LOL..SOMEONE DID HIS ASSIGNMENT.

Or maybe on a landing craft

@@minh-tienvu306 he had 2 (or 3?) brothers in the Army, in the D-day amphibious assault. Too bad they were KIA, hence the mission to bring him back safely was carried out. So you're right.

James frederick Ryan? Minnesota?

A pathfinder?

these where superheroes , God bless them

Must have been quite an experience. We haven't had a pitch battle between 2 powerful countries in a long time. It must have been impossible to describe this experience to people back home

100%

I mean, I saw Saving Private Ryan at the age of 7. I think it was that year or the next where my folks took me to the White Cross fields at Normandy Beach. That made me realize it pretty well too. It's a shame Hollywood has turned what is one of the toughest things to go through as humans (war) into action-based excitement stories. But I suppose the saying remains. "War is glorious to those who have never experienced it."

I know exactly what you mean. It is completely surreal that all this actually happened.

Spiers was total kookoo-bananas but you can't deny he had a point

@@angelomastri1416 He was right! After my 3rd mission I came to that conclusion. I had another 125 after that.

Damn... >

Exactly right, my father who was one of 20 in his company to survive being overrun in the jungle in Vietnam and an uncle that was the sole survivor of his squad after landing in a hot LZ told me this before I went to Iraq the first time. Powerful words, and very true.

Man you got that right, that was one bad jump.

ill start doing that

Works well for me. Wild respect for all of these guys. They didn't have anything to turn to. This was about as bad a situation as they could get.

Sage advice. We could all use a bit of perspective.

Well said

Just because someone had/has it worse shouldn’t invalidate whatever you are or were dealing with.

Yeah, I know a lot of people who came back from Afghanistan and Iraq. They said it was bad, but I can't imagine any of this. My grandfather fought in WWII.

Agreed, I also served in Afghanistan as an infantry paratrooper, I never did a combat jump though... yeah this looks like it sucks, it takes a hard knuckle dragging son of a bitch to do this, it goes against every human instinct to survive.... I have respect for these guys at the highest level.

@@munichrebel1993 My great-grandpa served in Serbian Army in WWI. There was this battle at the Kajmakčalan mountain where they had to take Bulgarian positions which were heavily entrenched and on the high ground, above them. Only way for them to succed in that was to charge while our own artillery shells Bulgarian positions as our infantry charged at those positions, directly at our own barage. It was a real slautgerhouse, a lot of good men died there, but offensive was succesful in the end.

@@EricPudalov Many thanks to your grandfather

Well, the US was fighting against a developed country whereas the Taliban don't have heavy weapons

Yes He is still with us

Sadly, Colonel Edward Shames peacefully passed away yesterday December 3rd, 2021 at his home at age 99. RIP all you great men of Easy Company and all the men who served! Tears to my eyes...God speed men! Looking forward to meeting up face to face to personally thank them one day in Heaven.

@@flyingdutchman8321 One of the Great Generation has passed away. RIP Edward Shames🌹😭

*Last officer, not last remaining member. Bradford Freeman is the last remaining member with now the sad passing of Edward.

@@User-ju3zg no one is alive now

Wow... Thanks for this info!

These are real people?

@@stevencoardvenice obviously

Balls of steel.

@@stevencoardvenice Yeah they’re based off of the story of actual Jumpers from WW2

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@33kaus holokaust and ww2 win goes to the Allied forces.

Two words: Sitting ducks.

​@@arceusthecreator9746 And it needed so many of them

Dae Kim it’s such a waste not being able to do what you were trained to do. To be extinguished in a blink of an eye. It’s just cruel.

@@jolieapuzzo861 that's exactly what war is cruelty

Completely random.

The Moment those planes crossed the lines into Nazi controlled air space. The Germans had already lost!

@@arceusthecreator9746 They might have lost but they put up one hell of a fight

Pretty much all of us wrote a letter like that to spouses, girlfriends or family before going into combat. The letters were all collected and put in a shoebox and stored in the admin space in case. It was the hardest letter I ever had to write. When we were mobilized back home, we were given the letters back. I still have 3 of them

@@stevehammond9156why do they make soldiers write those letters? A keepsake of sorts should they be killed in action?

