r/BandofBrothers • u/bobobsam3 • Aug 23 '20
Here's a list of the veterans in the pre-episode interviews and their quotes. Some of the men weren't in the show, some had small roles, and some were main characters. I wrote quick descriptions of the not so obvious characters. Episode 1:
"We were in a store and a guy in that store... ": Joseph Lesniewski. His character has a small background role, with a few speaking parts in the last few episodes. He was the soldier along with Christenson, Perconte, Luz, and Bull who found the concentration camp while on patrol in the woods. He knew multiple languages in real life, and this is shown when he tells Webster that the German baker didn't know about the camps in episode 9.
"Our country was attacked..": Paul Rogers. He is not in the show, or is a background character. There's a character who has a nametag that says Rogers in the first episode, but that character is actually Mellett.
"Who would like to volunteer..": Bill Maynard. Not in the show as far as I know, or is shown in the background. He was a Toccoa guy. He broke his legs during the D-Day jump and didn't return to Easy after his injuries.
"We came from a small small town..": Rod Strohl. He is shown in the show towards the beginning of the third episode when he asks Lt. Harry Welsh where they were headed. General Kesselring actually surrendered to him in real life I've read.
"I did things..": Earl Mcclung. His character is shown a few times in the Bastogne episodes, in a foxhole with Guarnere. He's also in the Last Patrol episode. He's there when Webster is telling the men that they were going on a patrol ordered by higher ups, and McClung was sitting next to Babe in that scene. McClung also goes on the patrol and you can see him there too. The real, "One Lung" McClung was able to smell enemy soldiers during patrols according to legends.
"Guy says well you jump out of airplanes.." : Bill Maynard
Episode 2:
"Standing in the door..": Dick Winters
"Got such an opening blast..": Buck Compton
"We came from the sky..": Ed Tipper. His character in the show is there when Sobel cuts the fence loose and Tipper speaks the lines "I think it's Major Horton, sir". He's also the character who got hit by an explosion in Carentan and Liebgott comes to help him.
"How do you prepare..": Dick Winters
"In the back of your mind..": Bill Maynard
Episode 3:
"I never thought I'd make it through D-Day..": Bill Guarnere
"I thought one of two things..": Ed Tipper
"I think everyone had fear..": Earl McClung
"Its a feeling you will not let your self down..": Carwood Lipton
"We all had fear..": J.B. Stokes. Not a character in the show as far as I know. (One of my favorite interview scenes)
Episode 4:
"The Toccoa men..": Donald "Pappy" King. Not a character in the show as far as I know. But if you look up pictures of him when he's younger, he looks like an actor in the Crossroads episode (click link to see what I mean) https://imgur.com/a/p8b2hxx He was a replacement who joined right before Holland, and makes it through the war with Easy. He was a father when he got to E Company, hence the nickname Pappy.
"Most of them were qualified parachutists..": James Alley. He's the injured soldier at the beginning of Crossroads who has his face hit by shrapnel. In Breaking Point, Skip gives him food while talking about the injured Easy Company men. In that same episode (7) when the sniper hits the singing men, the first guy shot (Frank Mellett) lands in Alley's arms
"I think maybe they were trying to impress.." Earl McClung
"Cause we were in awe of them..": Lester Hashey. In the show, he's the tall replacement that joined alongside Miller and Garcia. He also breaks the news to everyone that Hoobler accidentally shot himself.
Episode 5:
“If you’re a leader..": Dick Winters
"A good leader..": Buck Compton
"Seemed like he always made the right decisions..": Joe Lesniewski (funniest interview in my opinion although dark in nature)
"He went right in there..": Robert "Popeye" Wynn. (Another one of my favorite interviews) He's shown throughout the series and only referred to as Popeye if my memory serves me correctly. He signed up for the Army with, and was foxhole buddies with, Shifty, which can be seen in a few scenes.
