Fun fact: the soldier who gets hit with the mortar shell in the shop is Ed Tipper. Despite his grievous wounds, Ed survived (although he lost an eye in the blast). When Ed recovered, he earned his Master's Degree in English and became a teacher, eventually earning the John Hay Fellowship in 1961 from UC Berkeley. When he was 64, he married a 34-year-old woman named Rosie and had a daughter, Kerry, who eventually became a Colorado state representative. Ed lived to be 95 years old and is in fact one of the men in the opening interviews of the first couple of episodes (he's the one who says in this episode "I thought one of two things: a quick death or I'd make it through without a scratch").
As brilliant at the ending to this episode is, it also gives us the most notorious error in "Band of Brothers" history: Albert Blithe actually did recover from the wound he received in Normandy. He went on to become a career soldier and a veteran of Korea, attained the rank of master sergeant. He died in Germany of a perforated ulcer in 1967. The reason for the error is that no one from Easy Company knew of what became of Blithe, and Stephen Ambrose (the author of the book) assumed he had died.
Make sure that you watch We Stand Alone Together after you finish the series. That's almost completely just one on one with the actual men of Easy Company. There's a reason that these men were called the Greatest Generation. They did incredible things that defy reason and then they just went on with life. You'd pass them in the street and have no idea they'd faced down a tank, watched their best friend turned to bloody dirt, killed dozens of men, saved their entire company....... Seeing these men 60 years later shows what a real man is.
10:52: This is Father John Maloney, the regimental chaplain. Maloney actually did walk in the middle of open combat and deliver last rites to dying soldiers. He earned the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions on D-Day, when he assisted medical-aid men in administering first aid to the wounded under intense enemy machine-gun and mortar fire.
Episodes 4-10 just start hitting harder and harder. I especially love that formal has a military background and can appreciate all the nuisance of what they're going through.
@27:30 Blythe's death is actually one of the few major factual errors this series made. His family came forward during production of the series and stated he actually did survive but had dropped out of contact with all his comrades. It was too late to correct the update at the end of the episode. He became a career soldier and later served in the Korean War where he was decorated for his performance in combat. He did not die until the late 1960s. You're going to like Lt Spiers as the series progresses, he becomes a much more important and more likeable character.
Tom Hanks told Winters they'd only get about 20% of things right because they needed to fit things into an hour and keep the pace going. This episode is one of them. When they went into carentan, they didn't charge up the road like that at first, they were on in the ditches as they approached and they were so exhausted they fell asleep.whrj the first order for attack came Winters had to kick them to wake them up and get them going. That was what happened, but in the series it's done to give you a sense of intensity
Remember, Talbert, who got stabbed, was wearing a German rain poncho. That is one reason why his own guy stabbed him, he was wearing part of an enemy uniform and in the dark, too.. Big mistake.
I was never in combat, even though I was in the Navy for six years. But just about every guy I hear talk about it, say just about the same thing. It's about the guy next to you. They're scared, but they're fighting for their buddies, so they just get on with it.
That's why these guys went with the Airborne. They wanted to fight with the best. They volunteered for the toughest training the Army had to offer. Easy company was the assault company within the 2nd battalion.
After watching the first two reaction videos, I started to binge the whole season (after not seeing it more than 20 years), watched it in one week.....what an incredible series, especially since it is based on true events and ''brothers''.
Winters now in charge of the company (E Company), not the battalion (2nd Battalion), . Col. Strayer is in charge of the battalion. Strayer is the one that was asking if it was safe to cross and remove the wounded.
Really enjoying your reactions. You guys are really connected and are paying attention and catch little details ❤. Love that you guys are humble, respectful and honest
You guys are doing a great job with this mini-series. When it’s over, PLEASE react to the documentary HBO made, which features many of the interviews that run at the beginning of each episode. A few of them are featured as characters in the show, by name. It’s the only right way to wrap-up such an incredible show.
