I was looking in the comments and some stood out When I asked If its a true story , I MEANT HOW CLOSE TO history is it . When I said who wrote it I meant who took care of collecting the details, puting everyhting in order etc. OF COURSE IS HISTORY .... thats why I asked how close is it followed . My first language is not English so its a bit more difficult sometimes to express what exactly I mean espacially if there are lots of emotions involved . Thank you to everyone that took they time and explained and answered my questions .

My father was a DDay veteran. After I saw the movie I told him to not see it. He eventually did see the movie and said that he found the experience healing. He said that the movie was really how it was. Weeks later I met a man who grew up in Normandy France. I told him about my father. He told me to tell my father "Thank you very much". When I passed this along to my father he cried. One of the very few times I had ever seen him cry. Years later I was able to visit Normandy and the cemetery in the opening scene of the movie. A friend gathered a jar of sand for me to give to my father. For the rest of his life, that jar was never more than an arm's length away. When my father died we added some of the sand to his ashes. There is a scene on the beach where a soldier with USN on his helmet tells Cpt Miller to move away from an obstacle because he is going to blow it. That is what my father did on DDay. He was a member of NCDU, Naval Combat Demolition Unit, (which later became the Navy SEALS), they were landed minutes ahead of the invasion and tasked with blowing up the obstacles. They landed at low tide. The tide on Omaha comes in very fast. My son and I counted 400 paces from the low water line to the first cover on the beach. One other item. About the use of morphine ... one for pain ... two for eternity

I lived in Caen, Normandy in the Spring of 1998. During the Allied invasion in 1944, about 80% of the city was destroyed by Allied bombing. Over 50 years later, the local residents were still grateful to the Americans, Canadians and British for liberating them. The American and German cemeteries and the beaches and museums in Normandy are something to behold. Just a few months after my semester in Normandy, I was sitting in a Wisconsin movie theater, watching "Saving Private Ryan" on four separate occasions. The opening scene in the American cemetery gave me chills, as I had walked those same paths just a few months before. The film still affects me to this day.

My grandfather was shot and wounded in the Ardennes on Christmas eve 1944. He wanted to go see this movie with me. I was 18. The same age he was in ‘44. He got up and walked out after 5 minutes with tears streaming out of his eyes. He died in ‘99 about a year later. We had one conversation about his experiences overseas. That’s between he and I. I miss him every day.

This is what my grandfather was doing on his 30th birthday. He was in the fourth wave with the tankers. Thanks for watching this, Biss. FUBAR is F**ked Up Beyond Any Recognition.

Gripe means to complain. P.O.W. is Prisoner of War I must've seen this movie 30 times or more. "Tell me I'm a good man" still makes me cry every time.

The storming the beaches scene was even more horrifying in real life. That single beach landed cost roughly the same amount of American lives as the entire war in Afghanistan. Those men went through hell and came out the otherside

A "bangalore" is a tool more than a weapon. It's an explosive that is attached to a long tube that is used to blow up obstacles, like barbed wire, that you can't move directly and that would impede your movement. So it's a grenade on a stick. I am not really sure what they were blowing up in this film (it may have been barbed wire), but presumably they needed to clear it to be able to move forward. Also, in the scene at 10:07 (the "Look I washed for supper" scene), the Wermacht soldier was saying, in Czech, "Please don’t shoot me! I am not German, I am Czech, I didn’t kill anyone! I am Czech!" So the point was that you're not supposed to agree with the soldiers executing those men as they were probably conscripted against their will.

STRONGLY recommend the "Band of Brothers" 10-part mini-series for you to watch. It is focused on a single group (Easy Company) from their jump into Normandy (D-Day) until the end of the war. Since it is a 10-part series, it gives you a better chance to get to know the men involved, as well as understand the way they interact with each other. While it has some series action moments through the series, it also has some highly respectable "dramatic moments" where characters simply talk to each other or bond through sharing and helping each other. As far as "something you would like"? I'm not sure. Most people will say that you "will like it" because of how wonderful they were with the details and the way the actors did their jobs playing the parts. BUT, being a "war based series"? I'm not sure if that would be "your taste of things to watch".

