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My great uncle Carl Fenstermaker was in Easy Company! He was an Eagle Scout, meaning he dropped in 8 hours before everyone else with his British counterpart to light the drop zones. While they were on their way to the rendezvous point, they were both hit by German machine gun fire. They literally carried each other kilometers to the beaches and were picked up by a hospital ship, they never fought in the war again. I'm incredibly proud to have known his story; Fenstermakers have a long history of serving in our nation's armed forces, and you can find a Fenstermaker on every war memorial wall in Washington DC. Their legacy is why I chose to serve.

Dick Winters earned the right to take a tank home if he wanted....as well as many others.

Now I want to break out the "Easy Company" DVD set watch it again.... Thanks for all your hours of work......

Excellent! I stopped the video in order to preorder the Spiers book. Dale Dye does the forward. I will not let these men go quietly into the night. I will honor them, learn of them and teach my children about their valor and heroism.

This is a wonderful time capsule of world history! How could anyone (10 people) dislike this video??

I started watching your channel in 2019 just after returning from Normandy for the 75th anniversary. You do amazing work and I wish you all the success in brining History alive for millions of viewers!

Just order my limited edition version of the book. I am an army vet and watch the series around every Veterans Day. I have also read the Band of Brothers book. It is excellent.

Very excited about the American Artifacts series and boy what a start. I predict that this series should propel you to the 250,000 subscriber's and beyond. Thank you JD

Hats off to the curator of this amazing museum. His descriptions of these items are as good as one could hope for. I must return to Gettysburg just for this museum.

Another difference between the 2 M1911A1's- the mainspring housing that forms the rear of the grip- Major Winters has a flat housing while Gluth's has a rounded housing. I was an Army armorer in Europe during the Cold War for a Military Police Company (and also an MP) and would swap around the housings per the preference of each MP. I prefer the rounded- it fit my hand better.

Guns,Guns, and more Guns. It’s incredible that a lot of “Easys” Guns can be found in a Civil War museum in Gettysburg PA. Thanks JD for another amazing video.

I was friends with Ed Pepping from Easy Company. He was a medic and loved telling and educating everyone about his time in easy company and all his memories and pranks they use to do. They were great men from the greatest generation.

I've always thought that the Luger is one of the most beautiful firearms out there.

I know Jared personally. Him and I are in the same WWII Living History Group together, "The Furious Fourth". Jared has been pressing me and other group members to write books about our Grandfathers experiences during the war as well to tell the story of other vets like Jared and Erik have done. Great content JD!

Nice examples of a 1911 and a 1911A1. They are holy grail guns of mine!!!!

Mighty fine display you have there!

Great stuff. Watched several times. You guys can't make enough of the WWII paratrooper videos (in my opinion)!

I wish I would’ve known about this place when I visited Gettysburg 2 summers ago…

Best series i ever watched

Just when you think this channel couldn’t possibly get any better… Boom!

You’re knocking it out of the park. Keep up the great work

Good stuff. Thank you for going slow and letting us get a real good look at the artifacts. 👍

My Father WWII 9th Army 8th Armored Division Landed on Omaha Beach D-Day on June 6, 1944. First town St Mere EGlees, on to St Lo, in his words they got the sh-t kicked out of them in St Lo. Fought in the Battle of The Bulge where he carried two GIs under heavy fire to safety, he received the Medal of The Silver Star award in May of 45 for doing so. He also told me the 82nd Airborne Division jumped into the wrong place, He passed away 12/2002. Forever my hero! God Bless all that served

Another fantastic video!! Recently found your channel and needless to say I am hooked and have watched a ton of your videos and will keep watching them!

This channel is very underrated.

Brilliant!! Thank you for this and greetings from England.

Thanks for sharing those historical weapons. It's so amazing to know the history behind them. I have a few WW2 weapons but will never know what role they played during the war.

Excellent book. I’m almost finished with it now.👍🏻

I remember going to the museum when I was a kid, maybe 15 or so years ago. Definitely need to revisit the next time we go to Gettysburg as I'll actually probably appreciate it more now lol

Gonna love this series. Can't wait until the next one.

The pistol that the German officer surrendered to Mr Winters had never been fired and Winters wanted it to remain that way. So I hope it has remained in his family.

