One of my favorite clip of Band of Brothers. Demonstrating the brotherhood shared in wounds. Tags: Bob Band brothers hbo arms carwood lipton breaking point spielberg steven tom hanks battle bulge brotherhood world war
Bull's reaction to being reminded of his wound is some great acting. You can see on his face he's not just remembering when he got wounded, he's remembering the night he spent alone and afraid in the barn, he's remembering that Dutch girl and her father, he's remembering fighting that German in close quarters combat and nearly getting skewered with a bayonet. The memory of being shot in Holland is a very bad memory for him.
@@dougbrowne9890 The best ever made. IMO it proves that the mini-series is the best format to tell the story of a company of men in war. In a movie you can barely bring a platoon to life and have the audience remember all the character's names. With this amount of screen time you can get the audience to care about more of the people, and see how their relationships create the unit culture and allow it to function. They chose their scale perfectly in BoB so we can see how the "Toccoa men" made Easy excellent and held it together during the dark times in Holland and Bastogne. I've read the book many times too would strongly recommend it!
I was wondering why he was the only one who looked so glum and pained while everyone just shrugged it off with a smile. Pretty sure Compton would have done the same though, were he not busy talking with the other officers. As Lipton puts it, he was not the same person since he got shot in Holland.
Sounds about right though. My grandpa said that he and the 28th division once put their helmets out and got spaghetti from another unit in late 1944/early 1945, and it was the first hot food they'd had in weeks
This scene just goes to show how great the acting and the series as a whole was. The banter displayed isnt gung-ho or silly, it sounds really genuine considering where they are and what they've been through.
I watched it again. It is not bad introducing a lot of characters since it is a war series based on true events. Watching it the second time helps because you get to know all the characters.
I totally agree, I wish the Pacific was more in line with Band of Brothers because sometimes it’s a little melodramatic. It’s still good but occasionally you can tell the director and or editor was getting a little carried away.
@@ianhall6614 The pacific shows the REAL brutality and horrors of war, especially the horrific Pacific theatre, while BoB is more about the camaraderie of units.
@@tripsaplenty1227 Everybody who got wounded by the enemy will receive a Purple Heart, no matter how minor the wound is. So by him saying he has no purple hearts and was never injured, it is understood that he meant he was never wounded or injured.
BIlly the SMall Bong thorton from india oh really??? Then why are some Bronze Stars eligible for the V-device? Do you know what that V stands for? Another thing, they don't hand those out to everyone in a unit... it's an individual award. As for breaking your toe, where exactly did that happen? I broke three fingers and a wrist. They don't just toss out Purple Hearts for nothing.
@@JnEricsonx Yes he did, as Gabriel. An Archangel under God in Christianity. In that show he was described and acted as a trickster like Nordic Loki, but actual scripture does not. Still, great actor. I loved him in this role, as every platoon or company has a light-hearted dude that tried to cheer everyone up with humor.
Pretty crazy when you think about it. Since majority of the guys portrayed on the show were the ones who survived. They've had their entire lives to retell their stories. But Muck died during the war, the only memory of him is through the survivors. He must've been one hell of a person and soldier
" It called wounded peanut , injured is when you fall out of a tree or something " . " Dont worry there is enough crap flying around here " lmao can't stop laughing
They spent a lot of time together in Cpt. Dye's Boot Camp to learn how to act like soldiers. They bonded well there. There is a video from Ron Livingston (Cpt. Nix) showing the whole experience. It's very neat and actually brought back a few memories of my own Basic Training experience.
When Frank John Hughes, the actor who portrayed Bill Guarnere, took the real Bill Guarnere and Babe Heffron to meet the cast where they were filming in England, Heffron stopped next to Richard Speight Jr., who portrayed Skip Muck, and said to him, “kid, I was there when you got it.”
@@JnEricsonx damn straight. That's crazy, I mean the sheer luck or fate or whatever you want to call it. Whether it was by shell coming in your hole and suddenly you're gone without even realizing it, or get hung up on a barbed wire fence and accidentally get a bullet and you bleed out.
For real. One of the best shows ive ever seen at introducing a huge group of people while having them all shine through as individuals. Fantastic scripting, casting & acting.