Honestly, the only scene that still hits me so bad is seeing Ryan’s mother collapse on her front porch at the sight of the officer and the priest getting out of the car. No mother on this earth deserves that. No mother on any corner of this world deserves that pain.

After all these years, the first 30 minutes is still the most intense first 30 minutes of a movie that I have seen. This movie is one of the main reasons why Steven Spielberg is at the top of my list for the best director of all time. RIP to all those brave men who lost their lives. I really enjoyed your reaction to this classic which i give a 5 out of 5. Thanks Biss!!!

Fun fact: Tom Hanks is a huge typewriter enthusiast so that bit with the new translator was a nod to him.

Your feelings for the soldiers trying to surrender is absolutely spot on. As a veteran who served during Desert Storm through the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan after 9/11, it is a difficult thing to have to make a decision in the heat of battle as well as what to do with a Prisoner Of War when you have no way of taking him with you or ensuring that he will not take up arms against you later. This exact scene was used in leadership school to show the difficulties involved in a no win situation. No one should give you any crap about your concern for human life.

Your grasp of military terminology and use of it, always in context, is great.

4:29 "Who wrote this?" History wrote this, this was so accurate that when it was first screened by the survivors of D-Day, they had crisis counselors in the lobby to help with PTSD (shell shock)... I saw this in the theater with my family (3 generations of USMC) And we were all shook 😳 on how life like they made this😢

This film goes down as one of that all time greatest movies ever made. I saw it 25 years ago when it came out and it still affects me to this day. Thanks for another great reaction.

I absolutely love that you know some of the jargon and hand signals used. You seem very knowledgeable on the subject matter already, so here’s some more tidbits of info that you may have missed in the film: 1. During the sniper scene, Jackson is seen switching out his scope to make the long range shot. While the M1903A4 Springfield did have a removable scope, it was not something that was done in the field and US snipers weren’t issued an extra scope for long range shooting. 2. This is probably the only film I know that features both fire rates of the M1918A2 BAR (Rieben’s gun). Unlike most firearms that have a selector lever that switches between semi automatic and full automatic, the M1918A2 can switch between two different full auto settings. The slow auto fires the gun around 400 RPM, the fast auto fires it around 600 RPM. 3. Flamethrowers weren’t actually used during the landing at Omaha Beach. The operators were landed as regular infantry, but their weapons were held back in the third wave. By the time they had a chance to retrieve their weapons, most of the defenses at the beachhead had been secured, so there was no opportunity to use them. 4. Miller’s team is basically the WWII equivalent of a modern day special forces team. Originally trained by the British commandos, the Ranger battalions were assigned the most dangerous jobs that needed to be carried out by a small group of specialized infantry. By comparison, Upham is an intelligence soldier made to translate maps and documents. It’d be like sticking a rear-echelon soldier into a Navy SEAL platoon and expecting him to perform the same. Had Miller’s two previous translators not been killed, Upham wouldn’t have gone on the mission. 5. While Saving Private Ryan gets the atmosphere of the Omaha beach landings, it’s always important to remember that the real Omaha Beach was MUCH worse than what was shown on screen. It took almost 4 hours to move inland to attack the defenses, which were much farther back from the beach head and better camouflaged. 6. The German machine gun used to mow down the Americans on the beach is still being used today by the German military, it was that good in combat. In fact, some modern day German soldiers training on the MG3 have said that some of the parts on their guns have 1940s markings on them. It’s literally the same gun, just converted to a modern day round.

That young soldier you kept saying was familiar to you was in The Green Mile. He was the youngest guard there.