I read the book Hang Tough, it was a great read. I am looking forward to the new book coming out.

SWEEEEEEEEET! This just made me very happy

Super excited about ordering a copy of Hang Tough! And can’t wait for the next book as well!

Simply fascinating. Fantastic collection. Bye from Italy 🇮🇹

outstanding! its so much more personal when you see the things they carried up close. i hope i can make it to the museum one day.

Guns, guns, guns! Absolutley love your videos. Looking forward to coming to the Museum again soon. Thanks for sharing your items and your passion for preserving history JD and Erik.

Love the content my friend. Have a blessed day.

Wow! Just an amazing collection!

Very educational JD. Outstanding job.

Wow those wepons have sure seen somethings ! What a collection of history

I've always loved your Band of Brothers content, but this is a video I didn't know I needed. Just fantastic!

You kiddin' me man? This series is off to a powerful start. I'm so stoked to see what you have planned! I clicked my ACME 470 Clicker half a dozen times.

I spent 4 years in the 101st C1/503 Inf in the 70s. During my 20 years in, I was able to go to the eagle nest . What a flow of history that ran through my body.

Another great video! Thank you for enabling us to see so many great things about our great nation.

Still haven't made it there yet, this is the next best thing. Looking forward to more from this series 👍

Wow, that was great. Once shot a Star 45, but would really like to shoot the 1911 and the Luger - great show JD, keep it up 👍👍 cheers from South Africa

American Artifact, looking forwards to this series.

Read “Hang Tough”, it was great. I’ll be waiting for the next one about Spears. Love your videos! Really appreciate y’all taking the time to share this impressive collection with us. I hope I get the chance to come visit soon. Thanks again, guys.

One of the best episodes! Very interesting. My dad was in Europe from August of 1944 until December of 1945. Growing up, I knew he had been in some heavy fighting, such as the Battle of the Bulge and the crossing of the Remagen bridge. If we were watching a war movie or an episode of “ Combat”, I would ask him why he did pick up a German helmet, a rifle or other equipment. He would laugh and say that they didn’t have the time or room in their packs for a bunch of souvenirs. It added extra weight and could be noisy. After the war was another story. His division, the 99th, was northeast of Munich when the war ended. Much like the 101st, the 99th was moved toward the Alps to prevent a Nazi retreat into the mountains. For several days after the war ended, the 99th collected surrendered German weapons and equipment. As the Americans were in a static location for a period of time, this was the time for souvenir collecting! Dad told me that the engineers had dug a trench with an M-10 tank destroyer, that had a blade mounted on the front. As small arms were surrendered, most were field stripped and deposited in the trench. A few times, the M-10 would roll over the weapons at the bottom of the trench. Most common among the surrendered weapons were K-98s. Every so often, something different would show up. This happened with a G-43. Dad was a company commander by this time and would have to sign capture papers for German weapons being brought back to the US. It also gave him a chance to pick something for himself. He set aside the G-43 and brought it back. His was not a sniper version but interesting none the less. Often called, “Hitler’s Garand”, the G-43 was Germany’s answer to a semi-automatic rifle. Interestingly, Germany and England went into WWII with basically the same rifle as WWI. Several years ago, my mother and I donated that G-43 to the local museum in my hometown. The staff had not seen a German rifle like it. It is still on display there.

Never clicked on a video so fast!!

You hit 3 of my hot buttons in one video. Great job.👍

I wore out my first tin of BoB DVDs, so had to grab a 2nd. Great series. Another top notch vid, JD!

That DVD on' Band of Brothers' is just excellent...

What an amazing collection! Excited for this new series, such a great idea. 👍🏻

You are awesome dude. Thanks for your work sir!

OMG, You are where you belong.. around the Easy group. Should be interesting and hope it carries the BoB flavour 😊

Oh, I just love the American Artifacts series! This is SO fascinating to see and hear all the stories and artifacts from famus battles! Keep up this fantastic work!!!! Greetings from Sweden!

I hope to travel to Gettysburg next summer to see the museum and a lot more. I didn't realize until this series of videos in the museum just how much they have that I'm most interested in. I had a bit of a WW1/WW2 collection which I had given away and sold off years ago. I'm reading Dicks book Beyond Band of Brothers right now. I highly recommend it if you've read Band of Brothers and or seen the mini-series. Beyond goes into details left out of BoB. I don't know that Beyond BoB is still in print. If not I'm willing to share it with the right people.

