Reaction to Band of Brothers: Battle of Carentan 1944

Step by Step Historical Analysis of the assault of the 506th PIR on the town of Carentan in Normandy as depicted in Band of Brothers, Episode 03. How does it hold up to actual events?
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[@sedsseds1189]

The 2 American mgs hit 48.men before a motar round hit the position making 3 more wounded

[@ChillsMobileGamingTT]

Can you continue this series please 🙏

[@Dicipleguy333]

Im pretty sure the mortar/bomb round attatched to the pak36 was an anti infantry attachment as well as a multipurpose weapon

[@kingstar0084]

Yes. As the war progressed the Germans noticed the Penetration of a PAK 36 round had very little effect on enemy tanks so they invented the “Stielgranate 41“, an HE Grenade, which you could stick on the canons barrel (as shown in the scene). Even though it's a cool detail, the scene doesn't really make sense.

[@thanakritpenbumrungvong9597]

@@kingstar0084 Yeah. And in the book version, Lipton got hit by a mortar round, not PAK 36.

[@unluckymonkey4382]

If your interested forgotten weapons did a video on it.

[@SR-71BlackbirdA2]

@@thanakritpenbumrungvong9597 but wait, isn't a mortar a type of artillery?

[@NadaSemNada]

@@SR-71BlackbirdA2 It's a launcher, if u know what a mortar is, the objective and purpose, you can't mistake both.

[@HigHrvatski]

Actually the Germans were very good at retreating, in some battles they would cause more casualties on the enemy with an organized retreat than the main battle.

[@Orly90]

Makes sense, bring to the enemy towards you as they advance and get them in the open.

[@Levi_o_Lusitano]

This particular german Regimen, the 6th Fallschirmjäger Regiment inflicted super heavy losses on the American 101st Airborne ever since the night landings, D Day itself, purple Hearth Lane and Carentan itseld, despite the final elements in Carentan being a rearguard while the main force withdrew to join the 17th SS Division

[@prodcross]

Ye they did have a really good fighting retreat but retreating doesn’t win the war lol

[@Levi_o_Lusitano]

@@prodcross True, but without supplies of all sorts they didnt had much of a chance to suceed in the first place, the 6th FJR alone was out of ammo by the time of the rearguard action at Carentanand had to be fully supplied by the 17th SS when they arrived.

[@somerandominternetuser5730]

The Germans were good at it, but no one can beat the French

[@Kenneth-zk1nh]

While I do agree that when you shoot someone and they die it's not realistic, it doesn't mean that when someone is shot and they don't move it doesn't mean they aren't injured(I know that probably sounded weird). Sometimes getting shot will knock someone out until they regain consciousness or they bleed out. However if they got enough adrenaline pumping through them they'll stay awake, but once all that adrenaline is gone they'll lose consciousness immediately. It all depends where you get shot. For example all the times in BoB someone getting shot in the throat they're wide awake covering their wounds. But like in this episode when that soldier tried to warn to Lipton and was shot in the chest fell down the others around went to grab him and called for a medic, they did that because they don't know if he is actually died or not. Sorry if this was long I just wanted explain that just because they look died doesn't mean they are.

[@legowarproductions7099]

i agree

[@brendenfletcher3761]

Fun fact it was the same set frame as saving privates ryan

[@HamanKarn567]

I'm always amazed at how intense some battles can be how few casualties there are.

[@ryman8989]

It wasn't just Band Of Brothers that fooled me as a child on how large this fight was but also the Brothers In Arms games (great game series btw. highly recommend)

[@Orly90]

I loved the BIA series back in the day!

[@Levi_o_Lusitano]

@@Orly90 we still play it trough LAN (radmin). Even have a discord where we host mp battles and events

[@deathmachineyt3254]

Only BIA games I played were the mobile ones

[@whatthehell4644]

@@deathmachineyt3254 BIA mobile sucks you should play the pc version

[@deathmachineyt3254]

@@whatthehell4644 i know it sucks lol

[@deathstruck159]

tbh, Winters does acknowledge later in the episode that this was just a single company rear guard action and that it was too easy. Sure, the episode should have been probaly named "Bloody Gulch" instead of Carentan or something, but I don't think it's being overglorified as the main centerpiece of the war, lol.

