met Bill Guarnere when i was kid, i was so naïve about what they had gone through... seemed to me as my memory recalls it... he was like a grandfather meeting his grandchild for the first time.... just made me feel that special with the way he introduced himself to me. i gave a big hug and asked him to trade his jump wing pins with me. later told me stories of racing kids on his crutches in philly when he returned home from Europe. im just so glad to look back and remember seeing his smile. as i got older i realized what he had endured with so many others. cuts me to the bone to think about it, very bittersweet
I generally quite agree with you, that line always makes me cry... but in my opinion certain lines from Chrenobyl are also among the best : 1/“Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid.” 2/"Of all the ministers and all the deputies. Entire congregation of obedient fools, they mistakenly sent the one good man."
My dad was also a combat veteran and Airborne Glider trooper. 194th Glider Infantry Regiment, 17th Airborne (the same unit Nixon talked about jumping with when the plane blew up in Episode 9). He fought as a replacement from December 1944 in the Battle of the Bulge, to Operation Varsity right till the end of the war. He also witnessed one of the concentration camp as his unit was involved in liberation. In my entire life, he never spoke of any of his experiences (other than the funny ones) even when I asked him about them. My mother also said he never talked about it except one time at a family gathering where he drank too much. This series helped me to understand a little bit of what he went through and spurred me to research more about his unit so I could know exactly where he was and (some) of what he experienced. Thanks for the great reaction and for honoring our WWII vets.
I read or heard somewhere that the Easy Company vets were reluctant to film the interviews...but Hanks and/or Spielberg spoke with Winters. He made some phone calls and his men rallied and agree to the interviews. Thank you, Major. RIP, Easy Company.
Seeing the end of this episode, the character of Winters talking about their lives after the war, and then to finally see the names associated with the faces of the real veterans, and having watched over 10 episodes the horrors and hardships and selfless struggles they faced - and knowing that these men are just one slice of the millions affected by the war - never fails to make me tear up, despite having seen this series many times. It truly is one of the best, if not THE best show ever made.
When the folks from Hanks’ production company went around the country to interview the veterans, the veterans families and friends would gather. At first , they thought the families were there to see if Tom Hanks or Steven Spielberg there, but they realized pretty quickly that the families largely hadn’t heard any of these stories, and had come to hear the veterans tell them.
The series was based on the book by the historian Stephen Ambrose.He spent hours talking to the survivors, even flying them to Europe. Ambrose was hired as a technical advisor for Saving Private Ryan. It was there that him and Spielberg started on Band of Brothers.
I got the chance to take Mr. Malarkey on a tour of the National D-Day Memorial several years ago and it was incredible to hear some of the stories first hand.
I think Band of Brothers is more than a series - is a journey. By the time you finish, you really feel like you've been on a journey with the men of Easy Company. Almost like you know them.
So glad you watched this series. It is incredible. It's an experience, I feel, that changes you. Another show to check out is The Pacific; it's a very different show, tonally, but is excellent as well. There's also a companion documentary to Band of Brothers that you might want to watch: We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company.
It was a great reaction series...I look forward to The Pacific and Chernobyl soon. 😁 This episode has some of the very few historical inaccuracies in Band of Brothers. For instance, according to most accounts, including his son's, Liebgott did not go back to San Francisco and drive a cab, he went back to San Fran and became a barber. Also, history records that it was elements of the US 3rd Armored Division that reached Berchtesgaden first, and it was the French 2nd Armored that took the Eagle's Nest. Winters' battalion of the 506th PIR did get to both places very shortly after those units, but was not first in either case. Also, I appreciate that folks feel like Easy Company should be first in line to go home as soon as the War in Europe was over, but you have to remember that there was still a need for many people to occupy Germany and there was still a fight to be won against Japan. The military needed a system to figure out how fast the troops were going to be sent home and figure out who should get to go first. The Adjusted Service Rating Score gave great weight to people who had dependent children that they needed to get back to supporting, so each child under 18 added 12 points to your score. In addition, the score went up by 5 points for each medal you won (including Purple Hearts) and each "campaign" you participated in....but the bulk of most men's points came from their time in service and their time in service overseas, with each getting 1 point per month. If you think about it, Easy Company was actually pretty far down on the points list because they had less time in service than the units that existed before the war since they formed in 1942, and the fact they did not get to England until September of 1943 put Easy well behind many other soldiers who had been fighting starting in North Africa in November of 1942. ✌💯🖖
I remember when Maj. Winters died in 2011... oh how I cried. Same when "Wild Bill" Guarnere died back in 2014. These ten episodes gave us a glimpse into their world during some of the darkest times and made them an indelible part of our lives. God bless them all.