This was made with the aid of veterans who were there on that day. I was lucky to go to the Charity premier in the UK and met several veterans who were there on the beach. They informed me that it was a true representation of what happened on the beach

35:15 , the strategy the captain is implementing calls for a push from the center, up the right, and up the left, to swarm the machine gun nest, the idea is that there’s only one gunner, so he can only aim in one place, so whoever is pinned stays and whoever isn’t moves, and you just move up and up until you’re on top of gunner unit at the top of the hill. Why no one wants to go left is because they’re positioned on the right of the area of engagement, so if you’re going right, you’re already on your side you need to push from, if middle, you need to traverse some ground to get to the middle, but if you’re moving left, you must traverse the entire field of combat and then, assuming you arrive safely, push the left flank. He tells the sergeant he isn’t pushing left because Horvath is a, chubby boy, so, the idea of a slower runner pushing all the way across then keeping pace to move up is a terrible idea. But, such was WWII field tactics, usually three prongs and move forward, once close, toss grenades. Something I think a lot of people don’t know about WWII is the amount of grenades people would toss, it was a lot. It was a large portion of the strategy itself haha

53:11 - That "open tank" is a self-propelled anti-tank gun (also known as a tank destroyer) and not a true tank. During WWII Germany produced a variety of self-propelled guns by mounting anti-tank guns or howitzers on top of the chassis of older/obsolete tanks and then partially surrounding the guns with armored panels to provide some degree of protection for the gun crews. The Marder III was the most numerous of the WWII German open-top self-propelled anti-tank guns. The reproduction vehicle used in the movie might represent a Marder III. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marder_III

When this movie was in cinemas and showed to veterans from ww2 a lot of them left after the opening scene because it was too real for them.

"I Usually say: God grant me patience, because if you give me strength I might kill them all" BissCute - April, 2023

Once you've recovered fully from this amazing film, I suggest the equally amazing 'Hacksaw Ridge'. The acting in that movie is phenominal!

This movie is based on a true story, but in the real story it was later discovered that one of the brothers was in a prisoner camp and reunited with the family after the war.

You left in the Bixby Letter! It's my favorite part of the movie (besides being told to 'earn it') and you're possibly the first reactor that gave it the attention.

Rivian and Upham lived ...they were the ones who confirmed the story. Spielberg made sure that this movie was as historically accurate as possible. We can't forget that war...

Two things for you, first is there was a thing that came out because of this war called the "Sullivan Act". It made it where family members could not serve in the same company together and most tried to keep them out of the same theater. Second you wanted to know what F.U.B.A.R stood for it is F---ed Up Beyond All Recognition. Great reaction Lady B to a truly great movie.

The veterans who were at the invasion of Normandy and went to see this movie cried or just left - it was that traumatizing to their memories. That cemetery represented at the beginning is one of SEVERAL that actually exist.

While many of the main character deaths hit me harder, the scene where the guy stops to pick up his own arm affects me more than any other of the random battle scenes

Good Job, Hon. 👍 Quite an emotional response to this movie. It affects all of us who know the sacrifices these soldiers had to endure. The Greatest Generation. I'm Subscribed! Love Always, from Texas.❤

Your comment about being a runner made me want to share a bit of family trivia. My grandfather was a corporal and trained soldiers as motorcycle messengers while stationed in Texas during World War II. He ended up getting seriously injured in a motorcycle accident and got an honorable discharge, so he never went to Europe or the Pacific, but he knew his job was training men to die. If you are a messenger, or in the case of this film, a runner...you are carrying vital information that needs to be passed between two officers (usually), and the enemy knew that, so you had a huge target on your back. My grandfather trained men who most likely never came home. He never watched war movies, ever, and never would have watched this film...and he never even witnessed the horrors of war. All he knew, was that more than half the boys he grew up with, never came home from the war...and it weighed heavily on him. I had two other grandfathers who served, one of them was a gunner on an aircraft carrier in Korea. My family was exceedingly fortunate, none of my grandfathers died in war, and both my father and mother had siblings who served during Vietnam...my mother's elder brother was a Marine pilot and an officer who flew combat missions in Vietnam, after the war he became a Naval dentist and retired as a colonel in the late 80's or early 90's; my father had three brothers who served during the war, two of them in-country..."in the shit" if you will...one was a grunt, an infantryman, the other a corporal who was a gunner on an APV team...all of my uncles returned home with their bodies intact, and only late in life were any of them willing to talk about their experiences with family members or friends who didn't serve...vets...Vietnam vets in particular, rarely talk about the war except among other veterans. I'm sure each of them carry with them some form of personal trauma. Many of my classmates in school had fathers who served in the war as well...and likewise, were lucky enough to come home and start families. My talks with them have been equally moving. When they talk about buddies they met in the war, who didn't come home...or when they talk about visiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial...you can't help but be brought to tears. Anyway, that covers my family's involvement in war.

