Haguenau - Easy Company's Last Patrol, 1945 - Animated
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With the end of the war near, Easy Company must dash across a river and snatch some German prisoners for interrogation. A brand new replacement officer joins the patrol.
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It would be nice to have some portraits of mission relevant people on screen as a reference, if possible.
Good job making a good battle animation
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The two bottles popping up for Col. Sink and his drunk friend the same way the flags pop up for casualties is one of the best pieces of black comedy I have seen.
The part about Fitzpatrick was even better, IMHO. Kinda comedic timing.
I got so confused until my brain registered that they had indeed fallen. To alcohol.
Winters telling the patrol to rest instead of conducting another mission is leadership at its best.
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Did sleeping bag patrols
our leadership did this multiple times in OIF too. We faked worthless missions that served no purpose and put lives at risk. Easier to fake a mission than try to reason with idiots of higher rank.
@Yōkai 369 because officers are succesptible to the great idea fairy and don't have the balls to do what's right over what they are told.
@Yōkai 369 depends upon the mission and situation. Some missions were simply a high risk waste and it would take me a long time to lay out the context to make sense why that was for any given situation.
Can't believe this youtube series is so good they made a whole miniseries about it
Enough of that malarkey private b*llsh*it
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Curaheeee!
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And the miniseries is so good, they time travel back in time and made a whole war about it.
Sad that we lost the last of the Easy Company in 2022. Rest in Peace you brave souls
What a shame.
Who was that?
@@jaywerner8415 Bradford Clark Freeman
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"I want you all to get a full night’s sleep tonight. Which means that, in the morning, you will report to me that you made it across the river but you were unable to secure any live prisoners. Understand?” -Major Winters (I know he wasn't a Major quite yet)
What a boss.
"They told me to get some prisoners but... I don't think I'm gonna." "You're just not gonna do it?" "Yeah." "Won't you get court-martialed?" "I don't know, but I really don't wanna and we're just not gonna do it."
@@jdotoz No, you see they "couldn't find any" :P You can't win 'em all ya know, so sad too would have been nice for the Col. to have 2 more notches on his belt to brag about while drinking. Yep, so saaaaaaad. /s Seriously I can't believe that crap Col. He's the type of worthless officer you expect in movies, not IRL. 4 men DEAD, in a Company that already lost over 30% of their number, and he wants them to go again so he can get more drunk?? I hope there is a special place in Hell for people like him because you know in life he suffered no consequences for treating his men as worthless pawns.
It’s the notional mission that got him promoted “no one got wise”
I've so much respect for Winters standing his men down and allowing a good night's rest instead of risking lives. If asked say you crossed but couldn't capture, realistically he could've been court marshalled if caught. Risking his entire career, reputation and rank.
Guess it was a risk he was willing to take, knowing quite confidently that carrying out another patrol was going to have a few of his men killed for a mission with a very low chance of success. He definitely made the right call
@@nissan_tb48 this is what signals me as someone who is a realistic and good leader. There are so many details that glory seeking officers won't see that ultimately leads to unnecessary death. An officers job is to find that balance between what the armed forces as a whole need vs that of what the smaller groups needs.
@@Kaiquintos We got some armchair General that never even served arguing above that grunts should 'always follow order no matter what' LMAO.
@@Mutiny960 dude's probably also argues that ww2 german soldiers should hold their moral compass and know that their commanders are wrong. I say this because I've seen people with the exact argument
It's interesting to think how the current Russian military STILL hasn't developed this type of leadership... Officers and NCO's capable of making intelligent decisions for the good of their units rather than blindly following orders
The whiskey bottle casualties at the end gave me a laugh. A shame that two were lost for such a insignificant mission. The outcome of the war was in no was hastened with their loss on this mission. But alas, that's war. Someone always has the inglorious "honor" of being the last to die.
It strikes me that they were new too. Not sure if the oldies were better at spotting mines or entering later, after all the grenades have gone off - maybe it was just bad luck and any experienced soldier would have had the same fates. But it's horribly ironic that someone would get trained and shipped across the ocean and then, wanting to prove himself, ends up giving his life just to neutralize a mine.... War is hell.
