Band of Brothers Episode 2 | Day of Days | FRR Reaction
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- What's going on FRR fams we're starting a mini-series run where we watch shows with 1 or 2 seasons and Band of Brothers made the list. Hopefully, you enjoy our first time watching this incredible show. We wanna give a big THANKS to all our veterans who put their lives on the line for us to live the lives we live today. Thank you for your service 🫡🙏🏾
0:00 Intro
3:03 Reaction
29:33 End Talk
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Little known fact about Buck Compton who threw the grenade, he played on the same college baseball team at UCLA with Jackie Robinson.
He was also a catcher and estimated the distance to the German was the same as the throw from home to second
He also didn’t hit the soldier’s back with it. In reality, it hit the soldier in the head and it exploded instantly.
@@jacksonsingletary3749 and on top of that, Neil McDonough, the actor playing Compton is ALSO a baseball player for UCLA (at least so I've heard, I think during a BoB Podcast)
He also played on the UCLA football team.
Buck was also on the DA team that prosecuted Charles Manson in later life
Malarkey and the German POW lived a lot closer than 100 miles, but the producers thought that would be too far fetched for the audience
18:18. Buck Compton actually pulled off that grenade fastball move in real life. He was an All-American catcher on the UCLA baseball team.
amazing! I knew YT would pull in all these fun facts.
He actually hit him in the head in real life but again, another thing they thought would be unbelievable so they had him hit in the back.
And Neil McDonough who is the actor portraying Buck also played baseball in college.
The man who was shot in the head while laying in the field talking to Lipton was Warrant Officer Andrew Hill, he came upon the battle while searching for the headquarters of the 506th PIR.
Also, the German POW that was born in the US, when his parents went back to Germany, they weren't at war with the US yet. So he may have thought he wasn't going to have to fight them. That's a possibility.
I read a war memoir of a Canadian German who's folks sent him to Germany during the Depression--he was a bit of indentured servant so when the time came to join the military, he did. He ended up as a gunner for Panzer Mk IV (and the self propelled gun version as well) on the Eastern Front..
My great uncle was in the 82nd Airborne (504th)… he was shot and killed as he parachuted down into Italy in 1943. Heroes all 🇺🇸
The guy on the tank was Nix and he ran that map around five miles to the just secured beaches to deliver the map that Winters found to the, still setting up, command. The command group was so happy with the intel they sent the first tanks on the beach to easy, thus why Nixon is riding them.
Thanks for the reaction. I have a little information to add.
1. Orders were to not take prisoners. They knew that the manpower or the resources to handle that in the initial phases of the invasion.
2. The German American joined the German army before the US entered the war.
3. Malarkey and the German really worked across the street from each other. That was changed because it was unbelievable.
Malarkey actually met the German guy later in the war, not on D-Day. From what Malarkey could recall the man did survive the war.
Yeah, I read somewhere he ran into him on D Day+3 or 4... Something like that.. After the Allies had the men and supplies to take and keep prisnors... So, while Spiers did shoot prisoners on D Day, as the invasion progressed, prisoners were taken and shipped off the continent.
the clickers depicted were a clever way to signal to eachother in the dark, but they werent widely issued. They had been a last minute buy from a toy company, and there wasnt enough time to make enough for everyone, so only a few units got them. Most units relied on the challenge call 'flash', which the other unit would answer 'thunder'. This combination of words was chosen because there are no words in german that start with the 'Th' sound like in english, words starting with 'Th' in german have a hard T sound, so even if the germans learned the proper response call from prisoners they would still not fool american troops because when they answered the challenge call they would say 'toonder' instead of 'thunder'.
I'm loving these comments thankyou for this gem.
Well, this is when the sh*t gets real. "We're not lost Private...we're in Normandy." This one line displays Winter's ability to instill confidence in his men, even unarmed in the face of all adversity. And this soldier wasn't even a member of Easy Company. Currahee ♠
Most people today don't realize what explosive shells do. You can't see it, but when they explode thousands of metal chunks and splinters are flying away from the explosion - be it flack for air, a tank round, a mortar, hand grenade, or big guns like German 88's. They aren't bullets. This is what was flying into the airplanes in the opening scene. Big artillery shells can send metal flying for a hundred yards or more.