[@404Dannyboy]

@@Hdbdbdby I mean that simply isn't true. There were plenty of important operations after dday and the 101st Airborne was involved in a few of them including the Battle of the Bulge.

[@404Dannyboy]

@@Hdbdbdby ? They didn't play a lead role because they were paratrooper forces while full strength divisions and armored forces began to play a greater role after the landings but the 101st played some pretty critical roles in the battle of the Bulge including at Bastogne.

[@404Dannyboy]

@@Hdbdbdby Bastogne was a crucial strategic objective for any further German advance because it was a bottleneck for regional roads. You sound like one of those people who only knows about ww2 through youtube videos but thinks they actually know enough to be contrarian lol

[@404Dannyboy]

@@Hdbdbdby So, a couple of things. First, if you thought this movie was saying the 101st won WW2 single handedly you are god awful at interpreting movies. Episodes after the Battle of the Bulge even have the repeating theme of how seemingly useless and unimportant their role felt. How you can say they exaggerate their later accomplishments when whole episodes, multiple episodes, are structured around the men dealing with fighting, or more often waiting around, in a war where their role now seems unimportant is so far beyond me that I don't have words to properly express how dumbfounded I am. Second, the size of the armed forces around you doesn't dictate how important your role is. While the Battle of the Bulge involved far more troops, you could also reason that it was a far more important operation than Market Garden largely due to its scale. Your argument here seems particularly myopic and uninformed. Third, it isn't just Market Garden that was dumbed down. Literally every engagement and operation was dumbed down. They had to compress about a year of activity of a pretty active company over the course of an enormous war while still giving characters arcs and portraying complex themes like good media does. You simply can't do all of this very well over the short amount of time you have with a miniseries, let alone the budgetary problems of doing so. Fourth, if you ever thought Easy company seemed too successful... it is because they were. Ambrose didn't set out to write his book, which the series is adapted from fyi, about some company that just got mowed over during the Battle of the Bulge or ripped to shreds during Normandy. He purposefully picked one of the most successful and active companies from within an already elite branch of the US military with an exceptional leader whose tactics are still studied at West Point. The reason E company in Band of Brothers seems so successful is because they were, by luck, by skill, by hardwork, by good leadership, by sacrifice, and probably by luck again they were successful and the power of hindsight let Ambrose pick a company that was so active and successful. They seem so important compared to many other companies because they were selected for that reason. Band of Brothers is a great war series and while it has its problems your criticisms aren't among them. This is particularly ironic given that you are watching a channel providing actual valid criticisms of the series. Is Band of Brothers perfect and 100% historically accurate? Of course not, no media ever is or can be. Is it one of the best attempts at historical accuracy while still maintaining the rules of good film storytelling like thematic expression, character development, and great cinematography? Of course it is. I still haven't seen any reasons to think you got your history from sources beyond youtube.

[@deathstruck159]

@@404Dannyboy man, now I wonder what that other guy has written, because for some reason all his comments have dissapeared lol.

[@ceasormayhem101]

17:16 that's Doug cockle. He played Geralt of Rivia in the Witcher Videogames.

[@ObamaBenAladdin]

Finally the legend reviews this scene, my personal favorite from BoB

[@Logan20079]

Wouldn’t say legend

[@alanmacification]

My father and uncle fought in Italy and Holland. The Germans would have their own positions accurately surveyed for artillery and mortar fire. When you assault and capture their position you have to immediately prepare for a mortar barrage ( a " stonk ", from the sound of the mortar tubes firing ) The ambush on the road was classic German tactics. They would open up with MGs to make you go to cover. Then hit you with mortar, grenades, and artillery if available. My father was in an assault rifle company, and he stated that they didn't take prisoners unless ordered to. To take yourself out of an assault to capture and guard a prisoner would result in a court-martial.

[@HO-bndk]

The paratroopers were called "the Lions of Carentan" I mean Fallschirmjaeger Regiment 6, of course. They put up a hell of a fight.

[@Levi_o_Lusitano]

Theres a great book about them by Volker Griesser. They were the most elite German Regiment in Normandy and inflicted tremendous losses on Allied forces since D Day ( including night and glider landings) and continued to stall US forces until they were cut off and mostly destroyed in the Falaise Pocket. Their tenacious last stand in Normandy and namely Carentan earned them the nickname of "Lions of Carentan" Brave and elite soldiers each.

