Renée Lemaire (10 April 1914 - 24 December 1944) was a Belgian nurse who volunteered her service at an American military aid station during the Siege of Bastogne in December 1944. She was killed during a German air raid on Christmas Eve in 1944. Augusta Marie Chiwy (6 June 1921 - 23 August 2015) was a Belgian nurse who was a volunteer during the Siege of Bastogne in 1944. She worked with the U.S. Army physician John Prior and with fellow Belgian nurse Renée Lemaire, treating injured soldiers during the Battle of the Bulge. There is, however, no evidence one way or another that Eugene Roe ever interacted with Renee or Augusta, but it was a nice touch to add them to this series.

The Congolese nurse who was helping Renee survived the war and only died in 2015 in Belgium at the age of 94.

"Wild Bill" Guarnere probably wasn't having trouble urinating because of the cold. Remember, last episode he asked Welsh, Winters, and Nixon if they'd heard of a place called "Lulu's." I think it's a fair bet he found the place and brought back a **ahem** souvenir from Lulu that is probably fitting of his nickname.

Kudos to Shane Taylor, another British actor, for nailing the Cajun accent for Doc Roe, not to mention his acting chops. It looks to me like Doc had PTSD, just like the combat soldiers. Currahee!

The next episode is one of the harder ones to watch, but it's my personal favorite because of how intense the camaraderie and brotherhood gets between the characters.

That shaving scene reminded me of my own service. We had an excercise in winter, and the water was partially freezing too, although not as cold as in this episode. We also thought about how to deal with this cold water, but we did manage to shave and wash ourselves, at least just enough :) One night we were supposed to stay out with our artillery position, and we had to sleep in the back of the truck. The driver refused to turn on the heater because he thought he'd get punished for wasting fuel. One guy of our platoon told him he'd get a beating if he'd let us freeze, so he did turn it on then. One of our group decided to sit outside, and the medics had to drive him out because he got hypothermia. I'm very grateful to those world war soldiers for removing the nazi government, for what they endured for our future.

The reason Doc Roe is increasingly isolated in the shots is to show him trying to psychologically insulate himself from all the pain and trauma he has to deal with. Imagine how difficult it would be to see somebody that you know well get very badly hurt. Now multiply that experience x100 over a period of weeks and months. And all you can do is try to stop the pain and stem the bleeding. The cause of the trauma, the war, you have no control over. It's a helpless feeling, especially for somebody who didn't ask for that job to begin with.

I'm amazed at your ability to remember and name so many characters on the first watch.

They weren't rescued, they were relieved.

The medics were mostly ordinary soldiers who had additional training to be able to serve as medics in the field. Sometimes, the men chosen had some background or appropriate temperament, but many were just ordinary joes. They, as a group. performed very admirable service, and the best were called "doc" as a real sign of respect.

Winters was shaving to keep up with his hygiene. He didn't want to catch any illness that might take him out of the fight. He also did it to keep up his appearance of a well groomed officer.

The reason why the 101st or the 82nd airborne wasn’t re-supplied was that fog and weather kept allied transports and air support was grounded. Once the weather broke and Patton’s 3rd army allowed the airborne divisions force the German lines back. By strangling the bulge in the line.

My Uncle was in this same group, also from Louisiana - like Doc Roe, so they were friends i'm sure - and he actually held a bit of a grudge against Patton for claiming he saved them, lol.

Doc Roe's accent was Cajun, people of French ancestry transplanted from Canada to Louisiana.

The winter of '44-'45 was one of the harshest in memory in western Europe, making it particularly hard for the men of Easy who didn't have proper winter clothing. The Germans intentionally launched their offensive during a storm front to keep Allied planes grounded and negate their superiority in air power. It made it difficult for the Air Force to launch ground attack missions against the Germans, and they had to wait for breaks in the weather to drop supplies into Bastogne.

If you are curious, there is a documentary, "Searching for Augusta: The Forgotten Angel of Bastogne," that I highly recommend. You'll learn about Augusta, Renee, and the Dr. (I can't remember his name off the top of my head) that they worked with during the "Battle of the Bulge."

to be fair, Pattons march to relieve Bastogne was a brilliant piece of work, and probably saved a whole lot of lives, not only the soldiers still on the line, but being able to evacuate the wounded

This episode is my favorite since it focuses of the medic. I was a medic in the army for a few years and did whatever I could for my brothers and sisters in arms. I love your reactions!

The general in the beginning was General Anthony McAuliffe. He commanded the 101st's organic artillery battalion. The Division commander General Taylor was on leave for the holidays, so command fell to McAuliffe when the shit hit the fan. For his leadership in defending Bastogne McAuliffe was promoted and given command of the 103 Infantry Division. He soon led them into combat. Then liberated Kaufering concentration camp.

