Reaction to Band of Brothers: Battle of Carentan 1944 

The 2 American mgs hit 48.men before a motar round hit the position making 3 more wounded

Can you continue this series please 🙏

Yes. As the war progressed the Germans noticed the Penetration of a PAK 36 round had very little effect on enemy tanks so they invented the “Stielgranate 41“, an HE Grenade, which you could stick on the canons barrel (as shown in the scene). Even though it's a cool detail, the scene doesn't really make sense.

@@kingstar0084 Yeah. And in the book version, Lipton got hit by a mortar round, not PAK 36.

If your interested forgotten weapons did a video on it.

@@thanakritpenbumrungvong9597 but wait, isn't a mortar a type of artillery?

@@SR-71BlackbirdA2 It's a launcher, if u know what a mortar is, the objective and purpose, you can't mistake both.

Makes sense, bring to the enemy towards you as they advance and get them in the open.

This particular german Regimen, the 6th Fallschirmjäger Regiment inflicted super heavy losses on the American 101st Airborne ever since the night landings, D Day itself, purple Hearth Lane and Carentan itseld, despite the final elements in Carentan being a rearguard while the main force withdrew to join the 17th SS Division

Ye they did have a really good fighting retreat but retreating doesn’t win the war lol

@@prodcross True, but without supplies of all sorts they didnt had much of a chance to suceed in the first place, the 6th FJR alone was out of ammo by the time of the rearguard action at Carentanand had to be fully supplied by the 17th SS when they arrived.

The Germans were good at it, but no one can beat the French

I loved the BIA series back in the day!

@@Orly90 we still play it trough LAN (radmin). Even have a discord where we host mp battles and events

Only BIA games I played were the mobile ones

@@deathmachineyt3254 BIA mobile sucks you should play the pc version

@@whatthehell4644 i know it sucks lol

i agree

@@Hdbdbdby I mean that simply isn't true. There were plenty of important operations after dday and the 101st Airborne was involved in a few of them including the Battle of the Bulge.

@@Hdbdbdby ? They didn't play a lead role because they were paratrooper forces while full strength divisions and armored forces began to play a greater role after the landings but the 101st played some pretty critical roles in the battle of the Bulge including at Bastogne.

@@Hdbdbdby Bastogne was a crucial strategic objective for any further German advance because it was a bottleneck for regional roads. You sound like one of those people who only knows about ww2 through youtube videos but thinks they actually know enough to be contrarian lol

@@Hdbdbdby So, a couple of things. First, if you thought this movie was saying the 101st won WW2 single handedly you are god awful at interpreting movies. Episodes after the Battle of the Bulge even have the repeating theme of how seemingly useless and unimportant their role felt. How you can say they exaggerate their later accomplishments when whole episodes, multiple episodes, are structured around the men dealing with fighting, or more often waiting around, in a war where their role now seems unimportant is so far beyond me that I don't have words to properly express how dumbfounded I am. Second, the size of the armed forces around you doesn't dictate how important your role is. While the Battle of the Bulge involved far more troops, you could also reason that it was a far more important operation than Market Garden largely due to its scale. Your argument here seems particularly myopic and uninformed. Third, it isn't just Market Garden that was dumbed down. Literally every engagement and operation was dumbed down. They had to compress about a year of activity of a pretty active company over the course of an enormous war while still giving characters arcs and portraying complex themes like good media does. You simply can't do all of this very well over the short amount of time you have with a miniseries, let alone the budgetary problems of doing so. Fourth, if you ever thought Easy company seemed too successful... it is because they were. Ambrose didn't set out to write his book, which the series is adapted from fyi, about some company that just got mowed over during the Battle of the Bulge or ripped to shreds during Normandy. He purposefully picked one of the most successful and active companies from within an already elite branch of the US military with an exceptional leader whose tactics are still studied at West Point. The reason E company in Band of Brothers seems so successful is because they were, by luck, by skill, by hardwork, by good leadership, by sacrifice, and probably by luck again they were successful and the power of hindsight let Ambrose pick a company that was so active and successful. They seem so important compared to many other companies because they were selected for that reason. Band of Brothers is a great war series and while it has its problems your criticisms aren't among them. This is particularly ironic given that you are watching a channel providing actual valid criticisms of the series. Is Band of Brothers perfect and 100% historically accurate? Of course not, no media ever is or can be. Is it one of the best attempts at historical accuracy while still maintaining the rules of good film storytelling like thematic expression, character development, and great cinematography? Of course it is. I still haven't seen any reasons to think you got your history from sources beyond youtube.

@@404Dannyboy man, now I wonder what that other guy has written, because for some reason all his comments have dissapeared lol.

Wouldn’t say legend

Theres a great book about them by Volker Griesser. They were the most elite German Regiment in Normandy and inflicted tremendous losses on Allied forces since D Day ( including night and glider landings) and continued to stall US forces until they were cut off and mostly destroyed in the Falaise Pocket. Their tenacious last stand in Normandy and namely Carentan earned them the nickname of "Lions of Carentan" Brave and elite soldiers each.

