Re-Upload *BAND OF BROTHERS* Ep. 6 | Film Student Reacts | Bastogne

*This is a recut/shorter version that I had to reupload due to a copyright block, almost a week after I posted it the first time. Thank you to anyone who watches it again! I really appreciate the engagement!
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00:00 - Intro
01:37 - Reaction
23:14 - Review / Analysis
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[@shoehead65]

Renée Lemaire and Auguste Chiwy (the Congolese nurse) were real. They were dubbed the “Angels of Bastogne”. Renée was killed in the air raid, and her body was wrapped in a parachute and brought to her parents with full honors. Auguste was blown through a wall in the same raid but survived. She died in 2015. There is no account of Renée ever meeting Eugene Roe, but the writers wanted to include their story. Otherwise, they were real people and not just a plot device.

[@chrisdobbs9155]

The big problem they faced at this time was that the Germans had captured the Allies' field hospital, including the doctors and medical supplies. So the "Angels" were all emergency volunteers. Rene was a nurse at a hospital in another city and was in Bastoinge visiting her family for Christmas.

[@hillsane9262]

@@chrisdobbs9155 Chiwy was willing to don a uniform so she could be taken closer to the lines. Not sure why that was needed, but those are the reports.

[@hillsane9262]

Chiwy was brought from the Congo to help but also because her father was white Belgian and married her mother in the Belgian Congo! They were brought to Belgian for a visit or to stay.

[@lizgreer6888]

My Dad was a combat veteran. He told me the medic is the most important and the most respected and yet the hardest and the most dangerous job in the military. They are the ones who go into harms way, right into the fire. They care for the injured and give compassion to the dying. One of my Dads good friends was in Bastogne. He was quiet and introspective and always kind. I didn't know he was in Bastogne until I was older and read his memoir. It was Christmas Eve night and his Jewish friend took his position so he could go to Mass. He came back to find his friend dead in the foxhill. He learned the Kaddish to light a candle and say a prayer for his friend after Christmas Eve service every year.

[@Fordry]

Roe was depicted in the third episode. He is the one working on Winters' leg after he took that ricochet shot. And then they're talking about Blithe's hysterical blindness. He is also the one that yells at Winters and Welsh about the morphine after Heyliger got shot.

[@andreshernandez1180]

He's in episode 1, when during training Sobel gets the men out of their perfect cover and they walk right into the enemy, we see Roe making an angry face at Sobel's mistake.

[@chuckcarles8288]

I was a Navy Hospital Corpsman (Medic) in Vietnam (3 Tours). I had 4months of basic medical training and two months of combat medical training when I was assigned to the Marines. The army medical training is similar. They don't just say you're a medic. There are not enough men that volunteer to be a medic. Tests are taken while you are in training. If your test shows an aptitude for medicine, then they ask you to volunteer or just send you to school to be a medic. If you are not good at it they send you back to infantry. Most medics that have been in combat can do the job as well as or better than some doctors or nurses. According to the Geneva Conventions medics are not to carry offensive weapons. I never carried a weapon. During times not in combat the medic is supposed give first aid lessons to his whole platoon frequently. So, anyone can take over basic first aid if the medic is killed. They can carry a pistol for their own protection and the protection of the one they are working on. Those two medics in the same fox hole should never be close to each other during combat (That’s one of the first things you learn). One of my tours in Vietnam I was on a ship on the Co Chien River in the Mekong Delta. Me and another corpsman were the only medical personnel on board. Being the only medical person onboard I did everything medical. If you were on a ship or with the Marines, you were called Doc. We were taught that during combat conditions we were to be on opposite ends of the ship. The 2 corpsmen we replaced were together during a fire fight and they both got killed. You never remember all the ones that you have treated but you never forget the ones you can’t save. When I was in hospital corps school, one of our trainers told us there are 3 rules 1. good men will die. 2. Doc can't save everyone. 3. Doc will go through hell to break rules 1 and 2.

