>D-Day
>no Band of Brothers thread
Change into your PT gear, we're running Currahee.
PIVOT
>americans claiming victory in World War 2
yeah, thanks for providing resources. You were literally just a greengrocer towards the end of it
>>70532720
>implying Brits aren't garbage strategists and we didn't bail you out
>>70532720
>>70532818
Now the two fat countries will fight for an entire thread.
Boring.
History Channel used to show a Band of Brothers Marathon on June 6th.
Today they're showing Rome shit in preparations for the Barbarian Rising series. Last Stand of the 300 (even though it isn't Roman...), Rome: Engineering an Empire, Caligua: Reign of Terror, and the movie Gladiator.
Can't say I mind the lineup....
>>70532720
>it's a euroqueer episode
Not one of my favorites, desu
>>70532656
He literally did nothing wrong
>>70533039
He cut the fence.
>>70533039
>did nothing wrong
>prefers spagetti as his 'go-to' dish
OOO A QUARTER
>>70533058
Only because some little shit was impersonating an officer.
>>70533039
Didn't salute Major Winters
What was Cobb's fucking problem?
>put Fassbender in your TV show
>give him 5 lines of dialogue over the course of 10 episodes
Who came up with this shit?
>>70533039
Contraband goes in all fields
>Tried watching this some years ago.
>Jewish commander trains a group of good goyim to kill Hitler.
No wonder this was so shilled when it came out.
>>70532656
What is this?
>>70534082
But the army pretty much cucks him before he goes off to war. The shitjew has to stay home training priests and newsmen.
>>70534082
They literally killed WTC because this aired two days before 9/11.
>>70532656
They're are out there, let's just get em'.
I've never watched Band of Brothers. Was thinking about starting it tonight on Netflix.
I've heard good things about it. Am I in for something good?
D-day was so fucking over done in the years after Saving Private Ryan came out.
If you got all your info from the TV, you'd think WWII consisted of storming the beaches on D-Day, and then the Bulge, and that was it.
>>70532656
Band of Brothers would have been KINO except fo the appearance of this faggot.
>>70534129
MILLIONS OF PEACHES PEACHES FOR ME
MILLIONS OF PEACHES PEACHES FOR FREE
LOOK OUT
>>70534207
Yes, it quite literally is the best I have ever watched. War series or not, it is pretty awesome.
>>70534242
>Jimmy Fallon, who had a brief appearance as 2nd Lt. George C. Rice in episode 5, revealed on his talk show that even thought his appearance involved driving military Jeep, he did not know how to drive a stick shift. Fallon stated that during filming the Jeep he was driving had to be hand pushed by crew members. Sound was later added to make it appear that he was driving.
Top kek
>it's a Speirs saves the day episode
>>70534416
In his defense, I bet that period Jeeps are a bitch to drive even if you know how to drive stick.
>>70534416
lmao what the fuck
>how many of us Brothers will they expect in the wreckage, sir?
>>70534416
are you kidding me americucks
>>70534576
Essentials are the same, shifting pattern is different.
Reverse is where a modern first gear is, first in second, second where third is, and the final third gear is far right and down, so reverse.
>>70534930
Hey, don't blame all of us for the pussies on the coasts
Most folks in the midwest can drive stick
>>70534570
and then he ran back
BASED
Who else would follow this glorious bastard to hell and back?
>>70534129
Why was Simon Pegg playing an American?
>>70532859
Shut up faggot I swear to god ill nuke your dumbass into nonexistance
>>70534416
hhahahahahhaHAHAHAHAHAHAAH
![fallon[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/k11NGCt.jpg "fallon[1].jpg")
>>70534416
>>70534416
kek, that's got to be one of the most unmanly things I've ever heard
>>70533039
He was a fantastic trainer but a poor leader. Several Easy Company men have said that Sobel's merciless training saved their lives.
>>70534416
You are on latrine duty Private Fallon, for being such a faggot.
>>70538811
This is true.
Why did they call him Shitpost Norman?
>>70538912
He ended up making colonel. Guess getting kicked up stairs isn't so bad.
>>70532656
Reminder that the real Sobel attempted suicide, failed but blinded himself in the process, spent the next 17 years in a VA hospital and didn't have a funeral.
>>70536186
absolute fucking madman
>the church scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_kiJryvmZY
Rust on the buttplate hinge, Private Bullshit. REVOKED.
>>70537458
Why did he and Nix not have their insignia on their helmets, but most of the officers in the series did?
>>70539254
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtwftQUxqpM
>>70539142
Why was he so handsome?