@@MrNicoJac I believe the guy to took his own grenade was down to a timing issue, with a rifle grenade being sent in and the others throwing grenades inside you would need to count down every grenade and missed his time on each grenade or worse, just happened that he didn't see someone else throwing a grenade or they simply didn't call it.
The worst part was that even with the war over, men were still dying over there due to drunken fights and accidents and such.
@@MrNicoJac its less about spotting mines as it is not standing where mines usually are. Its a practiced skill to only walk where someone else has walked, and to see where the enemy didn't walk. Inexperienced people tend to wander. This is why units are SUPPOSED to supervise green troops, IDK about this situation, maybe the LT just got unlucky but perhaps one of the more veteran troops should have been keeping a closer eye on him.
@@nilloc93 Ah, that's a very interesting point - thanks for the reply! For me, that raises a kind of cat and mouse game. As in, that both sides would eventually start placing mines in the less-expected places, because nobody stands in the obvious spots anymore anyways. A bit like a double bluff, sorta. The staying-where-enemies-have-walked part of course remains a solid point! Secondly, I also wonder _when_ that lesson/rule about supervising green troops got written (in blood, as they always do). Since mines were not really a thing in the American Civil War or the Spanish War, and the US did get some but only fairly limited combat exposure in WW1, I would not be surprised if that lesson was learned during WW2 (or while reviewing doctrine immediately after the war). Anyhow, you taught me that this was not mere bad luck, but either bad adherence to doctrine or adherence to still-underdeveloped doctrine. And that's a really cool insight to have gained. So thanks ^^
They really cast Nixon well for the Band of Brothers films.
Lt. Speirs was a no nonsense, ready to act leader. Same as Major Dick Winters. Two American heroes.
@Mark Sixsmith that's silly, they were effective leaders respected by their men regardless of whether they were actually on the specific patrol or not.
plus all the rest who didnt appear on TV shows and had no glory ?
@Mark Sixsmith ok, do as you wish.
When the right men get the right leaders it turns them into the kind of unit you just witnessed.
Speirs admitted murdering captured enemy combatants. Nothing heroic about that.
8:56 49 KIA out of 366 men really puts the experience of Easy Company into perspective. If that is how many E Company men were killed between D-Day and Carentan, Market Garden and "the island", the bloodbath at Bastogne and later missions at Haguenau, imagine what a company from the 1st Infantry Division would look like after fighting from North Africa, Sicily, Omaha Beach, and Germany. Just brutal.
It's incredible how few losses the men of Easy Company took during the war. Just for perspective, Marines on Peleliu of C company, 1st battalion 1st Marine regiment just a few months before this had only eight able-bodied men left out of a company around 250 men strong after perhaps 3 or 4 days of combat. B company of the same size and battalion fared no better with only 19 left standing.
@@liltoaster7308 With all due respect to E company of the 506th PIR Banzai attack and Diseases in Pacific are another 2 factors that didnt affect the european soldiers unlike those in the Pacific
@@ItzzMeJSU Though that's true of the Pacific as a whole, two Marine units I referenced to specifically never faced any banzai charges (there were none at Peleliu) and hardly any casualties were produced by disease for their regiment specifically. Easy Company did have to contend with potential frostbite in the Ardennes, although that was also something that happened to soldiers in the northern Pacific campaign as well.
49% is nothing to sneeze at
@@tomhenry897 49%? Where is that number coming from. Do you have a casualty count.
Imagine being this guy, you create an amazing channel, explaining everything in details and astonishing graphics, where you can see every soldier, plane, bomb, and the explanation is soo good that even the most dumb person would understand, and then you create another channel with EVEN MORE DETAILS on the given subject. There should be more guys like you, Indy Neidell, OverSimplified, Montemayor and few more that i forgot.
Montemayor. I really miss that channel. The one hour documentaries were excellent. I think he was studying at West Point. Hope he's doing fine. He deserved it.
@@The_Modeling_Underdog He just released another video this last week.
@@xczechr Yes, I just watched it last night. Along the second part, Japanese POV and assesment.
"Hello everyone, I'm Indy Neidell, and welcome to this week's episode of The Great War". Truly a gem, along with of course Operations Room and Oversimplified. I fully understand why people like Montemayor, but for me the content can get a bit boring after a while. No hate, just doesn't float my boat.
