Purple Hearts & Paratrooper Brawls at The Bloody Gulch of Carentan | American Artifact Episode 94

[@chijimmy1]

So many brave men! To bring back that man’s Purple Heart to where he was wounded is an awesome tribute to his legacy. Thank you for showing us and explaining the real history.

[@Non-794]

They bring back rightful definition to the word legacy. The two of them.

[@anthonydm2947]

So thorough and detailed. The respect you two show for our history and the soldiers should be commended… Thank you

[@TheHistoryUnderground]

🙏🏼

[@galaxydoeshistory9352]

Your videos have inspired me to want to become a tour guide either around the area, or in a museum in Normandy when I eventually leave Secondary school and finish university if I get in. I've always been the type of person to ask questions in museums, so if I can help answer other people's questions and spread my knowledge of history, it would be amazing.

[@randystolz]

Ty JD & Eric for continuing to tell us stories of actions & men that are beyond the scope of the BoB series 🤓🤓

[@thenikonjones]

It's been my dream to go to Normandy and see the locations for myself. Getting to see them through your channel with unique stories and perspective is fantastic. Nice work and thank you JD and Erik!

[@mmello1993]

Went there last week, amazing experience

[@your_royal_highness]

There last year, amazing. Bastogne this year

[@mmello1993]

@@your_royal_highness awesome place, went there last year.

[@joeschmoe233]

Please go! you won't regret it. I was there this last June for 2 days.

[@gazzertrn]

You got to go , amazing place , so much to see .Glad i went in march this year , even the missus enjoyed it .

[@nateporteractual]

Nice pitch at minute 5:44 for Fierce Valor Erik. I'm in! However, it's the integrity you guys show for curating our military history with such reverence for the truth that compels me to not only buy this book, but continue to support your extraordinary channel. Thank you gentlemen!

[@TheHistoryUnderground]

👊🏻

[@Wreckdiver59]

Fierce Valor is definitely a great book 👍 Highly recommended. Thanks for another great video.

[@win300mag1]

Excellent video as always JD! Hope you’re doing well and I appreciate all of the awesome work! Makes band of brothers come to life!

[@thomashyler6174]

Thank ya'll again for letting us see what a lot of us can never hope to see. Semperfi

[@stephenrrose]

It is so heart warming and humbling to see artifacts brought back to the original site! JD, you and Erik do such a great job! Thank you for the History, and the Respect of the Soldiers belongings. Thank you for keeping History alive!

[@psinclairjr]

You and Erik on location doing a video that is obviously drawn from personal accounts is the definition of curating, honoring, and preserving history. Aside from the educational value, both of you have rekindled my passion for WW2 (im a Civil War Guy). To do that for a 50 y/o man is an accomplishment and i thank you both

[@danielsibley2723]

I have said it before...NOBODY DOES IT HE WAY YOU AND ERIC DO.....amazing work and such intentional detail. thank you guys, really.

[@terryeustice5399]

Thank you for your documentation of this battle. And Erik bringing the Purple Heart Mr. Lowry he had a tough recovery. Thanks for sharing. 💯👍

[@M_IkeLeBlanc]

Another great video guys! I did the Ambrose Band of Brothers tour this past June and watched your videos beforehand. They were an excellent primer that truly enhanced my experience. Thank you!

[@MrEaglesfan40]

Fantastic video JD Thank you for putting the battle and the field itself in perspective, Phenomenal work

[@thewatcher5271]

I Remember Dad Telling Me About It In 1964 Only 20 Years After It Happened. How Vivid The Memories Must've Been To Him At The Time. I Never Heard Him Tell Anyone Else. Thank You.

[@G503-e8p]

Thanks again - these last few have been my favorites to date. That farm at the 8:40 mark is so darn neat and typical of old Normandy. Love to just stare at those old farm house structures.

[@eamo106]

Great work , RIP Herbert Lowry , recalled and remembered.