5:00: "My Luger's gonna put you all to shame when I get it." So there's a bit of confusion here, because the show sets up two characters as wanting a German Luger pistol. In Episode 1, Don Hoobler (the soldier we see here) talks with the British soldier dressed as the German before D-Day about wanting to get a Luger. In Episode 2, Don Malarkey runs out in the middle of the Battle of Brecourt Manor to grab what he erroneously thinks is a Luger. This does confuse some first-time viewers, and I do kinda wish they had put in a brief scene in Episode 1 to establish the Great Luger Hunt between these characters.
Glad someone finally brought this to light. I always knew it was Malarky in Ep. 2 who ran out in middle of spiking the gyns to try and grab a luger. So many , many , many allied soliers always dreamed of grabbing a Luger. They were actually deadly little 9 mm's ! Not Hoobler .
@@joeyboogenz Exactly. All you needed was a brief scene on the transport ship where Hoobler and Malarkey bring up the Lugers and it becomes a contest between the two of them to see who gets it first.
The movie got most of it's info from the book by steven ambrose. He got most of his info from the real men who all assumed and thought Blithe was killed. They had it wrong so it was written wrong, and the movie therefore had it wrong.
Been hopping back and forth between this and the wire reactions. They are great. Another show that not a ton of people have done is Generation Kill, another HBO mini series based on a true story. This time it’s the invasion of Iraq. Oh and the guy that directed the wire was one of the directors.
Hysterical blindnesss. Just imagine 4th of july ,but the fire is pointed at you and full of schrapnel and nails and glass and projectiles and bullets flying at you the size of Cuban cigars !!!!!! It was definitely combat shock .
First off: This was a great edit, props to whichever one of you did it. Also since you like the interviews so much when you're finished you can watch the documentary that includes all the interviews in the show + much more. But I'm sure some has suggested it already.
There were definitely plenty of cases throughout the war in which they did throw the grenade and found out too late there were families hiding inside. It's just the nature of invading a city rather than countryside. BoB chose to soft-pedal that for whatever reason and only show a case where they got lucky, but whether the troops spoke about it or not, it's a certainty there were also bad outcomes. A background fact you probably won't see mentioned much is that Blithe wasn't a Southerner. The British actor playing him just couldn't do any other American accent.
I've tried to incorporate thus in my life ever since I heard this line when I was a teenager. It still rings in my head as truth even after my time in the marines. It's just such a versatile mindset if you can fit it wherever you need it to be
19:00. One of the things I like to think of is that Winters actually wasn't there to motivate Blithe, but rather that was the moment when Winters's treating took hold in Blithe, and it was a creative way for them to show him getting over his fear.
14:00. Speirs did actually shoot a sergeant in his own platoon. According to Private First Class Art DiMarzio, the eyewitness who related the fullest account of the event. DiMarzio was lying next to a sergeant, who was drunk. An order to hold position was given and relayed down the line; the sergeant refused to obey, wanting to rush forward and engage the Germans. Once again, Speirs gave him the order to hold his position. Speirs told the man that he was too drunk to perform his duties and that he should remove himself to the rear. The sergeant refused and began to reach for his rifle. Speirs again warned the sergeant, who now leveled his rifle at the lieutenant. DiMarzio said he saw Speirs shoot the sergeant in self-defense. The entire platoon also witnessed the event. Speirs immediately reported the incident to his commanding officer, Captain Jerre S. Gross. DiMarzio said Gross went to the scene of the shooting and after receiving all the information, deemed it justifiable self-defense. Gross was killed in battle the next day, and the incident was never pursued.
Between his role as Lipton in this and Vincent in The Sixth Sense, it's kind of crazy that Donnie Wahlberg isn't a more well known and respected actor than Mark. He acts circles around him.
I really appreciate this depiction of a character like Blythe, no one truly knows how they will handle something like war or what fear can do to a person. Especially if you have this idealized heroic notion of a young naive boy like most were when they signed up during this time, not too many talked about the aftermath or what "shell shock" does to a person we sadly have a history of not treating our war vets right.
Blithe was struck in the collarbone not the neck, still not a great place to get hit but much more survivable. Blithe was out of action for quite a while and never ended up rejoining Easy so most of the guys assumed he died of his wounds.