[@deathmachineyt3254]

@@Levi_o_Lusitano surprised no one has hated on you for calling them brave

[@Levi_o_Lusitano]

@@deathmachineyt3254 I just stated a fact, as they were brave so were the US 101st Airborne and others. Credit must be given where its due regardless of nation. Fallschirmjagers were regarded by the Allies(except the soviets) as very skilled, veteran and honorable foes and were respected by all echelons of allied command

[@deathmachineyt3254]

@@Levi_o_Lusitano yeah but lots of people don't like that which really pisses me off. You give a compliment to the WW2 Germans and you instantly deemed a nazi

[@Levi_o_Lusitano]

@@deathmachineyt3254 I know that very well. It happens all the time. The trick is not give a fuck about what they say. We for now still have freedom of speech and the truth must be spoken and taught regardless of peoples personal opinions.

[@jellymop]

This was my favorite episode of Band of Brothers growing up. I remember recording it on VCR and replaying it over the years lol.

[@bubblegumbabeface6629]

Speaking as a surgical assistant with time in Afghanistan that has seen my fare share of actual combat wounds and death, when it comes to rather or not someone dies instantly it really depends. Very few people who die from gunshots die ''instantly". Death from wounds that penetrate your body and organs cause death through a process called hemorrhaging. Essentially it's when so much blood has left your body not enough pressure exist to keep the heart pumping, lower the pump, lower the oxygen. All of this causes you to pass out. So most people dying from blood lost related injuries almost always pass out before they die. The difference is in the severity of the bleeding as to how long this will be. With that said it is possible to damage certain areas of the body that will cause you to die or atleast fall down immediately. Shot's to the head are one that can bring about death instantly, getting shot in the carotid artery can cause someone to pass out in seconds. What's more common however are shots to or through the spine. Often times when you see someone get shot and they instantly lock up and go completely doll physics limp are due to shots hitting the spine. It could be that someone shot you in the chest piercing your heart causing you to hemorrhage to death quickly and the bullet also penetrated your spine causing you to become limp. These are common gunshot injuries that cause this effect.

[@striker5037]

If you are saying that there wasn't any wounds there was some like when the dog company peeked and one of the guys got shot then he got moved back but most of the soldiers were shot be automatic guns like the MG42 and the MP40, the men didn't get shot once they got hit two or more times.

[@mirabPL]

as a med student- thank you. People think that people who are shot die in 1/10th second. Thats just not true ( apart from getting shot to head ). Even with bullet in the heart you WILL live ( not for long tho ). You also will remain concious for at least few second, however the shock from getting hit will propably make you fall to ground just like we see in movies

[@bubblegumbabeface6629]

@@mirabPL I've found (In my experience) a good number of people who are shot, don't seem to notice they are shot. Somtimes the adrenaline can be so high and the supersonic bullet can be so fast, your brain somtimes isn't quick enough to notice what's happened. I've found, most of the time people just go completely limp like that, it's because they've been hit in the spine.

[@RubbittTheBruise]

Afghanistan '79 to '89 or '99 to 2021?

[@laaarsu]

For additional info on the soldier shooting the surrendering Fallschirmjager, the 101st Airborne were actually ordered not to take prisoners because it would impede their mission objectives on D-Day.

[@historylegends]

But this is 6 days after D-DAY

[@p5aipad971]

From what I found, the paratrooper shot that German out of frustration due to the fact that the US we halted at one of the houses and the Germans inside refused to surrender so they blown the house with a bazooka

[@HO-bndk]

They also murdered wounded German PoWs (beat them to death or drowned them in the marshes). It's ignored in the book (and films) though, as the author Stephen Ambrose hero worships the yank troops.

[@Levi_o_Lusitano]

@@historylegends Standing orders were to execute every german prisioner of war up to the first week and in some cases it was done. However theres reports on both sides that captured american pows during the night landings were spared and when they captured germans back they didnt killed them. Volker Griesser s book has some of these reports on 1st hand accounts.

[@kevinprzy4539]

@@HO-bndk That’s happens in every countries respective tv shows, they don’t want to show the bad stuff their sides did there was a german ww2 miniseries and they didn’t show all of the atrocities a lot of the Wehrmacht committed but that’s because of marketing.