@@carrott36 And Historigraph! All great historical creators
The team at Operations Room and Intel Report have been absolutely critical and priceless contributions to youtube.
This, maritime horrors, and facinatingn horror are the go to for this kind stuff for me. Also lemino when he is known to upload again lol
@@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat Maritime Horrors is a great little channel. Wish he would upload more often. I know the guy's got his hands full at his work but, man. Quality content, right there.
Col. Sink's casualty badge 🤣
This channel and Intel Report have become my favourite history channels on KZhead! Such high quality videos are hard to come by!
Try TIK History Channel, those three channels are the very best of all
You might like Montemayor for Naval battles, they are extremely high quality but seldom come out
Winters was an American hero, and there have been few men past or present that deserved to be in his company.
After reading the book 8-10 times, this really illustrated the battle and events well.
The animation denoting COL Sink’s drunkenness was a hilarious touch
Because of band of brothers i could essentially just predict everything that was gonna happen in the video, its also crazy hearing names of commanders and officers and being able to imagine them in my head because of the show. Really good video guys, loved the pics at the end as well
@The Operations Room: At 02:23 you say "On the 5th of January", but that should be "On the 5th of February". Easy Company was still in Bastogne the 5th Jan, they attacked Foy on the 13th Jan, and left that area a few days later, to arrive in Alsace, near Haguenau on the 20th January where they entered regimental reserve. They were then deployed along the front line in Haguenau the 5th February.
I like how you released this one month after the Battle of the Bulge series concluded which is around the same date this operation took place
8:00 our Company commanders and leadership were smart, and in Iraq they gave us orders similar to Winters in OIF at times. when we were given ridiculous orders. Sometimes we'd just scrub the mission, but usually we'd go out on patrol, making it look like we did it, and just circle back and report we saw nothing. Some missions are literally worthless or stupid, and would only cost human lives for literally nothing gained.
Hearing that last part of the video when that commander ordered the men to go on another patrol bewildered me. It doesn’t make sense to me why higher ups think the way they do. Like, the men brought two prisoners home successfully and lost two men, now you want to send them back out and do the same thing instead of giving them a break? “I’m impressed now go do it again” should have been “I’m impressed now you deserve to wind down.” like, dipshit leader, do you ever think of what might improve morale? All while trying to send out his men on a cold patrol while he goes to drink and enjoy the warm heat, he may have been seen as an outstanding leader but that last command for another mission was ridiculous. When leaders make their soldiers do ridiculous shit I wish they were forced to join us to experience it themselves, maybe they wouldn’t talk out of their ass as often
@@celsopunzalan4929 the problem was not that the companies needed rest, but that the Germans would expect a patrol just like that after one had been done the night before. The commander thought to capitalize on a weakened enemy with an attack plan that had proved successful, and Winters judged that the Germans would be prepared. He also was the one to suggest Sink take a rest and drink so that he could avoid sending his men on a suicidal mission.
this channel always fascinating, both the animation and story telling detail has been awesome.. salute!!
This series has been awesome. Thanks!
Lmao i love how you marked the 2 drunk guys as casualties
Keep up the great work! From what I can tell being a creator on this platform is a battle in itself.
It was like hearing the documentary version of that one episode in Band of Brothers. Great video.
I’ve always wondered how accurate this Hagenue episode from HBO’s band of brothers is.
I have now watched every video that you have put out on both channels, outstanding job ! thanks for all you hard work.
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@@JSFGuy That's how it's done, Shifty.
8:01 that it absolutely some officer shit. "Ok guys, so you guys can chill out here alright. But if anyone comes by and asks, you did another patrol but found no prisoners. Alright? You got that?"
Nice! Always love when I see your videos pop up in my feed.
Yoooo, new tracers and muzzle flashes look GREAT dude. I love this channel, been an avid fan for some time :D great to see your production quality steadily improve!
Great video. And extremely well done. I did have to laugh when the animated boats were equal in size to the width of the river. Just use one as a pontoon? But I know not everything was in scale. It did make it fun watching the two soldiers being swept downriver.
The river was actually really thin, the boats were simply because the water was freezing. They could have just waded across at waist height.