"Don't buy the Story" How can you not on that one!!!!! Wow! Thank you for sharing!

Love WWII and love Band of Brothers. You’re living the life I want to be living. S

Fantastic video absolutely enjoyed it and I would love to go to this museum and JD have you got Any plans to come to England in the future 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Great video. Really enjoyed this one a lot

Excellent episode! In high school I read the book and then I was a big fan of the series. Thank you for the very informative video. You are preserving history in a creative way!

Just awesome to me to see a movie come to life about one of my favorite movie series

Outstanding!

Enjoyed that. Thank you!

Looking at Forrest Guth's M1911A1 I can see where the front of the slide was cut for a dovetailed front sight, which like the curator said somehow fell off at some point. A lot of guys in the post-war years did things to their 1911s like add bigger sights. They are not original to the pistol as it was supposed to have sights similar to Dick Winters'.

Great video! Greetings from Guatemala, I’m a big WWII and BOB fan! Always enjoying your work. Hope someday visit the Gettysburg Museum.

Keep the videos coming JD! Love them brother… we’re going to get you to the pacific one of these days 😏

love, love, love this channel, and the content. super job guys, and please keep it up

This is great! Thanks for sharing.👍😁👍

My buddy's father was in WW2. When we were teens he showed us his Luger that he brought back. I remember the swastika on it.

I just discovered this channel. WW2 is my favorite era of US/ World history. All of these videos are very interesting.

Crazy to think how many enemies those firearms put an end to

I love easy company got stuff from my collection of easy company

Absolutely awesome !! As time goes by, Eric gets better and better stuff !! I love it !!

just ordered Hang Tough...still bummed the museum was closed during my trip to Gettysburg. Keep up the great videos!

that G-43 is beautiful. I need to drive back out to gettysburgh and tour your museum.

Incredible to think about what life that was taken by these weapons. The stories they tell and the events they were present in.

Great Videos

Love your series guys! Nice job!

Guns? Did somebody say guns? 😀 I tell you I am putting visiting this museum on my bucket list. I find all of these artifacts fascinating.

Just love your videos with this museu. Just ordered one of the books from the museum.!

Going to preorder that book!!! 😊😊😊😊

I just watched a video of pawn stars and the guy who runs the museum was on it. He was trying to sell a piece of a blood stained flooring to them, but they didn't buy it from him.

Looks like a good museum. I like to study the provenance of the items to see if they are really what he says they are.

That was a really cool video. Band of brothers is hands down my absolute favorite series HBO ever did. Boardwalk empire #2 and the pacific #3 for me. I wanted to love the pacific like I did with band of brothers since I served on the Marine Corps from 98 till 04. I dont know what it was but it didn't draw me in like band of brothers did. Maybe I'll have to watch it again to see if my opinion changes. It was great don't get me wrong but band of brothers was done so well I found myself watching and calling these dude by their names like I've known them for 40 years. Awesome that you guys have actual items from the actual men in easy company. Dick winters story in the series was amazing in how much respect the men under had for him even when they thought he was a quaker. Lol . The ending of the series when they interviewed the remaining men had me in tears. Thank all of those who have served and Semper Fi

Just got back from Gettysburg and it was closed for private event both days :(

So buying that Lt.Speirs book! Great work guys.

g41(walther/Mauser) came before the g43. I'm lucky enough to have the walther variant

Cant wait for the next episode! The 1st thing on my list (when ill visit America in the future) is this museum!

Awesome video and great collection of artifacts down there!

There is a lot of great info in this video. I learned a lot. Thank you!

What an absolutely amazing collection! I recently have gotten the means to travel to Europe (job benefits) and I plan to take my father to see Normandy and all the locations from Band of Brothers. I'm going to need to get over to the museum and see these artifacts in person!

Great stuff brother , thank you for sharing . Stay safe on your travels .

Back to your roots. Amazing. Also, your videos of Sheridan, a few hours from me, awesome. I never knew a WWII bomber had crashed there. I was more invested in the Civil War scene.

Loved the movie & history of it all.

Great content as always, gentlemen.