You're correct about the role of the medic; it's more than just immediate first aid...he cares about his guys. If you recall in ep 4 "Crossroads" after he saw Winters going through a tough moment, he brought him coffee. Doc also chastised Winters, Welch & Nixon for not keeping count of how much morphine they gave Moose after he was accidentally shot. Eugene Roe has moments throughout the series that show his character. Really enjoy your commentary, looking forward to next episode. Blessings from across the Pond!

Renee is based on Renee Lemair who was known as the angel of Bastogne. It is not likely that she and Doc Roe met. She died during the bombardment while making multiple trips evacuating the wounded from the hospital.

Fun fact: ez company was ordered to remove all the airborne eagle patches from there uniforms as they entered Bastogne, so the Germans wouldn't know they were fighting an elite trained force 😊

Nice one guys. Cheers. Band of brothers is so effective, because any soldier, of any nation can relate to the characters. I am not a North American and yet I still recognise everything from training through combat. As an ex-serviceman myself, I can see how well executed the action and rest scenes are portrayed. This is a classic. I almost wish I could be watching this with you for the very first time.

26:31 It wasn't Roe checking Lipton back in episode 3, it was Talbert. But I do agree with your point.

You guys are amazing at remembering the faces with the names. Great job. 👏🏼

Great reaction as always but FYI the volume/audio is pretty low for both the show and your voices/mic but mostly the show, and its been like that in a few episodes, like maybe boost the shows volume by 20% and your voices/mic by 10% or something like that should be plenty and leave enough room for people with difficult hearing to hear it fine at max volume and people with normal hearing to lower their volume a tiny bit. I ruptured an eardrum several months ago and its healing just not 100% yet so I can hear it well enough if its at max volume but I would've had to turn on CC a few months ago and even now its still far quieter than most videos I watch so I know its not just me. Again I can hear it enough at max volume so no big deal and I'll keep watching no matter what but I just figured I'd let y'all know considering I have made that same mistake so many times when working with OBS and other recording software

19:08 is the coolest shot in the whole Movie. It says everything.

Been waiting all week. Yal in my rotation now. First change in two years. To me, a big accomplishment.

Great attention to detail and remembering names. Really enjoy you two!

3:05 Everyone always has the same reaction to this scene but it's important to remember that the General is in the same boat as the rest of them. They're encircled and cut off from supplies and reinforcements. He has no soldiers in reserve to give them. He can't magic up another division to fill in the gaps. He has a finite amount of men and can only do so much to spread them out in a way to hold the line. And interestingly enough he's not even their actual commanding General. The real CG was away at a conference in the US when they were sent to Bastogne and didn't make it back in time (before they were completely cut off.) So Gen. McAuliffe here filled in and did a damn fine job, considering.

Great reaction, looking forward to the next, really liked hearing Ayala's personal experience story of IDF training.

Hang on to your hats: eps 1-5 are great, but 6-10 are just next level. It somehow only gets better from here.

Great vid both of you🙏🏿

Was coldest Winter in Belgium in decades. A boy my age, his dad had a Nazi flag taken off a German tank in this battle, over his fireplace, had us boys come see it ;-)

While a great episode it does somewhat mislead the audience into believing it was just the 101st holding Bastogne alone when in reality their were a number of engineer battalions, elements of the 10th armored division (they brought along tanks, artillery, and AA guns) and whatever units were scooped up in the retreat. So when the general is telling them to close the gaps hes saying that because he has nothing to give them, because the reserve force he does have is a QRF for the entire perimeter thus he couldn’t over commit his limited men and supplies to easy company. While the patrol did happen they did leave Julian’s body for a bit but got reinforcements and pushed the Germans back to get his body back. Renee Lamaire was a real nurse who was visiting her family in the Bastogne area. as good as the scene’s are there is no proof she and roe ever talked to one another, But she volunteered to help care for the wounded Americans in town and unfortunately she was killed while saving wounded men from the first aid station after is was hit by a German shell (she had saved 5 men and was going for a 6th man) after finding her body the paratroopers wrapped her in a silk chute and returned her body back to her family with full honors. In background you probably noticed a African nurse her name was Augusta Chiwy (she passed away in 2015! At the age 94 fully honored by both the Belgium and US governments) she was half Belgian by her farther and half Congolese from her mother she was a nurse who volunteered to help and was blown threw a wall and thus survived the fire To answer your question why the didn’t call in air support? Well simple answer is the weather was terrible throughout most of December that year. with records colds and winds making it dangerous to fly and with the lines constantly changing meaning it was more dangerous to call in air support. But when the weather starting clearing up the allied air force began to bomb and harass the Germans supply lines rather then the front to weaken them and prevent them from running at the inevitable counterattack after most the german advances had faltered and failed to reach any major targets