[@Stopcryinguwuss]

Pretty cool being in the actual spots where the battles took place..well done eric and jd. Also the artifacts add an element of bringing the events alive in 2023.

[@corychecketts]

Thank you for these amazing videos JD and Erik. I'm reading Band of Brothers for the first time and seeing these videos helps to visualize what I'm reading.

[@katazack]

Thank you so much JD and Erik for these excellent tutorials. You are making my upcoming trip to Normandy more complicated, however, because each video you release gives me an idea for another stop! Also, thank you for bringing the medals and photos of these WWII legends back to the sites of their heroics so that we can recognize the people who made such sacrifices for us.

[@dennisunglesbee1391]

Thank both for telling the story of the brave men and their sacrifices to save the world. The emotion that Erik felt as he shared the Purple Heart really got to me.

[@GGGriffin]

Always a really good vid with so much info, we never miss your vids. Thank you so much

[@gears101]

I'm really glad these videos exists and hope they will always exists. Schools now days have a different agenda on teaching children and even though they are not learning these kind of things in school, KZbin University will always be available.

[@WW2Wayfinder]

Great episode mate

[@TheHistoryUnderground]

👊🏻

[@brandonlove6302]

I like the addition of the topography map with the battle lines and locations you add. Gives a good perspective.

[@keithnicodemus5613]

This is the first and only channel that I have ever joined, love the content you bring to keep history alive.

[@TheHistoryUnderground]

👊🏻

[@pauldouglas3084]

Excellent video I love talking about the purple heart 💜 can't wait for the next video

[@GhostRider247]

Not long enough !!! absolutley amazing just mind blowing , thank yo so so much again for sharing what these iconic men did and all servicemen and women are still doing today , thank you ...Shaun. p.s wish i was there !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@duanelawrence78]

Thanks J.D. n Eric you guys are awesome thanks for sharing the area n medals of the patriotic past!!✌️🇺🇲

[@your_royal_highness]

Don Burgett’s first book has a great recounting of Bloody Gulch (he was in same 506th as Easy, but 1st Battalion, vs 2nd). He got pretty well wounded here. He was the guy who interacted with the tanker of Dead Man’s Corner fame and actually got a little from him before he left to go get more ammo before getting killed

[@johnszweda6579]

Burgett was officially wounded on the 12th of June and evacuated... The Battle of Bloody Gulch was on 13th June.

[@reloadncharge9907]

Excellent episode! Thanks, Andrew

[@davidhunt3808]

Not an American but I love your description of events like this . Lest we forget !!

[@larryburwell8550]

as always JD just a great description of the actual battle areas and action and the over all history of any subject you cover for us to enjoy on youtube. thank you for your efforts and photography to bring this to everyone. your a trooper for all of us. thank you Larry

[@jeffreyg4626]

Glad to see you got back to France! Love your channel

[@livelife153]

I can not get some of the guys on the construction site to work, how in the heck did these heros dive right in to danger around every corner. Thank you so very much for bringing this to all of us!

[@Dylantuning1995]

Different times, different purpose.. Some of the guys who were denied to serve ended their lives because they were the ones who couldn't go.. Like I said, different times. Sadly people nowadays rather watch the world burn and their country go to hell instead of stepping up and helping out. Sad day when the last person of this generation leaves us.

[@toninatoli]

In this situation, it's kill or be killed, sad to say. Did what they had to do.

[@altonbunnjr]

The Army has ways to motivate you.

[@jaybrown4246]

Many thanks for your in-depth review of battle scenes not taught anywhere, other than what you guys teach us !! I also commend your telling a story of a soldier who was severely injured during that battle !! You think the world would be a different if our educational system humanized WWII ? If they actually mentioned names, names and stories of the actual men and women who participated, fought and died in WWII ?? We'll never know ? Our school systems have an agenda to adhere to. They are more focused on test scores, bowing down to radical ideals of sex and gender, rather than opening up young minds about dedication, hard work and how hard it is for the men and women of this country to keep it safe !!