When the caption said "planes soaring" it was actually the sound of shells overhead from the Navy's 16 inch guns.
It's an absolute crime you guys don't have 100k subs by now.
I just joined today and totally agree! I didn't know what to expect but watched episode 1 and now 2 with them and this channel is legit, along with the commentary and especially the reaction that is a learning experience and trying to live it.
Toye really did survive those two grenade blasts. Nice reaction guys!!!
The 1962 war film "The Longest Day" is the perfect complement to this episode, showing the same events in somewhat more detail. Also shows some of the grim or absurd outcomes that paratroopers ran into on D-Day.
The Longest Day does a great job showing the scale of D-Day. Beyond that it wasn't a very accurate depiction. They said that Eisenhower himself walked out on it after 10 or 20 minutes. That said it is well worth watching in my opinion.
@@TheSocratesian Who says it wasn't accurate? I never heard that Eisenhower story.
Well done guys. Appreciate the respect you give these men. They deserve it.
Glad to see y'all react to Band of Brothers. I watch this series maybe 2-3 times a year.
Bill Guarnere said in his and Babe Heffron's book that he got the nickname "Wild Bill" on D-Day. He said that he was angry about his brother being killed and said he "did a lot of killing on D-Day".
After you have finished the series and the documentary, "We Stand Alone Together", the books written by the men are very much recommended.
Those were NOT airstrikes, Remember in 1942, there were NO JETS, those sounds are replecations of Naval artillery from American and British Battleships offshore shelling enemy positions on the land, , either 14, 15 or 16 inch shells from the big guns.
Jets engine did exist at this time, but they were very primitive. The Me 262 was the first jet fighter used in combat by the Germans in late ‘44. Also, air strikes were definitely a thing. One of the reasons D-Day and the France campaign in general was so successful was because the Allies had complete air superiority against the Germans because the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) was almost completely destroyed at this point in the war. The remainder of the Luftwaffe was concentrated on the Eastern front against the Soviets.
The Germans had also flooded all the fields, inland, behind the beaches so lots of paratroopers drowned when they landed with all their heavy kit. (As did many soldiers when they landed on the beaches, also due to all their heavy kit)
Fun Fact: The actor who plays "Lipton," Donny Wahlberg (Mark Wahlberg's brother), used to be a member of the boy band "New Kids on the Block" in the late '80s and early '90s. He has transitioned into an impressive actor.
Markie Mark was also in this band too, mind you. Also about the same time he broke some poor Asian mans face just because he was Asian. But ya know, Markie Mark gonna Mark
@@Drax514 markie mark was never in new kids on the block, he was a solo one hit wonder rap artist
He was originally part of the band, but he never recorded or toured with them. This is a little-known fact that I only found out about a year ago.
Mark was/is also a 'Blue Blood'...Danny Reagon, son of Frank (Tom Selleck)
My Unit (46th Combat Support Hospital) flew over to the country of West Germany when their were 2 Germany's and participated in 2 months of winter War Games (sat across from Colin Powell once in our Mess and General Patton Jr Jr (Son) who was in charge of Army Forces Europe charged in to camp wanting the head of a certain Lt.) We got a couple days off before we returned to our U.S. base in Massachusetts and stopped at a U.S. WW1 Military Cemetery in Belgium. Gravestones in perfect symmetry and the grounds were immaculate and though I didn't know anyone there or any direct connection, I cried my eyes out to the people that sacrificed everything for our Country. Long after I ETS'd my Unit treated the "Black Hawk Down" casualties at the Mogadishu Embassy grounds, straight from the battlefield.
I love to see reactors being tender-hearted. There's something about seeing these tough old guys tearing up after 50-60 years, remembering what they went through, just shreds me every time. Also, buckle up.
Think about how things would have gone if Sobel was in charge. Transferring him out of a combat unit saved a lot of lives.
