Band of Brothers Episode 3 'Carentan' REACTION!! 

Yes, been looking forward to this all week. Literally every time this series is on tv - even though I have HBO - I’m done for the day. I can’t pull myself away. And *every* *single* time I always am humbled by the bravery of determination of these brave young men.

I remember someone saying before that Blithe lived longer than what was says here. I think there is a correction on imdb.

Under goofs for episode 3: It is suggested that Albert Blithe was shot in the neck by a sniper, and the credits information states that he died of his wounds in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1948. Fellow Easy Company soldiers had believed this to be true. After the mini-series was broadcast, relatives of Albert Blithe came forward with information and documentation that Blithe was wounded in the right shoulder, recovered from his wounds, attended the 1st Annual Reunion of the 101st Airborne Division Association, and subsequently went on to have an outstanding Army career (including over 600 parachute jumps and a MAAG assignment in Taiwan). Blithe actually died in 1967 while on active duty in Germany, and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors.

They're all like that, happy moments and tragic moments , C'est la vie.

@@stevenrod100 Shush!

It's not that he didn't turn up to reunions, it was they thought he died as he got resigned to a different company after he was released and no one told Easy. As they thought he died they never invited him to the reunions, but once they found out after the show released they invited his widow.

@@kalcaron knowing this makes me feel somewhat better about the whole situation

Not sure how they screwed that one up honestly

@@krisfrederick5001 deal with the military administrative paperwork and you won't be surprised at all. Hell they lost my personal file 5 times in four years.

@@krisfrederick5001 we are talking about 1940-90, technology didn't exist after the war and a lot of guys just lost touch since they didn't have a way to talk. it's easy to see how this could happen, why it wasn't fact-checked for the book or series is the real question

I always wonder why they never corrected this in any of the editions. I guess it would subtract from the emotional impact of the episode if we knew that he lived through the war.

@@przemekkozlowski7835 it would have taken much, just a little blurb at the end..... I honestly don’t know WHY they don’t do it, other than the fact that would open up the flood gates of people demanding every other minute error be corrected. For me it’s a baseball game and this is just one ball/strike that close in real time but obvious in slo motion. You gotta roll with it and not let it throw your whole game off

@@MrSheckstr errors during dramatization is one thing, but they specifically spell out his death as notes at the end. A very easy thing to correct that should be out of respect for Blythe. Especially considering he served another war later.

It didn't say he died, it said he never recovered. That could mean he suffered for a long time and died much later.

@@gunman462 saying he never recovered heavily implies death. And EVERYONE that watches the show takes it that way.

Spiers said he never said this to Blithe.

@@jimblack5153 Maybe not in real life, but he did in the show. My comment stands.

100%

Debatedly to a point, but I would caution that jumping headfirst into that philosophy unerringly would result in wastefulness of one's own life when a measure of survival to fight another day would be required.

@@brano13177 But the argument being made here isn't that you should TRY to die, just not care if you do. Generally speaking, in war, whether or not you are going to die is wildly out of control. You can do things (follow your training, do your job, etc) to improve your chances, but generally it's so much chaos that it's a matter of chance as much as anything else. If you're more worried about that chance than doing your job, you're actually MORE likely to die than if you simply stop caring about survival.

I always wondered what that means thanks

@@shannonroberts681 it’s feels like a weird term, until it’s explained and then it makes perfect sense

normally already precisely ranged for the artillery too.

Pre-sighted artillery.

Zeroing in is setting the distance to a target on your gun or artillery.

That's a detail I never caught after 20 years of viewings, nice!

@@eddiecollison If youve seen it this often, have you read the book? Its so fucking worth it. It makes the entire series so much more....real.

@@ProvidenceNL Read it once, years ago. Probably time to read it again.

I thought it was just a matter of it being dark. Thanks for the info!

Makes sense granted he may have been stabbed but it kept ya dry and if it ain't broke then it works. Those original ponchos are worth big bucks today to although in that time if i didn't have a poncho to stay dry then imma take what i can get lol

Usually when they were setting up a defensive position they map their own positions for the artillery, mortars and other support companies, so that if they had to abandon a position they could guarantee the enemy would be in it and easy to locate and hit, then they would counter-attack. German efficiency in cabling in telephones to their positions and mapping every point was impressive.

When firing artillery you need to have coordinates, you usually have pre-set coordinates that target certain locations when the target is "zeroed" it is "locked-in" & on target, meaning you know where it will land & don't require further targeting adjustments or "corrections".

Or they had an observer that had walked in their shots and now was calling it on target.

translation for N&S, observer; a team or officer in communication with the artillery, observing the target taking note of the distances & directions needed to correct the next shot, depending on circumstances might even be hidden very near the target. walking the shots, normally done with rifles, snipers, etc; by seeing where the shots land you adjust on the fly in comparison to the last miss without recalculating, or actually adjusting the sights rather by adding or subtracting corrections & moving the muzzle without making changes to the sights... in artillery, it just means adjusting in relevance to the previous miss.