One of things that made the book a little better, it was a lot easier (no pun intended) to keep track of all the paratroopers. Obviously tv has limitations in this regard
I got to hear firsthand as a kid at my Dad's Legion Hall from a 101st veteran back in the 80's a few stories. One was how they were resting behind a stonewall and their mail had finally caught up with them. One guy was so entranced by a letter from home he sat down on top of the stonewall with everyone telling him to get his ass down as snipers were sure to see him; right then a shot rings out and hits him in the back of his steel pot and everyone heard the bullet zing around inside the helmet a couple of times before exiting. He fell over like he was dead but luckily it just knocked him out cold and grazed him while completely shredding up the helmet liner. He apparently had no problems taking cover after that.
My grandfather was in the war. He said it was always the bullet you didn't hear that got you. Bullets travel faster than sound. So if you heard the crack of the gun and you weren't bleeding you were fine. He spent two days alone stuck in a foxhole in freezing temperatures because the guy in the hole with him just had to look. My grandfather begged him not to peak over the top. I know he had to know the mans name, but he would never tell me. He honestly never got much farther in the story than that and he would get quiet for a while. Today I know that in those moments he was right back in that foxhole with a man that was likely someone he called a friend. Sad what we humans will do to one another. All over greed, jealousy or hate.
Can't imagine having what was probably the first time that guy relaxed in a long time and could think of something other than war and his reward was to be knocked out
if you note the subtleties in each scene you can really pick up a lot. note Muck is the one introducing all the wounded, he even takes note of a guy whose never been hit, and says they're lucky... and not long after Muck is wiped out. and he mentions Bull, and Bull gets suddenly serious... probably remembering having to kill that enemy by hand and almost having two civilians killed as well.
Plen122 Bull also saw a bloodied and open eyed Miller, who was killed by a type of blast that he survived himself. That is enough to drive anyone batty.
I'm glad someone else noticed the little subtleties of this scene. This show is full of em actually. One of my favorites is in Crossroads, and they're watching the old john wayne movie. Everyone leaves but winters and buck, and as winters is leaving he stops because he wants to talk to him and tell him how he knows hes breaking and the PTSD winters had on the train made him realize that buck was in his own, different ptsd as well.
Part of what made this series great was scenes like this, not all battles and gunfights, sometimes just their downtime, them talking, joking around, and being friends.
Lords Mobile2828 When luz was running around to get to a foxhole I was like,”Oh shit, he’s finally going to get hit,” only to then watch Alex and muck’s foxhole explode. It caught me really off guard.
Always liked this scene. Thought it captured the closeness, camaraderie and intimacy the Toccoa guys shared that the book spoke of. They knew each other inside and out
Being in a front line rifle squad in WWII was a dangerous job, your prospects for getting wounded hovered between 60-70%. Anything, including doing nothing, could get you killed or maimed at any moment. This knowledge wore down veteran infantrymen, as they saw their comrades get taken and knowing full well their own turn was likely to come up.
Great acting by the guy playing Bull Rendleman, in the second where he mentions him getting wounded in Holland, you can see him remembering killing a German up close and personal in hand to hand.
My great granddad was in the 4th Armored division from 42 to 45. He racked up a bronze star and 2 purple hearts. And was awarded a silver star for previous actions much later when he was in his 80s. I was actually around to see him awarded his silver star. I was just a kid at the time. He made it through the invasion of North Africa, Siciliy, Italy, Belgium, Battle of the Bulge, Battle of the Rein, etc. He spent 2 years away from home. Returned just long enough to marry my great grandmother, spent 7 months at home before shipping back to Europe, 3 months later, my granddad was born the day before my Great Grandads birthday, he spent another 3 years overseas, staying with the 4th armored until the end of the war, then being transferred to MPs after the war. Turns out the army didn't need anti tank gunners to occupy Germany, they just needed guys to direct traffic and keep the peace. My great grandad, not tired of being a tough SOB, sitting in France in late 1947, he's 31 years old, he's a staff sergeant, he gets a task to find out why army supplies are going missing. Nothing vital like guns or ammo or trucks. But food stuffs. Particularly coffee and sugar. He figures it's locals since post war Europe saw heavy rationing and those things were non existent for most people outside the army and the wealthy elite. He decides to stake out the supply depot near the kitchen where all the dried goods are kept. Turns out, not locals. It's GIs. 2 kids, 19 years old, joined the army just weeks before the war ended. Now they're fed up with army pay and decide to steal coffee and sugar and a few other supplies and sell it to local French and German civilians for extreme prices. But now my Great grandad sees them, goes up to arrest the guys, and instead of surrendering, one of them pulls a handgun and shoots him right in the gut. The guys were later caught. It's unclear what gun they used or how they got it since they weren't officers nor MPs, so they should only have had service rifles in the armory when they weren't on duty. They sent my great granddad home and he spent 6 months in the hospital, getting to see my grandad for the first time at a little over 3 years old. He goes home, starts working at a grocery store and works hard putting both his sons through college and eventually retires, not saying anymore about the war than what he has to to satisfy people on veterans day and the like. Everything I know about him during the war I got from old army documents we found after he died. These men were a different breed.