[@jeniafru]

Eugene didn't go into medicine after the war. In fact, despite the family connection through his healer grandmother, what happened eventually was exactly what the writers of the episode put in Renee's words: he didn't want to treat wounded men ever again. That's what I think the significance is in this re-imagination. It's not just a very touching tribute to the real Renee Lemaire (and Auguste Chiwy), but also a description of what Eugene himself probably felt and how him being a medic probably influenced the rest of his life.

[@actaeon299]

Yes. Shaving is important to him. He believed that the men needed to see him, the leader, LOOKING the leader.

[@ronweber1402]

Yup. It was all about morale. Hey, if Winters can take time to shave it can't be that bad, right?

[@numbersasaname2291]

I spent 11 years as an infantry officer with all the “proper” schooling and assignments that go with that. I volunteered for it. My cousin (a ring knocker) volunteered for infantry as well and likewise went through all of the “proper” schooling and assignments. Of his many kids, I was able to visit my cousin at Ord when his oldest son was born. I didn’t see that kid again until 2002 when he joined a family reunion. He was recycled at basic because of heat exhaustion. He was a twig of a boy, the opposite of the hulk that his father was. The boy told us he had asked to be a medic. He was the first in the family to not be infantry, so I didn’t think much of him. In 2006, he joined us at our family reunion. He had just come back from Iraq as part of the 82nd where he had earned the Bronze Star with V device for pulling 8 guys out of the line of fire and tended them (despite being wounded himself). I held him in much different regard. Two years later I saw him again. He had just returned from Afghanistan with yet another V device on his Bronze Star for similar action as a medic. I last saw him in 2015. He was out of the service and had completed his PhD. Heros don’t always carry rifles or wear all of the bolo badges. A good medic, like Eugene and my cousin’s son, doesn’t think of themself first. They focus on their people’s mental and physical wellbeing over their own. (Endnote: Despite my cousin’s son not being infantry and at least Airborne and Ranger qualified (considered to be minimum man card qualifications in our family), there is nothing on my man card which comes close to that skinny, fragile looking boy we didn’t really think much about. I am humbled to know him.)

[@catindigo9907]

You do such a great job with reactions, and explaining alot of the technical details. Thank you. Winters shaves to keep up appearances of self control, confidence, and discipline. When I was in the army, the best NCOs and officers got up early in the field to shave etc. and always looked professional.

[@DeathDealerization]

Quoted for truth. Officers, regardless of conditions, must find a way to lead by example. Infantry is a very "flat" job. Please understand: "lead by example" is approaching useless cliche. It only works with some processes that need to be managed, and with specific people to be managed. I have encountered plenty of "managers" who are always on time in the morning, but can't lead and train anyone. Wet paper bag comes to mind. The value of the "example" depends solely on its vertical value + skills and, dare I say, diversity(the real use of the term) of the team's/project's/line's job. If we are all doing essentially the same job, and "leadership" depends on who does that job the best? OK. Lead by Example. But, do you really want your Doctor/Lawyer/Accountant/Consultant to lead his/her secretary by example...or do you want them to lead you: by vision?

[@timcook6566]

My grandfather was a WWII medic. He drove 14 hours to see me the weekend before I left for my basic training. He wanted to let me know what I was getting into. He fought from D-Day in Normandy all the way through the end of the war. Some of the horrible things he talked about really opened my eyes to the horror of war. Which made me pay closer attention in classes. You are right about Doc Roe not wanting to get too close to the rest of the men because he had to remain objective to be able to perform his duties

[@alittlecreepywhenyou]

A re-upload? Aww man, sorry to hear that Jacqui. Stupid KZbin.

[@movienightwithjacqui]

Thanks. It got fully blocked a week after I posted it 🙈 Hopefully this time it sticks!

