned, how he became a man due to war, he made a military career in the Air Force(and thanks to that, married my grandma and had 4 sons and one daughter), up to becoming a lieutenant-colonel until he retired. He never accepted the "hero" compliment...

[@michaelgarcia9007]

Winters(Damien Lewis) professionalism when the train car opens up you can see his disgust, disappointment but knowing he has to lead the men to help the people. its subtle but powerful display of winters.

[@nezfromhki]

Glad you watched this, still one of my all time favorites. I can't remember how many times I've rewatched it and how many reactions I've seen, but the last few episodes still hit me right in the feels. Can't watch that last quote from Winters' interview without tearing up.

[@scrufyl0okin774]

Compton being overcome by emotion and struggling to call for a Medic is one of the most powerful and haunting moments in any show or movie. I've seen this series many times and I still cry like a baby every time. Absolutely the best thing put to film of all time.

[@xxWickedLifexx]

My brothers and I quote Dike all the time. "Huntington!" And this is one of the most rewatchable shows ever, and you obviously pick up on a ton of the more background characters and details the more times you see it.

[@sydhamelin1265]

I'm sorry, this one is such a rough loss. My immediate and extended family were impacted, both being in a camp and escaping Germany in early 1930s. I saw the Auschwitz documentary "Kitty, Return to Auschwitz" and even seeing depictions, or Hollywood remakes, of the conditions still 100% brings me to tears. Thank God they don't go to far into the horrors of what Jewish people, and other marginalized people, were subjected to. The title 'Why We Fight' rings very different. My dad told me a story of Jewish families hiding in, I believe, a warehouse. Soldiers were investigating the area, and so one young woman took it on herself to 'draw them away', or basically convince them that she was hiding alone. When she was talking with one of the soldiers, she realized he was American, not German. When she explained why they were hiding, for being Jewish, he started crying and produced a Star of David on a necklace. Apparently the two fell in love and married. It's been a long time since he told me that story, and I have never checked to see if it's true, because I kind of need it to be.

[@Hoscitt]

Winters having to be held back and then sending in Speirs who just runs straight in is my favorite part of the whole series. Absolute badass

[@bigenglishmonkey]

its funny you mentioned everybody losing loved ones but still having their instruments. because i just watched the newest Halo episode (futuristic if you done know) and an antique sales woman refuses to leave her shop during an invasion. when a soldier says "leave them, they dont men anything" she answers with the make and year of a typewriter and say "its survived fascism, communism, and civil wars, its survived dozens of other wars, it will survive this one too." and for a lover of history and artifacts i just loved the sentiment.

[@TheAlmostace]

I have loved watching this series with. The band of brothers is an amazing series. You do such a great job of being present and respectful. There is a behind the scenes where the actors went in charicter to boot camp and trained properly. And also how the 101st airborne meet annually

[@ralphdougherty1844]

My dad’s cousin married a German woman after the war. I knew her well… She grew up in Germany from 1924-46 and she wrote a book. She said that growing up in Frankfurt, she was aware of something going on but couldn’t really say for sure. She noticed people disappearing and was always told they were being “resettled”…as the war went on she became more and more suspicious of those claims. By 1945 she was a cook for the Army and heard stories of the atrocities. She was captured by my dad’s cousin in southern Germany in uniform so she was a POW. Frieda was the nicest person and always told us that she wasn’t aware of the camps which could have been true. She died at the age of 95 a few years ago.

[@peterhoeller7811]

"Have the MPs take care of this piece of shit" that line always sticks with me, you can hear the attitude dripping off his words

[@epdiablo25]

I am an American History teacher in PA. My colleague (Jim) went to Philly and spent the day with Guarnere a number of years ago prior to his passing. I was supposed to go but couldn’t make it. He signed a number of things for me including my copy of BofB. Jim had the time of his life with Bill. Compton CA is named after Buck. He was a prosecutor out there. He was on the Sirhan Sirhan trial in ‘68. Bill took Jim out for lunch and then answered pretty much anything about the war…8 hours worth. He gave Jim an autographed photo of the Market Garden jump. Man was a STUD. RIP Bill.

[@ccchhhrrriiisss100]

There is a statue of Major Dick Winters at the war cemetery in Normandy. It depicts Winters running in full gear with his gun. It's an amazing statue!

[@jamesteele5726]

IMO Best war series ever made.