@@relrosner "Pre registered Artillery".

Watching Band of Brothers is a yearly tradition for many including myself. It really is legendary and a fitting tribute to the 101st and the greatest generation.

Thank you for your service and appreciate the comment!!!! Speaking on the grandfather I knew best, he was an amazing man.

Brandon Stark: How can a man be brave if he's afraid? Ned Stark: That's the only time he CAN be brave.

Exactly

I've also been told "Bravery is not the absence of fear but what you do in spite" almost the same.

turns out he was a true soldier after all

@@barnyhitman he’s a real inspiration because he shows us that no one is ever born a hero, he started all awkward and scared but slowly built the courage to be a great soldier just like everyone else in his battalion.

😎

Appreciate it Willy!!

Yep, which is why just a few scenes earlier they showed them blindly throwing grenades in there.

Good to know. The shot on the cutaway made it feel like they did.

You know, it's interesting, I've seen BoB so many times that I know every scene by heart, but SO many reactors come to the conclusion that he's debating killing them, rather than their stunned realization that if they had done what they had done for every other house, they would have killed this family.

@@realisticphish Come to think of it, did they ever show whether those previous houses had not-so-lucky occupants?

@@scottwatrous No, actually, though I think I remember hearing shouts in German. And again, I may be wrong, but I think they went into them and cleared them as well, so presumably we would have seen if that had happened. It's been a while since I've read the book, but I believe that incident actually happened

No wonder.... Dude was walking through gunfire like it was nothing..... *TOSS A COIN TO YOUR WITCHER.. OH VALLY OF PLENTY*

@@safwanshuhaib9968 makes you wonder if he was protected... he had no fear.

@@Rummyson He was a priest. He had fear but he also had souls to shepherd.

@@Rummyson he used the Quen sign I think.

zeroed in usualy means pre-aimed, so not only did they have the coordinates, most likely the guns were already aimed at the town waiting for the americans to enter the killing field.

@@christianforsstrom2222 Kinda-sorta. It's not that the guns are pre-aimed but that their targets are pre-recorded. Then it's just a matter of switching fire between target A and target B a whole lot faster.

@@Glisern What you're describing is "fire correction," which requires an observer (a FOO for arty & an MFC for mortars) to watch fall of shot and relay back corrections in the form of incremental changes to bearing and elevation of the guns/mortars. In this vid clip what we're seeing is a defensive fire mission, which does not require that much correction given its purpose. And... the mortar doesn't go anywhere, the bomb it throws does. Nor can a rifle aim at what a mortar aims at. Mortars have ranges of thousands of yards, a rifle; hundreds of yards. Mortars are indirect fire weapons, rifles are direct fire.

I wonder why in all these years no one at HBO had that text at the end of the Episode changed. Nowadays you get disclaimers before old movies, why not go fix obvious errors like this?

Oh wow, really??? They did him dirty!

@@cfinley81 not really he never went to any of the easy company reunions so all his brothers assumed he was dead and that’s what they told the author of the book this show is based on

It was the air sickness pills. Betcha any money he took them on an empty stomachs ....

@@MrSheckstr I thought he had a concussion. People act like that when they get hit hard in the head.

@@joshuaortiz2031 I thought the same thing.

For me I interpreted it as Blithe lookin to God. He said he hasn’t seen a familiar face until they showed up. Blithe is lookin to\for God in a time of complete chaos

Wow!! What a compliment. I actually do all the show reaction edits. It puts a big smile on my face when the edit gets noticed. Thank you!!

​@@NikkiStevenReact Aww! Big smile right now on me! It's rare for RU-vid channels as big as yours to reply to your fans like you do. It means a lot, like I've been through so many tearful, heart-warming journeys with you both. I just showed my husband next to me your reply and we're all smiles.☺️😊

Great documentary

It's such a great end cap for this series, I hope S & N give it a watch.

This. THIS!

Yes. Please!

Hahah "reactor".. Yeah I don't think that works dude.

Just like they did the Chernobyl credits.

Knowing that’s a thing we probably will do that.

@@NikkiStevenReact Please do! its such a powerful episode!

@@NikkiStevenReact I hope so. I've watched other reactions to BoB, and every reactor said they'll do it, then never do, lol.

More commonly known as Conversion Disorder today.

Appreciate that. We do our best to make sure we are respectful and really pay attention to what we’re watching. This is a very important series to be watching.

@@NikkiStevenReact you guys are seriously the best reactors. Every episode, whether it's Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Game of Thrones, Chernobyl, or this, I completely experience every raw emotion prompted by the shows through your eyes. Not many other reaction channels can channel that kind of humanity through facial expressions, but you guys do every time. Keep up the great work!

right, none was sent across pre-D-Day, the entire thing happened at the same time, the landings & the drops.