[@spider-mantobeymaguirefanc9469]

@@movienightwithjacqui You did such a great job with reactions jacqui

[@Hairysteed]

_"Is shaving really a priority right now"_ As a matter of fact grooming and personal hygiene can work wonders on the morale. In a lull of a battle a soldier must use every opportunity to maintain his weapon as well as himself. Winters is setting an example here.

[@genghisgalahad8465]

And something about personal physical discipline and upkeep as befits an officer and demonstrating stalwart state of mind, sharpness, and not letting oneself "go."

[@mikealvarez2322]

War is hell and sometimes it brings the worst out in people and sometimes it brings out the best. Such is the case of German Lieutenant Freidrich Lengfeld, who saw a wounded American soldier and told his men not to fire on anyone that might come to help the injured man. When he saw that no one was coming he took a first aid kit and went out through what he knew was a mined area to help the wounded American. After treating the soldier's wounds he started back but triggered a mine thus killing himself. The wounded American eventually got back to his lines while Lieutenant Lengfeld's body was carried back to his. He was buried in the Hurtgen Cemetery close to where he died. AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE CEMETERY there is a placque in both English and German describing the selfless act with the following inscription at the very top. "No man hath greater love than he who layth down his life for his enemy." LIEUTENANT FRIEDRICH LENGFELD 2nd Co., Fues., BN., 275 Inf. Division The monument and plaque were placed by the 22nd US Infantry.

[@pharox9711]

Wow i pray that god blessed fredrich many times when he got to heaven

[@daviekuklatv]

@@pharox9711 Our side mostly believed in Walhalla instead of heaven

[@rhapsody98]

I'm a huge fan of Shifty Powers, he lived in my city when he died, in the same school district I went to. If I'd known enough to ask as a kid, I think I probably went to school with his grandkids. But he was a country boy, born and raised in the middle of nowhere South West Virginia. Hunting because you didn't eat otherwise, farming because you didn't eat otherwise. He was very woods-wise. He got the reputation of being a sniper because shooting was what he did at home, he and McClung were the best shots in the unit. One day, he came to Winters and said "There's a new tree in the woods. It wasn't there yesterday." Everyone laughed because, what? But they called an air strike on it, and sure enough it was a German installation, a new camoflagued artiliary piece. It was destroyed thanks to Shifty, who noticed a new tree in a forest most of a mile away.

[@jackson857]

8:45 That wasn't bone you saw, it was wood. The artillery would cause a "tree burst" and send wood splinters from the trees in every direction.

[@gilgalad2503]

Band of Brothers is one of my absolute favorite series, and I've been watching it over and over again for many years. I think your reaction to the series is fantastic; all the little details you notice, some of which I have missed over the years, and all the cinematographic backgrounds explaining why certain things were filmed the way they were, provide a wonderful behind-the-scenes look and make me appreciate this series even more. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for that, and keep it up!

[@sammymartin7891]

Renée Lemaire (10 April 1914 - 24 December 1944) was a Belgian nurse who volunteered her service at an American military aid station during the Siege of Bastogne in December 1944.

[@genghisgalahad8465]