[@tehdipstick]

About Dike, there are also some clues that suggest he may have been suffering from PTSD at the time of his transfer to Easy. The detachment from his position, responsibilities and surroundings, the inability to connect with the people under his command, those 'walks' that he'd go on to get away from the line... Even the constant yawning could have been a sign of high anxiety or stress. You're right about recognizing Webster from earlier. He was the one who gave the little Dutch boy chocolate in episode 4. He got hit by shrapnel from friendly mortar fire near the end of the battle in episode 5, which is why he missed Bastogne. As for the camp, a lot of German citizens were fooled by the Nazi government into thinking the camps were more like ghettos where 'unwanted' people would be able to live and work segregated from the rest of the populace. German state-owned newspapers from the time have been found to feature articles on the camps and how they were all about 'freedom through work', and that the camps were more about re-education and rehabilitation of the 'unwanted'. Of course this was all a lie, but it was easier for many to believe the lies than to face the horrible truth. Many Germans willfully ignored what was happening, or were in denial, but many were also simply too afraid to speak up against the Nazi regime.

[@dondavenport7077]

If you ever get to New Orleans, check out the World War II Museum. It was originally the D-Day Museum but then was expanded in the aftermath of Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers. Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks had a lot to do with the design and expansion of the museum.

[@jlwconnell]

Thank you for watching this series, It's been a favorite of mine for many years. I genuinely appreciated your humility and respectful posture as you watched, you really got it. I also agree with you, this should be required curriculum, possibly for High Schoolers. These men were part of the greatest generation. Thank you, Natalie.

[@theredworm1200]

I’ve been waiting for this one.

[@FranciscoOyola94]

So About Dyke, he was awarded a bronze star for heroism, but all we know about his time as CO of Easy in the book comes from Winters and Lipton, and none of them liked him. Some of the things in the show are straight from the book, like his walks or when he told Lipton organize things while he goes for help, but others are creative license or things other officers said, like the “as present as per usual” thing, that I think lieutenant Peacock said during a patrol

[@dirus3142]

I dont remember Ambros saying he was a bad officer. Just did not work well with Easy. Another historian figures Winters. Lipton, and a few other key figures did not like him. Mostly class, and social biases. Dyke had a hard time fitting in, and he was standoffish as well. It makes sense. Dyke most likely was a competent officer, but maybe not suited for an aggressive assault company like Easy.

[@FranciscoOyola94]

@@dirus3142 yeah, I also got that feeling. I wish Ambrose would have given us more info about him before he joined Easy

[@BessieRiggs]

I had a great, great uncle who was in the Battle of the Bulge. Not EZ Company, but he was there. Our family provide his letters home as a contribution to a compilation of memorabilia of folks from my home state who fought at Bastogne. I visited the city, museum, and memorial on the D-day anniversary while I was stationed in Germany. The turn center has a Sherman tank on display. The Belgian people still hold Americans in the highest regards because of this fight.

[@kathyastrom1315]

Last summer, I connected with a distant cousin and filled him in on my family history research. He told me about his uncle Elroy, who fought in the Battle of the Bulge and came back with severe lifelong PTSD.

[@jdpostma07]

"How do you become a LT if he doesn't have experience?" I laughed so hard my wife came in to check on me.

[@jimmark8065]

So important they got the veterans themselves on camera before they all passed.

[@natskivna]

My avatar is the shoulder patch of the 17th Airborne, the unit Nixon jumped with in this episode and also the division my father served in, a glider trooper and combat veteran of the 194th GIR of the 17th. Episode 7 and 9 resonate most with me as my father was fighting right there 10km away from Foy in Flamierge, Belgium and of course was dropped into the Diersfordtwald of Germany during Operation Varsity here talked about by Nixon in this episode. This episode also resonates with me because of what my own father said about the camps...the only words he ever spoke about them and I quote: "Don't let anyone EVER tell you that it (the Holocaust) didn't happen cause I can tell you I saw it with my own eyes."

[@johnsmith-es7zk]

You spoke about forgiveness and how some were able to forgive. One of the best true stories of forgiveness from WW2 is "The Railwayman" which was made into a film with Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman. It's about a survivor of the Burma railway and living with horrific memories. It is such a powerful story and when I saw it in the cinema the silence of the cinema audience was something I'd never experienced before or since.

[@TheDweller0690]

This came out my junior or senior year in high school. It was the only thing me and my friends talked about each week. I still watch this series probably once a year.

[@allanvanuga9196]

I appreciate you and thank you for making content.

[@moonglow630]

The American cast has annual reunions. And now the English cast has begun getting together. They also do tours w veterans back to the real war locations. The series really had an impact on the actors.

[@PaulJohnson-zv3hl]

Such a great series. American cinema used to annoy me because a lot of film was fictional, then band of brothers came and showed a great adaptation of real events. This show and Dunkirk (being English it hits hard) are my favourite WW2 stories.