@@TheOperationsRoom The scale threw me off a bit first as well, but when I saw the picture at the end of the video of the actual crossing in present day, I felt chills running down my spine. Great choice to show it for context at the end of the video. It's also nice to see how different things were actually laid out compared to the HBO miniseries.
Yes I saw the modern day photo. Given that they used a rope, it couldn’t have been far. I figured that there was a reason they used the boats. Cold makes sense. And the current sounds like it was running fast too. I did feel sorry for the soldier who stepped on the shoe mine. And the grenade victim. Had they survived that night, they would have gone home.
Fantastic job on this series Learned a lot, much appreciated
Another fantastic video. Keep up the great work!
You need to watch it first before you can call it fantastic.
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I would have been frozen in fear from the shoe mine fatality. What composure!
After months or years of combat, this wouldn't be the worse you would have experienced.
Yet another amazing video! Still my favourate channel, shame this video doesn’t show you just how scary that crossing must have been, paddle to hard you get lit up! Scary stuff
8:33 what an amazing picture, the look of relaxation after going through hell.
Great job Operations Room and Intel Report.
I love seeing the photos of these great brave men.
Good video! I love the animated maps of how the combat unfolded!
Such a great series!! Loved it!!!
My grandma's funeral today so these makes it so much better thank you
Brilliant stuff my friend. Thank you. 👍💛👊
Loved the video @The Operations Room! Can't wait for the next video man! The Wine Bottles for getting drunk was just priceless, you get used to see the National Flags for actual casualties and to then see a pair of Wine Bottles come up Because 2 Officers got drunk just takes you by surprise!
Thanks for another great vid !!
Amazing video once again!! you should do a video based on something in the series of "The Pacific"! once again keep up the great work.
Good call by Winters to go "Let's not and say we did." with regards to that second patrol mission.
Welcome back! Loved it! Keep it up!
Ahh, these vids are fantastic!! Greatly appreciated!!
Being a vet myself this is one of my favorite episodes of the series because it does an incredible job at showing the tension you feel at war, even when your not fighting.
WW2 showed US Army command used certain companies until they were depleted. Marines in Pacific and 442nd in Europe. Instead of leaving them alone after suffering mass casualties.
Marines aren't part of the Army. They're an independent service under the Department of the Navy. Also, the Army used all infantry units until they were depleted, "Easy Company" and the 442nd are just the most famous.
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Excellent video as always.
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I appreciate hearing about the details of the men involved in your videos.
Nix seemed to be in Booze Heaven in that final picture. The badges for Col. Sink and his guest were comedy at its finest. Thanks for another great video, mate.
You and The Armchair Historian have to be the best WW2 history channels on this whole platform. Straight to the facts and no bullshitting. I absolutely love the content you all put out. Much love from the USA
Man I watched Band of Brothers and I remember a lot of these exploits and undertakings. I did not realize how well they kept to the truth, I though it was more cinematic liberties; to preserve excitement and keep the story interesting. Thank you for shining a light upon my ignorance. Appreciate your time making these videos.
Another stellar video!
Great work THank you
Happy to have you back!!
The use of the real pictures at the end is such a nice touch.
I need to rewatch Band of Brothers for the 20th time now
Your videos are wonderful. Easy Company of the 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, part of the 101st Airborne Division are legendary. Currently I am reading a book called All the way to Berlin by Lt James “Maggie” Megellas, the most Decorated Officer of the 82d Airborne Division. He and his Company look to great candidates for future videos.
I love the liquor bottle casualty icons 😂😂
Dick Winters. Truly, an American treasure. Rest in Peace.
Great to see another installment!!
Wow. When I read the book I pictured the - 'river' - to be at least 100 yards wide. Boy was I wrong.
2:59 Glitch in the matrix. JK, Editor, you're doing awesome work. Keep it up.
Nice new upload
Thank you for the great video. I think you had a hard job finding the correct details of this patrol. The series used David Webster’s files/book for this episode but changed some details. Gov files tells the patrol was om the 18th of februari
Really liked the updated animations
Anytime the operations rooms upload I stop watching anything on KZhead to see the video! Keep up the great work!
This is a amazing vid
These videos are superb. If possible, please consider a video on the USMC's nightmare battle of Peleliu, September 1944. Thank you
Thanks!
