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Been watching this show for 20 years and it just doesn't get old.

I used to say the scene of Speirs running through Foy was my favorite part of the series but that may be replaced by Winters not allowing his guys to be needlessly killed in a useless operation so close to the end of the war. Everyone should strive to be more like Richard Winters.

I salute Dick Winters for saving his men from another pointless operation. That one lie saved them

Dick just couldn't bring himself to send those men back across the River. They'd fought enough

We all like to think we'd be a Winters or a Speirs in a war, but we're all Websters - doing just the minimum, but rising to the occasion when needed. Great video!!

In the Nam we did a lot of keeping out of the way. Everyone just wanted to go home. And when you did get home, it was never the same. 11th Cavalry 70/71 Cambodia too.

The scene when that young soldier died was so gut wrenchingly heartbreaking. When he was screaming that he didn’t want to die and nobody knew what to do to save him. That is the reality of war!

Watched this 18 years ago. Shocked me when the young solider was screaming that he didn't want to die. Best in the show

You have a feeling you're gonna live through the war. You have the feeling it's starting to ease off. Everybody had that that feeling.

I think it’s telling that Winters had the new Lt. present for his announcement about not actually going on the mission. In canceling the mission, Winters broke the RULES, but not letting the Lt. be there would signal that what he was doing was MORALLY WRONG. There is a difference. Also, putting the Lt. in a situation where he had to either speak up or be complicit helped to ensure that he wouldn’t say anything. In any case, I think the Lt. understood the situation and felt untroubled at Winters’ decision.

Something similar happened to my dad in near Caen, Normandy. Too long in the line, near breaking point for some, relief 11 days overdue. Their Lt. led the fighting patrol in person, ordered all around defence in a wood, sat there for 4 hours ( hearing every twig break) and then returned. Never mentioned again. Relieved 2 days later.

GERMAN PRISONER?!! CONTRABAND!

I bet that night was the best sleep they ever had.

In real life Webster didnt go on the patrol. He manned a machine gun on the balcony totally exposing himself to german fire. There was a couple guys that they switched for the patrol for the series. I guess just for tv since they didnt want to introduce new characters. He also said when Jackson was brought back to the basement he kept screaming for Mercier. "Wheres Mercier, wheres mercier". That being private Ken Mercier. Mercier came up to him and held his hand telling him it would be alright. Webster couldn't take it and had to leave the room. I recommend everyone to read Webster's account of the war called "Parachute Infantry".

This is one of my favorite scenes in the show: you know your men are good capable soldiers but you're not going to risk their lives as the war comes to an end on a dangerous operation.

Watched this a few times. Very good episode. Dick Winters was a good officer. Sometimes the last part pulls @ the heart strings alittle. You can see it in their faces tbey need a break

I remember this part. It sucks for some of these men they went through hell and right when they think their going home they get killed. I wouldn't want to be one of em. Thank's for the video Joey your and inspiration to all of us. Amazing production. Out standing job. Keep it up bro.

War is the worst trauma on earth, let it be a lesson for our future

As a army vet I would follow Winter's thru the gates of hell A REAL leader cared about his men. Not like today where leaders hide and blame everyone else.🇺🇸

Boy oh boy that mission sounded suicidal, yet you could tell they accepted it was their job. Then Dick Winters came up with that story to tell HQ and his men signed in relief. A true leader knows not to waste men or time.

How can anyone give these people a thumbs down,? Much less 76. I have a feeling they are from Germany. My dad was wounded just before the battle of the Bulge and these people in the infantry were the toughest in the world and then the airborne was trained even more great.

...good bloody work!

I think Richard Winters wrote the book on leadership. This series would be a good film to show at management schools. I recall watching 12 Angry Men at management school. We were learning the managerial grid.

the strongest message here for me was by that single act, winters put the responsibility for his courtmarshall in the hands of his men. any one of them couldve reported him. but they also knew that he could be saving their lives. a moral and nobel trade. i wonder how the military courts would view it if it DID get out at the time?..