Yes, Blithe survives. One of the few mistakes Band of Brothers makes. Then went on to serve, with distinction in the Korean War. "The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function: without mercy, without compassion, without remorse. All war depends upon it.” - Captain Ronald Speirs. He's more than a man of his word and will soon prove it for the entire company. Currahee
Every Human instinct we have tells you to run away from danger . It takes a complete insane mindst to actually run towards the fire and danger . True brave heros .
So from what I read, a sergeant under Speirs was drunk and wanted to lead a charge into the enemy during an on-going rolling barrage from US artillery. It would have been disastrous if they had gone on that charge, and Speirs and the sergeant went back and forth on it until the Sergeant raised his weapon at Speirs. Speirs shot him first. Before there could be an investigation, the commanding officer of Dog company was killed in action, and the higher ups chose to drop the matter because they were in desperate need of officers like Speirs with combat experience.
Oh, if you haven't seen Hacksaw Ridge be sure and don't sleep on it its the true story of one of the bravest soldiers you will see and they toned down the crazy stuff he did because you wouldn't believe it if they hadn't.
You sre correct in that it gets better and more intense as it goes on. I've probably seen the episodes 30 time's. Masters of the Air is also good, but not on the same level. One thing that, that show, shows but doesn't say is the the Airman in 9 months lost 25 thousand crews and 2,500 planes in comparison the Marines in the Pacific lost 24,000 but it was over 3 years. The war was a *itch for real. But Band really puts you in it. My dad was crew chief for Colonel LaMay in England with the B-17s. I have a picture of him setting in a pub with and odd look on his face I never understood till I found out about all those planes and there crews people he knew personally and they were gone. It was the shock and realization of that fact. For context Blith did die but not quite as they portrayed it for moving the story along.
I can't remember if it was this scenario fighting in Carentan but that Sargeant Talbert wrote to Winters after the war that when Winters was standing up in the middle of machine gun fire to get his men fighting that Talbert said him and his men were in awe of him for that.
gotta watch the second series that tom hanks and steven spielberg made, THE PACIFIC, about the marines fighting the japanese in the pacific theatre. its the "brother" series to BOB after yall are finished with this!
Also, I heard you guys play call of duty. You may not know because it was early on in the series but carentan is one of the most famous maps and it was based on this episode
What this episode said about Blythe at the end is incorrect. Blythe did survive and returned to action. He made it through thr war and fought in Korea as well.
Fun fact: the soldier who gets hit with the mortar shell in the shop is Ed Tipper. Despite his grievous wounds, Ed survived (although he lost an eye in the blast). When Ed recovered, he earned his Master's Degree in English and became a teacher, eventually earning the John Hay Fellowship in 1961 from UC Berkeley. When he was 64, he married a 34-year-old woman named Rosie and had a daughter, Kerry, who eventually became a Colorado state representative. Ed lived to be 95 years old and is in fact one of the men in the opening interviews of the first couple of episodes (he's the one who says in this episode "I thought one of two things: a quick death or I'd make it through without a scratch").
Gotta love Wikipedia
My man got game at 64 like that?! Just another reason to respect these men and another reason why we know them as the "Greatest Generation" 😂
@@IntoTheWhite04 love when people wiki-puke in the comments
As brilliant at the ending to this episode is, it also gives us the most notorious error in "Band of Brothers" history: Albert Blithe actually did recover from the wound he received in Normandy. He went on to become a career soldier and a veteran of Korea, attained the rank of master sergeant. He died in Germany of a perforated ulcer in 1967.
The reason for the error is that no one from Easy Company knew of what became of Blithe, and Stephen Ambrose (the author of the book) assumed he had died.
There was another Blithe in the company that did die. They assumed this was Albert since they never heard from him.
