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Edited | Band Of Brothers | Episode 5

🕑 Added 2024-01-22 17:30:02 +0000 UTC

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John E McCormick

Tom Hanks directed this segment

celilmandir

When Guarnere comes back, he is indeed limping. It's not mentioned in the show, but he got injured in an earlier engagement, along the Rhine river. The front line was stretched over a mile and Guarnere had stolen a motor bike from a farm to be able to more easily move up and down the lines to direct and encourage his men, and he got shot in his right leg by a German sniper, fracturing the tibia. He got sent to a hospital in England. He didn't want to end up reassigned to another unit (which happened if you were away too long, sometimes), so he put some black shoe polish over his cast and tried sneaking out. He was caught, court-martialed, demoted to private, kept at the hospital, and when he was finally released, a couple weeks later after he repeatedly told the doctors he would just escape at the first opportunity, he was finally returned to Easy, but somehow the demotion papers never made it back to his command, so he was brought back in at his Sergeant rank. Also, to put in perspective, 3,600$ back then is equivalent to about 62,000$ today, that's why Malarkey was so upset not getting the chance to go blow all that up in Paris.

celilmandir

About the charge toward the German troops, with the red smoke, the show depicts Winters being so far ahead because the smoke kinda malfunctioned, but in reality, Winters was an exceptional athlete, and simply outran the rest of his guys, getting up the bank way before anyone else. After the engagement, Winters said that he felt like everyone on the German side was moving in slow motion compared to him. I always chuckle watching this episode when Sink tells Winters "don't worry about administration" after telling him he's moving up, when in fact the entire episode is Winters dealing with paperwork, seen from different angles. The train scene in Paris is by far one of the best depictions of PTSD I've ever seen in a show or movie. Though back then, it was only called "shellshock" or "battle fatigue". In the end scenes with Jimmy Fallon, he was so nervous that he was unable to properly drive the jeep, he needed 2 guys off-camera to push him from behind because he just couldn't get it into gear. The soldier he plays, Lt George Rice, completed several ammo trips as the Germans were encircling the whole place, and at some point his superiors had to order him to stop because it was becoming way too dangerous. Rice pretty much single-handedly supplied the 101st with the majority of weapons and ammo they used during the Battle of the Bulge.

adamisajoker .

SS were the true Nazi, if you saw them you killed on sight. They were pure evil.

SKR_13

OK I'll b honest. I'm only here because of one piece. That said, I'm interested to know, how anime are u girls planning on going. Highly suggest SAO.... Sry I found u on one piece, I subscribed because of band of brothers... still question remains...

BrickHowse

Fallon*

nordquist7516

Jimmy Kimmel?!

Art

Kiss rolling her eyes as she reads the title of the episode had me rolling. Great reaction

Osman Karaca

Belgian here, the Battle of the Bulge (which is the topic of the next two episodes and took place in the forests around Bastogne) was absolutely gruesome for both sides. Both sides suffered about 100,000 casualties (casualty = wounded + killed + captured) in just over a month. It was the nazis' last major attempt at turning the war. You can still visit some of the sites today and we have a WWII museum in Bastogne that provides an immersive experience with incredible sets en decors. I'm not from Bastogne but from what I've read online (based on American tourist testimonials), Americans are always greeted with open arms and hospitality by the townsfolk, as they understand the astronomical sacrifices that these men made to liberate the town. Although America can be a crazy place sometimes, especially from the outside looking in, I would literally not be here today if it wasn't for these men. We owe them and everyone else who fought the Axis everything.

CuddleBuddee

And another Oh yeaaaaa

CrazyKonty

And also... You can say "Well, didn't entire german military do that?"... the answer to is "not exactly". They main difference between Wermacht (german military - nowadays know as Bundeswehr) still kind of followed the rules of war and they could not just kill anyone. SS on the other hand was more of "military of the ideology". All members of SS were hardcore Nazis while Wehrmacht soldiers consisted of all different kinds of people. Not all german soldiers were Nazis. At the end of the war, some Wehrmacht soldiers even joined forces with USA soldiers to liberate some frenchmen from SS's captivity.

CrazyKonty

Hey, girls. So SS is a short for Schutzstaffel (defensive dettachment) which was originaly a military wing of NSDAP (Nazi political party that took over Germany in the 30s). Later on they were known as Hitler's personal guard and supervised over extermination of people in concetration camp. Why they were so feared (even among their own ranks) is because they only answered to Hitler and were basicaly given a free rein. For example if they wanted to execute someone just because they could.

John Thomas

So a few notes.....the easiest way to put it is that the SS are German troops that are more fanatical than the regular German Infantry. There are different units within the SS that had dfferent functions. Some were infantry, as Easy Company and the Allies faced in the Market Garden Operation, and some were guards at the concentration camps, as an example.....This German offensive was an attempt to drive through the Allied lines and re-take Antwerp, which was a deep water port. Up to this point most of the supplies were still coming all the way from Normandie as all of the other deep water ports the Allies had taken had been damaged severely by the retreating Germans. This will take you both up to the next episode. The next two are tougher......so be prepared.