Parachute Battalion (1941) BUDDY EBSEN 

Truth. 1971. All The Way.

Thank You for Your service Sir! :)

Bless you!

I saw everything different. No proper PLFs. One jumper at a time? No stick. No proper jump commands. Even the 250 foot towers only had two arms. The old parachutes T7’s sucked. Notice how the exhibition of how the parachute came out of the pack? That had a terrible opening shock! Nut buster! Now the parachute is in a bag so the suspension extended before the canopy came out and blossomed. Without the bag the opening was a violent shock. Keep your feet and knees together. I graduated in 76. No quick releases on the risers/harness must have sucked.

Because 'Benning' was a Confederate, they changed the name of Ft. Benning to Ft. Moore..."Woke" is busy laundering & re-writing American history. They don't teach History, or anything else worthwhile in schools anymore, anyway.👎🏿👎🏿

This movie was made before the war .

There is no 504 division. The 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment is within the 82nd Airborne Division.

The 101 st is its own division ( Screaming Eagles , just like the 82 nd is (All - Americans). Ones in Fort Bragg the other is Fort Benning . The 11th airborne division is in Alaska Elmendorf- Richardson, base the (Arctic Angels ). It’s funny the difference in these movies made right before the war and those that were made after .

@@donaldpiper9763Yes, we know all that. My comment was on the fact they called the 504th a division. It is a regiment, not a division.

Sand Hill or Harmony Church? My platoon had to drag all the beds and foot lockers into Sand Hill when they'd finished building it. No one had used those barracks before.

What is God's name? Hint. It's James.

Me too GODS NAME IS USED IN REVERENCE

@@jamesrobertsondaneke you.have pizza for a brain and soul

Thank you and your family. In my family. Uncle started in WWII flying P-38's over Europe. Then switched to the Navy. Saw air combat action in Korea. At 60 was called back to duty for Vietnam - retired Commander. Oldest brother - Navy. His two sons Air Force, oldest sister - lieutenant United States Army, other sister - Chief Petty officer Navy, other brother. Air National Guard, me Air Force.

Sir , Thank You an your family !. There are many here on YT that what there dads , uncles , Etc. did in battles . But there are few who follow there service . Bless all the unknown an unclaimed hero

@@tracyjamestavares3255 as well, cheers.

Please look up Rakkasan Teas. It is a company founded by a couple of American airborne vets that buys land in post-conflict countries (Nepal, Sri Lanka, Rwanda, Laos, Vietnam, Colombia, etc), sets up tea plantations and then hires local veterans (when possible from both sides of the conflicts) to run them. Not only is it a great idea, their teas, both green and black, are amazingly delicious.

Oh my knees, oh my ankles, oh my back. Would not trade any of it. Some of the best days of my young life.

@ David Aston Real life scare you? It must. A movie about military NEEDS to have some cussing and fucking. Because that's what we do!

That was because there was a legion of decency back then that monitored movies.

Yes a good clean war is REAL ENTERTAINMENT isn't it?

The problem is Devil runs the world. He is lier and murderer. This is the reason why liers and murderers feel good while righteous persons are persecuted. This is the reason why Hitler got the power, but Christ was executed as "blasphemer" and "rioter" by denunciation of clergy. This is the reason why the whole world is Sodom. That's why we've got the Gospel about the God's kingdom. Jehovah would put everything in order. The dead will be resurected and we'll meet our loved ones again! :-)

AATW!

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Not only France, but Belgium, Holland, Italy and many others. There were probably even some Germans. I did the 70th anniversary of d-day, an we took the same route as the band of brothers took in the movie. One of my favorite sites was Mer St Eglace where John Steel's parachute hung from the church steepel and the German soldiers shot at him. He was shot in one of his feet and played dead til they left. John Steel was from Metropolis, Massac, Illinois and is buried im a cemetery there.

@@petepiotrowski Sainte-Mère-Eglise. Geez, no one could find it from your inane spelling.

Pete Piotrowski there was lots of Germans some left and invented atomic bombs others stayed and where killed or put in prison

I love how the in France the people take very good care the cemeteries. Ty my mom lost 2 of her brothers in France.

It is noce to see people appreciate and Rembers those who sacrificed all.

Sehr gut

Great video of him dancing and looking like a young Jed Clampett ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-01mMV6mN1hU.html

That is the great thing about You Tube , little bits of history would be lost without it,

He was a famous dancer at this point, doing a little acting.

Well he was younger than that. Started in films in 1936.