💯agree
Good reaction again. This was Easy Company's first time in combat. When interviewed for the book by Ambrose, nearly all said they would never have taken the chances they took that day (Lipton climbing the tree to get a firing position; Malarkey going after a Luger). Keep up the good work!
The American in the German uniform was not uncommon. If you do a deep dive pre war, you'll find many many Americans were on hitless side. New Jersey had a massive Hitler youth type camp. American nazis marches and held open meetings. The pro socialist movement was strong. Once Hitler invaded Russia their support dropped though. And once America joined thy war, the government was serious about hunting nazi supporters down. They then spent years scrubbing to the best of their ability any film or articles about the nazi movement in the US.
You can find it still though.
The support among the US government was so broad spread that American diplomats were expelled from England because they were still taking the side of Hitler ant Germany while bombs were falling on London.
Like I said though, one Germany invaded Russia that support dissipated fast.
People forget Hitler was Time's Man of the Year and Hollywood waxed poetically about National Socialism. Joe Kennedy Sr. was pro-Hitler and it cost him his ambassadorship to England and killed his political career. Joe Jr was suppose to be the one to run for President until he died on a mission. JFK ended up being the Kennedy that ran.
You guys will enjoy this series. Believe it or not this series is very reverse embellishment. The truth on a lot of the stories of what happened had to be simplified because what really happened was unbelievable. In this episode Malarkey and the German soldier actually worked across the street from each other. They switched to being in the same state because the coincidence was too unbelievable.
Keep an eye out for you and unknown actors, at the time:
Simon Pegg
Michael Fassbender
Tom Hardy
Jimmy Fallon
James McAvoy
As well as others.
They Jumped in the Night before the D-Day Landings (saving Private Ryan)
The airborne guys were outnumbered, surrounded and out gunned. They new this would be the situation when they jumped and there reports that they were told to not take prisoners as they did not have the resources to deal with them in those first days.
The Guns were Firing on the Beach Where the Landings were taking Place
Thanks. This is why I look the the comments before I post.. someone usually has already said it.
So happy to see two of my favorite reactors doing this mini series.
18:15 that was Buck Compton who really played baseball when he was in college before fighting in WWII. The actor portraying Buck is Neal McDonough who also played baseball in college. So when he threw it in the show he really threw it like a baseball player. Accurate for the show and story.
The scene at the end in the back of the truck was well done. It was the Lt bonding with the men and they saw him in a different light. This was was especially true of "Wild Bill" who had his doubts about Winters. The fact that the Lt could stop in, check on everyone have a drink, bust a couple balls and then leave was leadership at it's most basic. He didn't hang around for long but his appearance and the way he interacted with them showed what a leader he was.
The next episode,#3, is one of my favorites. Lt Welsh is a badass in #3.
Today airborne units still train to operate in "lgops" or little groups of paratroopers. When you hit the ground you try to reach the assembly area for your own unit, but sometimes due to unforseen circumstances you just link up with any unit you can find to move forward and accomplish the mission.
The men, who fought, died, sacrificed and survived World War II were some tough SOB's. We should all aspire to be so tough and live up to their standard. But time has moved on we are a long way from the 1940's. That said, we who are living in 2024 owe ALL the men you see in this series and the 11 million other American men who fought, sacrificed and died in this war our everlasting gratitude and respect. Black, White, male, female, gay, straight, whatever, we ALL have what we have, we ALL are what we are, we ALL may yet become what ever we may we become because of what these men shown here did so long ago. It's high time we remember that and come together as Americans to honor them by being Americans first...we OWE them at least that much!!!
"...air strikes?": Nope, that was the sound of 16-inch naval artillery from off-shore battleships...probably the USS Texas.
The battle of Brecourt Manor took about 4 hours. That is a long time for their 1st battle.
the German stick grenades were not fragmentation grenades which is why he survived two not that he wasn't dammed lucky
The noise that sounded like an airplane was a 16 inch naval shell going overhead. They were +/- 5 foot long and weighed about the same as a VW Beetle. The bad ones were the ones you didn't hear.
