Band of Brothers: Episode 1 - Patreon Exclusive
Added 2022-11-27 13:00:05 +0000 UTC
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The actor who played the soldier who drank from his water canteen was none other than Michael Fassbender who played the young Magneto in the X-Men series. Later in this series you'll get to see the actor who played a young Charles Xavier from X-Men as well.
3dbadboy1
2022-12-05 15:16:24 +0000 UTCThe cast in this series was just ridiculous. SO many names that either were big, or were GOING to be big. This is the series that actually showed people that Donnie Wahlberg (Sgt. Lipton) could ACT. Up until then he was still only known as one of the New Kids On The Block. The Easy men HATED Sobel, but they also acknowledged they would never have survived without his training. He also couldn't read a map to save his life. There was some controversy when the series came out as to whether Sobel was really as big of a prick as the series presents him as, though his failures as a field commander during training were well-documents. It's never touched on in the series, but Pvt. Cobb (the guy who suggests fragging Sobel) was already an experienced soldier when he was training with Easy Company. He fought in North Africa, where almost his entire unit was annihilated. When he was rotated home, his troop ship was torpedoed and sunk by a submarine, and he got pulled out of the water. Liebgott actually wasn't Jewish. He was Roman Catholic. He was only assumed to be Jewish because of his name, and the dialect of German he spoke (Austrian) was confused for Yiddish. Honestly, I wonder if Sink was looking for a reason to reassign Sobel all along, and the mutiny by the Easy NCOs gave him the excuse he wanted. Utah Beach ended up being one of the easiest landings of the invasion. Most of the landing craft actually missed their target areas because of strong currents pushing them further down the beach, and ended up on areas that had weaker defenses than anticipated. The opening scene of Saving Private Ryan was at Omaha Beach, however, which was absolute hell. Monte Cassino is a hill in Italy, which housed a famous Catholic abbey. The abbey was fortified by the Germans, and created a strong point blocking the Allied advances. After extensive ground efforts failed to dislodge the Germans, the Allies requested, and received, the permission of the Pope to do the unthinkable: They essentially bombed the abbey into oblivion. The C-47 was the military version of the legendary Douglas DC-3, of which 13,000 of all types were built. There are some 2000 of them still flying, many of which are still flying commercial airline routes. The number used for the takeoff scene at the end is just a fraction of the number of operable aircraft. This starkly contrasts with the number of surviving types of other War-era military planes, which may at BEST have a couple DOZEN surviving examples, many of which are not even in flyable condition (for example, there are only TWO flyable Japanese Zero fighters left in the world).
DE Wyatt
2022-12-04 16:41:38 +0000 UTC