@@highball5550 In the event you are killed in action, the letter will be mailed to whomever you designate as a last letter to express your feelings.

+beta0blaster Maybe Stalingrad?

+beta0blaster I think the normandy beaches were just as bad, in their own way.

your life in the mix wether you lived or died aroll of the dice cant imagine the fear nor horror

Being on Omaha Beach? Or being in an Enemy at the gates-like scenario in Stalingrad?

Try the crossing the Dnepr River

I can't imagine doing what those legends did.

Well said

Amen

I use to parachute in the eighties I use to love it but I sure as hell had nothing being fired at me What an absolute terrifying nightmare that was for them RIP You young and brave boys my heart is with you all ❤

They fought for gays and feminist.

the pacific

@@e.g.o.m.e great shout and it’s absolutely superb, but doesn’t beat Band Of Brothers I’m afraid.

@@Jonesyb90 Damn I was hoping it would beat it. Too bad.

@@sr3982 Good effort with the sarcasm but you aren’t quite there yet, I’m guessing you are from America. Interesting that you don’t even ask why I think BOB is better than The Pacific

@@Jonesyb90 Nothing gets by Jonesy here

Saw it first time also as a kid with dad. A stunning experience.

Me too!

Late reply but same, everyone that grew up watching this with there Dad had a W childhood

@@Alex-sz8idI’m watching it with my dad rn I’m 15 tho

Congratulations man!

This shit looks like it was hectic. Jumping out of plane in a sea of tracer fire and explosions. I can imagine these guys wanted to descend as fast as possible

@@stevencoardvenice if they knew what was waiting for them I doubt it. Rommel decided, in order to deter paratroopers, to flood the countryside. A good portion of these guys dropped into the swamped areas and drowned under the weight of their gear or tangled in their parachutes. Honestly it makes the success of the whole thing that much more batshit crazy.

@@declansmyth1973 Normandy had a lot of drowning too

@@stevencoardvenice ...as accurately depicted in saving private Ryan, correct. These guys had to carry their balls around in wheel barrows. Not only were they attacking the most fortified position in human history, but they were greenies going up against four-year Eastern front veterans. They truly had nerves of steel it's insane. Hard to believe these people really did this stuff.

Alive, at least. We’ll never forget their sacrifices.

Yeah ... that one bit of the burning C-47 with the paratroopers on fire jumping from it ... .

They were heros the moment they got on the plane. Didn't matter if they landed or not in my eyes.

@@BobSmith-dk8nw A terrible way to die

@@rithvikmuthyalapati9754 Yep. .

After the jump most of them landed with no gear and some right onto of German positions too

And british and canadian I hope, they where there too

The most bravious soldier is Polish and we don't left our allies when they need our help. Think about it.

wojtc17 My wife is Polish, so don't pull that bullshit on ME! I served and her father served.

***** Nope. Not in this case. This movie was not about those soldiers. And the Americans had NOTHING to gain from this fight like the Russians, Germans, British, Japanese, etc., who were fighting for something close to home. This was far from our home and we drug in by Axis expansionism.

hrdknox2000 The US had to gain most of it. You really think they went into the conflict at that point just for honour and valour? They had realized by now that Germany was defeated in the east, and that the Russians would be replacing them soon as a ruling power in Europe, so to avoid that, they went in. The individual soldier fought for his pals, but they knew nothing of the bigger pictures which sadly is one of power and dominion between governments and the invisible forces behind those who rule and ruin our lovely world.....still, they"re heroes, even some, not all, of the so called enemy...the majority of german soldiers died horrible lonely deaths, like all soldiers do, when your time"s up, you have to face it on your own, no matter what uniform you"re wearing, they were all scared of dying. And look at what's happening right now in Ukraine? Think WW2 is over? Why do we the West confront Russia in that way? It"s unfinished business. Only problem this time, finishing it will be the downfall of all of us....