If you notice when they held the drawing to send one soldier home they had it rigged. Their was only one piece of paper in the helmet. They knew Shifty deserved to go.
Great episode once again. You are awesome! Please don't forget the documentary: We stand alone together! It is an addition to this series, about the men of Easy. It gives more background, you will get to know more men and some great additional stories!
they just finished up having the 76th Annual Easy Company Reunion at Fort Benning, GA many Family member's and Friends continue this. 5:24 mark oh yeah talking with the Guys from Easy many got blackout drunk and when we had the prop blast going in the Barracks at the Battle of the Bulge reenactment they tried to relive it LOL 6:27 mark Maj Winters took and kept the pistol (he took many guns home, later he sold 6? at Auction before the whole band of brothers craze took off) 16:00Mark Webster also wrote a great book about his ww2 experience "Parachute Infantry" a great read to follow up Band of Brothers , 19:51 mark OMG Wild Bill was so full of piss & vinger LOL him and Babe were always together those 2 were so much fun to hang with drink and sing ect..... so miss spending time with them scallywags
Grant apparently lived through the gunshot to the head. He had a slow recovery from what I've been able to look up - with some speech issues after and a partially paralyzed left arm. He settled in San Francisco and owned a little tobacco store. He passed away in 1984.
I’ve seen this series a hundred times I laughed when your mother said with all due respect to the General he’s needs to trim his eyebrows I always think that my friend went on a tour of Normandy with the real shifty powers
17:37 I guess the Spandau prison, in West Berlin, was a quite complicated place to serve for Ronald Speirs during the cold war times. Apart of the continuous moral, economic, energy and food siege against Berlin by the Soviets, there they were the highest rank members of the III Reich that were not executed at the Nuremberg trials. Especially irritating and annoying was Rudolf Hess, who spent his nights wandering the prison corridors and screaming. He commit suicide in 1987, throwing himself against the electrified prison fence (I still remember the day this event appeared on the tv news)
Great reaction, always makes me shed tears in the end! I hope you consider The Pacific, another Spielberg-Hanks production. Entirely different kind of war, very gritty but eye-opening.
Historian Stephen Ambrose wrote the book Band of Brothers on which this series was based. David Webster also wrote a book Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich.
Just to add some information because of some of your questions in your commentary, I served in the 101st in the 90s and my unit did end up going to Japan for the occupation after the war and our nickname Rakkasans means falling down umbrella that they got while serving there.
From D-Day, all the way to Hitler's Eagle's Nest..."Easy" Company is the most ironic name in history...Nothing easy about it. Currahee! ♠ Afterthought: To call this a TV show is a great disservice. It's more of a 12 hour Saving Private Ryan.
perfect reaction, not over the top like most of them out there. if you're interested in learning a bit more there was a Band of Brothers symposium a few months back and it's all on here. Lots of stories from the cast, crew and Easy Company relations.