According to History Professor Jared Frederick, the character of the nurse, Renée, may have been inspired by the real life character Renée Lemaire, Lemaire was from the Bastogne area, her parents owned a hardware store there, throughout much of the war, prior to this moment, she had been a nurse in Brussels, where she helped take care of the wounded. She just happened to be going home to see her parents in Bastogne for Christmas 1944, and little could she have realized that this battle would erupt in her front yard. He further states there's no evidence to suggest that she interacted with Doc Roe. Renée did lose her life during German bombing of Bastogne, but she was not in the Church basement, she was actually in a store basement that wasn't too far away. A building had caught fire, and she was taking part in an effort to evacuate men who had taken refuge in that building, an aid station in the basement of the Sarma Store. She was able to pull six men out of the fire and when she went back in to get a seventh, she lost her life. She was 30 years old. Her body was later delivered to her parents wrapped in a white parachute.

Love the reactions. Keep it up :} You and your family are in my prayers.❤❤🙏🙏

That truce of WW1 was in the first year of the war. That was the only time it happened during that war as well. The top brass was very unhappy from both sides.

And now you know why they called them the Battling Bastards of Bastone!

Ep9 is coming…oh dear, almost wish they couldn’t see it…almost 😂

13:05 The medic apparently tried to reach for the ruptured blood vessel trough the opening in the abdomen of the wounded soldier.

The church is actually still standing, though it had been heavily damaged. The makeshift hospital had been moved a few weeks prior to a department store nearby. Tragically, Renee was actually killed there, and not at the church.

At 13:00: "Doc" Roe and the two nurses were probably struggling to find and clamp off the femoral artery. It's deep inside the leg, and if severed will cause a man to bleed out in seconds.

I don't know why my comments keep getting deleted but it bears repeating: "There's a lot of stuff and it's heading this way" Well, it has arrived. Imagine being the only one on the battlefield trying to endlessly save lives. While everyone else is doing their best to take them. I dated a nurse once and it takes a special soul to do this, let alone in a war zone. Renée Lemaire is based on an actual person known as "The Angel of Bastogne" Currahee

The British actor, Shane Taylor, played Eugene "Doc" Roe. Heck of a good accent, though. Sounded just like a Ragin' Cajun...

If they have nothing to offer... You just expect them to do the best they can. Tell them they are understrength, cold, surrounded and in danger isn't going to do any good.

Actually episode eleven, a must watch episode called "We Stand Alone Together" interviews with Easy Co. personnel.

While taking a little Ww2 trip last year, from Normandy up through Belgium. Just outside of Bastogne there is the best ww2 museum I visited so far. Probably because that museum is mainly focused on the battle of the bulge. And the things going on in and around Bastogne. So they can go into way more detail then trying to tell general history like most museum's. From start to finish you are on a audio tour, narrated by 4 different people (American soldier, German soldier, young boy and a nurse) Each telling different points of view and events. They also have interactive displays, including of a time during an attack in the forest around Bastogne like this episode. Didn't even look at my watch while inside and easily 3 hours I spend there. Truly worth a visit if you are in that area and are interested in ww2 history.

Great reaction!

You should watch Zac Efron’s intense biopic on the beginnings of professional wrestling, the Iron Claw. It’s a beautiful movie.

The sound effects in this episode are incredible.

I never did that 3 day hike you spoke of but I along with other MFO members did do the Red, the Med, and the Dead in one day. I'm sure you know what that means. I think we visited Masada the same day since it's right beside the Dead Sea.

My fav is the next episode. Great reaction ❤🤞

Captain Winters always took care of his men and set an example for them. He shaved in freezing cold in Bastogne because he wanted to be an example and set the standard. His leadership style was “follow me” and I always respected that especially in war. Unfortunately, I experienced the opposite.

Awesome reaction of my favorite episode of Band Of Brothers!!!!!😊😊😊😊😊😊

First again 👍 Great Upload

There are ten episodes in total. There is also a documentary that accompanies this series, which includes expanded versions of the interviews which appear at the beginning of each episode. Renee was a real person, as was the African nurse. Renee did indeed die. When the Americans in Bastogne refused to surrender, the Germans bombed Bastogne on Christmas Eve. The field hospital assigned to the 101st Division was destroyed early in the battle. Under the Geneva Conventions, medics who openly wear the Red Cross are recognized medics and if circumstances allow the enemy won’t shoot at them. On the Western front both the Germans as well as the allies tried to follow the Geneva Convention with regards to medics. Obviously, medics on both sides were still killed. Medics were not allowed to be armed. On the eastern front, neither side followed the Geneva Conventions. And in the Pacific Japanese soldiers were trained to purposefully shoot the medics. So much that American medics stopped wearing the Red Cross and they also armed themselves for self defense. Steel yourselves for episode 9!