[@eviscer8wendigo243]

16:03 I think it should be mentioned that towards the end of the war, Germans were equipped with Pak 36s, but since they weren’t effective against American tanks at long range, they used them against infantry. The Germans developed a special multi-purpose round that could be used both against tanks and infantry, and we see it being used in this very scene. It’s called Stielgranate 41, and fun fact: it was distributed to Fallschirmjager units. Edit: I should also note that the use of Stielgranate 41 is also historically accurate as depicted in the scene. It had an extremely short effective range.

[@sacredeyeball2852]

Band of brothers cameraman is so brave. He is in my prayers.

[@ContactReal]

Shut up with this cringe joke

[@sacredeyeball2852]

@@ContactReal whatchu gonna do about it?

[@ContactReal]

@@sacredeyeball2852 nothing at all. Just learn how to use your own brain.

[@sacredeyeball2852]

@@ContactReal that’s what I thought. Plus Ik how to use my brain, who hurt you today, snowflake?

[@jerbs5346]

20:12 Clearing a *chruch*

[@wbertie2604]

That wasn't a sniper (no scope), just someone with a rifle in a partially concealed position.

[@markgarrett3647]

Simo Hayha?

[@gravitypronepart2201]

Alexandre, you mentioned a book that talked about 5% of combat soldiers doing the heavy lifting. Was that book by chance; "On Killing", by Dave Grossman?

[@4T4M4NTSVÖ03]

The scene when the american shot the surrender german is used in the hell let loose game trailer at sec 0:38, literally the same scene

[@devinmorse3607]

Regarding your analysis of "instant death." It really all depends on shot placement. The scene in question shows him getting hit with an 8mm round through the heart. Him going limp and crumpling to the ground is quite realistic. However, I do agree that they should have shown more instances where the shot placement is not in a instantly lethal area. As you said, most hit shots were wounds, not kill shots.

[@tsoliot5913]

I wish more media would show CNS injuries as well.

[@F34RDSoldier805]

Even knowing the inaccuracies, this is still my favorite show of all time. There is just no show like it.

[@kingby8150]

Can't believe you only have almost 40k subs you should have way more your content is really good and i hope to see more!

[@jaypoole8056]

"They aren't even aiming and all the Germans go down like flies." Well...it is a Spielberg show after all.

[@deathmachineyt3254]

16:25 I wouldn't say that's bad parenting. I was allowed to watch terminator when I was 5.

[@4Deadserious]

Fun fact: If anyone knows The Witcher - The Chaplain shown is actually the voice actor for Geralt

[@KarakuraRiser]

"Where did everybody go? I have no idea!" Best quote in the show

[@striker5037]

When you said the reports were different then what happened in the show could also be mistaken its not like the movies got it too wrong because they interviewed the real soldiers from this battle that were still alive so there could of been forgotten parts.

[@gibby8540]

I always laugh at the "where is everybody, iv no idea part" lmao

[@Right-2-Bear-Arms]

You would love The Pacific 10 part HBO mini series if you love band of brothers. I think its even better than band of bros in my opinion

[@batmanalienpred]

I think band of brothers is the better series, but the book The Pacific ripped from "With the Old Breed" (Sledges book) is better than the Band of Brothers book in my opinion. So dark. I honestly have my doubts Easy Company would survive Japan if they had been sent there like they were supposed to. Just a very different type of enemy to deal with compared to Germans.

[@canibezeroun1988]

The Japanese Navy absolutely was the clear winner of the intergovernmental Civil War, the Japanese Marines and Army were absolutely more formidable. Pound for pound, they were best soldiers of the war because of such insane zealotry on their part.

[@ΑλεξανδροςΑλεξιου-ι3ψ]

FINALLY NEW VIDEO please review greek involved battles in balkans like greek-italian war and battle of Crete

[@historylegends]

is there a movie/tv show you recommend?