@@Levi_o_Lusitano surprised no one has hated on you for calling them brave

@@deathmachineyt3254 I just stated a fact, as they were brave so were the US 101st Airborne and others. Credit must be given where its due regardless of nation. Fallschirmjagers were regarded by the Allies(except the soviets) as very skilled, veteran and honorable foes and were respected by all echelons of allied command

@@Levi_o_Lusitano yeah but lots of people don't like that which really pisses me off. You give a compliment to the WW2 Germans and you instantly deemed a nazi

@@deathmachineyt3254 I know that very well. It happens all the time. The trick is not give a fuck about what they say. We for now still have freedom of speech and the truth must be spoken and taught regardless of peoples personal opinions.

Shut up with this cringe joke

@@ContactReal whatchu gonna do about it?

@@sacredeyeball2852 nothing at all. Just learn how to use your own brain.

@@ContactReal that’s what I thought. Plus Ik how to use my brain, who hurt you today, snowflake?

But this is 6 days after D-DAY

From what I found, the paratrooper shot that German out of frustration due to the fact that the US we halted at one of the houses and the Germans inside refused to surrender so they blown the house with a bazooka

They also murdered wounded German PoWs (beat them to death or drowned them in the marshes). It's ignored in the book (and films) though, as the author Stephen Ambrose hero worships the yank troops.

@@historylegends Standing orders were to execute every german prisioner of war up to the first week and in some cases it was done. However theres reports on both sides that captured american pows during the night landings were spared and when they captured germans back they didnt killed them. Volker Griesser s book has some of these reports on 1st hand accounts.

@@HO-bndk That’s happens in every countries respective tv shows, they don’t want to show the bad stuff their sides did there was a german ww2 miniseries and they didn’t show all of the atrocities a lot of the Wehrmacht committed but that’s because of marketing.

If you are saying that there wasn't any wounds there was some like when the dog company peeked and one of the guys got shot then he got moved back but most of the soldiers were shot be automatic guns like the MG42 and the MP40, the men didn't get shot once they got hit two or more times.

as a med student- thank you. People think that people who are shot die in 1/10th second. Thats just not true ( apart from getting shot to head ). Even with bullet in the heart you WILL live ( not for long tho ). You also will remain concious for at least few second, however the shock from getting hit will propably make you fall to ground just like we see in movies

@@mirabPL I've found (In my experience) a good number of people who are shot, don't seem to notice they are shot. Somtimes the adrenaline can be so high and the supersonic bullet can be so fast, your brain somtimes isn't quick enough to notice what's happened. I've found, most of the time people just go completely limp like that, it's because they've been hit in the spine.

Afghanistan '79 to '89 or '99 to 2021?

Simo Hayha?

I think band of brothers is the better series, but the book The Pacific ripped from "With the Old Breed" (Sledges book) is better than the Band of Brothers book in my opinion. So dark. I honestly have my doubts Easy Company would survive Japan if they had been sent there like they were supposed to. Just a very different type of enemy to deal with compared to Germans.

The Japanese Navy absolutely was the clear winner of the intergovernmental Civil War, the Japanese Marines and Army were absolutely more formidable. Pound for pound, they were best soldiers of the war because of such insane zealotry on their part.

I wish more media would show CNS injuries as well.

is there a movie/tv show you recommend?

@@historylegends the pacific ( the battle of peleliu episodes)

@HistoryLegends yes battle of sutjeska which talks about a Yugoslavian vs Germany battle,Air!Air!Air! It is about greco-italian war.The 11th day: Crete 1941,which is based from stories of people that lived and fought.But it is a movie documentary.(hear in balkans and generally no one cares to make a good movie or tv show,only patriotic movies exist)

I can add more but i think that the best is the guns of navarone which is based on allied comandos trying to destroy some naval guns that keep allied fleet away from agean

@@historylegends I recommend the RU-vid movie T-34.

Don't have to have been in a battle to know that suppression is tbf

One day maybe ;)

@@historylegends I'd love to watch a movie with you as director

why should someone worry?? wtf?

@@Moesmakendehakker658 I'm saying that I relate. Not that it matters or anyone should be worried

@@Moesmakendehakker658 I'm saying that I relate. Not that it matters or that someone should worry

I think BoB does a pretty good job of not portraying the Germans as stupid, other than a few instances. The Americans get effed up plenty

Only 3 Americans were killed in that battle, tho.

Even worse than hollywood tbh. The story behind 28 is real, but the portrayal is so bad also

@@boomerok4532 but not as bad as fury

@@carkawalakhatulistiwa yeah fury is total astronaut bullcrap

If you like fascism go join avoz you will get a re match ;)

Easy company was not the best.

That would never happen because they don't border one another. If countries are not neighbors other countries will have to be involved by default. It's like saying, who would win in a war Finland vs Serbia one on one.

Short war the Germans would win, long war the Americans would win. It’s like Germany against the Soviet Union, they lost to the soviets since it was a drawn out war, but the soviets got to hold on for so long instead of folding thanks to American ammunition, trucks and more. Without allied help things like Kursk would have been a German win and there would not have been a Soviet offensive.

@@anglishbookcraft1516 nah at this time Germany fought on 3 fronts Western/Eastern/Balkan @hrvatskiHig The US fought Irak not neighbors I think germany would have demolished the USA (Dont forget strictly 1v1) no allies involved

@@Zerbijan Without Romanian oil, the ore from Scandinavia and the armaments industry of the conquered countries, e.g. the Czech Republic, the outcome would be anything but clear.

Well, I would put my money on the Yanks. Don’t get me wrong, the Germans were an experienced fighting force, but the Americans had more industrial power, able to put out more munitions than Germany.