[@idotroger88]

When I see a new video is posted, I can’t wait to get it started. Then it’s over way too soon. I’m traveling all those areas of the globe that I’ll likely never see in person through you guys. Great work again.

[@Borealis1971]

Another amazing video. It really gives a great, real life perspective to the battle area.

[@wesleyrector8294]

This kinda goes without saying but you guys lead a very charmed life to be able to travel to all of these Historicd spots and tell the Tales of Valor and Humanity in the midst of Pure Evil! Those who forget History are Damned to repeat it! There is no greater gift than to lay down your life for a Brother! Curahee!

[@sonofhawaii4227]

I’ll say it again, the graphics that you’re using REALLY makes these locations so much easier to understand. Great work as always! Aloha 🤙🏼🫡

[@sandermore9259]

Thank you for another great video, will visit normandy next week. Seen a lot of museums there already but i love to visit the places where the true action was. Are you planning to do a series in the netherlands as well? Around the market garden area ?

[@ronmoore5827]

Thank you JD and Eric, awesome video as usual. Had the chance to visit the museum last May. Eric has some amazing artifacts in his collection. If you visit Gettysburg I highly recommend you give yourself a couple hours to look through the displays, I guarantee you won't be disappointed!

[@DGamer76]

I really enjoy history. Thank you so much for bringing history to us through videos of your experiences around the world. Your videos and attention to detail are amazing.

[@michaelpatrick895]

a brilliant watch for Monday morning. Hope you are doing well mate x

[@Everett-eh4nn]

Just finished up the story about Robert Cole. Great stuff.

[@OTDMilitaryHistory]

Great stuff! I've heard about the fake Bloody Gulch. I wonder why that happened?

[@swgeek4310]

You continue to bring great content and I am reminded about how little I ACTUALLY know,lol.

[@safety86]

Awesome video, JD! During the D-Day anniversary events, Camp Arizona is set up in the field across from Sink's old HQ. In the big pavilion that can be seen in your video, people set up selling WWII artifacts. It was like a mini Show of Shows! Also, if you get a chance, meet the mayor of Carentan. He was a guest at Fort Campbell back in May and I got to meet with him.

[@lthom5158]

Very moving video! Fierce Valor is an excellent book!

[@blakebufford6239]

Great job JD and Mr. Dorr!!!

[@joemabry9643]

Thank you.

[@MrSebfrench76]

Thank you Dewitt Lowery, for liberating my country, and i feel very sorry for the aftermaths of the wounds you received in my beloved Normandy. I hope you find peace some day in your life.

[@Infinitegrowth-zt1mh]

Thanks again. Awesome as usual

[@michae8jackson378]

another wonderful episode. Thank you JD and Erik. Our oldest son just traveled to Japan to visit his best friend. They lost his luggage. Almost a week now. Does Erik travel with all these great mementoes in his luggage, trusting the airlines?

[@TheHistoryUnderground]

Would rather not discuss the specifics but we take precautions.

[@michae8jackson378]

@@TheHistoryUnderground fully understand

[@phillipsmith4814]

@@TheHistoryUndergroundGreat video. Thanks. Will you guys get as far inland as Mortain? If so it would be great if you walked the areas where the 30th Infantry Division held open the shoulders of the Cobra breakout in the face of counterattacks by two panzer divisions. Cobra might have failed if the 30th hadn’t stopped the German counterattacks.

[@TheHistoryUnderground]

@@phillipsmith4814 - 100%. Just focusing on the peninsula for this run of History Traveler video though and a little bit of everything for American Artifact.

[@Demon_Outlaw]

Simply Amazing.

[@Isclachau]

Thanks for the videos. Very appreciated 👍

[@Dylantuning1995]

I'm so glad for these videos. Watching the movies/series and reading the books you can kind of imagine what a battlefield sorta must of looked like, but then here you guys are showing us the actual sites and bringing history lessons left and right on this. Great stuff, definitely learned a lot more. And I have your book Erik, just haven't gotten round to it yet because i'm still reading Hang Tough!😅

[@boondocker7964]

Nice work, you two.

