I'm watching the show for the first time and I literally just watched this episode last night. This was the only moment of the series that has felt completely ridiculous to me so far. He starts shooting at like 50 Germans by himself in the open and not one of them can shoot him back. And then when like 10 more Americans show up the Germans just start running away for no reason.
That's what happened according to Winters, the guy he shoot at the beginning was supposed to be their lookout but wasn't actually keeping watch and they caught them with their pants down completely.
Lots of crazy things happen during war and that wasn't even the top ten. That ine dude who runs through a german occupied town twice to link up an assault is crazy
All we have in this show are the American accounts of the war. This was based on a book of the same name by Stephen Ambrose who interviewed veterans and corroborated their accounts with written records of this particular company of paratroopers. He did not go to Europe to see if anyone remembers that time as far as I know. They had a rather eventful war. My grandfather was a US paratrooper too, and he spent the entirety of his tour guarding a train station as a MP in France.
Lots of crazy things happen during war and that wasn't even the top ten. That ine dude who runs through a german occupied town twice to link up an assault is crazy
Some absolutely fricking crazy shit happened during WW2...read about the Battle of Samar. Winters getting the jump on a few Germans is nothing
it's an american world war 2 production, what did you expect.
what actually happened, obliterating everything with an overwhelming superiority in artillery and air power and still not suffering fewer casualties than the germans, wouldn't make for good tv
In the real encounter, the German soldier wasn't simply standing there. He threw a grenade at Winters but it didn't explode. Winters threw his own grenade but it didn't go off either. Then Winters shot the German first.
In the show, Speirs shooting POWs is always framed as possibly apocryphal. Like, it happens off-screen. Characters talk about it, gossipingly. tell stories about how it maybe happened. The show toes the line between it being truth or not. But, in every interview from the solders who were there. Who knew him. They all say it was 100% true. And then some. And that he shot A LOT of POWs.
Imagine being an american. Crossing the whole fuicking atlantic (for the second time) to invade another nation that poses no threat, defeating them with overwhelming numbers on an unguarded front, and then proceeding to execute your POWs because keeping them around is inconvenient for you. Watching Speirs do that, unironically, what would you do? I can't imagine not doing everything in my power to get him court martialed, and then shooting him in the back if that didn't go through. Even soviet officers were killed by their own men for trying to get their men to stop killing their POWs.
He killed millions
YOU'VE BEEN HIT BY
YOU'VE BEEN STRUCK BY
A WAR CRIMINAL
I'm watching the show for the first time and I literally just watched this episode last night. This was the only moment of the series that has felt completely ridiculous to me so far. He starts shooting at like 50 Germans by himself in the open and not one of them can shoot him back. And then when like 10 more Americans show up the Germans just start running away for no reason.
it's a yankee power fantasy, what did you expect
The next episode is much more believable
That's what happened according to Winters, the guy he shoot at the beginning was supposed to be their lookout but wasn't actually keeping watch and they caught them with their pants down completely.
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Lots of crazy things happen during war and that wasn't even the top ten. That ine dude who runs through a german occupied town twice to link up an assault is crazy
How come all the crazy stuff was seemingly only done by the Americans?
Who else is spending that much money to make WW2 shows/movies on that scale?
Maybe read a book instead of just watching Hollywood movies.
All we have in this show are the American accounts of the war. This was based on a book of the same name by Stephen Ambrose who interviewed veterans and corroborated their accounts with written records of this particular company of paratroopers. He did not go to Europe to see if anyone remembers that time as far as I know. They had a rather eventful war. My grandfather was a US paratrooper too, and he spent the entirety of his tour guarding a train station as a MP in France.
My grandfather was a veteran and a guard too, he's a guard at a watchtower, he died though.
Reminds me of that tragedy
A numerically inferior but highly trained force routed a bunch of Germans who were caught unaware, why is this so hard to believe?
There's always some moron who's never read about war that likes to chime in on war movies.
Some absolutely fricking crazy shit happened during WW2...read about the Battle of Samar. Winters getting the jump on a few Germans is nothing
it's an american world war 2 production, what did you expect.
what actually happened, obliterating everything with an overwhelming superiority in artillery and air power and still not suffering fewer casualties than the germans, wouldn't make for good tv
Wild, unbelievable shit happens pretty regularly in war, anon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill
In the real encounter, the German soldier wasn't simply standing there. He threw a grenade at Winters but it didn't explode. Winters threw his own grenade but it didn't go off either. Then Winters shot the German first.
If I was there it wouldn't have went down like that. There would've been a lot of shrapnels in that man
They started it so it's justified
>noooooo you can't just kill the innocent nazirinos! Only we we get to murder innocent people!
Wehrmachtboos are something else.
They did it to make the best map in war thunder
why do cucks dindu allied soldiers? They were almost all straight white men
In the show, Speirs shooting POWs is always framed as possibly apocryphal. Like, it happens off-screen. Characters talk about it, gossipingly. tell stories about how it maybe happened. The show toes the line between it being truth or not. But, in every interview from the solders who were there. Who knew him. They all say it was 100% true. And then some. And that he shot A LOT of POWs.
Americans never sign any treaties so they can't be held accountable same as israel.
Imagine being an american. Crossing the whole fuicking atlantic (for the second time) to invade another nation that poses no threat, defeating them with overwhelming numbers on an unguarded front, and then proceeding to execute your POWs because keeping them around is inconvenient for you. Watching Speirs do that, unironically, what would you do? I can't imagine not doing everything in my power to get him court martialed, and then shooting him in the back if that didn't go through. Even soviet officers were killed by their own men for trying to get their men to stop killing their POWs.
Those germs were gud bois, they dindu nuffin!
Talk shit get hit Wehraboos