No matter what you think of someone, no veteran should die of neglect and malnutrition. 😢

@factmeupchannel

Ай бұрын

That’s true

@lathatampi

Ай бұрын

How did that happen?

@theallseeingmaster

Ай бұрын

I believe the malnutrition was self-inflicted to speed the end. Who neglected him, the staff or his family?

@factmeupchannel

Ай бұрын

@@theallseeingmaster Not much information about that, but considering that none of his family members attended his funeral since they were unaware of these events, I would assume the staff.

@johnweems5096

Ай бұрын

100% true

This is by far the best Series ever. I’m so glad it happened. I can’t still today stop watching it.

@charley9050

13 күн бұрын

Read the book

@f.md.pranto

8 күн бұрын

Story was good but action...not that good

@entropy.8614

24 минут бұрын

@@f.md.pranto because it is not about the action

My son and I are taking the 2 week Stephen Ambrose Band of Brothers tour in July 2024. Starting in England and ending at the Eagles Nest. We will visit all of their battle sites. A bucket list trip.

@factmeupchannel

Ай бұрын

Hopefully you’ll have a memorable experience!

@rebeccabowers7423

28 күн бұрын

Wish I could go with you!

@williamopfermann8875

15 күн бұрын

I did that trip a couple years ago. We had a WW2 veteran in our group. Amazing experience. You will love it. I'm planning on doing it again in 2025

@jeffbeaver4419

14 күн бұрын

@@williamopfermann8875 I just found out yesterday that George Luz,Jr will be in our group as the tour manager.

@user-zm9or2zt1n

13 күн бұрын

That's amazing, your a good dad, and I'm sure that will be a memory of a life time 🙌🎉

Band Of Brothers has been my favorite series of all time. I keep watching it again and again. The POW camp still tightens my throat every time i watch it.

@Harmelcon

20 күн бұрын

Do you mean the work/concentration camp?

And don't forget that this June 6th, 2024, will be the 80th anniversary of the "Great Crusade". As referred to by General Eisenhower. Let us honor them now and forever.

@veramae4098

Ай бұрын

June 6th ... TRAITORS!

@bobrich1950

Ай бұрын

@@veramae4098 You realize we're talking about D-Day, June 6th, 1944 ?? Right?!?!?

@ladycplum

13 күн бұрын

@@veramae4098 Who the hell are you referring to as "traitors"? Are you confusing June 6th with January 6th?

I feel sorry for Herbert Sobal. Although he wasnt cut out to lead men, he was quite capable of making soldiers. A classic case of trying to put a glove on a foot.

@martinhambleton5076

Ай бұрын

Herbert had a government official mentality in BOB.

@postrock12

15 күн бұрын

Yes,even though he wasn’t a good Leader,you’d hope he would have come to appreciated the fact that he was really good at training soldiers.but knowing how he died,he probably didn’t see it that way & focused too much on the negative

BOB is the greatest war series/film ever made. Have watched it many times and will watch it again.

Renée Lemaire was depicted only using her first name in the series. Augusta Chiwy was the black nurse Renee called Anna and she passed away in 2015.

Jimmy Fallon not being able to drive a stick is not the least bit surprising.

@factmeupchannel

23 күн бұрын

😀

@Harmelcon

20 күн бұрын

That's the first thing I thought! It's an eye-roller.

@justinnelson1483

15 күн бұрын

Jimmy can drive a stick, just not a manual transmission!

@tomsnowden6201

4 күн бұрын

No jimmy can RIDE a stick, not drive.

I served in the army for 19 years Honestly a band of brothers is one of the best army series ever done

@ReillyWilde

Ай бұрын

🇺🇸🫡

It’s rare to find an officer or NCO who is great at their job, a great trainer, a great staff officer and a great leader. If it was easy everyone could be in command.

Buck Compton was an All-American Catcher.

Tom Hanks was an extra in one of the Episodes ..He was one of the Brits rescued in the night ops and celebrating with the 101st...The scene was less than 2 seconds...

@davidbriggs7365

Ай бұрын

Nope, he was not in that scene. He did play a part. In the series, they made a raid across a river and after they returned to the other side, they kept hearing someone shouting for help in English. THAT voice was Tom Hanks.

One of the best things I’ve ever seen. I watch it every year.

6th British Airborne Division also dropped in on D Day. Actor to be Richard Todd dropped onto Pegasus Bridge and some 18 years latter played his Commanding Officer in the film The Longest Day "Hold until relieved, hold until relieved". Heros to a man!

We are all human and have faults, What suprises me is Sobel can't read a map to save his life and didn't know when enough is enough. We all fail but failure only matters when we fail to learn and benefit from what has transpired. RIP Sobel.

What happened to Sobel was wrong on so many levels. He wasn’t well liked but he most likely saved a lot of lives with his harsh training. I willing to bet many in Easy Company would agree. We should salute him for his sacrifice for his country. 🇺🇸

@ladycplum

13 күн бұрын

I know a few officers and enlisted men featured in the show (Who I won't name) said that it wasn't fair or right what happened to him.