Book version of this scene ⬇️ "Next morning, Winters again stood at the riverbank expectantly watching the house the patrol had hit. Seconds ticked by. Then the planted satchel charge blew, smoke pouring from every window in the structure. Winters never discovered if the outpost had been reoccupied or not before it blew, but he was satisfied. That satisfaction didn’t last long. Later that morning Colonel Sink visited Winters at his HQ, accompanied by Colonel Joseph B. Harper, commander of the 327th Glider Regiment.“That was a fine job your men did last night, Dick,” Sink said. “Good work.”“We lost a man, sir,” Winters said, wanting Sink to know the price paid for two prisoners who had little to offer in the way of vital intelligence. “Private Jackson.”“Regrettable,” Sink replied. Then, “I’d like another patrol tonight. More prisoners.”Winters couldn’t believe his ears. He reddened with anger, but simply uttered a “Yes, sir” and saluted.“He’s showing off for his drinking buddy, Harper,” Winters complained to Nixon when the two were alone. “It seems we were the first regiment to send out a patrol that successfully brought back any POWs, and now he wants to brag and show everyone else how easy it is.”“He knows about Jackson?” Nixon asked.“Yes, he knows. He called it ‘regrettable.’ Jesus, the Germans are going to be on the alert. The chances of losing the entire patrol are a heckuva lot higher than the chances we’ll capture any Krauts.”“So what are you going to do?” Nixon asked.Winters thought, then said, “Find Speirs. Have him assemble the same men in the same place in an hour. I’ll brief them.”The glum faces of the men destined to make yet another patrol told Winters that they, too, were fully aware of their chances against an alerted enemy. Winters and Nixon joined the group.“Men, I want you to know I’m proud of the job you did last night,” he said. “You pulled it off perfectly. The loss of Private Jackson was an unfortunate tragedy. Colonel Sink’s proud, too. So proud he wants another patrol tonight. So here’s the plan. You’ll cross just like you did last night, same place. With that Kraut OP knocked out, you’ll have to move deeper into the town, look for another objective. When you grab the prisoners, pull back just like before and blow the signal whistle. The covering fire will make the Krauts keep their heads down again. Jump-off time will be an hour later than last night.”He paused and took a deep breath before he spoke again.“Now relax; get a good night’s sleep. Sergeant Mercier, when you report to me tomorrow morning, you’ll tell me you entered the town as planned but could get no live prisoners.” All faces turned toward him. “And if anyone asks any of you about the patrol, you’ll tell them just what I told you. The patrol was unsuccessful. Understood?”The men nodded, smiles of relief beginning to crease their faces.Speirs grinned and saluted. “Yes, sir,” he said.Winters knew he’d just risked his entire military career, and a likely court-martial, by intentionally disobeying an order from his commanding officer. But he was damned if he’d risk any more lives on a foolhardy mission that had little chance of success and a very large chance of turning into a disaster. It was a risk he willingly took.“I knew I was getting out as quick as possible after the war was over,” Winters said years later. “I had no fantasies of making the army my life. If I had any idea of making the military a career and be a career soldier, would I have disobeyed an order and not sent those men? If someone is going to make it his career, he’s not going to have it on his efficiency report ‘refused an order.’ What kind of officer is that?”Lieutenant Ralph D. Richey Jr. of F Company, now attached to Winters as S2, said, “That was a classic, sir. You should write that one up for the future.”“No, Lieutenant,” Winters said. “That’s one report that will never be written.”Machine guns and mortars from 2nd Battalion opened fire late that night, sending a stream of tracers dancing through the darkness. Winters stood on the riverbank watching, but no American soldier crossed the Moder. The men the blazing weapons were supposed to be covering were asleep in their billet.“Sink wasn’t being mean when he ordered that second patrol,” Winters said looking back fifty-eight years later. “He was proud of what we had done. But it was a dumb, dumb decision.”Winters filed no after-action report on the patrol that never was, nor did Sink ever request one. Perhaps he knew the second patrol never occurred, perhaps he didn’t. Either way he said nothing."

THIS IS THE BEST EPISODE EVER

There it is...when common sense and realization come together at a conclusion that avoids insanity...... no legitimate reason to risk lives or equipment... clean conscience..... real leadership....

As Tony Bennett said, the famous singer who also was an infantryman who took part in liberating a concentration camp, "war is the worst thing on Earth that should not even exist. But sometimes, it has to happen".

Hopefully the new LT Jones while not having to go through heavy combat will at least learn sometimes it's best to just lay low when the possible cost is way to high for minimal gain.

The guy doing the initial narration was the real Dick Winters.

Good man. No need to take any more prisoners - no valuable intel could be gained by them. Sink was just shining his record angling for a star.

TIMELESS!! ❤💯

I work in entertainment - you should get a job cutting trailers. Its very good.

That is just the best summary for the late Major Richard Winters of E company 501st Parachute. Every man was the men he truly cared for knowing going across again was definitely a suicide call he didn’t want to do with the men who also kept him alive.

alweer een mooie vid!

You're the fucking goat at editing holy shit I thought I was watching a trailer for a documentary

Hey Joe have you read Websters book? I'm guessing you have. Its a great read about the ordinary private on the ground. I read it twice a year, its that good.

A fine officer right there.

Gj & Have this up.

I thought they exaggerated how narrow the river is, on Google maps it is wider than they show here, but it is rather canal like. If anyone went to the rivers edge to go in they would be clearly seen from the other side.

جيد

He took a big risk because….it just wasn’t worth losing more men. OTOH, if Sink found out about it, Winters was so valuable he’d have probably jut dropped it.

Who has put that rope across the river???

You left off the key next sentence: We are pulling off the line tomorrow

who would throw a grenade into a room and then burst in before it blew up?

잭슨.

Was Jackson a real person? I can't believe someone like that existed. You join the army at 16 and survive a World War just to blow yourself up. The single person in this entire show I couldn't care less about dying

Easy company

Jackson just too keen. Just to wait a few secs that’s all.

At 2:28.... that's Tom Hanks son.

They are all good actors;what happened to Sobel?Did he go to Normandy on D Day??

It's 'Sink', not 'Cink'.

Doesn't show them watching the German OP blow up.

Did he not send them out the second time?

In the real war that new Lieutenant who joined the Easy Company was killed soon afterward when his jeep hit a mine.

Eastern front magnitudes more horror

WAR IS HELL

Nice weapens

CUAL ES LA DIFERENSIA DW UN SOLDADO ENTE UN SIVIL ELQUE EL SOLDADO ES CORTWS Y EL SIVIL ES MALCRYADO

way too short...

Thankfully Sobel wasn't in charge. He was using his men as tools to get him climbing up the ladder of promotion

Lmao throw a grenade and run in the same room

Anyone ever ship Leftenant Jones and Webster?...Idk,I just love their bromance...And there is this one scene when Webster caught staring at Jones...Hahahahah(this is not being gay)...

Why was tom hanks’s son in this he couldnt act his way out of a wet paper bag...daddy can i be in your film please daddy can i go on daddy let me

Are you fucking kidding me... What the fuck is up with the background music... Jesus Christ why?

🤣 Hollywood Trash