I had a Civics teacher in High School who was at the Battle of the Bulge. He was with the 101st. Had a great story about getting dropped far from the battle, having to walk a long way to get to the fight, and passing "green" troops who'd ditched their weapons walking the other way!!!

Currahee

Great movie. This was made before any of the WWII drops. Recognized Roy Lindquist’s name on the set of orders. He was with the 82nd later. Believe he was a Regimental Cdr at one point. Many of these guys in the 501st would later be part of the 509th Parachute Infantry Bn. They made a 1600 mile flight from England to jump into North Africa as part of Operation Torch.

Good ol 42 in 72 still sweating too

I was in 42nd Co. Last Building by the street, it was across from the little Hotdog/ Hamburger stand they called it "the choke & Puke" 😝

search Captain January

He danced with Shirley Temple in a movie around 1936.

You are the smart one!!! GO NAVY!!!

GO NAVY!! BEAT ARMY!!

Buddy Ebsen? Started as a dancer and I believe he danced with Shirley Temple in a movie. Was also the first Tin Man in Wizard of Oz. Something about the silver paint they used caused him to be hospitalized so he was replaced. Then sidekick George in Walt Disney's Davey Crockett series all before becoming Jed.

@@europeon2wheels89 Thanks. I was about to share that poisoning episode. Ray Bolger was a good alternative. My mother saw the movie in the cinema when it was new.

@@europeon2wheels89 Pretty versitle guy and he was also "Barnaby Jones". Can't forget that one.

This is a story about a man named Jed, the poor mountaineer barely kept his family fed. Then one day he was shooting at some food, and up from the ground came a bubbling crude. Oil that is, black gold, Texas Tea. Well the first thing you know ole Jed's a millionaire. The kin folk said "Jed, move away from there. California is the place you ought to be." So they loaded up the truck and moved to Beverly ... Hills that is. Swimming pools, movies stars. The Beverly Hillbillies. [and that's from memory].

@@petersanders5321 No, I can't, but I keep trying.

Thanks for watching PizzaFLIX. May the Sauce be with you. 🍕

Hey.... There is still some Airborne Soldiers running wild. 😎🇺🇸🍉🎹

Yes, but there is more chaos in Paris than when Hitler's Nazis were there. Ain't life a bitch!

@@thomasritter3159 Yes, the US invasion of Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia, and Afganistan sure produced a lot of Muslim immigrants.

Well that has been ruined by Putin as of March 2022.

Well .... not so much in SE Europe in recent years.

Sarajevo hosted a Winter Olympics, then became a war zone.

Nice memories 👌

Yep - like trump, nugent, kid rock, mcconnel, lahren, and those who wear it as swim suits, sweat bands, dew rags, and fly the confederate flag with it.

better a commie (the one who f u during WWII) than a bloody confederate hater neo- Nazi war monger who's still flyin' and celebrate the symbols of losers.

Where's General Sherman? He's badly needed to get traitor Trump and his bums out of the White House

Andrew Jackson was a Southerner, neither a Commie nor a Socialist and was responsible for the Cherokee Removal act and the Trail of Tears for all the rapes and 6,000 deaths, and the stealing of Cherokee and Choctaw lands. Loads of other Politicians and Presidents who committed Genocide, every man is created equal unless he isn't White. The money that was "compensation" for the Cherokee land was used to pay the troops who removed Cherokee and other tribes who committed the atrocities. What was left over was put into Southern business stocks. The Conservatives of the SCOTUS invalidated the Voting Rights Acts of 1965 and currently voted in support of the disenfranchise the Lakota voters of North Dakota from voting as the US Government will only mail send to PO Boxes on reservations and ND State Government won't allow PO Boxes as addresses for voter identification, or I can go on about Nevada, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida you UN-American Conservatives in the RNC have been pulling dirty tricks to get votes in violation of court injunctions repeatedly from 1980 to 2013 (when the injunction was lifted). If Trump and the Republicans are so American and Patriotic why do they repeatedly attempt and succeed at voter suppression, do you hate the Constitution and its Amendments so much? Because neither the current president or the Supermajority in Congress gives a rat's arse about the US Constitution. You reply to Street Gato is like a little bird, tweets loudly but is full of sh!t! Sherman was justified in his scorch and burn policy, against traitors to the United States of America. The Confederacy lost. Get over it, Snowflake.