The Operations Room is so good they went back in time and fought a whole war adapting its videos.
"A replacement officer, Lt. Hank Jones, is the highest ranked officer chosen for the patrol. Jones is fresh out of West Point and is eager to prove himself, but defers to the veteran Mercier." smart officer
if you wanna live, ask the Sgt how.
The way he is potrayed in the TV show he always seemed like a pretty solid officer.
good video!
Remarkable video!
Incredible!
Pushed like before watching.
Winters really cared and look out after his men. That's a great leader
Please can we get more Easy Company videos, and some of their lesser known battles they fought too please. 🙏🙏🙏❤️
Great animation
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Great video. Where can we find the group picture at the end? Would enjoy knowing who all those guys were, names and ranks, etc. I believe Winters is 2nd from the right and newly promoted lt. Lipton 1st on the right. Yes?
there is a game series that you play just like this viewing from the top, its called close combat, it has strategic map and all, each game is focused on a large area with regions and divisions and when you fight on the map you command your units just like the video
6:33 The wounded German left behind was still alive, the men became manic depressive over the cries for help from German on the opposite bank. So they decided to start lobbing grenades to kill him which just wounded him more and more. Eventually by morning the cries ceased but it really phased the mindset of the rearguard of that patrol. Winters may have known this and decided they were not ready for another mission or would have put themselves in more danger taking live prisoners .
Virgin : 50Cal, Mortar, AT Gun cover fire Chad : *Single MP40 cover fire*
5:33 oh yeah i remember reading a book long ago which included this raid. The infantryman who inthis video is described as being "greviously wounded" had actually followed too close to a thrown grenade. a fragment penetrated his skull into his brain, and was very much conscious and in terrible anxiety for a long time until he died.
Eugene Jackson was NOT a replacement, he was a toccoa man and had jumped into Normandy where he was wounded, he was sent back to England to repair shrapnel wounds that had affected his ear and a large part of his head. He jumped back into Holland and competed in that campaign and fought in the bastogne. Get your facts right
To discover how Band of Brothers altered the actual story is incredible to hear. And makes me wonder why some alterations were made. I understand why they changed Mercier since he wasn’t written in as a core member of Easy Co, but why change other things that don’t in my mind seem to matter as much.
They also got a handful of things wrong. For example, Blithe survived the war, then served in the Korean war, and survived that too. By all accounts, he became a pretty good soldier. Its still one of the most accurate historical dramas out there... But yeah, anytime a writer changes a "based on history" story, Im often left scratching my head as to why any changes were made at all. Either present what actually happened to the best of your ability, or go write a fiction. I will never understand this in-between sh@t.
@@hatman4818 now in a small bit of defense, the show was based off Ambrose book on E. Company, and he himself fucked up with the actual fate of Blithe
@@baccaismemebob2603 he noted that because Blithe was taken off the line, many people thought he had died from his wounds.
@@hatman4818 Perhaps the differences with the layout of the town and why they assaulted the top floor as opposed to the cellar in BoB was because they had to build the set and being 100% true to the real story would've caused too many problems. Similar issues are probably the causes for differences to the true story in other episodes as well. But yeah, messing up what happened to Blithe is simply bad. I agree though, it always grinds my gears when they unnecessarily change the events and details from real history, especially in video games. We could understand some changes made to TV shows, but video game developers should have no excuse to make factual and historical blunders, video games can be made with 100% historical accuracy. Unfortunately, many WWII shooters and also other historical games are often filled with inaccuracies ranging from minor mistakes to just blatantly unrealistic nonsense. I don't understand why they mess things up for no reason.
Over 330 paratroopers served in Easy from its formation, to Austria. 49 were KIA. Changes were made because it would be impossible to have all 330+ paratroopers featured in detail in the series
Photos like that one from modern day Hagenau always choke me up.
Not sure if indicative of anything. But I haven't been receiving new videos of yours on my feed like I normally do. I had to look for you to see why you hadnt uploaded in a while, only to see you have several videos up.
It would be awesome if they did an episode on the great raid
I wonder if Colonel Sink ever found out that he'd been snookered.
Haguenau is only 1h away from my home. Been there only once. Nice story, didn´t know the war came that close and Easy company made it that far.