I really like the chemistry you two have and the way you react, definitely excited to see yall do the rest of the series
The reason Joe Toye was able to survive the first grenade despite it being right next to him is because German grenades weren’t designed to fragment like US ones; they could but it was more designed to make it into trenches, not roll around and stun the enemy.
Malarkey actually did go out on the battlefield looking for a Luger pistol but he said it wasn’t quite as far as the scene per-gets but it was a dumb idea on his part
Yeah, very dumb, but he made it and lived a full life!
"gonna get some air strikes?'
Those aren't planes. Those are 14 inch shells from battleship guns.
Great review guys. Remember this came out in 2001, most of the affects are practical effects very little CGI was used. There are a few spots where there is some early CGI but 90% of the explosions etc are practical effects.
literally came out the week before september 11th, 2001.
"I always liked to hear about the oldtimers. Never missed a chance to do so. You can't help but compare yourself against the oldtimers. Can't help but wonder how they would have operated these times." -NCFOM
"Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops," Eisenhower wrote. "My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower Supreme Allied Commander. This was his other speech. D-Day was never a guarantee..
Remember everything you are watching actually happened
This is all taken from the book on these men by Steven Ambrose. Much of what you see actually happened as I'm sure you know. Great reaction. I love it when young folks learn about this rich history. While you watch try and figure out who the real men are being portrayed in the series. Those guys at the beginning. Winters is the temp Commander of Easy company since Meehan was killed.
37:31 “Dude [Speirs] who seems to be on a path right now”
lol…just wait
The airstrikes were last night, actually. Part of the reason the American landings at Omaha had such heavy casualties because the airstrikes either missed the German defenses or didn't soften them up as well as they thought.
My understanding of the clicker is that they were adapted because the assault would be conducted by different nations working together. as a result, they could not use the same code words necessarily so then used the clicker so that the different soldiers of different nations can know that you are an ally instead of the Germans.
They later found out that the clicker was a bad idea. The signal was one click to go out, (clickclick) and in response, you'd get two clicks back,(clickclick-clickclick). The problem was, that the germans used a bolt acton rifle, the K98 Mouser. So when a US soldier sent out a click, the german would chamber a round which made a clickclick-clickclick sound. So the US soldier would take that as the all clear, and come out of cover thinking it was a clicker.
How long did it take for the soldiers to catch on?
@@FriendRequestReviews This is from, The Longest Day. It's a movie from the 60's about D-day and a scene with the clicker. czcams.com/video/sDLcKqV_WjA/video.htmlsi=Iu0-b1LFrfBniJuE
When you get through with the 10 episodes of BoB, watch We Stand Alone Together. It is the longer documentary with more interviews of the 506 th. Helps put the real names to the real faces of the guys, their war and their lives afterwords.
great reactions so far guys.. usually i get annoyed by some of these people that react to this but you guys are awesome.
You wanna get really annoyed at a reaction to this show...The Normies.
@fester2306 Yep, I believe I watched that one at one point.. They have like ten reactors. I just can't stand when people talk over. Dialogue and these guys don't do that and actually know what's going on.
@@fester2306 Can't stand Pat, he's so annoying, and not super sharp either. He misses a lot of stuff.
Nice "Leeroy Jenkins" ref. Been awhile...
Be ready for episode 9, It is most definately the very hardest to watch, it is a hard watch, but something that everyone needs to see.
I wish people would not say anything about it. Let them go in unprepared.
All good, we already finished the mini-series so we understand the comment.
@@FriendRequestReviews Are you planning to react to the documentary We Stand Alone Together?
Thanks for fixing the audio issues, folks... c'est parfait!
thanks guys for watching this. subscibed
Awesome thank you!
Despite Rommel's prediction that the Allies would invade at Normandy, Hitler was convinced the Allies would cross the English channel to invade Europe - a shorter and more direct route. That is why Normandy was not as fortified. Also, all moves and tactics came from Hitler' s approval, unlike the Allies who could adjust as needed. The invasion took place in the early morning and noone dared to wake Hitler, so defensive moves by the Germans were too late.