8:45 actually they were wooden 🪵 chunks n splinters of tree 🌲🌲 blasted by German artillery, virtually turning em into shrapnel. 28:30 I don't necessarily think of it even a bit as a heroic-girl-dies-guy-grows trope. Yes, well written episode and you have good thoughtful insights. I get the energy of Eugene as both caring and yet at same time detached professionally. He does care throughout the series: a cup of coffee for Winters, dressing down the officers when they're not vigilant or cognizant about life-critical morphine dosage... During this episode, he mostly shows his mental emotional fatigue and switches roles of comforting with the nurse Renée when she states she'd rather work in a butcher shop. He replies that her touch is a gift! (Boromir!) Plus, he was also in a fugue state when she last saw him. And he did share with Heffron his story about his grandmother being a healer. And he prays! A lot of times, and later on, the show highlights the gamut of the demographics and various personalities of the show accurately: asking what's it like with college, studying, and cheerleaders. And Compton knowing about Visigoths! Or simply one of em being assigned as a medic, whereas Eugene has it in his blood. The constant yet welcome smart alecky jibes and bantering. Those aspects. So, no, I don't see the trope turn, or at least I'm not cognizant of it thoroughly enough...at least not in my face so much. Sometimes, you make a human connection and it's lost. But not forgotten. The blue scarf 💙 lets her carry on through him. So think I can safely at this point reveal spoilers I think if I'm gauging your slate correctly. The given nickname of Heffron whose hand Eugene uses the nurse Renée's blue 💙 head scarf to bandage, is "Babe." Edward "Babe" Heffron, in real life. The legend of his nickname perhaps? And, if I want, I would imagine they'd make a pair, after the war, and balance him out as a whole person. And him balancing her. But people are separated or have only moments. So makes of it what he can in that long cold walk back. And Winters noticing him.

[@lowkeygames2274]

Even at the time of this being filmed - late 90s to early 2000s, the guys recount how they still reference their time in Bastogne 55+ years later.

[@hokiedoo]

I'm re-watching also 😊 they built in Bastogne for Renee after the war was over memorial for her 😢

[@EthanDarke]

Having been a Medic myself (granted nothing like what Roe an the others there went through) I really love the inclusion of this episode. I don't think people necessarily 'forget' about medics but I think it's easy to just kind of figure they pop in and stick a bandage on someone whereas this episode really delves into what it entails.

[@ArquitectoniaRestauracion]

Thank you, it has been a great experience, please keep doing this

[@mockingbird0901]

As a medic, this has always been my favourite episode

[@user-py2iu4vn8t]

Bastogne was a significant part of The Battle of the Bulge.

[@AARONANKRUM]

One of my uncle was a paratrooper and medic during the war and was there in Bastonge.

[@scarlettmi]

Sorry you had to reupload. It’s such a good episode though, so hopefully people give it a click and like again.

[@movienightwithjacqui]

Thank you! I hope so 😊

[@pharox9711]

Well i for one had a great time re watching this video

[@2684dennis]

8:45 that was no bone sticking out, was pieces of wood from trees

[@dragon_turtle]

"Ya got blood all over my trousers!" "Im real sorry, Frank!!!" Also, i dont believe it was bone but shrapnel from the tree bursts due tp the heavy amount of German artillery they were fighting against. 👍🏻 The scene where Doc is just sitting there with that thousand yard stare just knowing his friends are probably dying.. just an amazing shot.

[@alexamerling79]

Such a great miniseries. Love the scene when the Germans are singing Stille Nacht.

[@Meshgeroya]

Too bad about having to re-upload, but here's my 2nd view and 👍 in response. Episode 6 and 7 are two of my favourite episodes despite how hard they can be to watch. Looking forward to your reaction to "Breaking Point".

[@mikeymike42]

Chocolat, pour vous gets me every time

[@TheWindcrow]

7:45 just a help to others that was tree burst(branches, bark) in his leg, not bone sticking out. Everyone sees that, even I the first time I saw it.

[@DanMar5858]

Great episode , but my all time favorites are Ep. 5 Crossroads & Ep. 7 The Breaking Point. Lt. Spears!!

[@sketchygetchey8299]

I remember hearing the line war is hell growing up, but recently Hawkeye’s line from MASH makes more sense to me. War is war, hell is hell. Because only people who deserve to go to hell go there. War, on the other hand, is where innocent civilians gets wrapped up as well. This comment is probably more for the Market Garden episode, but watching the nurse get caught up in war in her own hometown is just as heartbreaking.

[@pharox9711]

I could possibly just have a terrible memory but what civilians were caught up in the war in the market garden episode other than that family that had the man say “away away” is there more than that ?

[@kenle2]

​ The night after after the company got ambushed, the Germans bombed Eindhoven, the town the 101st liberated in their parachute drop. Nixon: "I guess they won't be waving so many orange flags tomorrow."