Dude. Save it.

That must be terrifying. Not knowing if your sight is coming back.

Wow. That’s so scary.

I’ve started watching this channel too and the back story to a lot of Easy Co is pretty cool.

Or they bought it from an elderly lady who occasionally carries milk barrels over the mountains. She picked it so she could sell them to lazy gentlemen :)

It's actually one of the historically inaccurate things in the show, though. Fallschirmjäger (German paratroopers) would never wear Edelweiss on their uniform; it was the symbol of mountain infantry (Gebirgsjäger), not paratroopers.

Nice.

Thissssss!

Thank you Angela. Really appreciate the kind words and the support. It really means a lot.

I tend to just let the terminology just be. J just gather what's there, and my impressions like I think they're about to be pummeled with artillery. Like I still don't know "fire for effect." The terms for me aren't critical to my experience of the story, they're just there as part of the realism of portrayal. It's good that nobody says silly Hollywoody cliche stuff like, "comin' in hot". I just let it be.

YES!! I had actually watched 'Pacific' first and that's how I found this one. Both are really awesome series. :)

It’s now on the list. We just need to see how the rest of the year looks with our legacy shows returning

@@NikkiStevenReact Just be aware, The Pacific is even harder to watch.

Yeah not the same concept per say, Bob is about the bond you make in combat, The Pacific is about the toll war has on you (PTSD, dehumanization), so it's a lot harder to watch for a reason.

Yeah, I've often wondered if BOB is where they got that from

@@gravitypronepart2201 Same when i watched that i literary remembered BOB...!

Appreciate it Jarred

Nikki: he's terrifying. Lol

For the most part, the ones who take their training seriously do well. But sometimes I’ve been wrong. There was this one new private that came to our unit and got assigned to my platoon. He was in a different squad but he didn’t set a good impression. He barely passed basic training. His PT score was a barely passing score. He was on the bigger side but fell just short of failing the body fat requirements to stay in the army. We were supposed to deploy to Afghanistan in 6 months and our platoon sergeant wanted this dude out of our platoon. Everyone treated him like shit because he fell behind on marches and runs. There were quite a few times he overslept and missed morning formation. And he had a low self esteem and seemed super down on himself when he screwed up. A lot of us honestly thought a bunch of us were going to get killed trying to keep him from getting killed. Some of the soldiers called him Gomer Pyle but the dude was not dumb. He was a skinnier version of Samwell Tarley. And my platoon sergeant gave it to him bad. Made him do extra PT, was on his ass 24/7. I think he only lost like 5 pounds after 6 months of everyone running him into the dirt. But he was good at shooting and he was booksmart about tactics. And at the end of the day, he did try his best and was determined to please the platoon to show he belonged. Anyway, long story short. We deployed. And a switch just went off in his head. He didn’t buckle in his first firefight and he wasn’t a liability. Halfway through the deployment, he became one of the most reliable guys and his squad leader loved him because he did everything he was told to do-and then some. He never complained. And he handled the chaos and stress of being shot at really really well. On a patrol, we got ambushed and everyone spread out. A squad leader got hit in the shoulder and he ran out to the road and pulled him off the road behind cover-and with bullets flying all around him. He got a bronze star with a v device (Valor-which is huge) for doing that a some other awards to. He volunteered for all the shit work that nobody else wanted to do as well-and when we redeployed, he earned everyone’s respect and he had 25 best friends. Our platoon sergeant even told me that he had never been so wrong about someone Funny thing is, when we redeployed to Fort Bragg, he still struggled with improving his PT score and teetered above barely passing and he was always in danger of failing the body fat tape test. And he still was flakey about shit. But I deployed three more times with this guy and in a deployed environment, he was a rockstar and the best guy to have next to you. After our first deployment, the whole platoon helped him with dieting and working out and his PT score became decent and he cut a decent amount of weight. Our platoon sergeant forced him to start going to the promotion boards and we all worked with him because he just wasn’t good at that shit. He just wasn’t good in a garrison environment but he was excellent in a war zone……which is what’s most important I’ve also seen guys who have perfect PT scores, live in the gym, ace the soldier boards, always have their uniform looking sharp-and they turned out to be the biggest softest weakest shit bag bums in a combat environment

@@youtubecommenter37 When shit goes from 0 to 7.62mm flying, your mindset changes up real quick I imagine.

@@albinorhino6 Yeah I didn't write the ones for later episodes because of spoilers.

Good call, I’ll remove my comment

Agreed. For me it's: 1 - Band Of Brothers 2 - North and South 3 - Shogun 4 - Chernobyl 5 - The Pacific

Pacific goes no.2 after BoB. Chernobyl-3

The Queen's Gambit has to get honorable mention. If you haven't seen it, you really must. And although I was very young and only saw it once, Roots had a profound effect on me at the time. I wonder how it holds up now?