[@ronaldberg3369]

@@historylegends the pacific ( the battle of peleliu episodes)

[@ΑλεξανδροςΑλεξιου-ι3ψ]

@HistoryLegends yes battle of sutjeska which talks about a Yugoslavian vs Germany battle,Air!Air!Air! It is about greco-italian war.The 11th day: Crete 1941,which is based from stories of people that lived and fought.But it is a movie documentary.(hear in balkans and generally no one cares to make a good movie or tv show,only patriotic movies exist)

[@ΑλεξανδροςΑλεξιου-ι3ψ]

I can add more but i think that the best is the guns of navarone which is based on allied comandos trying to destroy some naval guns that keep allied fleet away from agean

[@dabi5767]

@@historylegends I recommend the KZbin movie T-34.

[@Irishpewtuber]

Captain Dale Dye did an incredible job getting these guys into shapevto play their roles. Even down to casualties taking hits. None of the usual Hollywood flailing around and getting knocked 20 feet backwards. A guy gets shot and falls down. I've been unfortunate enough to witness it 1st hand.

[@kenc9236]

You remind me of me back in the day. Good job.

[@cleversonsutil4495]

The "Band of Brothers" has also another box related to the Pacific War. Could you make comments about those battles either?

[@seadfacic2924]

We all know the saying-the victors write the history.Luckely for us there are some individuals like you who actually cares what really happened.So thank you for that young man.Propaganda is powerful thing and most of population(no matter where they are from, no matter religion or political system)wants to hear only the good stuff about them.

[@jerbs5346]

14:52 I don't think this actually did happen. Mark Bando asked Lieutenant Lipton about the incident, and he said, "That was just Hollywood."

[@RickSanchez-zb2bh]

In the Netherlands we call the "second floor" first floor 😮

[@Andy-oi4np]

You should have several million subs

[@pepqcat3169]

4:49 i like that little png of a mg or stock photo i watched that video btw (:

[@Rammkommando]

i have a book that talks about the falschirmjaeger that fought at Carentan mthe book is called lions of Carentan, its on FJR 6, the commander of FJR6 placed the younger recruits with many of hte battle hardened Veterans so they would have someone with experience with them at all times, they lost a good chunk of men during this fight, so much so that they almost ceased to be a unit from teh fighting at and around Carentan

[@maxburns9278]

No stabilizer on that 30 cal the barrel would wiggle all over

[@space4166]

Thank you to much people fan boy over this

[@filibandicoot1580]

not only was that pak a anti tank weapon it had the shaped charge panzerfaust like warhead on it which was kinda rare and only used against tanks , if it didnt have that on the end you could maybe asume it was loaded with HE but it clearly has the anti tank warhead on it.

[@DanHagman]

I believe that the reason that random german ran out into the street, is due to the grenade explosion, possibly shocking, disorientating or confusing the german.

[@pepqcat3169]

g43 and mg42 (: 18:42 g to the right mg to the left (:

[@axelb1472]

1:09 wow hell let loose flash backs

[@lassemustonen5369]

I suggest you see "unknown soldier" 2017 version.

[@HO-bndk]

5:36 "Very realistic!" What battles have you been in?

[@M_Lars]

Don't have to have been in a battle to know that suppression is tbf

[@Leonardoo2.0]

buddy, he study history

[@RubbittTheBruise]

An armed enemy soldier with his hands down saying something like "I surrender" is not a prisoner. A surrender must be accepted before they have that status.

[@PimPom56]

u should be a movie director ngl

[@historylegends]

One day maybe ;)

[@whitezombie10]

@@historylegends I'd love to watch a movie with you as director

[@harmdolf7681]

Its war not book by book tactics

[@Purefinn]

Please please please make a video about the unknown soldier

[@scotth5038]

100 hundred defenders(german) vs 300 plus americans??? Is not the recommended assault on a fixed position should be 4 to 1? Understood that depends on position, age/ experience of troops and Caretan was assaulted from many directions

[@giocuizon626]

Man can you also make a reaction video on The Pacific mini series?

[@alexanderthom4618]

Hey I just remembered a series of movies found on this channel called mosflim and it's basically titled liberation and it's 5 movies... I would love to see your reaction to these

[@deathkorpsgrenadier2419]

Dude, love your stuff, but the audio of the clips are always super low. If you wanna keep it that way, please have subtitles on the clips or edit them in, idk, but I got no clue what the characters are saying most of the time

[@coltonnelson6502]

You should review an episode of The Pacific

[@simontide6780]

That canon is realistic. It's me camping in COD. XD

[@mr.codreaper]

You should do one for the Pacific HBO mini Series

[@conpop6924]

Hey not everything in movies is going to be perfect

[@tomhansen7582]

10:40 sounds like Full Metal Jacket to me.