[@martinbruce6651]

Another great one brother.

[@altonbunnjr]

Good video as always. I read somewhere that Winters complained to either Strayer or Sink about F company falling back and exposing his left flank. This in turn got the company commander relieved. I guess hard feelings is why they got picked on so much in BOB. Making them look like goofballs made it simpler to explain their retreat I guess.

[@andrewwebb-trezzi2422]

Would be great if you could do a video on the Canadian paratroopers!

[@dwightadams3853]

Erik, I am reading the book now. Thanks

[@jamesholbrook7785]

Love this show!!

[@AlexWright-yi4gy]

Awesome video as always 😊

[@camdodge9891]

JD thanks Again fantastic video

[@trentsnaza3372]

Great video!!! Just found some cci no34 large rifle primers!!! Gonna load some 3006 ammo for my 2 m1 garands tonight!! Keep up the good work

[@joeschmoe233]

Well done!

[@charlesgantz5865]

Ed Shames, in the book about him "Airborne, The Combat Story of Ed Shames of Easy Company" by Ian Gardner, talks about this battle in great detail. Shames was assigned as an observer to let battalion and regiment know what was happening. He was the one who found that F Company was missing and let Col. Sink know that the right flank was completely undefended. The issue with F Company wasn't that they retreated, since they ran out of ammo, but was that they didn't let anyone know that they retreated. The commander of F Company was later sacked by Sink. Shames thought that was unfair since the radios were not operating and they had no way to get back to battalion.

[@Nighthawk1966]

Wow, great stuff !!

[@BillsWargameWorld]

Awesome like always

[@ericscottstevens]

The book by Cpl Forrest Guth is a great resource about E Company. It is called the Way We Were WWII Paratrooper Series. D-Day Publishing. Currently out of print and very rare. I got a copy somehow at a used bookstore a few years ago.

[@4nthr4x]

In the book "Tonight we die as men", about 3rd battalion 506th PIR (G-H-I companies), they were on the left flank of 2nd battalion during this battle, themselves hard pressed by german armor. I read that during the fighting, they tried to locate Dog and/or Fox company on their right through the hedgerows, to make sure that flank was still secure, but they couldn't find anybody at the time. Maybe 3rd battalion was also that far forward as Fox company, but after Fox company fell back, that might explain the hole? Again good stuff JD

[@chrislonnon3396]

Fantastic book. Ian Gardner is a superb author. Met him a few times on location with veterans for long chats!

[@richelias2973]

Excellent

[@keithmitchell6918]

Well done Recondo & Erik - poignant ending.

[@robstark6899]

I stood with Bob in the place he took out the tank. It was an amazing story to hear him tell it where it happened. I got goose bumps. I still believe he should have gotten a SS, not just a BS.

[@TheHistoryUnderground]

Wow!

[@robstark6899]

@@TheHistoryUnderground if you like, I can send you pictures of it

[@adammitchell3462]

Awesome video

[@redscouse7056]

About 7 yrs ago I used to take pigeons to carentan to release them so they could race . The release site was on that cattle market site. I meet some Americans at the supermarket over the road and they didn't know about band of brothers happening there

[@N2NDF]

The battle of bloody gulch... why don't I remember that! Guys I have to buy the book!

[@TBNTX]

Thanks JD. Another informative video. I have a question, though. Were the property owners recompensed for the damage when battles were fought on their lands? I suspect not, but I thought that I ought to ask.

[@truthtriumphant]

Good question!

[@shortyvols]

Your history knowledge is awesome. I’ve got a question I hope you can answer. I live in a town an hour west of Nashville, TN close to the RR tracks that run from Nashville to Memphis that soldiers would have used in the Civil War. How do I find out if there was any fighting on my 15 acres? The town I live in is McEwen which is 30 from Johnsonville , TN(Civil War) now called New Johnsonville. I know there was fighting there.