[@patd0]

32:21 “you may keep your sidearm” is actually a traditional compliment. He’s telling him that he believes that the other officer will behave properly in surrender and not try to escape or foment trouble. The looks on their faces tell a different story… you can tell that Winters was trying to do the “right thing”, to be a “gentleman”, but it took a lot of effort. Not sure if the German was surprised at the hatred on Winters face or the fact that Winters allowed him the “honor” of keeping his sidearm.

[@anthonyvasquezactor]

What you and Natalie may not know is that Winters actually did take the pistol, only to find out it had never once been fired, and he kept it that way for the duration of his life. He felt it appropriate that for him, the war should end with the surrender of a firearm that had never been used for the purpose of killing.

[@patd0]

@@anthonyvasquezactor yeah I don’t know why they changed it, they were clearly aware that Winters kept it in real life. maybe… maybe… to illustrate what I was talking about. Winters is obviously a natural soldier and a leader but he didnt go to West Point and as far as I know he didnt come from a family with a history of military service… so the real winters might have been unaware of what I’m talking about. If his motivation for keeping it had been different, if he had been aware of the tradition and chose to not return it because of what he’d seen, I doubt they would have changed it considering how little was changed throughout the series. Not sure if anyone has ever found out why they made that change.

[@sandwiched]

By the time I reached Episode 9, I was so engrossed in the portrayal of the war that I had not made any mental connection between WW2 and the Holocaust & concentration camps. As a result, that reveal hit me like a ton of bricks (I grew up with a few Holocaust survivors).

[@matthewrussell9417]

Good on you for researching the rest of the story about Dike! Great video

[@coyotefire69420]

When I was a younger man I idolized these guys for being war heroes, for doing things that I never could do or should do. You watch them change and see what acts they've completed. As I get older, Im hit by the abject horror of losing all of your friends and the fact that you need everyone around you to stay alive as a sane person. I cry more now, especially with the idea that these men had tragic things happen but still came out as decent human beings (for the most part). Really shows the power of the human spirit and what can be accomplished

[@BigBear--]

FYI in Appendix Carry (where you carry the gun on your front pointed downwards), or even sometimes if you carry it in the side pocket or the 3-5 o'clock position...it's very common that an accidental discharge will hit your leg/thigh. There's a huge artery that run down the inside of your crotch and thigh, so it's common that it can get nicked or hit. It's very hard to stop that bleeding, as it can often get pulled up and into your body, and there's no way to apply a tourniquet that way. If it happens out in the field, and the medic can't locate the artery and clamp it, you're done for.

[@kuveshannaidoo1222]

I love your pure reactions!

[@jayeads]

Thank you for this.

[@SupergirlUK]

Havent watched this in YEARS!! Forgot how many famous actors are in this before they were big! 😮

[@Shutterbug5269]

My Grandmother Mary worked a lathe in a defense plant makibg artillery shells during thr war. Two days after giving birth to my mother she was back in the defense plant. When she passed, in 1984, she still had brass filings in her lungs.

[@jaredg9898]

I’ve watched this series dozens of times and never fail to cry. Truly a masterpiece!

[@McLovinPopeIII]

Such an amazing series. I was introduced to it through my Dad, who watches it annually even to this day. It will be one of many series I look forward to sharing with my children when they are old enough for it.

[@KATZGATZ]

Band of Brothers is the greatest television/mini-series ever made. Period

[@About37Hobos]

I know you’ll have other requests and work to do but I’d heavily recommend the movie Mosul, it’s an excellent war movie about some real heroes that we in America rarely get to hear about. Showing Iraqi swat fighting against Isis, it’s a great film.

[@lukasismael430]

I really love your reactions to this series, Natalie. You bring a lot of insight to each episode I haven't realized before, even after rewatching this show so many times. One of them being in episode eight: Winters getting a promotion right after lying to regiment about a second patrol! LOL I don't know why I never put that together before. And I really hope you get to react to the documentary accompanying this show : "We Stand Alone Together" which follows the real men of Easy Company , including all of the men in the opening interviews of each episode from basic training till life after the war.

[@billbabcock1833]

This series is just incredible. I bought the DVD box set way back before streaming. You know, when the dinosaurs were still alive. I really enjoyed watching you react to the series. I've watched The Pacific but haven't yet watched Masters of the Air. I'm a pilot and I have been fascinated with WWII aviation since I was a kid. I've actually flown in a B-17, and had a chance to sit in a P-51s cockpit (on the ground).

[@ShaiYammanee]

I loved your reactions to this masterpiece. I’ve watched this show so many times and it still hits home every single time. Every aspect of this series is superb