Winters did confirm that he lived. So yes someone in easy company did know
Make sure that you watch We Stand Alone Together after you finish the series. That's almost completely just one on one with the actual men of Easy Company. There's a reason that these men were called the Greatest Generation. They did incredible things that defy reason and then they just went on with life. You'd pass them in the street and have no idea they'd faced down a tank, watched their best friend turned to bloody dirt, killed dozens of men, saved their entire company....... Seeing these men 60 years later shows what a real man is.
That is a must watch for the journey to be complete.
10:52: This is Father John Maloney, the regimental chaplain. Maloney actually did walk in the middle of open combat and deliver last rites to dying soldiers. He earned the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions on D-Day, when he assisted medical-aid men in administering first aid to the wounded under intense enemy machine-gun and mortar fire.
Episodes 4-10 just start hitting harder and harder. I especially love that formal has a military background and can appreciate all the nuisance of what they're going through.
I don't have the best memory, but I was trying to connect the dots from my experience to theirs as much as I could.
@27:30 Blythe's death is actually one of the few major factual errors this series made. His family came forward during production of the series and stated he actually did survive but had dropped out of contact with all his comrades. It was too late to correct the update at the end of the episode. He became a career soldier and later served in the Korean War where he was decorated for his performance in combat. He did not die until the late 1960s. You're going to like Lt Spiers as the series progresses, he becomes a much more important and more likeable character.
Tom Hanks told Winters they'd only get about 20% of things right because they needed to fit things into an hour and keep the pace going. This episode is one of them. When they went into carentan, they didn't charge up the road like that at first, they were on in the ditches as they approached and they were so exhausted they fell asleep.whrj the first order for attack came Winters had to kick them to wake them up and get them going. That was what happened, but in the series it's done to give you a sense of intensity
Helmets were not designed to stop bullets, and didn't. They were just to keep debris off your head.
Yup. Ricochets and small shrapnel. That's all they could handle.
Remember, Talbert, who got stabbed, was wearing a German rain poncho. That is one reason why his own guy stabbed him, he was wearing part of an enemy uniform and in the dark, too.. Big mistake.
ohhhh we didn't catch that! Makes much more sense now.
Yeah it was a (German) camouflaged zeltbahn, a tent section used as a poncho. That's an insanely dangerous thing to do.
I was never in combat, even though I was in the Navy for six years. But just about every guy I hear talk about it, say just about the same thing. It's about the guy next to you. They're scared, but they're fighting for their buddies, so they just get on with it.
That's why these guys went with the Airborne. They wanted to fight with the best. They volunteered for the toughest training the Army had to offer. Easy company was the assault company within the 2nd battalion.
After watching the first two reaction videos, I started to binge the whole season (after not seeing it more than 20 years), watched it in one week.....what an incredible series, especially since it is based on true events and ''brothers''.
The respect you will have for these men by the end will be phenomenal - they aren't called "the greatest generation" for nothing.
100%
They called themselves, "The Dirty Thirties."
Winters now in charge of the company (E Company), not the battalion (2nd Battalion), . Col. Strayer is in charge of the battalion. Strayer is the one that was asking if it was safe to cross and remove the wounded.
Really enjoying your reactions. You guys are really connected and are paying attention and catch little details ❤. Love that you guys are humble, respectful and honest
You guys are doing a great job with this mini-series. When it’s over, PLEASE react to the documentary HBO made, which features many of the interviews that run at the beginning of each episode. A few of them are featured as characters in the show, by name. It’s the only right way to wrap-up such an incredible show.
5:00: "My Luger's gonna put you all to shame when I get it."
So there's a bit of confusion here, because the show sets up two characters as wanting a German Luger pistol. In Episode 1, Don Hoobler (the soldier we see here) talks with the British soldier dressed as the German before D-Day about wanting to get a Luger. In Episode 2, Don Malarkey runs out in the middle of the Battle of Brecourt Manor to grab what he erroneously thinks is a Luger. This does confuse some first-time viewers, and I do kinda wish they had put in a brief scene in Episode 1 to establish the Great Luger Hunt between these characters.
Glad someone finally brought this to light. I always knew it was Malarky in Ep. 2 who ran out in middle of spiking the gyns to try and grab a luger. So many , many , many allied soliers always dreamed of grabbing a Luger. They were actually deadly little 9 mm's ! Not Hoobler .