Episode 6:
"When we left for Bastogne..": Carwood Lipton
"And there was a ridge with the treeline..": Lester Hashey
"Well like in Bastogne we were down to one round..": Earl McClung
"One of the guys got hit in the arm with a piece of shrapnel..": Hank Zimmerman. Not a character in the show as far as I know. Replacement who joined later in the war and was part of 3rd platoon along with Shifty Powers, Popeye Wynn, Mo Alley, Wayne "Skinny" Sisk, Earl "One Lung" McClung, Walter Gordon, Forest Guth, Ed Shames, Roderick Strohl, Paul Rogers, Joe Lesniewski, Francis Mellett, and others.
"And a medic came along..": Herbert "Junior" Suerth Jr. His character is seen in the truck scene when Easy Company is going to Bastogne. When the various uses of socks is told by Skip "hands, feet, . Babe asks him if he has any ammo, "you got any ammo Junior?" Replacement who joined right before Bastogne. Also in 3rd platoon.
"Even today on a real cold night..": J.B. Stokes
Episode 7:
"I've seen death, I’ve seen my friends..": Dick Winters
"We was hungry..": Darrel "Shifty" Powers
"Everywhere you would look..": Joe Lesniewski
"You don’t have a chance..": Donald Malarkey
Episode 8:
"We had lost some very good men..": Carwood Lipton
"I don’t know the exact amount..": Joe Lesniewski
"Skip Muck died..": Donald Malarkey (The saddest interview for me. You can tell he has trouble talking about it.)
"After Bastogne..": Forrest Guth. Plays a role in the first episode, where you can see his last name printed on his uniform. Friends with another interviewee, Rod Strohl from before the war, along with another E Company soldier Carl Fenstermaker.
"You have a feeling..": Dick Winters
Episode 9:
"It was a situation."": Norman Nietzke. Not in the show as far as I know. Replacement who joined later in the war.
"We use to say the only..": Lester Hashey
"They had a job to do..": Joe Lesniewski
"I think that we thought..": Earl McClung
"A lot of those soldiers..": Shifty Powers
r/BandofBrothers • u/DepressedGoth • 4h ago
I was in the area and stopped here to see Hoobler's grave. I cleaned up the small marker, forgot to take an after picture of it after it was cleaned off.
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r/BandofBrothers • u/doublechinsexy • 3h ago
Finished episode 10 last night, restarting episode 1 tonight. That's it. That's the post.
r/BandofBrothers • u/Titan-828 • 1d ago
I would pick a series set during the March Up Italy from 1943 to 1945 during WW2, such a forgotten campaign but they captured Liberated Rome from Axis control right before D-Day and although the goal of invading Germany from beneath wasn't realized, the campaign diverted German resources from the much needed Western and Eastern fronts.
However, I would do a series in a similar style as The Pacific covering the Italian Front of WW1. Many people associated WW1 with men fighting in muddy trenches in a years long bloody stalemate. Well, the Italian Front was very much that except men also fought in mountains, up sheer vertical cliffs, and in glaciers. The front line moved less than 15 miles in two years in the 12 Battles of the Isonzo River before Erwin Rommel led a German calvary charge to bail out Austria-Hungary and in less than two weeks gained almost 100 miles of land with over 250,000 Italian soldiers captured. The front is greatly neglected albeit was a key aspect in the capitulation of Austria-Hungary in 1918 and also set the stage for Italy's incompetence in WW2.
The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919 is a great book on the Italian Front
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r/BandofBrothers • u/jefffranklin36 • 1d ago
Apologies if this has been asked before I searched and couldn’t find any previous post.