Wrong about the genesis of BoB. Historian Stephen Ambrose did the legwork and interviews and wrote a non-fiction book, Band of Brothers. Spielberg/Hanks took that and converted it to the screen. But BoB doesn’t exist without Ambrose. Also, get to know some history. That war was not just the result of one med, evil man. It also took the Japanese militarists and Stalin’s cooperation with Hitler for it to happen. Not to mention the appeasement from lily-liveried Europeans typifies by British PM, Neville Chamberlain. In fact, the US had no intentions of fighting the Germans nor Italians. Japan’s attack on US drew those counties into declaring war against US.
I’ve seen this series a hundred times I laughed when your mother said with all due respect to the General he’s needs to trim his eyebrows I always think that my friend went on a tour of Normandy with the real shifty powers
met Bill Guarnere when i was kid, i was so naïve about what they had gone through... seemed to me as my memory recalls it... he was like a grandfather meeting his grandchild for the first time.... just made me feel that special with the way he introduced himself to me. i gave a big hug and asked him to trade his jump wing pins with me. later told me stories of racing kids on his crutches in philly when he returned home from Europe. im just so glad to look back and remember seeing his smile. as i got older i realized what he had endured with so many others. cuts me to the bone to think about it, very bittersweet
"No. But, I served in a company of heroes."
This is the greatest last line of any series in history!
Isn't it though!!
I generally quite agree with you, that line always makes me cry... but in my opinion certain lines from Chrenobyl are also among the best :
1/“Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid.”
2/"Of all the ministers and all the deputies. Entire congregation of obedient fools, they mistakenly sent the one good man."
My dad was also a combat veteran and Airborne Glider trooper. 194th Glider Infantry Regiment, 17th Airborne (the same unit Nixon talked about jumping with when the plane blew up in Episode 9). He fought as a replacement from December 1944 in the Battle of the Bulge, to Operation Varsity right till the end of the war. He also witnessed one of the concentration camp as his unit was involved in liberation. In my entire life, he never spoke of any of his experiences (other than the funny ones) even when I asked him about them. My mother also said he never talked about it except one time at a family gathering where he drank too much. This series helped me to understand a little bit of what he went through and spurred me to research more about his unit so I could know exactly where he was and (some) of what he experienced. Thanks for the great reaction and for honoring our WWII vets.
I read or heard somewhere that the Easy Company vets were reluctant to film the interviews...but Hanks and/or Spielberg spoke with Winters. He made some phone calls and his men rallied and agree to the interviews. Thank you, Major. RIP, Easy Company.
Guess he never really stopped being their commanding officer
yeah and they never truly trusted Ambrose when they were doing the book so they didn't spill the beans on everything
Rest in peace Easy Company.
Seeing the end of this episode, the character of Winters talking about their lives after the war, and then to finally see the names associated with the faces of the real veterans, and having watched over 10 episodes the horrors and hardships and selfless struggles they faced - and knowing that these men are just one slice of the millions affected by the war - never fails to make me tear up, despite having seen this series many times. It truly is one of the best, if not THE best show ever made.
When the folks from Hanks’ production company went around the country to interview the veterans, the veterans families and friends would gather. At first , they thought the families were there to see if Tom Hanks or Steven Spielberg there, but they realized pretty quickly that the families largely hadn’t heard any of these stories, and had come to hear the veterans tell them.
Also, Chuck Grant survived his head wound and ran a tobacco shop.
@@daddynitro199 Good news.
The series was based on the book by the historian Stephen Ambrose.He spent hours talking to the survivors, even flying them to Europe.
Ambrose was hired as a technical advisor for Saving Private Ryan. It was there that him and Spielberg started on Band of Brothers.
I got the chance to take Mr. Malarkey on a tour of the National D-Day Memorial several years ago and it was incredible to hear some of the stories first hand.
That’s so cool!! What an honour it must have been. Thanks for supporting our channel!
I think Band of Brothers is more than a series - is a journey. By the time you finish, you really feel like you've been on a journey with the men of Easy Company. Almost like you know them.
So glad you watched this series. It is incredible. It's an experience, I feel, that changes you. Another show to check out is The Pacific; it's a very different show, tonally, but is excellent as well. There's also a companion documentary to Band of Brothers that you might want to watch: We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company.