>>70539810
I like to believe that Tiger saw Spiers coming and got the fuck out of his way out of fear
>>70532656
why did they listen to this arrogant jew for so long? at least they got redpilled in the end.
>>70532951
I got really high yesterday and watched an entire hour of roman sewer engineering.
>>70539411
He was the highest of test
>>70540061
They wanted to complete basic training and become paratroopers.
UNAGI
>>70539113
>Sobel shot himself in the head with a small-caliber pistol.[9] The bullet entered his left temple, passed behind his eyes, and exited out the other side of his head. This severed his optic nerves and left him blind.
What a noob.seriously though that's pretty depressing desu
>>70533844
He was just a dick my man. We all know someone like that.
>>70534786
Have we started the overlord?
>>70539810
>that German arty commander pointing and yelling
every time
>>70538811
And yet none of them who were alive back them thanks to him didn't go to his funeral
CONTRABAND
>>70539810
>oh shit finally
>no wait wrong place
Malarkey, that's slang for BANE? isn't it?
>>70541262
None of them didn't go?
>>70534207
best mini series ever made
>>70538255
It was a small part, for scenes filmed in the UK, makes sense to cast an up-and-coming local
besides he dies in episode 2, so does it really matter?
>its a Dike single handedly saves everyones asses episode
>>70539354
i think because as the war progressed, standard issue helmets only had rank insignia on the back of the helmet, so that the enemy couldn't pick off officers that easy
>yrw he finds his nurse waifus bandana
>>70532656
Loved the charge Winters did at The Island in Holland. Fuck me that guy just went in alone
So how does the Pacific stack up for you guys?
>>70543185
The story is definitely there, just didn't have the same production quality IIRC, it's been a long time.
One of the books it's based on, Helmet for my Pillow, is really damn good.
>>70543185
Ehhh. It's told differently than BoB. Focus on three characters (which i didn't find interesting at all besides Sledge). It didn't captivate me like BoB, but i think it's because the whole tale of BoB is a really amazing one. Their was, pardon my expression, more "run of the mill".
But the Pacific did succeed in showing the brutality of the pacific war. At times I wanted to stop watching because i was disgusted.
>>70541262
>>70541431
meanwhile 3000 people attended the guy who was in charge of handing out candy bars
>>70534222
Thats because thats all the Americans did.
The Pacific theatre is another story, but in Europe, the Americans only invaded, to prevent the Soviets from conquering all of Europe. Germany was already done.
>>70542898
used to fap to that scene all the time.
>>70543288
You didn't like Basilone?
I really enjoyed him, and Sledge's sarge or whatever, the guy in charge of his platoon. And that old fucker that breaks during the fighting. That's all I can really remember of that show, that and Basilone, and the great performance of the marine commander William Sadler. Hard to believe he was the grim reaper in Bill and Ted 2.
>>70543288
>At times I wanted to stop watching because i was disgusted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bZ2CiACbmM
>>70543288
>But the Pacific did succeed in showing the brutality of the pacific war. At times I wanted to stop watching because i was disgusted.
You're on 4chan and you don't watch mexican cartel videos skinning people alive for fun?
Get the fuck out.
>>70532656
There are so many fags on this board
and because of them I thought you were unironically stuttering while typing with that '''D-Day''
fuck sake
>>70543288
Sledge and his story line were the only good things about the series.
Basilone was a one dimensional character.
Lecky was an emo bitch,
>>70538255
there was a bunch of actors in this before they made it big
>Sgt Ford from the walking dead
>scott grimes (steve in american dad)
>even fucking jimmy fallon for a part in bastogne
there was when big cast of b listers and A listers were a thing. remember black hawk down?
>>70543185
not as good but not terrible
jumping around to three different guys didnt make you connect with anybody like you did with BOB, and they wasted time on love stories and personal lives. And every episode was them beating us over the head with PTSD and people killing themselves and going crazy like Europe was a cake walk
![1405613420526[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/oAnQO10.png "1405613420526[1].png")
>>70541304
>filename
So is the third series about the Air War in Europe still in dev hell?
Literally perfection: The show
>>70542679
I never understood that scene. Why didn't they all go at the same time? Why were they so autistic about having to wait for the smoke?
>you will never be half the man that Dick was
I don't understand Nixon, is he just an administrative guy? He's always around but he just seems to chat with Winters then go off screen again.
>>70544188
Just rewatched Black Hawk Down on Memorial Day. Still can't believe the cast in it.
Also makes me wish Tom Sizemore didn't completely lose his shit.
Grandpa were you a big guy during the war?
>>70545046
He's an intelligence officer. He's meant to relay information to the higher ups.
