Band of Brothers

Gavinmad

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Adebisi said:
Whatever that may be, I still get hard when Winters nearly goes infantry kill mode on Dike.

That's good TV
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Dike was awarded two bronze stars for valor, including one for his actions in Bastogne. The idea that he was some inept coward is a slander invented by Winters and Lipton because they personally disliked the guy.
 
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Adebisi

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This is the Band of Brothers miniseries thread

Not the what happened in WW2 thread
 
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Bald Brah

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Gavinmad said:
Dike was awarded two bronze stars for valor, including one for his actions in Bastogne. The idea that he was some inept coward is a slander invented by Winters and Lipton because they personally disliked the guy.
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A lot of officer medals are just participation trophies though. Their bar is many times lower than an enlisted soldier's.
 
Gavinmad

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Bald Brah said:
A lot of officer medals are just participation trophies though. Their bar is many times lower than an enlisted soldier's.
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Actual real life evidence of him being twice decorated for valor in combat vs the 40 year old testimony of men who were well known for their dislike of outsiders transcribed into a book by a man well known for making no effort to verify anything he was told which was then further twisted to make dramatic television.

The citation on his second bronze star is for personally removing multiple wounded men from the line while under heavy fire which directly contradicts the idea that he spent all of Bastogne cowering in his foxhole.
 
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Izo said:
As long as we, including A Araysar , recognize that the us entered the war 6 years late.
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but when they did


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BoB is a masterpiece. Arguably the greatest mini-series of all time. I remember when The Pacific came out I was super hyped, then felt sorely let down comparing it directly to BoB.

I re-watched The Pacific for the first time last year, and appreciated it more on second watch. I bought the books is was based on, read them, appreciated it more. I started re-watching it for the second time this week. I begrudginly now stake a claim that The Pacific is also a masterpiece.
 
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Gavinmad

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Arguably the greatest mini-series of all time.
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Dunno if I'd go that far but can't immediately think of anything I'd say was better.

Opening the series with the dude who played fucking Ross from Friends as the hardass CO was a masterful touch of casting imo.
 
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