The book is Band Of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose. It was the inspiration for Spielberg and Hanks.
Dick Winter's book is a good read too.
It was a great reaction series...I look forward to The Pacific and Chernobyl soon. 😁
This episode has some of the very few historical inaccuracies in Band of Brothers. For instance, according to most accounts, including his son's, Liebgott did not go back to San Francisco and drive a cab, he went back to San Fran and became a barber. Also, history records that it was elements of the US 3rd Armored Division that reached Berchtesgaden first, and it was the French 2nd Armored that took the Eagle's Nest. Winters' battalion of the 506th PIR did get to both places very shortly after those units, but was not first in either case.
Also, I appreciate that folks feel like Easy Company should be first in line to go home as soon as the War in Europe was over, but you have to remember that there was still a need for many people to occupy Germany and there was still a fight to be won against Japan. The military needed a system to figure out how fast the troops were going to be sent home and figure out who should get to go first. The Adjusted Service Rating Score gave great weight to people who had dependent children that they needed to get back to supporting, so each child under 18 added 12 points to your score. In addition, the score went up by 5 points for each medal you won (including Purple Hearts) and each "campaign" you participated in....but the bulk of most men's points came from their time in service and their time in service overseas, with each getting 1 point per month. If you think about it, Easy Company was actually pretty far down on the points list because they had less time in service than the units that existed before the war since they formed in 1942, and the fact they did not get to England until September of 1943 put Easy well behind many other soldiers who had been fighting starting in North Africa in November of 1942. ✌💯🖖
I remember when Maj. Winters died in 2011... oh how I cried. Same when "Wild Bill" Guarnere died back in 2014. These ten episodes gave us a glimpse into their world during some of the darkest times and made them an indelible part of our lives. God bless them all.
Sadly they are all gone now. The last Easy Company veteran died earlier this year.
If you notice when they held the drawing to send one soldier home they had it rigged. Their was only one piece of paper in the helmet. They knew Shifty deserved to go.
Great episode once again. You are awesome! Please don't forget the documentary: We stand alone together! It is an addition to this series, about the men of Easy. It gives more background, you will get to know more men and some great additional stories!
Yes, we are looking forward to watching it!
@@Jen-Mom Great to read you are going to watch it! Can't wait!
You guys should watch the documentary
Agreed! It’s called We Stand Alone Together and is definitely worth a watch.
A follow up to this was another ten part series called the Pacific. I would highly recommend it.
Yes, it's on our list!
Very enjoyable to watch y'all reacting to this series. Thanks for watching.
Time for the documentary called we stand alone together.
It's on our list!
they just finished up having the 76th Annual Easy Company Reunion at Fort Benning, GA many Family member's and Friends continue this. 5:24 mark oh yeah talking with the Guys from Easy many got blackout drunk and when we had the prop blast going in the Barracks at the Battle of the Bulge reenactment they tried to relive it LOL 6:27 mark Maj Winters took and kept the pistol (he took many guns home, later he sold 6? at Auction before the whole band of brothers craze took off) 16:00Mark Webster also wrote a great book about his ww2 experience "Parachute Infantry" a great read to follow up Band of Brothers , 19:51 mark OMG Wild Bill was so full of piss & vinger LOL him and Babe were always together those 2 were so much fun to hang with drink and sing ect..... so miss spending time with them scallywags
Grant apparently lived through the gunshot to the head. He had a slow recovery from what I've been able to look up - with some speech issues after and a partially paralyzed left arm. He settled in San Francisco and owned a little tobacco store.
He passed away in 1984.
The German accepting his firearm was a sign of respect. Major Winters had taken many firearms by then.
Hope you guys enjoyed this series. Looking forward to new content!