@@joeyboogenz Exactly. All you needed was a brief scene on the transport ship where Hoobler and Malarkey bring up the Lugers and it becomes a contest between the two of them to see who gets it first.
The movie got most of it's info from the book by steven ambrose. He got most of his info from the real men who all assumed and thought Blithe was killed. They had it wrong so it was written wrong, and the movie therefore had it wrong.
Been hopping back and forth between this and the wire reactions. They are great. Another show that not a ton of people have done is Generation Kill, another HBO mini series based on a true story. This time it’s the invasion of Iraq. Oh and the guy that directed the wire was one of the directors.
Hysterical blindnesss. Just imagine 4th of july ,but the fire is pointed at you and full of schrapnel and nails and glass and projectiles and bullets flying at you the size of Cuban cigars !!!!!! It was definitely combat shock .
First off:
This was a great edit, props to whichever one of you did it.
Also since you like the interviews so much when you're finished you can watch the documentary that includes all the interviews in the show + much more. But I'm sure some has suggested it already.
There were definitely plenty of cases throughout the war in which they did throw the grenade and found out too late there were families hiding inside. It's just the nature of invading a city rather than countryside. BoB chose to soft-pedal that for whatever reason and only show a case where they got lucky, but whether the troops spoke about it or not, it's a certainty there were also bad outcomes.
A background fact you probably won't see mentioned much is that Blithe wasn't a Southerner. The British actor playing him just couldn't do any other American accent.
That line by Spears is actually pretty powerful... once you let it go, it gets better. I have found this to be true in a lot of situations in life.
It is samurai mindset.
I've tried to incorporate thus in my life ever since I heard this line when I was a teenager. It still rings in my head as truth even after my time in the marines. It's just such a versatile mindset if you can fit it wherever you need it to be
19:00. One of the things I like to think of is that Winters actually wasn't there to motivate Blithe, but rather that was the moment when Winters's treating took hold in Blithe, and it was a creative way for them to show him getting over his fear.
Shah of Iran! Funny.
14:00. Speirs did actually shoot a sergeant in his own platoon. According to Private First Class Art DiMarzio, the eyewitness who related the fullest account of the event. DiMarzio was lying next to a sergeant, who was drunk. An order to hold position was given and relayed down the line; the sergeant refused to obey, wanting to rush forward and engage the Germans. Once again, Speirs gave him the order to hold his position. Speirs told the man that he was too drunk to perform his duties and that he should remove himself to the rear. The sergeant refused and began to reach for his rifle. Speirs again warned the sergeant, who now leveled his rifle at the lieutenant. DiMarzio said he saw Speirs shoot the sergeant in self-defense. The entire platoon also witnessed the event. Speirs immediately reported the incident to his commanding officer, Captain Jerre S. Gross. DiMarzio said Gross went to the scene of the shooting and after receiving all the information, deemed it justifiable self-defense. Gross was killed in battle the next day, and the incident was never pursued.
21:14. Hahahahaha, Uncle Philly catching strays. Man spent 20 years in the can and gets run over by a Panzer?
To get flattened by a Jerry Tank? It's a fucking disgrace.
Between his role as Lipton in this and Vincent in The Sixth Sense, it's kind of crazy that Donnie Wahlberg isn't a more well known and respected actor than Mark. He acts circles around him.
3:50 What that man said right there is how I felt in Iraq.
Formal: "Flash!"
Bralik: ...
Formal: ratatatatatatatatatat
Facts 😂🤣🤣
"The Shah of Iran-like." I see what you did there. Well played.
I really appreciate this depiction of a character like Blythe, no one truly knows how they will handle something like war or what fear can do to a person. Especially if you have this idealized heroic notion of a young naive boy like most were when they signed up during this time, not too many talked about the aftermath or what "shell shock" does to a person we sadly have a history of not treating our war vets right.
Blithe was struck in the collarbone not the neck, still not a great place to get hit but much more survivable.