@Simon-sf7ng

2 күн бұрын

Some of the men of Easy Company have credited him for getting them ready for war, that they may not have made it if not for his harsh training.

The classic military jeep figures prominently on BoB because the classic military jeep figured VERY prominently in the war.

The set Department did an amazing job. I actually went to Easy Company’s position/foxholes, in Bastogne (overlooking the town of Foy), and it looks exactly the same as it did in BOB.

Greatest decision by HBO & Tom Hanks ever. Probably also Spielberg. This is an IMPORTANT series, not just a great one. THESE GUYS REPRESENT ALL THE GREATEST GENERATION WHOSE STORIES WERE NOT FILMED

2 things nobody really knows about: two original Toccoa men died rather tragic deaths later in life. Denver "Bull" Randleman contracted an easily treatable MRSA infection on the site of a surgical graft while in a nursing home. It went completely ignored and untreated and ultimately killed him. George Luz was still working as a handyman into his advanced years. In 1998 he was working on a gigantic industrial dryer when it slipped its supports and fell on top of him, crushing and instantly killing him. Neither of them deserved to die in the way they did.

Band of Brothers was filmed close to where I grew up in Hertfordshire, UK. We’d often drive past the sets, you could hear the guns and explosions and see the planes flying over all the time.

Imagine having an LA gun store. Hanks and Spielberg walk in ! "We want 700 guns". At $1,000+ each ? Call DOJ.

Thank you so much for this post!!! Much appreciated!!

@factmeupchannel

Ай бұрын

Glad you liked it!

1:34. Just to clarify, Sobel did not attend the U.S. Military Academy, regardless of how similar the uniform looks. He attended Culver Military Academy.

Thank you for posting this I think everyone in the world should have to watch this series

@factmeupchannel

28 күн бұрын

You’re welcome!

this video is awesome! i love band of brothers

@factmeupchannel

Ай бұрын

Thanks!🤗

I will never get tired of watching band of brothers

This is amazing!

Watching it again now

Buck wasn’t a pitcher. He was a catcher.

Such a sad life for Captain Soebel.

Band of brother story of WW2 in the West side, I could not imagine how bloody the war in the East side (Soviet)

Renee is based on Renee; Anna was a nurse from the Congo.

I've heard of this before. A friend of mine his Dad died it a VA hospital of dehydration in the 60's.

Best series going

They were trained to exit from aircraft but once down they were infantry soldiers!

@mikebunting7262

20 күн бұрын

P.I.R. Parachute INFANTRY Regiment

The best to ever made

Godd I am SOOO OLDg. I can't drive an automatic without getting the heebie-jeebies. My right arm needs something to do and my left foot is itching

How sobel could just walk past his superior like that and not salute is fucked up

@factmeupchannel

Ай бұрын

He was an unpleasant character for sure, and Schwimmer’s portrayal was top notch.

@charlesgantz5865

Ай бұрын

@@factmeupchannel That may be true, but Winters was just being petty. In his book, Winters considered it "an act of sweet revenge."

@davidwoody5228

18 күн бұрын

Petty? I don’t think so. Sobel purposefully ignored him. Try doing that to a superior office. I assure you that what Winters did was very mild. It may have felt sweet but was also justified

@michaeldover

2 күн бұрын

@@charlesgantz5865 It was Sobel who was being petty. Winters deserved to exact that revenge. It is dead wrong in the military to acknowledge (verbally or non-verbally) the presence of a higher ranking officer and not render a salute.

@charlesgantz5865

2 күн бұрын

@@michaeldover I was just reading a book by Donald Malarkey who was with Winters when this occurred. Malarkey said that Sobel didn't notice Winters was there, but he saw Malarkey. Sobel came up to Malarkey, and even remembered his name, and noticed that he had been promoted to Sergeant. They were chit-chatting when Winters piped up about saluting a superior officer. That was when Sobel noticed Winters, and he then rendered the salute. He was a bit startled to see Winters.

I enjoyed some of the scenes in BoB's and would not call it a bad film at all, but it did rub me the wrong way due to everyone shouting from the rooftops (including the actors going thru "bootcamp" to get prepared for the movie) how realistic it was. I didn't find it very realistic at all and found many scenes to be no more than some director's quick civilian view on small unit movements and tactics that not even lightly trained green infantry units would consider doing. Just not a big fan of it (a U.S. infantry and Recon Marine who spent 27 months 17 days in Vietnam from March '67 thru June '69).

The guy Jimmy Fallon played actually was with the 10th armored division whom my grandpa served there. They where the tiger division. He was actually a machinist. Which blows me away that they actually had that type of support that close to the front line. But he was right there in the mix.

@factmeupchannel

28 күн бұрын

Really fascinating that you have, in a way, such a connection with the BoB story - I bet your grandpa has some stories to tell.