>>70545046
He's an intel officer or something I think, kind of like NPH in Starship Troopers.
>>70545050
>Tom Sizemore didn't completely lose his shit
I really liked him in SPR. Too bad he really went off the deep end.
>>70545067
>I didn't get to bring back friends
>A lot of loyalty for conscripted guns
>Perhaps we were wondering
>Why they'd shoot at us before jumping out of a plane
>Or if the plane took off
>would we die
>it was extremely painful
>they were all big guys
>for me
>>70539113
Reminder that without his training they wouldn't have become the fucking legends they did.
>>70532702
UNAGI
>>70542679
Fuck Speirs! That scene is what confirmed Dick was the baddest of asses
>>70532656
>M-m-m-major
>Captain Sobel!
>Winters' face when
I felt bad for Buck Compton. I liked that guy.
>>70532656
Actors from Band of Brothers that people may not have noticed:
>Simon Pegg
>Michael Fassbender
>Tom Hardy
>>70547524
>James McAvoy
>Jimmy Fallon
>>70545162
Watched that today too. He was really made for those type of roles, it's a shame. The way he walks around normal in BHD when everyone else is behind cover is insane but badass.
>Tfw am always conflicted about the feelings the show gives me and patriotism/nationalism/pride it gives me even though I had nothing to do with ww2 and I didn't choose to be born here
>>70533039
Didn't he fabricate a charge against Winters? That's lying and attempting to miscarry military justice.
He said he telephoned Winters where he was quartered, and Winters said he was quartered with a family that had no telephone.
are there any good WW1 movies?
>inb4 Lawrence of Arabia
>>70547579
>that scene in Saving Private Ryan when he just ends up throwing his helmet cause he's out of ammo
Born to play bad ass Sergeant type roles 2bh
>>70543335
like the big guy's eh?
>>70545162
Last thing I saw him in was Company of Heroes. Really fucking great movie if you like getting fucking pissed at inaccuracies that make your inner /k/ and /his/ go fucking insane from the anger. God I was an autistic wreck by the end of that piece of shit fuck that movie.
>>70538255
Wasn't he a tank commander in the episode about Market Garden?
Fuck I really need to watch this series again.
>>70539055
Huh, always thought he was killed at Foy.
>>70538255
>>70538255
>Why was Simon Pegg playing an American?
UK laws.
It was filmed in the UK. UK requires you to use UK (now EU) actors unless you can show that you have to use a Non-EU actor for a role. That is why americans are limited to major roles in band of brothers, and part of the leeway they had was the main guy (Lewis) is a UK actor.
>>70532656
>no Band of Brothers thread
I was watching it all day
YOU THREW
MY SANDWICH
AWAY?
>>70541431
You didn't hear?
Sobel tried to kill himself after the war, but all he did was sever his optic nerves and made himself blind. 17 years later he died of malnutrition at a VA hospital. No memorial services were held.
>>70549063
The TV series indicated that, but he lived.
If no one else is going to say it, I just will. You're welcome, Europe (and rest of the world, for that matter).
t.America
>>70543312
What country are you from? Be honest.
>>70538255
There were a bunch of British actors in BoB. Also Tom Hardy and Fassy were in it too.
>>70534207
pile of dogshit.
>>70549380
That was his daughter doing, who hated him. Most of them didn't know he died till long after.
Webser went to harvard
Speirs - fought in Korea and Vietnam, ran the prison that kept all the nazis
Randleman sold Caterpillar equipment
Carwood Lipton became a leader in the glass business
Buck Compton - California Court of Appeal judge who served as the lead prosecutor in Sirhan Sirhan's trial for the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
>>70549605
Webster went to Harvard before the war. Post-war he was a reporter out in california.
Ever read his memoirs, Parachute Infantry? Real good.
>>70534207
generation kill is better
>>70549669
He didn't finish college prior to the war (that why he was a Private and not a commissioned officer) and finished his harvard degree after the war.
>>70539810
this never happened in irl
>>70545302
Underrated
>>70549753
Actually it did, though the Germans never shot at him. I company didn't have a radio and he ran twice though the German lines, once to get I company doing what they needed to do, and then back to the main attack group.
Germans never did fire at him.
>>70549733
I thought you were implying that after leaving the army he was accepted into harvard, since you were listing off post-war accomplishments for everyone else.
>>70549888
Well he did go to harvard, and became a writer. Sorry I wasn't clear that it was "Finishing harvard"
>>70549753
The major historical inaccuracy was that the reason why Dike was relieved of his command was that he stopped due to himself being hit in the shoulder and unable to continue to fight.