It’s hard to take prisoners while still in combat. Normally prisoners are taken after one side surrenders because it’s virtually impossible to guard prisoners in a battle.

"On the level" means "I am telling the truth". If you use a carpenter's level to level, say, a picture frame, then once it is level you can say that it is "true". That's where that saying comes from. "Gripe" means complaint, but a little more emotional. "Defilade" means a place that has no line of site to another place. They were seeking defilade from the machinegun. Hope that helps. :)

Fun Fact: private Ryan’s story about the last time he saw his brothers in the barn with the ugly girl was completely improvised by Matt Damon on the spot. That’s why I Tom Hanks has such a weird look on his face and at one moment you can briefly see him glimpse off to the side of the camera; that was actually Tom Hanks looking at Steven Spielberg to see if he wanted him to go along with it, and Spielberg gave him the hand signal to keep filming. As a result, we got one of the most memorable human moments from this whole movie.

Can you imagine seeing this in a Cinema with the surround sound for the first time. When I saw it, the whole cinema was in shock after the first couple of minutes of the landing. Not often that a movie just throws you in to the most gory scene you have ever witnessed

Thanks for this great and honestly reaction. The way that you transmite your feelings is amazing. Congratulations.

note: a "bangalore" is a type of demolition charge, they tubes filled with explosives, these tubes can be connected one behind other, usually used to clear a path in a minefield, or barbwire.

Biss, your empathy for the German soldiers surrendering is spot on. Not shooting and killing prisoners of war out of vengeance is also what makes us humans. There isn't really a good or bad side in war, just soldiers from different countries and belligerents being put there by their leaders. A little fact about this film, it is loosely based on the 4 Niland brothers. At 1 point 3 of them were thought to have been killed in action, the Army decided to save the last surviving brother (also a paratrooper dropped during D-Day) and send him home. It was eventually found out that another brother (a fighter or bomber pilot) was still alive, being held as a prisoner of war after his plane got shot down.

The Catholic Sniper that you recognized is Barry Pepper, who was also in The Green Mile, if you watched that one. On a personal note, my grandfather was a tank driver on D-Day, but I didn't get a lot of talk out of him about it. He did not live long enough to see this movie.

You do know now I hope that this opening sequence in the movie is based on the D-day landings at Normandy in World War 2 and has been described as the most realistic depiction ever filmed of what that battle was like.

My dad served in the Middle East through a good portion of my childhood. Watching war movies was sort of my way of trying to feel a connection to him when he was away, and I've watched a bunch even after he came home. But he would never watch them with me. "Saving Private Ryan" is the one exception he ever made. He sat like a statue through most of it, but by the end, he was in tears, and he NEVER cries. We've had our share of tragedies in my family and I've only seen him cry twice. One of which was from watching this movie. This movie is one of the best war movies I've seen. Someone in my family served during almost every war since the first world war, but World War II was the exception. No one in my family was part of WWII.

"This is so bloody, so violent". This was D-Day. This was what it was like on that day for those soldiers storming the beaches of Normandy. Veterans who watched this movie had to leave because for them it was so accurate it brought it all rushing back to them. They said that the only thing missing was the smell of blood and diesel, and there were a LOT more bodies. The beaches were stained red for weeks afterward from this offensive. This is why no one should seek to make war on others, but should be ready to defend against those who are insane enough to do so. "Bangalores" are bangalore torpedoes, used by Army engineers to clear anti-infantry land obstructions so that friendly troops can advance. They used them to take down barbed wire and low earthworks so that the infantry could move forward without slowing down. The helmet wouldn't have saved that guy either, he got EXTREMELY lucky with the one that deflected since it hit at such a crazy angle. Those helmets were basically just hard hats to protect from explosion debris, and would not stop a straight shot in the slightest. The one soldier also told the others to let them burn when they flamed the bunker not to save ammo, but to prolong the German soldiers' suffering as they burned to death. The surrendering soldiers were Czech conscripts (compulsory military service) who were saying in Czech "We are Czech! We didn't kill anyone, we surrender!"