That replacement is super lucky that Grant survived that gunshot to the head or Spiers definitely would have killed him
I’ve seen this series a hundred times I laughed when your mother said with all due respect to the General he’s needs to trim his eyebrows I always think that my friend went on a tour of Normandy with the real shifty powers
17:37 I guess the Spandau prison, in West Berlin, was a quite complicated place to serve for Ronald Speirs during the cold war times. Apart of the continuous moral, economic, energy and food siege against Berlin by the Soviets, there they were the highest rank members of the III Reich that were not executed at the Nuremberg trials. Especially irritating and annoying was Rudolf Hess, who spent his nights wandering the prison corridors and screaming. He commit suicide in 1987, throwing himself against the electrified prison fence (I still remember the day this event appeared on the tv news)
Great reaction, always makes me shed tears in the end! I hope you consider The Pacific, another Spielberg-Hanks production. Entirely different kind of war, very gritty but eye-opening.
The last scene always gets to me.
I hope Chernobyl is coming soon. Ranks right up there with best shows.
Historian Stephen Ambrose wrote the book Band of Brothers on which this series was based. David Webster also wrote a book Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich.
i’d check out the documentary on the making of this series
Yes, we will!
Make sure to watch h the Pacific. It's a follow up series made by the same directors of band of brothers about the Marines in the South Pacific
Yes, it's on our list!
get ready for The Pacific! the war is not over yet!
Ok, now you need to react to the special edition, We Stand Alone Together Interview episode with the actual E Co guys.
Just to add some information because of some of your questions in your commentary, I served in the 101st in the 90s and my unit did end up going to Japan for the occupation after the war and our nickname Rakkasans means falling down umbrella that they got while serving there.
Watched years ago but enjoyed watching again with you.
Sobel died of malnutrition in a VA hospital after being blinded in a failed suicide attempt.
From D-Day, all the way to Hitler's Eagle's Nest..."Easy" Company is the most ironic name in history...Nothing easy about it. Currahee! ♠
Afterthought: To call this a TV show is a great disservice. It's more of a 12 hour Saving Private Ryan.
perfect reaction, not over the top like most of them out there.
if you're interested in learning a bit more there was a Band of Brothers symposium a few months back and it's all on here. Lots of stories from the cast, crew and Easy Company relations.
I followed you folks from the 1st episode and thoroughly enjoyed your reactions. Thanks for sharing your experience and do take care.
Thank you! You take care as well! 🥰
If you're thinking of doing a movie in observation of Veteran's Day, I'd suggest The Best Years Of Our Lives.
Winters accepted the Luger...he kept it until his death and never fired it once.
That was a different occasion. Winters took the pistol from a major. In the episode he returned it to a colonel.
im not crying, you're crying
Большое спасибо , смотрел вместе с вами✌
THANK YOU HBO was Amazing
Austria really is that beautiful
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I'm gonna watch your Pirates of the Caribbean reaction now so my eyes stop peeing.
Plz watch we stand alone together to finish this series
Enjoyed the journey, 👍👍👍👏👏👏
Wrong about the genesis of BoB. Historian Stephen Ambrose did the legwork and interviews and wrote a non-fiction book, Band of Brothers.
Spielberg/Hanks took that and converted it to the screen. But BoB doesn’t exist without Ambrose.
Also, get to know some history. That war was not just the result of one med, evil man. It also took the Japanese militarists and Stalin’s cooperation with Hitler for it to happen. Not to mention the appeasement from lily-liveried Europeans typifies by British PM, Neville Chamberlain.
In fact, the US had no intentions of fighting the Germans nor Italians. Japan’s attack on US drew those counties into declaring war against US.
he lost his leg
Watch The Pacific
Please listen to Paul (below) ! ! !
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE REACT TO THE BAND OF BROTHERS COMPANION SERIES THE PACIFIC
I’ve seen this series a hundred times I laughed when your mother said with all due respect to the General he’s needs to trim his eyebrows I always think that my friend went on a tour of Normandy with the real shifty powers