[@masudaharris6435]

Unlike the others, the medic didn't have the luxury of taking cover during a shelling. My father was a frontline medic during the Korean and Vietnam Wars.

[@steveg5933]

Shaving isn't necessarily a prioity, so much as a sense of normalcy. As for the leg injury that wasn't bone he pulled out that was a piece of a tree blown into his leg. As for Bastogne- I was a US Navy Hospital Corpsman. Desert Storm . Served 10 years. In 2005, my son's best friend (a Marine) came home from Fallujah just in time for Christmas. He had been in the 2nd battle the year before. We went to a local VA Home. One old man in the dining area was utterly inconsolable. Everyone else was singing and happy. I heard a little girl ask her dad why he was so upset. I knelt beside him and simply asked where? His answer- Bastogne. Through tears he told me he was the sole survivor of his platoon. They died Christmas day. He was not an Easy Company member, but for him Christmas was forever a nightmare. I held his hand and hugged him. My friend said Doc it's time to go. The old man looked me in the eyes and said God Bless you, you guys paid a higher cost than most of us. I will not argue against his expert knowledge.

[@knutsparell3619]

I wonder which platoon it was. It might be posible to find out!

[@steveg5933]

​@@knutsparell3619 sadly no longer an option. We could make an educated guess, but we can no longer ask him, he passed just 2 months after we met.

[@knutsparell3619]

@@steveg5933 I'm sorry for his passing, but that was not what I meant. The number of platoons where large, but limited, so you should be able to figure it out from official records.

[@chrisvibz4753]

hey! i really enjoy your reactions! btw im not hitting on you as im just some 21 year old marine, but youre super pretty! keep up the good work on the reactions, youre very nice about the veterans. im on active duty right now stationed in germany. have a great day!

[@jillfromatlanta427]

Two other series you should check out are Chernobyl and The Looming Tower. The latter is about the two years leading up to 9/11. Both have exceptional cases.

[@Hairysteed]

8:45 _"Am I crazy or was his bones sticking out cause that what it looked like to me?"_ It was wood splinters. A shell hit a tree and the splinters peppered his leg. It awfully did look like bones so you're not crazy.

[@marinesinspace6253]

Re watching, and leaving another comment and like, youtube being continually feckless and all. I realize that you've finished the series by now, but I would have said, don't worry! Only 2 of the remaining 4 episodes are more tearjerking than this one.

[@p.d.stanhope7088]

Those German Panzers were also running out of gas in Belgium. This was Hitler's last offensive maneuver in the western campaign to IDEALLY drive the Allies back into France and start to negotiate some kind of ceasefire in the west. So the Germans could concentrate on the Red Army in Poland in the eastern campaign.

[@ChienaAvtzon]

Well the Allies set the fuel on fire, so the Germans would not get it.

[@leonardoastros]

Julian, the guy who got hit in the neck, he was the young one ("just a kid").

[@ferrari2k]

Sorry about the re-upload, any plan when Ep 7 is available? :)

[@alphaomega2117]

Useless Trivia: The real Babe Hefron can be seen sitting at a Cafe table in the scenes in Eindhoven in the Market Garden episode where the girl is kissing one of the guys (I want to say Talbert but I cant recall for sure)

[@mikealvarez2322]

There are 2 interesting videos on equipment WW2 soldiers hated. I think they're titled EQUIPMENT WW2 SOLDIERS HATED & FIVE MORE THINGS WW2 SOLDIERS HATED. These are about 20 minutes each in length.

[@jhnshep]

@20:45 usual practice, write time tourniquet or morphine for the next doc to see, it has a hard time coming off.

[@hexapuma12]

It was not bone. Both us and the Germans utilized tree bursts when it came to artillery. That was a piece of wood from a tree.

[@sandy9064]

This one does hit hard, but buckle up, sweetie. Episode 7 makes me cry every single time.