Blithe was out of action for quite a while and never ended up rejoining Easy so most of the guys assumed he died of his wounds.
15:47 I quote that line when players complain in a first-person shooter.
@21:09
Gonna show this impeccable Sopranos reference to all the lames that felt you both hated the show after finishing it 😂💀
Yeah send them the receipts!! 🤣
I've seen this show so long ago i forgo t how good it is.
Your take on Blithe and his situation is intelligent and empathetic.
Yes, Blithe survives. One of the few mistakes Band of Brothers makes. Then went on to serve, with distinction in the Korean War. "The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function: without mercy, without compassion, without remorse. All war depends upon it.”
- Captain Ronald Speirs. He's more than a man of his word and will soon prove it for the entire company. Currahee
Every Human instinct we have tells you to run away from danger . It takes a complete insane mindst to actually run towards the fire and danger . True brave heros .
So from what I read, a sergeant under Speirs was drunk and wanted to lead a charge into the enemy during an on-going rolling barrage from US artillery. It would have been disastrous if they had gone on that charge, and Speirs and the sergeant went back and forth on it until the Sergeant raised his weapon at Speirs. Speirs shot him first. Before there could be an investigation, the commanding officer of Dog company was killed in action, and the higher ups chose to drop the matter because they were in desperate need of officers like Speirs with combat experience.
Speirs is the best, you'll see
Oh, if you haven't seen Hacksaw Ridge be sure and don't sleep on it its the true story of one of the bravest soldiers you will see and they toned down the crazy stuff he did because you wouldn't believe it if they hadn't.
Hysterical blindness is stress induced and it's temporay.
It's all about mindset. Spiers you're already dead, and Harry's it's just a game moving the ball forward a yard. And then there's everything between.
You sre correct in that it gets better and more intense as it goes on. I've probably seen the episodes 30 time's. Masters of the Air is also good, but not on the same level. One thing that, that show, shows but doesn't say is the the Airman in 9 months lost 25 thousand crews and 2,500 planes in comparison the Marines in the Pacific lost 24,000 but it was over 3 years. The war was a *itch for real. But Band really puts you in it. My dad was crew chief for Colonel LaMay in England with the B-17s. I have a picture of him setting in a pub with and odd look on his face I never understood till I found out about all those planes and there crews people he knew personally and they were gone. It was the shock and realization of that fact. For context Blith did die but not quite as they portrayed it for moving the story along.
I can't remember if it was this scenario fighting in Carentan but that Sargeant Talbert wrote to Winters after the war that when Winters was standing up in the middle of machine gun fire to get his men fighting that Talbert said him and his men were in awe of him for that.
gotta watch the second series that tom hanks and steven spielberg made, THE PACIFIC, about the marines fighting the japanese in the pacific theatre. its the "brother" series to BOB after yall are finished with this!
Yes! The Pacific is incredible.
Also, I heard you guys play call of duty. You may not know because it was early on in the series but carentan is one of the most famous maps and it was based on this episode
awesome reaction
Let's goooo!
ture detective season 2? and you better plan the pacific next too after BoB :D
What this episode said about Blythe at the end is incorrect. Blythe did survive and returned to action. He made it through thr war and fought in Korea as well.
Bloody Yanks, driving on the wrong side of the road!
No, we drive on the right side of the road.😁
@@johannesvalterdivizzini1523 that’s why we drive on what’s left..,
um excuse me, formal did u cut your locs?? that hat is laying suspiciously flat. 😭
they're gone!
@@FriendRequestReviews aw i cut mine too a couple years ago, it was very conflicting yet happy occasion. i'm sure the baldie looks tuff!
If you like Band of Brothers, and you like The Wire; you've GOT TO watch Generation Kill.
I don’t know why more channels don’t react to it. One of the best.
@@kriswelanetz9537 I understand why - it's not a show with an established following so it doesn't do good numbers of youtube. But it's great viewing!
Damn, this episode brings bad memories of playing Brothers in Arms - Carentan level was hard af on highest difficulty.