Toye and Guarnere both lost their right legs. There are plenty of pictures to verify this.

What actually happened was the Germans would use guys hiding inside fake trees as observation posts for artillery spotters. He had been staring at the tree line for so many days, he noticed there was a new tree that popped up overnight and called it out.

Also Speirs' run in the show wasn't historically accurate, he ran a longer distance in real life. The showrunners toned it down because they thought nobody would believe it if they showed the full distance. The same goes for Shifty Powers taking out the sniper; in reality, the sniper was farther away, and the angle was worse.

Apparently he was quite vocally mocking the German's ability to aim as he did it... Based GOAT!

For what? That's a bad take

@@thomasmills339 Everyone, including you, is entitled to their opinion. Even when they're wrong...

Winters and Lipton would not have ever said it like that, if it wasn't true, he was from a prestigious privileged military family and he kept buggering off to hang out with his Westpoint buddies playing cards and drinking when he has no business neglecting his duty.

@@adamscott7354 Winters and Lipton hated the man and absolutely saw everything he did in the worst light (Winters admitted this). So did Guarnere and Shifty. Guess whose sour memories served as the basis for this episode.

They also downplayed the distance of 'Shifty' Powers taking out the German sniper. It was about twice the distance depicted in the episode. Same reason.

It's perfect, isn't it?

It's about half that distance, the buildings still stand in Foy. It was about 75y.

Amen!

You’re two minutes in from their upload and you know it’s an awesome reaction?

Winters has said that Spiers was standing right behind him at the time, and that Winters thoroughly believed that Spiers made sure he was standing there because he expected that someone would have to unfuck the situation Dike was expected to get Easy into. My words, Winters would never have been so crude as to say “unfuck.” 😂

Dike was absolutely weeks into shell shock (what we call PTSD) by that point - besides likely being wounded at that point. He was honestly a good officer, but in the moment was beyond able to lead the company. Yet the series is told from the perspective of the men who were there, who only knew the moment. It's both honest and tragic that those telling the story should speak from their own point of view. Dike was not capable in that moment. He was heroic many other times.

Especially considering the solid steel balls he was lugging around.

@@alanholck7995 those weren't explosives we were hearing.

@@alanholck7995 The German tank had to move to make room for the balls.

😍

Yeah. We all know what’s coming…

Sergeant

Ambrose's reporting in half way inbetween those two. He mentions the belgian pistol, and lack of safety, and that he would fiddle with it.

Nice to see you too 😊

He actually killed prisoners on multiple occasions - and he wasn't the only one.

the prisoners on D-Day was true because they had no provisions for taking prisoners during their behind the lines operations.

Easy with the spoilers champ, they're not done watching all 10.

@@FrenchieQc what spoiler? This comment has nothing to do with the series. It’s a comment Winters made in another interview not in any part of the show.

​​@@randyshanks9176 it's sad I have to explain that, but don't you realize that what you said kinda implies that he survives the war? Highly doubt they were video interviewing him in 44-45. In BoB reaction channels it's just poor form to drop names of survivors while the reactors aren't done watching. People are still dying left and right.

@@FrenchieQc it’s pretty obvious he does since he’s quoted in the episode and numerous other times

But Dike was the favorite of Maxwell Taylor, the division commander. Taylor later rode all the way to the top -- he was one of President Kennedy's closest advisors. He was one of President Johnson's "Wise Men" who first advised him in 1967 to "stay the course" in Vietnam, and then in March 1968 reversed course, after the Tet Offensive was a catastrophe for the Communists. A careerist mediocrity, in my opinion -- unworthy of commanding the 101st. You can be sure he bent over backwards to cover Dike's ass and get him credit he didn't deserve.

@@jaykaufman9782 In the series, Dike was awarded a Bronze Star for his action at Uden, Holland, with the 101st Airborne Division between 23 and 25 September 1944, in which he “organized and led scattered groups of parachutists in the successful defense of an important road junction on the vital Eindhoven Arnhem Supply Route against superior and repeated attacks, while completely surrounded." Dike was awarded a second Bronze Star for his action at Bastogne, in which "he personally removed from an exposed position, in full enemy view, three wounded members of his company, while under intense small arms fire" on 3 January 1945. In preparation for the 13 January 1945 attack on Foy, Belgium, E Company was attached to the 3rd Battalion, 506th PIR. Division Headquarters ordered the attack to begin at 0900 hours. During the assault, Carwood Lipton, at that time the company's first sergeant, described Dike as having "fallen apart." Clancy Lyall stated that he saw that Dike had been wounded in his right shoulder and that it was the wound, not panic, that caused Dike to stop. Dike survived the assault, and eventually returned to the rear in the company of a medic. Afterwards, he was transferred to 506th Regimental Headquarters to become an assistant operations officer. Dike then moved on to become, as a captain, an aide to General Maxwell Taylor, Commanding General, 101st Airborne Division. He later served in the Korean War. I am not saying He was a great leader that He was not the coward He was betrayed to be.

There is NO record that Dike was wounded at Foy. Just internet parroting rumors.

I think you’re confused. You really seem to be thinking of episode nine.

@@dgpatter Both of you are correct, I corrected it. I'm a moron

​@jeff-ni5cy no offense intended but I wish people would stop warning reactors about this or that episode. Let them go in completely unaware.

There is no official record that Dike was wounded at Foy. Internet rumor. Dike DID abandon his men during the heavy shelling, which understandably infuriated Winters and the enlisted men.