13,000 men drop out of the sky onto the German Army at midnight.
Really enjoyed your input!!
Great reaction, guys! The little bit at the end about Winter's attack on the guns still being taught today should give you a little indication of what a legend Winters would become. But all these guys were amazing. Easy Company were total badasses.
When they come up on the dead paratrooper hanging from a tree and they're scavenging for ammo and supplies, the subtitles say "planes soaring" but that whooshing sound we hear are 2700lb shells fired from US battleships arcing overhead.
In the trenches, Buck Compton keeps messing with his Tommy gun. He lost his own weapon during the jump and found another one elsewhere, but didn't test fire it before going on the attack, and he's unaware that the firing pin is broken. That's why he keeps trying to clear/cycle it and taking the mag in and out.
At the end, Nixon says that he had the maps sent to division, but in reality, Nixon understood the critical importance of these maps and ran them himself several miles back to Utah beach, where command had established some manner of HQ. The higher-ups there were so pleased with this vital piece of intelligence that they, as a manner of thank you, sent the first 2 tanks off of Utah beach to reinforce the 101st. Those are the 2 tanks you see Nixon riding back in town on. They were used to flush out the remaining Germans at Brecourt.
Y'all have very good insight.
another film to watch after this is A Bridge too Far as it covers in more detail a later battle these guys were in
Great reaction, please consider puting the pacific on the list basicaly it is band of brothers 2 same producers
I am obsessed with this series love watching reactions on it but half the time people dont do it justice you guys definitely are cant wait to see more
15:29 Moriarty!
Thank you for turning on the subtitles. Very helpful. More feedback: Your own audio is very very low.
And it's crazy to think many of them were just boys.
Keep bringing it baby
Watch the film "The longest day" and you will see that "clicker" and how it doesn't always work.
As a kid, we would get those sometimes. Seems like 50% of the time they didn't work. LOL
We had to take them apart to see if we could fix them. If the piece of metal wasn't bent correctly, it wouldn't work.
@@Easy_Skanking glad to see a fellow reggae fan here.
First of all: the subtitles for Band of Brothers were probably done by someone who have never had any contact with anything military ever in their life. There are multiple errors and some errors don't make a lick of sense. Just FYI.
(I think this is the subtitles where at the end Winters takes a drink and says "Don't you think, Guarnere?" the subs say "Don't you drink, Guarnere?" Booooh. Bad subs. Many such cases.)
Secondly some trivia: 15:18 "Spike the guns" is an old expression from the advent of gunpowder and firearms. Cannons used to be (and still are, but much more so before) very immobile and difficult to move. So if your company of soldiers overran a battery of enemy cannons you either turned the cannons to fire at the retreating enemy, took them back with you or; as a last resort, were you not able to do any of that and yourself had to retreat from that position - you spiked them.
You know the old-timey cannon where you put a burning stick into a hole to make it go boom?
That's were you drove a nail into to make it unusable, the cannon was spiked.
10/10 reaction, this is good stuff!
They couldn’t take prisoners. In regard to the Eugene Soldier scene.
Great reaction to a great mini series.. just one question though: which is the second season you’re referring too cause I always taught it’s only 1…
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It seems from your commentary that you guys have never seen “Saving Private Ryan”… if not you MUST react to it
hell yeah I bet they already on it
gotta watch the partner series The Pacific after Band of Brothers, made and written by the same people (stephen spielberg, tom hanks, etc), its about the pacific theatre of ww2 and is much much more brutal and dark
I know you guys have already finished watching the series, but I wanted to help add some context for you (if you decide to rewatch on your own), and also for the other viewers. Many commenters talk about how "true" this story is.
It is... but, this series, throughout all of the episodes presents the story with various degrees of accuracy & inaccuracy simultaneously to help tell the story in a way that the viewer can follow better.
When Easy left England for D-day, there were 139 guys making up the company, and the company would shrink with casualties, and then beef back up with replacements throughout the war, so the neighborhood of "120-ish" is pretty much how many guys were in the company at any given time.