@thephilster6860

28 күн бұрын

Have you read any of Ernie Pyle's weekly columns during the war? They rebuilt and repaired everything near the front lines.

Loved the series and binge watch it every Veteran's and Memorial Day on TV. But why didn't they show the 969th Black artillery at Bastogne? The only disappointment for me.

@ste2442

Ай бұрын

Why didn’t they show the 13th Battalion the parachute regiment and the other British units at the Battle of the Bulge ?

@sheldonf

Ай бұрын

@@ste2442 I could be wrong but I don't believe those units fought at Bastogne.

@ste2442

Ай бұрын

@@sheldonf they covered one of the flanks

@sheldonf

Ай бұрын

@@ste2442 Ok, my mistake.

@ChuckJansenII

Ай бұрын

This was a series about Easy company not the entire Battle of the Bulge. The 969th had moved into an area of Bastogne near Noville and Villeroux. The 502nd PIR 101st was near Noville. The 327 GIR 101st was near Villeroux. Thus the 969th would not have been in the sector around Foy. Personally, the 333rd Field Artillery Group made up of the 333rd and 969th Field Artillery Battalions deserves its own series of movie. RIP the Wereth 11. The British and Canadians were in an area as a blocking force outside of the 101st zone at Bastogne. These were the 6th British Airborne and the 1st Canadian Airborne.

Compton was not a pitcher. At UCLA he was an all American catcher. He also played on the universities football team.

Compton was an All American CATCHER, not pitcher.

Thanks

@factmeupchannel

28 күн бұрын

You’re welcome! 🤗

Even the new one, masters of the air, can't touch this

Mr. Fallon couldn't take the time to learn how to drive a manual transmission??? It's the literal least he could do to honor the character being played.

come on no mention of my man Charlie Francis (Kirk Acevedo)?

Compton was an all American catcher not a pitcher.

After watching BoB, action movies seem hollow. During training, real Army soldiers watched with some confusion these guys doing paratrooper training, in 1940s uniform and gear. I'm startled there was no mention of the original BoB annual reunions AND the actors have continued the tradition.

Notice Dye never trains in the mud with the rest of the actors.

"The character Anna ..." Who was that ? The nurse in the show was called Renee.

@ladycplum

13 күн бұрын

Anna was the woman from Africa that was helping out around the "hospital". I don't understand how he got the two women confused, as Renee's name is spoken several times in the episode!

Pretty sure Compton was a catcher at UCLA

I know people say that Band of Brothers is good, but I just cannot take David Shwimmer seriously in any serious role.

“All-American Pitcher” , clearly shows him in catcher’s equipment bc Buck was a catcher at UCLA. Did you do any research for this video or is this just for views?

Let's just say that again... _"He spent the last seventeen years of his life in a Veterans Administration home, _*_before dying in 1987 of neglect and malnutrition."_*

@factmeupchannel

28 күн бұрын

Horrible way of passing away😔

@thephilster6860

28 күн бұрын

That's abuse.

@Harmelcon

20 күн бұрын

I knew about the suicide attempt. If I knew about the way that he died, I forgot it. How very, very sad.

This goverment does not take care of our vetrans, shame shame on them ,

So disappointing that The Pacific and Masters of the Air weren't nearly as good as Band of Brothers.

Compton was a catcher, not a pitcher.

@mikebunting7262

20 күн бұрын

He convicted sirhan also

Fallon having to be pushed in the jeep makes too much sense

@timothykelly5588

3 күн бұрын

I heard a family story of desperate need in the battle of the bulge of a young grunt though he had never driven a deuce and a half was told, well... your gonna learn real fast

Buck Compton was an All American catcher for UCLA. You need to do better at background research.

Esteemed and popular tv dramas of the era, and the picture shown is the Sopranos, The X-files, and something else I don't even recognize. The Sopranos sure. But the X-files were always a joke, bad acting and the Mulder character always saying 'they're shutting us down Scully', watched 3 episodes that was my limit. What was that third obscure show?

@factmeupchannel

Ай бұрын

It was Twin Peaks.

the job in the pacific was much harder

Very English, Eton educated, Damien Lewis, doing a fine job with the American accent here, but I wonder why a Yank couldn't do it??

@ladycplum

13 күн бұрын

That's why my ultra-super-mega patriotic Veteran dad won't watch the series. He doesn't like so many UK actors playing Americans.

Great content. I hate AI narrators

Yeah. Jimmy Fallon sticks out like a sore thumb. Bad hire.

I have family and friends who still do not know how to drive a manual gearbox vehicle and sadly do not intend on learning to drive one. 😮

@bonniecarruth8429

Ай бұрын

I had one friend say they had a manual transmission so her kids couldn’t drive her car.

@joshkarena3058

Ай бұрын

@@bonniecarruth8429 😆 Their loss. 😆 🤣