@Per Capita It was actually on his head when he got hit. It shows during the first bombardment they get a spray of shrapnel hits him in the helmet and saves his life
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My uncle spent 4 years in WW2, including Omaha Beach and was never hit. He said he was running up the beach and people were dropping like flies. Some guys are just lucky.
@@Autobotmatt428 I am not sure, like a lot of men who went through that, he did not like to talk about it. I was surprised when he actually told me that story.
It really is crazy how that happens. How you can be under an incredible hail of fire and not get hit once, while the man right next to you gets his head taken off by a mortar shell. It's crazy
Total bummer what happened to Webb. Dude right off the bat fit in perfectly with the guys, brought in humor but also fully understood his part as the “new guy” and carried it with confidence
SantomPh the army has never been as close as it was back then as far as the brotherhood of men in combat. Trust me...i know. You try that now and the lieutenant would freak and talk about how he has more experience than the Sergeant who's been in for 5 or so years because he has a college degree and went to ranger school
You must encounter some real douchebag LTs. At some point LTs and their men should be close enough to where that familiarity is okay. I find it hard to believe some 22 year old thinks they are more experienced than a SFC who’s been in for much longer. Blows my mind
I mean, if you're going to die, that's probably the best way to go. He literally never felt or knew a thing, he was just there one second and gone the next. Pretty horrifying for the men who saw it, of course.
@@brucetucker4847 If you've seen All Quiet on the Western Front, the first thing the friends ask after knowing someone got killed was "was it quick"? It's horrifying to know the answer was often "No. Shrapnel to to stomach / punctured lung. He lasted 3 hours"
to confuse everything even more, there were two Webbs in the company, Harold Webb is the younger one Joe talks to and Kenneth Webb is the one he remembers. Both are killed in Foy.
Something I like is that when they're talking about getting shot in the ass, they have Perconte in the frame with Buck. Because he gets shot in the ass next. FORESHADOWING.
Cobb: D-day. After switching seats with Luz, he got shot on the plane and insisted to jump Wynn (Popeye): Bercourt Manor, and kept apologizing to Winters for screwing up Compton: Tried to tell his men to leave him behind. They carried him back using a wooden board for him to cling on to. Perconte: shot by sniper at Foy
This scene makes me miss my time in the military. Constantly teasing each other because there's nothing else to talk about. If you hate a guy at the beginning of a deployment, he's the most interesting at the end, because you haven't heard his stories 100 times.
The thing with the Bastogne part of the show, it did a good job of showing the diminishment of the company after being through something like that. With key people dying or changing from it like Toye, Guinere, Compton etc The Band went on but there was a heavy feeling that could never be the same as before.
Debs husband says a huge difference between The Band of Brothers and The Pacific is that while the German army was hot mustard the Marines were fighting against a fanatical enemy who would rather die than surrender. I salute any and all who served in either theater of war. My dad served in the army as a medic. He was tough as nails.
My grandfather served in the Army in WWII. He passed away when I was little so I never got a chance to sit down and talk with him about his life, and namely, his service during the war. All I know is that he was in the Pacific Theater and he was aircraft mechanic. These men were truly the “Greatest Generation” for a reason.. these guys had 10x more cajones than any man (including myself) of my generation could ever hope to have. It’s a shame that there aren’t many of these men left and their numbers are dwindling by the day, my generation could and should learn a thing or two from them..
0:33 This line is such a little thing, but integral to understanding how the veterans tried to help the replacements fit in. By the end of '44 presumably every veteran who'd been away from home for years on end had seen countless friends wounded or killed in action. As their friends disappear and new faces come in it's easy to want to avoid getting to know new people for feeling even more loss, but Toye doesn't do that. Right from the beginning Toye holds to the virtue that you can only trust the guy next to you, if he's a paratrooper. That's why he says, "Must've been someone I knew for two years, but forgot his face." He's telling that kid that regardless of experience he's a brother in arms.