[@pnwcruiser]

One of my family members was a combat medic with Patton's Third Army, which relieved the siege of Bastogne among other actions. Not surprisingly he never spoke of the details of his experience, that I know of. He was a dedicated, responsible, caring family man. He came back to Kentucky, started a small business and raised his family. I didn't see him often but he and his family were wonderful. He tended to be a bit somber yet cheerful enough.

[@dstarzfn]

One of my grandfathers also fought in the battle of the bulge. He never really spoke of it either. I can remember only one time he talked very briefly about his experience there and it was very hard for him to do even that. He would comment on the cold and miserable conditions but that was pretty much it.

[@SecondSince]

I watch Band of Brothers pretty much every year around the D-Day date. It's kind of a ritual for me. This is the one episode i sometimes choose to skip because for some reason it messes me up even more than the next episode does...

[@lawrencekoprowski6480]

Not his bone, that was extremely large wood splinters from exploding trees 😱

[@williambranch4283]

Medics are brave and suffer greatly.

[@newsguy5241]

The nurse Renee was not just a plot device or "troup." She was a real person called the Angel of Bastogne. She died in that church.

[@Lady_Vengeance]

That really annoyed me. Knee-jerk “sExIsM” reactions without doing the slightest research. Given that pretty much every character in this show is a real person’s story it should be given the benefit of the doubt that no one here is a mere plot device. Why is everyone trying so hard to feel oppressed at every turn. Imagine watching something like this and not taking away any perspective about what real persecution looks like. There are enough real problems in the world, you shouldn’t need to manufacture problems to get upset about from your armchair..

[@jvig7353]

Doesn't seem to mind the trope of men being disposable fodder and getting slaughtered left and right every episode...

[@justbeyondmythoughts]

This one is a hard watch but such a good episode. Sorry you’re dealing with YT being YT 😢 I’ll leave a like for the algorithm and let this play while I edit my second draft of my novel…. Almost finished!!!!

[@philipcoggins9512]

This episode depicts one of the most horrible things about war, its ability to bring both the best and worst aspects of humanity.

[@SilentBob731]

Watched the original but I'll let this play for the Algorithm (Chorus: For The Algorithm). Cheers and salutations from Canada. 🥃☮❤

[@adrianmorales5770]

I really like the pause Doc makes before using Renee's cloth, like thinking: "that's what she would have done"

[@hson_hson9621]

you need twice the tissues to get through this

[@randybennett3948]

I recommend heart break ridge to u

[@stevenbanks1548]

Wasn't a bone. Tree shrapnel.

[@mikealvarez2322]

When you finish this war series you really need to watch HACKSAW RIDGE and the PACIFIC.

[@williamberry9013]

Man, sorry a reupload.

[@johnnieangel99]

The scene where the burning jeep goes past the camera. Now, I'm going off my faltering memory but I seem to recall seeing some old footage when I was young in the library while I was researching WWII of just that same event. I doubt it was "The Bulge" but that stuck with me for years. The school library had so much footage of clips from the war. I poured over the footage everytime I had the chance. Some was incredibly graphic and heartbreaking. But that jeep took me right back to when I was younger. It makes me wonder if someone else behind the scenes in the production had also seen that footage and used it . I studied WWII pretty heavliy growing up as my paternal Grandfather served during the war and post war in Japan. I hoped to learn as much as I could. It wasn't until after his passing. I learned that he was not on the line in a tank I thought he had been part of Pattons's Third Army. He had actually been seconded to the CIC. Counter Intelligence Corps. Which opened up even more topics to learn about.

[@MasterBiffpudwell]

When you finish with Band of Brothers please watch "Patton" starring George C. Scott. It is a great movie and ties into this episode well. I would say that Patton was one of the best military leaders of all time. His mind for planning, tactics and execution was up there with the best of them.