Speirs did run though the lines at foy twice on January 13, 1945.
>tfw no qt3.14 Bastogne gf
>>70550068
Also, he shot his own Sargent on around D-day. And most likely machine gunned German POWs
>>70549864
>>70550068
I don't know if you actually know what it means to run through the enemy lines in a battle, battles are large, like kilometers large, full of empty firing to some shit you don't even see
i'm really sure it wasn't like the series portrait it, probably he moved as a small team or alone without much support encircling the zone or some shit
>>70550098
That's reality for you. No made-up Bastogne cuties inserted so you can do a bit of romance in an episode without making it gay.
>>70538255
>questioning a brit playing an American side-character when the main character is a brit playing an American
Really, nigga?
>>70549399
Yeah that's why I thought so. The show heavily implies that he is killed during the assault. Strange
>>70534242
I literally expected him to start chuckling as soon as he appeared on screen
>>70550297
Why in gods name would the Commander be poking his head out of the tiger in clearly close range, especially in a fuking town, cmon mate
>>70532859
>implying Moose didn't save them all
>>70543298
Who?
>>70550626
> 6:32:13
This shit always cracks me the fuck up, like you are trying to convince someone that Hitler wasn't that much of a bad guy, then you link them almost 7 hour documentary and be like this will explain everything lmao
>>70550318
Read the documentation and you will be surprised anon. BoB is not 100% accurate but the Speirs run part is surprisingly truthful, he ran past both tanks and artillery crews. Its a well documented event anon.
what was this they were playing?
>mfw naziboos bashing the brits and americans
>implying the western allies could have done jackshit without the USSR
And this is coming from a burger.
>>70548953
>>70550814
t. pleb, who is wasting his time watching dumb series that are tens of hours long.
>6:32:13
That is why it has 15min parts.
>>70550646
brit tankers were the reason Market Garden failed. I'm not memeing. From what the allies could control, the brit tankers were the failing point of it all.
>>70550646
So he could see. The view inside the tanks for tigers was near useless.
>>70539254
Idk why but that scene is always the one that stuck with me from the series.
>>70551023
Market garden had many modes of failure.
>>70550968
The pure manpower carnage on the eastern front is depressing. 30 million dead.
I am well aware the Russians bled them dry for us. Of course, the Russians would of not won if not for american Lend-lease.
If one of the three powers (UK, USA, and Russia) didn't put in the effort, both military and industrial, the Nazi's would of won. America's biggest input was industrial, British was bases, and Russia was the slavic horde.
![abramscws[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/gMGQw3A.jpg "abramscws[1].jpg")
>>70551041
>The view inside the tanks for tigers was near useless.
Thats is not true at all, I guess if you compare it to modern day tanks then you have a point
I can't take David Schwimmer seriously.
>>70551167
>didn't put in the effort, both military and industrial, the Nazi's would of won
Europe yes, which brings the question what would have happened in Asia, Africa and Pacific shit Japan occupied, Germany with the access to Russian oil and at this point probably massive bolster of troops from the rest of European countries, would have a straight forward campaign in Asia and Africa, invasion of America would probably be next to impossible, and Japan would probably not even be able to hold Australia or quarter of China
>>70551196
True, it wasn't "can't see" but it was limited.
Most historical documents show that in combat the hatch was almost always open unless there was weather.
>>70551311
Japan was a lost cause after Midway due to the lost of skilled pilots and 4 carriers sunk.
Also, if the war in Europe dragged too long, america was going to nuke Germany.
>>70550646
I see the question has already been answered, but the Cromwell especially had shit visibility. Marked is the single forward periscope for the commander of a Cromwell and Sherman.
>>70532951
history channel showed enough ww2 shit alreayd
it used to be called the hitler channel
>>70551508
Life was cheaper in WW2
>>70551544
Now it just pawn stars.
I miss the hitler channel.
>>70551545
A draft will do that.
>>70551582
indeed,
though unique enough, some units, including airborne, had no draftees in the american system.
![Band Of Brothers Part 6 Bastogne (1080p x265 Joy).mkv_snapshot_01.00.00_[2016.06.07_15.58.39].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/QpcntYr.jpg "Band Of Brothers Part 6 Bastogne (1080p x265 Joy).mkv_snapshot_01.00.00_[2016.06.07_15.58.39].jpg")
>>70550098
what a crushing feeling
>>70551451
Was a lost cause after Coral Sea, Shokaku got put out of commission for Midway and they didn't pursue American carriers which then went on to fight at Midway. Also lost a ton of pilots.