Unfortunately the first waves were going to take alot of casualties. It was the worst at Omaha beach but all the beaches were rough in the beginning. 2500 us soldiers died on Omaha beach which is the beach shown in the movie.

The guy on the stairs who lets Upum live is not the same guy they captured and released. That POW blindfolded guy IS the one who shoots Tom Hanks and gets killed by Upum at the end when he recognizes him though! They look alike for sure. The guy on the stairs who killed our jewish teamate let Upum live aparently because he could see he was a cowarding wreck and maybe was himself overcoming the stress of the standoff knife wrestling kill he just partook in.?

In the office scenes when they figure out Ryan has brothers, they mention " the Sullivan's" those were 4 brothers from Waterloo Iowa ( USA) who were killed on the same ship in the same battle. In WW 2

4:30 History wrote this. What was shown was even less bloody and violent than the real landing. A veteran was once asked how the landing in the movie was portrayed compared to the real thing, and the veteran replied something along the lines of: "Should have been more bodies."

Your full reaction on patreon made me so happy. SO GOOD!

A lot of reactors get confused between the German prisoner that they let go and the German who killed Mellish. They were two different Germans and wore different uniforms. The German that they let go earlier was a regular Wehrmacht soldier but the German who killed Hellish was an SS soldier. The German who re-appeared a little later after Hellish was killed, and who shot Tom Hanks before Upham stopped him and executed him, THAT guy was the same guy that they let go earlier.

I was an Army officer in the 1980s. Your general feelings about right and wrong are spot on, in fact one of the books we had to read was titled War, Morality, and the Military Profession. You need to balance your, and your men's, humanity against your mission, your job. As a soldier, you have to accept you may take a life, AND may give up yours. As an officer, think about ordering others into harms way, it's gut-wrenching. You always have to keep in mind the big picture, and what this movie is so good at is showing the big picture through a bunch of small pictures. Oh, there are 7 basic Military maneuvers if I remember. The is the frontal attack, there is the single envelopment, and the double envelopment. When the captain was send his guys left and right...double envelopment. Keeps the enemy focus off a single point. Sorry for the detail. The bridge they are covering I think is part of Operation Marketgarden, covered in the movie A Bridge Too Far.

I didn’t think you were going to cry. When you did I only wished I could comfort you. Your reaction was truly touching.

In my top three all time movies… Great reaction

Biss, I have probably watched 20 reaction videos to this movie, none better than yours, 5 stars for you, looking forward to the next one.✴✴✴✴✴

10:35 they're breaking down because they found a 'Hitler Youth Knife' meaning the soldiers they just killed in that bunker were children.

My Grandfather serve with Sergeant Frederick Niland in 501 company, Sergeant Frederick Niland was the inspiration for this movie he had 3 brothers that were killed in Action. This movie is based on a true story.

Powerful..... Hope your back to feeling normal soon, it sucks being sick. I knew your observations of this movie were going to be on point and unique at the same time and you did not disappoint. I love those wrinkles and all the other expressions you have....they are like the icing on the cake to your reactions. ✌❤🍻

Steven Spielberg's best movie. Honestly, it was one of the best reaction I have seen. You are very good person ❤️

ur reaction was so real it humbled me thank u young queen much respect so glad i found ur channel

i loved the German translation. ive seen this movie so many times and find something new every time and the small parts of German translated throughout the film was awesome !

Thanks for a very precious and thoughtful reaction. My father fought in that war and one of my uncles as well. One in the Air Force and one in the Navy. They both saw heavy action. In a world full of sin and cruelty even the Bible teaches that “there is a time to kill“. Murder of course, is a sin. my dad struggled knowing that he also bombed many civilians though he hoped he saved many more. Looking for the blessed day of redemption when Christ returns on a “war horse” but ultimately brings peace when “the lion will lay down with the lamb” Thanks again and praying God‘s best for you.