[@benediktvogler4229]

The german mg42 can for sure pin down a whole bat with its 1200-1500 RPM of standard 8x57mm rounds

[@Playwithdeutschland]

Do a movie about Napola, the pacific, journeys end, grey zone, pianist

[@johnmontgomery1202]

They didn't use fire and movement. Why didn't they didn't use mortars or fire surpression .If you are in combat you don't have to whisper orders

[@SovermanandVioboy]

I always like to think that these movies/series are told from the perspective of the soldiers, as if they would tell it from their memory; so it makes sense for them to potray the enemy as stupid and evil while the own side is super efficient. Ye dunno, just a personal away to justify the hollywood bs :V. But compared to other war movies BoB does a very good job on the realism, imo. At least there are no "murican supersoldier yeeehaw" moments - just the common incompetent german Stormtroopers.

[@idiot_city5444]

I think BoB does a pretty good job of not portraying the Germans as stupid, other than a few instances. The Americans get effed up plenty

[@shiznitts]

It's also the best map in any CoD game ever

[@andaimhineach4131]

Excellent work.

[@biggbals4375]

1:58 They SNUCK kzbin.info/www/bejne/b2qTc4anoZyVpM0

[@bodom1926]

I think, even one MG42 was enough to pin down an entire Platoon

[@ACM1PT95]

Dont worry I also saw band of brothers as a kid :)

[@Moesmakendehakker658]

why should someone worry?? wtf?

[@ACM1PT95]

@@Moesmakendehakker658 I'm saying that I relate. Not that it matters or anyone should be worried

[@ACM1PT95]

@@Moesmakendehakker658 I'm saying that I relate. Not that it matters or that someone should worry

[@Aimbotpreicc]

great videos :)

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

see russia movie not hollywood panfilov's 28

[@boomerok4532]

Even worse than hollywood tbh. The story behind 28 is real, but the portrayal is so bad also

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

@@boomerok4532 but not as bad as fury

[@boomerok4532]

@@carkawalakhatulistiwa yeah fury is total astronaut bullcrap

[@10-cestrerastephenjohnl.26]

shouldn't that german sniper could have concealed himself inside a building? i mean it is safe because it is far from easy company that they could not see where the sniper is firing

[@NoirChat138]

10:38 maybe he is planning dead or he lost consciousness due to the shock of been hit

[@iiKiboshii-c3z]

If you think that 4 minimally manned companies assaulting a town after a week of sleepless nights with "just" 100 well placed, entrenched defenders under sporadic shelling and only having some wounded is somehow not amazing, and even scoffing at it... well jesus.

[@masweber14]

It's weird because a guy in it his last name Is webster and that's my last name

[@whitezombie10]

In this Carentan looks like the Stalingrad of Normandy🤣

[@hafizhagharid9807]

i would love if you react to brother in arms game

[@theoparaschiv1836]

The next video with the pacific

[@bencetakacs7600]

10:40 8mm mauser can took down a deer,bears large animals in one shot

[@jerbs5346]

Only 3 Americans were killed in that battle, tho.

[@dubioussightz1538]

I understand yer plight. But unless you served in any arms forces. Whether my country or yours. Id take a step back. Knowing history is one thing. But being a soldier is something youll never know. Humboe yourself and those that came before us. Your youtube degree means shit to us veterans. 0311 1st MEU here man. I love yer input. But humble yourself.

[@Fogel505]

Поймал себя на мысли, когда я смотрел этот фильм мне было далеко за 20 лет . А ведущий говорит, что был ещё ребенком)). Однако!

[@RickSanchez-zb2bh]

Again where is this intro now?!