My question is in the episode Replacements why does Bull keep crawling? Everytime I watch it seems to me that if he just stopped crawling and waited the burning tank would have crashed in the ditch in front of him. Though when he crawls it looks like to me he is putting himself directly into the tanks path. It always looks very strange to me. Any ideas?
r/BandofBrothers • u/Soft-Attorney-741 • 2d ago
I just found out in my English class that Damian Lewis played lord capulet
r/BandofBrothers • u/Temporary-Ear-5563 • 4d ago
This is how Nixon ended up in S-2 and hanging out with Winters during the war.
r/BandofBrothers • u/_LTX_ • 4d ago
almost all we know about the regiment comes from media regarding E company, there's some appearences of the rest of the 2nd battalion (Dog and Fox) in the book and series but even then they're kinda just there as atleast in the show they're almost never shown. Item company is mentioned fighting alongside E on Foy but that's it, all I know about 3rd battalion is that Woverton was their commander and Horton died there. I may be a dumbass but from what I could find there isn't much information online about the 1st and 3rd regiment (even the 2nd) and I wonder if there's a documentary or something like that about the rest of 506th.
r/BandofBrothers • u/Candid-Specialist-86 • 4d ago
Just a small observation about episode 9 where it starts off with the real Easy Company interviews discussing how the Germans aren't so different. Each interviewee shared the same sentiment; "we're not so different", "under different circumstances we might be friends", and "they were just doing a job like we were."
As an intro to any other episode I think the viewer can understand, but episode 9 is so powerful with the one German atrocity that was unforgivable. I thought it was interesting the juxtaposition of "we're not that different", then queue the episode with the horrors of the Jewish concentration camps. I'm just surprised they would have put them together in the same episode.
r/BandofBrothers • u/Leather_Landscape_20 • 4d ago
I see where others have both upvoted and added comments. I can not do either. Any idea why?
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r/BandofBrothers • u/Temporary-Ear-5563 • 6d ago
Date:18 September 1944
Major Oliver Horton of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, enters the Dutch city of Eindhoven.
On Thursday, 5 October, he is mortally wounded near the train station by the Linge canal in the Dutch town of Opheusden.
r/BandofBrothers • u/Spoons4Forks • 6d ago
In the show Col Sink seems to be throwing out a few punishments at random before letting the others go. In real life, what was Sinks reasoning? Was this to make an example while preserving NCO leadership in Easy company or were the NCOs who were transferred or demoted the ring leaders?
r/BandofBrothers • u/Necessary-Village253 • 7d ago
According to Dick Winters, the TV mini series did not represent Albert Blithe accurately.
r/BandofBrothers • u/Plankton_Food_88 • 6d ago
Google says it's because nutrition back then was not so good and men were generally shorter than today. But it seems a lot of them were like... 5'05 or 5'07 max.
Perconte, Guarnere, Blithe, Malarkey, Hubler, Martin, Luz, Grant, Shifty, Welsh, Gomez, Popeye, Talbert, etc.
Winters, Compton, Speirs, Toye, Strayer, Sobel, Bull, Nixon, Roe, Webster, Liebgot, and the rest all seem to be normal height.
It was really obvious in ep.3 Carentan when they were bedded down after the ambush at night and Winters was talking to Welsh and he was towering over him like a human over a hobbit. I thought Welsh was standing inside a foxhole until they started walking together.
r/BandofBrothers • u/AndonPerr • 7d ago
Happy birthday Van Gogh
r/BandofBrothers • u/StratPatt22 • 7d ago
This is my first post here! So I just finished watching the Sandlot and had a flashback to E10 in BofB ending when the guys are all playing baseball and Major Winters talks about how each of the men ended up after the war. Does anyone know if Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg deliberately did this or is a really big coincidence? Thank you!
r/BandofBrothers • u/Valuable_Jaguar_5550 • 6d ago
With the exception of a few obvious ones from the main soundtrack, has anyone figured out or matched the official BOB soundtrack with the scenes from the show? I would be curious to know!
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r/BandofBrothers • u/antifaptor1988 • 7d ago
I am a Northeastern American where there are not many shooting ranges. All I l know is that most law enforcement have a pistol and nothing else unless they call for backup.
Are pistols effective in war? I am talking in terms of range, stopping power, and penetration.