Seeing this in the cinema when it came out was an unforgettable experience. This same year another incredible war movie came out called THE THIN RED LINE, and they are very, very different indeed.

The powder on the wound is sufa powder, and you were correct, it's to mix with the blood and help sterilize the wound by discouraging and bacterial infections.

During WWII, my grandfathers were both conscripts in the Austro-Hungarian army; one of them was a military cook. They didn't even want to be there but they did what they had to do. They both made it home to their families, a privilege I know countless other young men at that time didn't have. I grieve for all who suffered and died during that terrible time. 😔

True story 😪Biss remember black sabbath, the song.war pigs. In the lyrics thay say politicians start the war but poor people are fighting. War is HELL and still it's happening today 😢

We watched this movie in history class . It's a classic and gives you a glimpse of what war was like back in the 1940s on the European side . The Pacific side of war was much more intense

That letter from Lincoln was so eloquent and powerful.. That sounded just like him, he was a great writer and orator.

1. Many WWII vets left the theaters because the D-Day battle scenes were so realistic. 2. The German Captain Miller was talked into letting go is the same one that killed him. Upham finally put him down. 3. The story Ryan tells Miller about the last time he saw his brothers was made up by Matt Damon. He was told to say something interesting, so he did, and it was kept in the movie. 4. There really was a USS Sullivans(DD- 68) dedicated to the brothers lost on one ship. That's why all brother soldiers/sailors from one family can't be assigned to the same command. 5. I did 24 years in the US Navy. My favorite character is Private Jackson/sniper and my second favorite is Sargent Horvath. RIP Tom Sizemore😇 6. Sizemore also played Boxman in "Flight of the Intruder", a movie I'm in briefly. The guy you thought you recognize is Private Jackson/Barry Pepper, he played Dean Stanton in "The Green Mile".😘

I knew a man at my church who was apart of the first wave in Normandy. He said that as realistic as this film was, it was much worse. The greatest generation indeed.

Band of Brothers is a great follow up to this. Stephen Speilberg and Tom Hanks made it after this movie. It's a TRUE STORY account of the men in the 101st airbone in WW2. It would be an honor to watch you react to the mini series (10 episodes)

You’re one of the only ppl not to shit on upham for freezing on the stairs. Ppl forget he was not trained like the rest, he was young and scared.

Biss, I love how sincere your reactions are, you absolutely wear your heart on your sleeve, and when you laugh we laugh, and when you cry we cry. I appreciate that you're keeping it real, that you're obvi not hamming it up for the sake of likes. You're bonafide!

The powder they used at the scene where the medic got hit, is an special powder wich should stop the bleeding. It is still in use today. I work as an emt and we use that powder too on the ambulance.

Hey Bisscute, I loved your reaction. If you haven't seen Jojo Rabbit or Only The Brave with Josh Brolin, they are 2 GREAT movies. The 2 Deadpool movies are very funny with a lot of action. Keep up the reactions.

The guy collecting the dirt is Tom Sizemore. He recently died

I’ve seen this movie a million times and it always chokes me up. Seeing you cry really got me close 😢. Great reaction!! You seem like a very sweet person and it’s refreshing to see another person get lost in a great film 🎥. 👌

Great review as usual! It's important to maintain a sense of humor in combat, it helps you maintain your sanity a little bit.

If you like this, you should watch the tv series " Band of Brothers" that they made a few years after this.

The Battle at the beginning was D-Day the Battle at Normandy. Very real. My grandmother's uncle died in this battle.

16:26 There was an air attack on the beach before the beach landing, but the bomber planes missed most of the fortifications by several kilometers. The reason was that there was a storm and it made it difficult for the bomber planes to see their targets.

the plot of the story is fictional but the war itself actually happened. the opening battle scene is said to be the most realistic depiction of DDay

That scene with the mother receiving the news about her sons kills me every time I watch this film.