[@scottf5791]

You seem to be really nit picking really really minor inaccuracies. You take everything from a logical approach as well. The combat scenes depicted here don’t always have to make sense and be 100% by the book. The filmmakers are doing their best at depicting combat and honor these men and combat is messy and people do things that may be illogical to you the viewer because their under extreme conditions. But most importantly this is a show so it’s never going to be completely accurate to begin with. Especially the part where Lipton is telling his guys to get out of the open. Two ways of looking at it could easily be the fault of the director who is having Lipton out in the open for no reason other than to nearly get blown up by the artillery for the sake of the story which is a stupid decision or it can be Lipton is too focused on giving orders to his men that he doesn’t realize that he himself is in the line of enemy fire which happens and makes some sense. We just don’t know and who cares anyways. It’s nothing major. This is merely an artists depiction of actual events. I can literally take any depiction of combat and analyze it to oblivion by saying this soldier should be doing this or why did this soldier do that? Why would a machine gunner expose himself? The Germans are like npc’s etc etc. Like Jesus dude we get it! There’s mistakes and it’s not perfect. Do you understand how difficult it is to make a film/show like this? I dare you to take a classic movie like the longest day or To hell and back and list all the inaccuracies and plot conveniences in those and how dumb the Germans are portrayed. These are made to entertain and give the viewer a general knowledge of what happened in the past. You can also do the same thing with real life combat footage as well and question why a soldier maybe standing out in the open of a fire fight. Not everything is textbook perfection. We’re human beings. We make stupid decisions.

[@Wr3NCh23]

do the pacific

[@garrisonnichols807]

It would be an MG42 machine gun that the Germans are using here

[@andrewrobertson3894]

Too bad there's not a film that depicts the battle of Cassino.

[@LDW12887]

Still cabt belive the good guys lost

[@enote1865]

If you like fascism go join avoz you will get a re match ;)

[@shanegagnon3423]

Band of Brothers will always remain the best WW2 movie EVER

[@jerbs5346]

Easy company was not the best.

[@varelion]

As always, Spielberg looses it in the end. We have a promising beginning and realistic impressions before it turns into an indian shooter so that the audience can lean back and enjoy the long-awaited happy mass-shooting of dumb enemies to get a satisfying kill ratio. Same tendency as in "Saving private Ryan" with the happy grenade dodgeball scene near the end.

[@pepqcat3169]

he he gewehr 43 man (: 7:33

[@androsbasileus1682]

It's not a warcrime if the allies did it :^)

[@Zerbijan]

Man would have loved to see The Third Reich 1v1 versus The USA… Whats ur guess who would have won?

[@HigHrvatski]

That would never happen because they don't border one another. If countries are not neighbors other countries will have to be involved by default. It's like saying, who would win in a war Finland vs Serbia one on one.

[@anglishbookcraft1516]

Short war the Germans would win, long war the Americans would win. It’s like Germany against the Soviet Union, they lost to the soviets since it was a drawn out war, but the soviets got to hold on for so long instead of folding thanks to American ammunition, trucks and more. Without allied help things like Kursk would have been a German win and there would not have been a Soviet offensive.

[@Zerbijan]

@@anglishbookcraft1516 nah at this time Germany fought on 3 fronts Western/Eastern/Balkan @hrvatskiHig The US fought Irak not neighbors I think germany would have demolished the USA (Dont forget strictly 1v1) no allies involved

[@magicmarc2733]

@@Zerbijan Without Romanian oil, the ore from Scandinavia and the armaments industry of the conquered countries, e.g. the Czech Republic, the outcome would be anything but clear.

[@dabi5767]

Well, I would put my money on the Yanks. Don’t get me wrong, the Germans were an experienced fighting force, but the Americans had more industrial power, able to put out more munitions than Germany.

[@giovonne]

The pacific is better for some reason

[@fmoa2541]

bad bias historian and probly never hold a combat rifle in his life..bredda is youtube expert.

[@donnys2965]

screaming ohh noo is wearing me down. ill have to unsub till the videos calm down. blows my ears everytime you scream

[@MrSlitskirts]

Here's also another good one from the TV show 'Combat': kzbin.info/www/bejne/bXunl3uur6aFi5Y

[@Pelviss]

Every movie, documentary, series or whatever has it flaws. Band Of Brothers is no execptions. But in the end? If you really wanted a real authentic WW2 movie/serie? It would be way to long and most likly boring. You don't want to watch LT.Winters writing papers and planing ahead a operation or whatever. You want to see action and if it's realistic or not? Depends, since this is a WW2 serie. It don't really matter if it's 100% accurate because you could never be 100% accurate on such a thing like this.