He’s referencing David Kenyon Webster. He was part of their company from D-Day, Op. Market Garden and a Taccoa man. He got injured and was recovering during Easy’s time in Bastogne. He eventually returned, but was initially shunned for failing to come back and regroup with the company as many others did. (exampled by Joe Toye here)
HBO... I remember waiting for each episode... my grandmother (ww2) vet - navy was still alive ... My grandpa ww2 vet passed in 93 but I remember him well... he would constantly trip me with his cane... he served with Patton ... I believe he was trying to make me tough by tripping me lol... he was very happy to look at his grandson. He got to see me and that made him genuinely happy, I could tell.
Easy Company may have one of the best NCOs in the military. Makes you realize they're the ones who were keeping the men sane given all the hell been thrown at them.
Should mention that Webb (the one that Martin calls Peanut) is killed in the assualt on Foy. Very brief scene but Martin goes to grab him during the assault and his slumped over body leans back revealing that he's been killed. Very small scene but very interesting detail that I didn't catch until much much later.
You could really feel the deep bond between not just the actors. But the characters in this scene casually just talking about and making fun of each other. Getting wounded as if it were nothing.
+Nathan Peterson Yeah, but you know it's probably not long... I actually knew a guy that was in the same Battalion as Easy Co. at the same time. He died about two years ago. Good man.
Whenever I hear someone on the news or in other media say "Injured" instead of "wounded" I say "It's called wounded peanut, injured is when you fall out of a tree or somethin."
1:10 George Luz. The luckiest guy in Easy. In D-day on the plane we swapped seats with Cobb. Then Cobb got hit and missed the jump. At Carenten he and Lt Welsh ran the gauntlet while the guys behind them all got mown down by the MG42. Later a mortar shell landed on his and Lipton's foxhole but it was a dud.
These men who were part of the greatest generation. They got injured and they passed it off like a paper cut. Some of them got life-changing wounds but they still fought on until they were not able to fight anymore. I'm so proud of them
Private Allen. He was the guy in Episode 5 who was peppered by a grenade at the crossroads and was carried back to the barn by Liebgott. Winters then organized the bayonet charge. He typed his name on the report.
After reading Don Malarkey's autobiography, I just realised that George Luz's helmet is a reference to something that happened to Malark when the planes strafed their positions. I wonder why it got moved to Luz's helmet...
I actually once saw Richard Speight Jr. on set of a TV show I was a P.A. on. He wasn't a cast member though, he was just visiting a friend or something. I was professional however and didn't go up to talk to him.
Speaking of "nuts." My dad was an infantry company commander in New Guinea and the Philippines. One night on Luzon the company was moving to a new position when a Japanese Nambu machine gun opened up on them. Dad was hit with one bullet through the buttocks and another bullet nicked the scrotum. His first thought was just like Lipton's in the BoB episode in Carentan--is "everything" still there. He was really bleeding, but was evac'd over to Leyete to a field hospital. After some days, he went AWOL from the hospital, hitched a ride on a C-47 back over to Luzon to rejoin his company. What we see in BoB actually happened in infantry units all over the war. The Greatest Generation, indeed.
@@4325air Thanks for sharing that story of your Father's heroics. With guys like that "blocking" bullets with their balls how could we loose😁 It's men like your Father that have allowed me to live the life that I have and I could not be more grateful for all of them. I'm sure your Father was a hoot to be around 🤙
@@Jake4211- Thanks for the kind words, Jake. Another story. Dad was walking along a beach-head in New Guinea, where Navy and Coast Guard landing craft were unloading side-by-side. Suddenly a Japanese fighter (Zero? Oscar?) showed up, having sneaked through the Navy and Marine combat air patrol. The fighter flew low down the length of the beach-head, strafing everything, being pursued by a Navy fighter, both US and Japanese bullets spraying everywhere. As far as the eye could see, everyone was running for cover; chaos reigned. Dad dashed for a nearby Japanese naval gun turret that the Japanese had removed from a destroyer and installed as a shore defense gun. He dove through the side hatch and in so doing smacked his head on the hatch frame, severely lacerating his head and knocking him out. When he came to, he was covered in blood (lot of capillaries in the scalp!) and walked to an aid station. They sewed him up and applied a wound dressing. He qualified for his first Purple Heart, but he told the medics not to submit it. Dad figured that there were so many soldiers and sailors with more serious wounds that he felt embarrassed to receive the decoration. Not saying they were not deserving, but many, many men received the PH with wounds far less that Dad's. Again, the Greatest Generation.