[@genghisgalahad8465]

The film was a biopic and definitely fits a general with a great sense of his place in history, to state it diplomatically.

[@rickhaddad7261]

I was not a military medic, but I spent 20 years in public safety. I never wanted to know a patients name. It was easier to look at them as a 22 yr old male...etc. It was just easier, at least for me. Everyone has a point where you need to "tap out." I've seen people last days or decades, but EVERYONE has to "tap out" See that look on Eugene's face reminded me of that. Enjoyed the reaction and your perspective on it.

[@JessRenee91481]

Re-watch just to help you with your numbers

[@mikecarew8329]

Sorry they blocked your first one. Renée Lemaire was a very real person, very much killed in Bastogne during the air raid while evacuating men from the air station which had been bombed. She was so respected by the paratroopers that they brought her body to her parents wrapped in one of their silk parachutes. So, no, not a trope or a mere plot device. The only dramatic license (which isn't insignificant, granted) is putting Eugene Roe and her together - there is no evidence of that in the historic record. Yes, Winters thought shaving was necessary to show the men that the leader was in control, self-disciplined, etc even while completely surrounded by enemy. No bone fragments in the leg, just shrapnel (wood) from artillery tree bursts. Buckle up, 7, 9, 10 are all emotionally draining. Also, please do react to the accompanying HBO documentary "We Stand Alone Together," for far more content from all the vets, archival footage,, etc. Really appreciate your film school eye in these reactions!

[@peterlabelle6428]

He kept shaving to keep up moral

[@zbennalley]

Like this for the reposting and to help defeat the algorithm!!

[@killswitchh]

3:00 they needed to shave so their gas masks sealed.

[@aranerem5569]

Hi there

[@NastyNate18B]

Obligatory “Dike wasn’t nearly as bad as he’s portrayed, he won medals” comment.

[@ghog15]

Boo to all the expectation spoilers

[@alleyeditor]

Keep it up kid. You are doing just fine. And you are very good at analyzing story and character. I feel script doctor is in your future.

[@russeads2995]

Those were not bone fragments on his leg, they were wood splinters from an artillery or mortar shell that exploded in a tree, called a tree burst.

[@mikealphatangosierracharli9589]

I was particularly fascinated by the scene where two of the American soldiers lost their way, stumbled and actually fell into the enemy's position. I'm German so I understood the German soldier being just as surprised as the Americans were. The German soldier jokingly asked a fellow brother whom he expected to return if it was actually him.. then a moment of confusion after the American fell into the hole and boom.. panic and gunfire. I wonder how often that happened. When the lines got blurry, the communication and orientation was not as accurate as you would hoped for.. how often did enemies knowingly or unknowingly kind of brushed shoulders?

[@krisfrederick5001]

Imagine being the only one on the battlefield trying to save lives in this chaos, while literally everyone around you is doing their best to end them. I dated a nurse. I didn't know her pain directly. But I was damn close to it. It takes a special kind of soul to fill this role. Currahee ♠

[@chrisdobbs9155]

I'm late to the party, but seeing as you are looking at these from a filmmaker's perspective, all of these winter forest shots are on a soundstage!

[@sickmit3481]

12:40 yeah the scene with the Chocolate is kind of heartwarming. I heard that french military MRE´s even have or had little 200 mil wine bottles i guess those would be major morale boost too knowing you had a little "aperitive" to sip on after you ate your canned meat and crackers are whatever they had back then.

[@recifebra3]

Love the way you react. Renee was a great character... get ready for 7, it's even better.

