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Band Of Brothers E2 - Day Of Days (Uncut Reaction)

🕑 Added 2025-04-25 19:29:23 +0000 UTC

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CutterKilgore

The things around their necks that they removed after their parachutes were inflatable life jackets in case of a water landing, I believe. Also, you probably gathered, it's called "Day of Days" in reference to the invasion that the episode depicted, which is referred to as D-Day. It's June 6th, 1944. The day the allies launched the full scale European invasion. Many people still honor D-Day here in the states every 6th day of June. You're not far off about the "suicide mission" comment. D-Day was a numbers game. By 1944, allied forces hugely outnumbered the Germans who were entrenched in occupied France. But the Germans knew the terrain and were heavily fortified. The Allies basically just threw wave after wave at them, from the sea, the beaches, and the air, and lost many lives in the process. In some of the most-heavily defended areas the casualty rate was 80-90 percent. Like at Omaha and Utah beaches. Films like Saving Private Ryan depicted that. My own grandfather was a Staff Sergeant in the Pacific theater (against Japan). HBO followed Band of Brothers with another miniseries called The Pacific which follows the same format but depicts the specific front of the WWII that he fought in. As a child, I had one of his old Army ammo boxes exactly like the one in this episode that they used to cook their food in. I used it for storing my toys and crayons.

Pete Finch

We're gonna have to give the guys a primer on the US Marines before they start the Pacific, as jarheads get sensitive about stuff like people ever calling them "soldiers" instead of marines because they never want to be confused with being in the Army 😂

Bill B.

Guarneres brother was almost definitely killed by the Germans. By D-Day, Italy actually had switched sides in the war and and Mussolini had been overthrown and killed, but the Germans still retained about half of the Italian peninsula.