[@Rocks_Dad]

I'm beginning to think Dorr just makes up a bunch of these relics. I just don't know if it would be possible to obtain all of the things he comes up with, let alone afford them. As long as he doesn't tell me they are fake, I'm gonna say " wow, cool man"

[@gregsayre4700]

Brutal battle for both sides, but better leadership was the deciding factor.

[@kyledunn6853]

"Holy Shit! There goes our left flank!" Lt. Harry Welsh

[@brettM1]

Question and Erik may be the one to ask. The Purple Heart, was that donated to the museum by his family or how did you get your hands on that? Pretty special item. Thanks for another great video guys.

[@mernarodway7301]

Another moving reminder that freedom is never free. Someone always makes a sacrifice so multitudes become free. The words "thank you" are woefully inadequate unless we live our lives to honor those who died so we can live free. Thank you Jesus!✝️

[@johnjacobs1625]

Kool!! So Many gave all!!

[@philarcuri6338]

Thanks for honoring Dewitt Lowery in that way

[@Gitarzan66]

They need to get that dadgum battlefield trust out there.

[@maryannallen9885]

I have my dad’s Purple Heart he was in the 101st. He was wounded a week after they dropped in. I’m not sure what regimen. I have his dress uniform the screaming eagle on the left shoulder and then there’s a different patch on the other shoulder. I wish you would post pictures of arm patches for what units of the 101st you are talking about with the band of brothers and all the other groups.

[@Assdfgresa]

Amazing how the family's of these soldiers don't keep those really personal items

[@AJGFTL]

Playing "Forward Observers" is the term... ;)

[@devildog121890]

Did you happen to get the latitude/longitude for Col Sink's HQ? i'm visiting the battlefield next year and would really like to see it!

[@D2C3R5]

can I recommend that when you point in any direction that you say what cardinal direction it is for easier orientation to the battle. Looking at Google Earth, the direction you're pointing down the hedgerow is East.

[@terryl7874]

This country owes so much and a payment that can never be made to the people who bravely fought in WWII.

[@sammyseguin2978]

seems to a few "misconception's" cropping in the Band of Brothers series as time goes by.

[@toninatoli]

Can't recall who it was from the show who got a wee bit defensive, pointing out they were making a movie, not a documentary. Maybe Hanks?

[@sammyseguin2978]

@@toninatoliHollywood, taking "artistic licence for dramatic effect" because sometimes historical facts can be boring.

[@chrislonnon3396]

The worst mistake was Albert Blythe who didn’t die & went on to have a distinguished military career after the war!!

[@sammyseguin2978]

@@toninatoliperhaps the same people who questioned the accuracy of "Captain Philips"

[@matthewaves255]

So what’s the score with the Bloody Gulch museum?

[@billyruprecht9581]

Maybe someday you should tell the story about Harrison C. Summers and Objective XYZ on D-Day.

[@jonhoggard691]

Would be interested to know why there’s such confusion over the battle site - when I visited, the locals assured me it was to the west of your video location. I guess it’s better for tourism if the site looks hedgerows rather than a car park? Just wondered if there’s a less cynical reason - misremembered details across the last 70-odd years?

[@ticktock5019]

Good morning. Jd. I'm wondering when you made these Normandy videos. We saw you at Eric's July 2 in Gettysburg. Your equipment had been stolen. Were you able to recover everything, or did you head to Europe after you left Gettysburg,

[@TheHistoryUnderground]

This was late July. Never did get the gear back.

[@elchapito4580]

Do you guys really think that something that gets stolen, in Greece of all places, gets magically returned? Do you think the robbers will bring it back once they've used the cameras and hard drives for a couple of days? Or maybe you imagine the Greek police are actually doing their job and investigating a visitor having his stuff nicked? Oh, dear. You guys are quite naive but I guess it's a good thing if it means you haven't had any of your stuff taken.