"Get an Editor"=Deflection. The Founding Father's of the USA from the South wanted the non-voting slaves counted (to increase their representation in the House of Representatives in total when apportioning Representatives, as well as Presidential electors and taxes. The Three-Fifths Compromise was proposed by James Wilson (born in Scotland lived of PA) and Roger Sherman of CT, who were both delegates for the Constitutional Convention of 1787. The Southern States would not have joined under the Constitution if slavery was abolished. Some South Carolina hot heads at the Citadel fired on US Flag during James Buchanan administration in December of 1860. Although it was not unconstitutional to secede from the Union, South Carolina's hostile aggression was an act of war. "Old Doughface" President James Buchanan did nothing, although from PA his sympathies were with the South. Likewise Confederate leaders ordered an attack on Fort Sumter, on April 12, 1861. Your "War of Northern Aggression" seems to have had two shots fired before the Union Response; ironic. If America is falling apart, then the likes of Mitch McConnell, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, and the Koch Brothers, seem to an active part as well as politicians attempting to disenfranchise voters. I wouldn't count the USA out quite yet, it has survived worse than Trump's cabal. Have a nice day, now that I fed the troll; I hope you live to see the day when you will eat your words.

My concern would be that first step out the door ........ would my stomach stay where it is suppose to be.

The God saves people by preaching (1st Corinthians 1: 21). He has nothing to do with war. The problem is Devil runs the world. He is lier and murderer. This is the reason why liers and murderers feel good while righteous persons are persecuted. This is the reason why Hitler got the power, but Christ was executed as "blasphemer" and "rioter" by denunciation of clergy. That's why we've got the Gospel about the God's kingdom. Jehovah would put everything in order. The dead will be resurected and we'll meet our loved ones again! :-)

That was our way too PLF

He was a dancer before he got into acting

Jed was my neighbor in high school - lol big in our Newport Beach sailing community.

Weeeeeell Doggies.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-01mMV6mN1hU.html He was slated to play the Tin Man in Wizard of Oz but the aluminum paint turned out to be very toxic and he was hospitalized.

Weeeeeell Doggies.

Actually he was George. Fess Parker's Davey Crockett sidekick on the Walt Disney series before striking oil.

@@snakechrmr6398 And he was the first Tin Man on Wizard of Oz before that.

I guess they didn't give the haircuts, recruit soldiers wore pajamas, and knew how to march the first day on the job. I would have liked to have been in that army. could be that's why we lost in vietnam, they were too mean to us in basic training.

@@johngillon6969 I had family that served in the 1915-1945 timeframe and the training during the 1920-1941 period was radically different than what most of us went through during the Cold-War-Era. I was surprised at how unprepared my relatives were when they had to face the Axis when we entered the War. They had little-or-no equipment or funds to fully support training. For example, some Marine Corps Reservists were sent into Theatre who had never been to Boot-Camp and had to be trained en-route and in-unit.

@@JDVassar Why we got creamed in first outing in North Africa vs the Vichy French et als.

Yeah there were a lot of developments, innovations, changes, and improvements in a short time. Inventions, equipment, weapons, training, tactics, etc.. Tank warfare wasn't much thought of until Patton kept pushing it. Then look what we did to the Iraqis. Biggest tank battle ever. So many things were developed. Air tactics, dog fighting, bombing runs, sub hunting, use of tanks, not to mention nuclear bombs. All in 3 1/2 years. Pearl Harbor to Nazis surrender (or 3 3/4 years to Japs surrender).

+torry marrs and some did it with a parachute.

That's the AIRBORNE way!

Why, didn't they ever talk to you?

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Buddy Ebsen was a dancer before he was an actor. Cracks me up to see how rubbery his legs look dancing in this movie.

Yes, and your grand children will say the same about you!

AIRBORNE!

Yes, He still was kind of folksy on Barnaby Jones, I've been watching that again too!

I guess he was about 32 or so. He was born Apr 2, 1908 and this was made around 1941.

Say what?

What "hero"? "20 years later" when? 21 + years. Man, did Buddy Ebsen age in 21 years. Commerce Bank was owned by Mr. Drysdale. Well, at least he was President of the Bank. Perhaps I am assuming that he owned it also.

Yeah I guess the chutes were different back in those days. I guess they fell fast and landed hard. Why they had to train to time the touch down, and to roll, to avoid injury on impact. No glider chutes back then.

@@aspenrebel I had some rough landings even with steerable s & Para Commanders as well as a couple of difficult ones with wings. It is all behind me now for sure.

Colonel Kurtz ?

By the time Vietnam was ending they took a lot of stoners.

I spent over 11 years on jump status out of more than 27 in service. I can honestly say that yes, they do take drunks.

No he was in the coast guard

Spent a bit as a heroin addict too, junkie.

@@worddunlap No!Uncle Jed chipped?I never heard of that one!