US Airborne really commemorate it?

And my friend talked me out of not going to France for D-day! I was going to go to the beach on June 5!!

Gutsy!!. Good luck.

How did it go?

Ku Dastardly soon to be in space too

@@Boxman5618 bruh just imagine looking up and seeing "rods from god" streaking down. or drop pods landing groundside.

It’s quite something that many people don’t know that this show aired around the same time as the most challenging time our country has faced.

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Yeah. All of that was just you getting on the battleground.

They’ll all be there because they’ve certainly served their time in hell. (There a poem about that.)

@@evaabdullahi5240 yeah. This jump and especially Baston were they told the Germans to f off with their surrender under one of the coldest winter in recorded history is fascinating. Massive respect

And to think that a good amount of those Germans were young, sometimes 17-18. Others were boys or young men conscripted from occupied countries and forced to fight. Seriously hell for everyone involved

@@Gopniksquat against people who were trained for years to be elite elite... war is hell

well thats why you say flash if your clicker screws up or you dont have one, although risky to yell out flash though

You can make clicking sounds with your mouth if worse comes to worst

david fazenbaker That’s right. “Flash” was yelled out and “Thunder” was the reply. But in Saving Private Ryan, it was the opposite. They yelled “Thunder” first and “Flash” was the reply. I don’t know which one was historically accurate.

The Longest Day also featured them and explained their purpose as mentioned in the first comment.

@@jiveassturkey8849 i think it depends, because Saving Private Ryan was centered around the 2nd Rangers who were ground infantry while Easy Company is Airborne infantry

I really believe those men and women of Allied countries who served and fought so hard for freedom were made by God especially for such a time as that.

Every generation is like that, it is just not every generation there is a world war...

@@OrkosUA Uhhh no. Minus 10% or so if there was a draft this generation of 18-25 year old would fold faster than an old card table.

@@stephencrutchfield2032 it would be same now like it was then. Back then they would do the same. Then there were also great losses unlike now.

@@wendigo445 I can assure you that you are overestimating Great Generation and underestimating modern one. Parents of the Great Generation also thought their kids are weaker than them, every single generation has parents like that.

My dad was in the US Army oversees for 3 and a half years during WWll drafted. He was a truck driver. He said they landed first in North Africa, then on to 2 campaigns in Italy Rome-Arno and Naples-Foggia, and then on to France. He said by the time he got to France, the US was in Germany.

Like Winters said in the book - two years of training and preparing took charge

Öhm....the really Important Operations in this War were in the East.

@@Orkenspalter14 I don’t get why people always try to diminish the importance of the second front. Stalin was demanding that the Allies open a second front, so much so that they opened three second fronts. In the Mediterranean, in the Air bombing most of Nazi occupied Europe, and again in France. In the Mediterranean the Western Allies destroyed the Italian Empire on their own, and captured over two million Wehrmacht soldiers by the end of the war. The air campaigns in Southern Europe devastated oil wells and directly helped the USSR by making it impossible for Germany to field enough tanks and aircraft to properly defend itself and made it difficult for it to even supply its armies in the east. The Western Allies also bombed Axis industry, every factory bombed resulted in more and more tanks that wouldn’t make it to the front. Then there’s the Western front itself which by its end involved huge portions of the German military, counting the Volksturm , about 8 million. Without the help of the Western Allies, the Axis would have been able the muster its full military might against the USSR, and would have the resources of all of Europe to fight against the Soviets. So yeah. The Western front did matter, the Allies did help. Defeating fascist tyranny was a team effort, people from all over the world put in effort to win the war. My grandfather from Nigeria fought in Burma, half way across the world to help beat the Axis. An entire generation of people put their blood, toil, sweat, and tears to beat the life out of the worst tyranny to bar the progress of mankind. Never forget the sacrifices made by these people, regardless of where they were from or the politics of their nations.

@@osedebame3522 Imagine the Muricans trying to fight 15 million Axis. Lmao.