I always love your reactions. So genuine. Have a great night.

This movie was based on the true story of the Nyland brothers during World War 2. Steven Spielberg directed this movie and the scenes depicting the landing at Normandy were so realistic that it triggered PTSD in World War 2 veterans. I love you and love watching your reactions. I subscribed the first time I watched you.

You should react to Kelly's Heroes. It's a very different type of war film.

Thank you for your heartfelt expressions and emotions! I cried seeing you cry! I come from a military family, (34 of us in the 1st gulf war 1991, fighter pilots to Infantry), Uncles who fought in Vietnam (Green Beret - Special forces)! I was 10 years U.S. Navy, 4 years U.S. Army (Sgt). I've been shot 3 times, blown up 2 times, cut & stabbed in hand-to-hand combat, 2 wars and a revolution. I've known the pain! I pray you never have to!!! Your sweet babe!!

Biss, I love your reactions. It broke my heart to see your face full of tears. I really appreciate your reaction for this.

They actually interviewed survivors of the beach scene and that is what happened. Great review young lady as always. Stay safe

Realmente esse filme é ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, e claro que a reação também é ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐!!!!

The two soldiers who were shot trying to surrender were Czech conscripts, captured and pressed into service by the Germans. They weren't there voluntarily and didn't want to fight for Germany. The powder they used on Wade is called "sulfa powder." Sulfa powder was a coagulant that induced blood-clotting, helping stop or mitigate bleeding to make the wound easier to treat and also prevent blood loss.

We had a veteran from the 82nd ww2 in town. Hardest working man ive ever met. Right before i went to afghanistan the first time, we watched this. He said ge could smell the sand and explosions and blood. 12 years later, after i got crippled on my last deployment, i had that experience in college watching a bill murray movie set during ww1. So wierd to experience

Fantastic movie and great recreation. War itself is FUBAR.

Reminds me of my grandpa. North Africa , Big Red 1. Took a load of shrapnel and fortunately made it home.

Fun Fact: Matt Damon was actually the original actor marvel wanted to play Captain America.

Bisscute, you are such a good person and even though I’ve seen this movie before, when you got emotional, it made me emotional. My father was in the Navy on an LST (Landing Ship Tank- the ships with the huge front doors that would open to unload tanks and other vehicles on the beach) during D-Day, but I was too young and dumb to ask him details about his service before he died of cancer.

No sé por qué esta película no ganó en los premios Oscar siendo la mejor en muchos sentidos.

This was loosely based on the Sullivan Brothers who served on the same ship and all were killed. My great aunt had four sons serve, two were killed(Pancho and Joaquin) My Uncles Joe and Memo survived. Two of the most humble and honorable people I was lucky enough to have known. RIP tíos

I remember my father and i mowed the grass and lawn for a man named Bob Irving. He was on Omaha beach on the first landing wave. He took me and my father inside one day and showed us all his medals and patches. He said he did not even do anything and he did not think if himself as a hero. He also told us that the opening to this movie was 100% accurate. He said there was only 1 flaw. It was not 20 or 30 minutes to break through the german defensives but 7 hours on the beach. The only reason they where finally able to break through the German defensive line was because the germans were finally running low on ammunition

My father in law was a side gunner on a B-24 Liberator. I could never get him to talk about his experiences. My mother in law told me that he never mentioned the war to her. He locked his medals up and no one ever saw them, not even his children. He passed away in 2017.

Hi Bisscute, other world war 2 movies I highly recommend for to react to are Kelly's Heroes (1970) it's an action comedy set in the aftermath of D-Day about a platoon of American soldiers who use a 3 day break from fighting to go after 16 million dollars worth of gold that's hidden behind enemy lines... + Memphis Belle (1990) it's based on the true story of the first US Army Air Corps B17 bomber plane's crew to complete it's 25 mission tour of duty in Europe in 1943. I love your channel/reactions :)

It's OK to sit and absorb a scene. You don't have to talk every few minutes. You miss key plot points when rambling. We can see what you are thinking through your emotions. This is the main pull of this craze of reaction channels.