Episode 3
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Thanks for the heads up!
Spent the last week watching entire series.
Must be 8 or 9th time
Extraordinarily well done
“Hi Ho Silver!”
One of the better ones.
Schwimmer should have received an Emmy for his portrayal of Herbert Schobel. Schwimmer is insufferable as Schobel—as he was meant to play him, I’m sure. But he is the key to binding the audience with the other main characters that go on to their night drop on D-Day.
I saw it on HBO when it first aired. I bought a copy of this great series too. I enjoy it.
Most have passed on now, so the prices are a little higher, but still a good thing to have.
Can they possibly have more commercial breaks?
I read the book years ago. When someone urged me to watch the miniseries, I stated that I didn’t subscribe to HBO and never would (mostly pornography).
So I bought the DVD set.
I was hooked.
I enjoyed “Band of Brothers” so much, I took the Steven Ambrose Tours “Band of Brothers” tour. We met in Atlanta, visited Camp Toccoa (now an industrial park), climbed Mt. Currahee (in a van), flew to England, took a ferry to Cherbourg, and followed in the footsteps of “Easy Company.” One of our guests was Pvt. Ed Mauser, 2nd Platoon, Easy Company. I have a photo of Pvt. Mauser standing in a foxhole in the Ardennes. Near the end of the tour, we had lunch at Hitler’s “Eagles Nest.”
It was one of the greatest experiences of my life.
Sadly, Pvt. Mauser passed away shortly after we came home.
IMO, the best series ever filmed.
Thank you for heads up for the best series. Tom Hanks and Spielberg let the writers and producers do justice to these heroes and the Stephen Ambrose account.
My BOB touring friend just last week said, about this threat of takeover by globalist elitists, that we were holding the line like Easy Company in Bastogne.
Said Albert Blithe died of his wounds in 1948. Wrong. Died in 1967 as a Master Sergeant.
The more I watched this the more I’m starting not to like the series.
For instance
What was the purpose of the Lt. Dyke episode? He is made so over the top incompetent it’s beyond ridiculous. If you read up on him his portrayal was totally false. He previously won medal(s) for valor and he didn’t freeze in battle because he was scared, he “froze” because he took an enemy shot to the gut.
Even if true and he really was like that, so what, what’s the point of making a whole episode just to smear someone who died in the line of duty 50+ years ago? It really doesn’t progress the story. I can only image how his family must be sad and horrified seeing their relative they lost portrayed in such a way.
And don’t get me started on the last episode, it’s obvious Hanks and Speilberg just couldn’t resist showing American soldiers as rampaging thugs and murderers.
Excellent series of true stories. An even better, imho, later series by Hanks... The Pacific- is deep down into the horror of war, the emotional tearing apart of Patriots. Includes the heart rending story of the Buy Bond Iwo Jima flag raisers,and how they ended up. And nothing... nothing can surpass the wonderful, and terrible story of John Basilone, USMC Medal of Honor. Semper Fidelis, John and all of the unbelievably brave Marines (yes and soldiers) who fought inch by inch in deep jungle against a fanatic suicidal enemy.
The European Theater is easily related to- because the fight was against reasonably similar US vs. European “cultural” and country backgrounds (many of US soldiers descending more recently from European countries immigrated/naturalized into US citizens). The Pacific was a massive area of theater of war many times that of Europ-and General Douglas MacArthur the CINCPAC- a genius, along with ADMs Nimitz, Spruance, King, Halsey and Wainwright, Ed King, and the finest of the USMC (Good Night Chesty, whereever you are!).
The entire array of leadership- bravery, guts, risktaking and sacrifice (many dying on the bridge or in the front lines).
“The Pacific” should have been longer justified by the huge area that had to be retaken— and much longer than the Brothers in Arms (interpose a map of Europe with the US- to see the much smaller distances). It could have picked up in the middle with those who came from Victory in Europe to planning the invasion of Japan- and who were spared by the Atomic bombs.
When one considers that the Sino-Japanese war had been going on for 4 years before Pearl Harbor attack brought US in— a very long war, with unique horrors. God Bless the Memory of all the Veterans of the Pacific and Europe.