[@Bamaboompa]

I agree with your “annoyance” and I diagnose. You said the angle is “somewhat” overused. Bullshit. You cannot channel surf through movie thumbnails without being OVERWHELMED by “protagonist seeks revenge after dog/BFF/girlfriend/family is brutally attacked and/or killed.” GIVE US A BREAK‼️ Is there not ONE original thought in Hollywood⁉️ And I do disagree with your characterization of how Doc’s relationship with Renee was portrayed. They could easily have insinuated a romantic interest OR Doc could have been allowed to wallow in his grief and pain. Circumstances didn’t even allow him to keep the memento. Nope, it’s move on to the next dead or dying friend- Brother. one last thing- Keep It Up!👍

[@lidlett9883]

For Winters yes shaving was a priority. Because Army regulations required the men to be clean shaven. So Winters being Winters lead his men by his example. When Eugene talks about Joe Torye being the O.P. O.P. is slang for Observation Post. This means he's a very good distance closer to the enemy lines. In this case he is so close he can smell the enemy's dinner. While he is without boots and eating cold C or K rations. As for tears buckle up you've got a few more that will rip your heart out. And you'll understand why these men are referred to as The Greatest Generation.

[@blakewalker84120]

I think you might be putting too much into Eugene's detachment and "growth". Remember, he trained at Toccoa under Sobel with these men for 2 years and by this episode they've been in France, Holland, and Belgium, as well as England, for another half a year. He calls these men by their given names. That's pretty personal. The rest of the guys don't do that. Just Eugene and their mothers. Every man of Easy Company could point at Eugene as one of the greatest heroes of the war. He would run into explosions and storms of bullets to help a fallen soldier without any concern for the risk he was taking; the men had to tell him to stay back when it was too dangerous. He didn't do it for duty; he did it because he cared about them. Was he detached? Yeah, but it was more like he was just a "loner" personality rather than deliberately distancing himself from the men who were his family for two and a half years. At least, the men who wrote about him described him that way, both before AND after Bastogne. As for Renée Bernadette Émilie Lemaire, she really existed, she was a nurse in Bastogne, and she died during the Battle of the Bulge. Very heroically, repeatedly running into the burning aid station to pull SIX wounded soldiers to safety. She went back inside one too many times and didn't make it back out. No records show any connection between Renée and Eugene, though it is likely they met in the course of their duties. The drama around the pair in this episode was not really to show the cliche story of him growing closer to his men because of her death. He was the same man both before and after. Aside from adding a human element, introducing us to the only woman in the show with any significant role, then she dies, there was also the element that Eugene was losing it. He was starting to back away from his role as a medic, finding it difficult to face the horrors or war. But Renée's sacrifice inspired him to shake it off and do what needed to be done. If he did any growing, it was likely that.

[@docbearmb]

That wasn’t a medic administering last rites. It was a chaplain. In an earlier episode, there is one doing so in the middle of the street during a fire fight. In another scene, we catch a chaplain at the end of leading soldiers in prayer.

[@sergioalvarez1919]

Excuse my ignorance but im struggling to think of another film where it takes a woman to die for the man to grow. I know films where the woman dies. But maybe its because im a man. It doesnt feel like growth. It feels like they failed and its depressing as all hell. You can argue that why do you need a woman to make the male character grow? But that's just human nature. Men tend to improve for a woman they like. If a woman meets a good man, she can make him a great man.

[@JamesGilburt-lb7sg]

Hi Jacqui, please react to the final episode of Masters Of The Air. Air war is vastly superior to land based warfare and is infinitly more exciting and entertaining to watch. I rate it above bland of brothers and the pissific.

[@grimmlight4541]

Now you know why we are disgusted when someone disrepects the flag and treats our veterans like garbage. They sacrificed so much so that we can have the freedom and entitlement to complain about nothing.

[@eviola11]

I feel like she's putting on with a lot of her reactions. Like is she trying to practice acting skills?

[@CreativeGuy99]

I was going to watch the next one, and then you went on this woman power nonsense. 🤔

[@Lorrdd]

You might be a wee bit squeamish to work in film. If you can't tell the difference between fiction and make-believe, this is the wrong industry.

[@user-gn6kd7ox1s]

GET READY TO HOARD SOME TISSUE PAPER FOR THE NEXT EPISODE. 9 - WHY WE FIGHT :)