Because of this, it would be logistically impossible to depict the experiences of every single guy in a ten episode series. So a lot of stories that happened to Easy company guys we're never introduced to were attributed to a small core of characters that we're going to be following.
For starters, the paratrooper that landed near Winters that night wasn't Hall, but some supply Sgt from F company that Winters recognized right away. Then when he encountered Lipton (with that clicker), Lipton had twelve guys, not just two - although a few of the twelve were indeed stragglers with the 82nd.
An interesting incident that's not depicted at all: when Winters stuck his knife in the ground and went under that poncho to look at the map, one of the group that was with Lipton swiped that knife. Winters was furious about it, but decided that it was neither the time or place to address the theft.
In the night, several other Easy company guys latched on to the group, including Buck, Guarnere, and Malarkey. Winters, Lipton, Buck, and Guarnere had nothing but their knives - as all of their leg-bags had been torn away in the same manner.
At about 3:00AM, they came across the Lieutenant Colonel of another unit, who had about fifty men with him. Winters and his men were headed in the same direction they were going, so they fell in with that group for a little bit. It was with this huge group that the Germans were ambushed. Several of the Lieutenant Colonel's men are the ones who opened fire prematurely, as Guarnere still hadn't obtained a replacement weapon yet. After that, Winters and Guarnere were finally armed - having taken pistols off the dead Germans.
As far as the American in the German uniform they encountered, Malarkey did come across an American who had come to Germany after Hitler's call for "all loyal Germans" to serve the Reich. It was a bit different from what's depicted here though. He was a German Master Sergeant, in the company of about twenty other German POW's. He was from Portland, Oregon, and had worked at Schmitz Steel Company up until 1938. Malarkey worked at Monarch Forge and Machine Works in 1942. The two places were very very near to each other. Due to the year differences, Malarkey had never seen him before, and said he had no idea what happened to him afterwards.
Speirs did execute a group of German POW's, but it likely wasn't that group. If I remember correctly, the Germans that Spiers executed occurred earlier in the night before dawn.
The assault on Brecourt Manor is depicted as taking place in only a few minutes. In reality, the attack took about three hours. During which time Winters had to run back to the assembly area to get after them for not moving fast enough to help them out with fresh ammo and other assistance.
Lastly, the jeep driver Lorraine is depicted as kinda a fifth wheel to the unit. In reality, he was very effective. When they were shooting the fleeing Germans while taking the first gun, Lorraine is depicted as missing the guys while Guarnere takes them out. In real life it was actually the reverse. Guarnere missed the German he was shooting at, and Winters had to shoot him. All the while, the Germans that Lorraine shot went right down.
Later on, a German who was stunned by a grenade came out to surrender. Winters was trying to point him to leave the trench, but he had a hard time understanding. Lorraine slipped on a pair of brass knuckles and belted the guy. Winters didn't care for treating prisoners that way, but it did the trick. The German suddenly understood to leave the trench to go surrender to someone else. The show depicts Joe Toye as using brass knuckles on a German, but he didn't have any during that attack.
Great react guys! Looking forward to watching the rest of the series with y'all.
About the American in the German army: His parents weren't racists, they were *nationalist* and loyal to Germany. There's a clear difference. Race had nothing to do with it.
Their is only 1 season. It was a "Mini" series. 10 episodes.
Love the reaction so far. Don't know how far you guys are on Patreon but this isn't a spoiler i promise...
(THE AMERICANS WIN IN WW2
AHAHAHAH SPOILED THE WHOLE THING FOR Y'ALL. GET FUCKED)
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It’s BAND of Brothers not Bands
Please start back watching raising kanan s3
Airborne doesn’t take prisoners behind enemy lines. What happened is expected when the company has to move out of the area. You’re not going to send them back to get rearmed by their comrades.
most overused words by reactors...crazy and insane.
I mean if it's crazy and insane, we're gonna say it lol
I guess you've watched reactions by Nikki and Steve...:)
Im back from your Sopranos reaction. Great series, excellent choice
Wait till you get to episode 7 regarding Spiers.