@@osedebame3522 Yeah Stalin’s men had a fun time murdering and plundering anything on sight. You know the Red Army isn’t better than the Nazis or the Japanese.

My dads boss and Best friend for 25 years was crewman on a b 17 shot down a few months before d day over france evaded capture for a month got betrayed into POW camp spent rest of war in Stalag Luft 1🤕 miss ya Bill 🤕( Technical Sgt William E. Smith)

So there was a documentary about Paratroopers made by the Discovery Channel about 2 decades ago. A young paratrooper is telling an old man how he has over 30 jumps to include foreign jump wings and helicopter jumps. The old man then said "I only did 2 jumps. Normandy and Market Garden."

As economic despair rises, wages stagnate, inequality widens, and underneath it all we begin to feel a collective sense of humiliation creeping over us, remember what led the Germans to adopt supremacist narratives that in turn drove them inexorably toward war and expansion. We must obtain economic justice for the working class before this evil happens again.

@@kevinmathewson4272 Step 1 - Bring back manufacturing jobs to the USA.

Jesus christ....I cant imagine being able to jump out only to be smashed by another plane

That happened. I remember one story duringOperation MArket Garden. I think it was the 82nd Airborne jumping into Holland, a stick jumped over their DZ, the C-47 flying behind their aircraft was hit and rapidly lost altitude. One of their engines chewed up two of the descending paratroopers.@@thecrtf4953

Yeah man, I cried, I was like wow, some soldiers didn’t get to jump out...

May god and the Holy Spirit have mercy on their souls😭🇺🇸✝️

Those are young men:(

Imagine training for 2 years just to have that happen to you. Poor men.

@@whatthef-9772 if you look closely, some of them jump out (still on fire)

never noticed that.... Jesus..

and the way the pilot and copilot stare at each other like that...

First time I heard that I couldn’t believe it 😳

Nah, Generation Zoomer has to worry about getting enough Likes on TikTok ...

I wonder which was worse in real life? Both look like crap your pants many times over situations...I think I'd rather be a ground troop than go down in a fiery crash on a plane though, or drown in a marsh like some of these guys did after landing.

@@chadford8500 The ground troops also had it really bad. If you were on 1st or 2nd wave, your chances of survival were really low. In a plane, you would die instantly most of the time from the blast. Many of the ground troops who were hit by MG42's would die painfully and slowly while their guts spilled out.

@Technique it was proper hell down there. Those beaches had many layers of defences and each of them were as deadly as the other or even more as you progress. Romel said the faith of the war will be decided by what happens on d day. Fortress Europe was such an unthinkable hell to send troops there after all bombs fail to hit their targets

@@brrrrrtenjoyeri would think the one thing these soldiers didn’t feel, was pain. the amount of shock from something like this, soldiers had to check for bullet holes after a battle bc they don’t feel the bullets hitting them

@@jdjshzhhhsushhszjp8969definitely not true. Look up the "reality of a round" by gbrs

That is wild!

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It’s all scary. But seeing a machine gun fire down on you from a hill with no cover makes for more cinematic drama

@@Nahnotyet268 Yeah but truthfully the beaches weren't as dangerous as saving private ryan makes them out to be.

@@rickyray2794yeah movies show troops being mowed down in waves when in reality and in footage it was still horrible but way less chaotic

Likewise, the drop wasn’t as catastrophic or dramatic as this scene either.

It's the paradox of war. Being a soldier combines the greatest and worst aspects of life. The adrenaline, the death, the camaraderie, the trauma, the sense of accomplishment and the pain are intertwined.

No parachute. Very LITTLE chance of escaping the aircraft.

É por isso que eles foram os melhores.

Just sitting ducks in that plane no amount of training will keep your ass alive for that.

@@Vaultboythefightingmachine all that training for nothing

Really? I thought it aired in 2008 or 2009. Thats when i first saw this series. I didn't know it was that old

Cringe

@@staymad2075 Imagine replying to an 8 year old comment. Loser