Winters shaved throughout Bastogne, because he felt it very important to maintain appearances for the men.

You asked at 6:30 about shooting medics. The Germans and Italians respected the Geneva Convention (at least on the Western Front), and didn't shoot at medics. The white armband was a warning not to shoot. The Japanese shot medics and civilians. And in Korea and Vietnam the Communists targeted medics so frequently, the US and UN stopped supplying medics with white armbands, and didn't paint the white and red cross symbol on medical evacuation helicopters -- the bright white color, meant to be a warning, just made them easier to see. The United States hasn't fought an enemy who respected non-combatants since World War II. You face the same situation with the IDF and its enemies.

The soldier who got shot on that patrol and they had to leave messed Babe Heffron up for the rest of his life. He and Guarniere have a book together encompassing the same time frame as this show. I highly recommend that read. He talks about that soldier, Julian, a lot.

This episode and the next one are filmed inside massive hangars, indoors. 300,000lbs of shredded paper and plastic pellets are used to replicate snow. They brought in real trees, and used foam ones rigged with explosives to simulate artillery strikes. The actors were sweating so much they needed to wipe their faces between takes. Renee and Augusta were real persons, helping the wounded during the siege, though there are no records of Doc Roe meeting Renee. She was killed during the bombardment, trying to evacuate wounded soldiers. She had been saving a silk parachute to make a dress, and US soldiers brought her body back to her family wrapped in that parachute. Guarnere was looking for a joint called Lulu's last episode and now he's got an infection, had too much fun there ;) Winters kept shaving to uphold morale among his men, if they saw him still taking the time to shave, theyd think that the situation possibly couldn't be that bad.. Gordon, who was paralyzed, eventually regained mobility in his limbs, though he would suffer severe back pain the rest of his life. People would come hug him or pat him on the back, causing him great pain, but he'd always make a point to not let it show. And, i like to think that Doc Roe using Renee's scarf to bandage Babe's hand signifies Renee's last act of healing from beyond. But, more pragmatically, it shows the need for the men to not dwell on whats done, and focus on what's happening now.

My favorite episode in the whole series!

Doc sits alone at least partially because getting too close to the men would definitely not make his job easier... The thing about Joe's shoe size being nine, "like everybody else" was a joke about army policy at providing equipment. In many cases, soldiers got what was available, regardless of whether it fit, or was comfortable, or could be used in that man's job.

Another great reaction, guys. This was a hard episode to watch. I wish I could tell you that it gets easier, but I'd be lying if I did. Oh, and bombing in WW2 wasn't exactly a precision endeavor like it is today. They'd be just as likely to hit their own troops as they would the Germans. Looking forward to the next one. (Bring a box of tissues.) CURRAHEE

From the stories I read Renee was a real person and a French heroine and did die in a bombing in that town.

hacksaw ridge is needed

Being clean shaven can make you feel better,believe it or not 👍

Eugene was trying to clamp the artery but he couldn't get a hold of it.

Funny comments on another commentator who forgot this was 1 season explained that season 2 was in Argentina after Hitler faked his death... :)

Oh, and medics were not paid as much as the average soldiers as they carried no gun. That pay difference, I am sure, has been changed by now.

Why shave because US soldiers are required to shave at that time. So to lead by example he shaved. Your question What was he trying to do so forcefully? Eugene was pushing his hand up inside the wound. Trying to find and pinch the artery to stop the loss of blood before he bled out. There's no evidence that Eugene and Renée Lemaire (aka the angel of Bastogne) ever met. The producers wanted to pay her homage by writing her into the story. She died 12/24/44 in a German bombing. Buckle up the next few episodes will be gar more intense and heart breaking.

🇮🇱🇺🇸💙🤍 Take Care and Stay Safe 🙏🕊️🌻🌼

Juan just guessing,but did you serve in the IDF?

Maybe you should do some homework about the Battle of the Bulge.,

You will notice most of the men were clean shaven

They watch atrocities perpetrated by their own country in real time!!!

the sister is one of the most confidently incorrect people I've ever seen.

You need to turn the volume up on the film couldn't hear a word except for the 2 of you.👎

Maybe I never told you, but tanks are waaaaaay overrated. Hoe to fight tanks if you are infantry. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qsd4ebh8sLHReoE.htmlsi=XQvhmOjXEq2vbkzb link is a 13 minute training film from WW2. visibility inside a tank sucks.