‘The Real Easy Company Left These Objects Behind! | Digging Band Of Brothers’
During the Second World War, the picturesque village of Aldbourne in Wiltshire, United Kingdom, hosted thousands of American servicemen and paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division before they departed for Normandy on 6 June, 1944. The village has gained particular fame for being the village in which Easy Company, portrayed in the iconic TV series, ‘Band of Brothers’, was stationed from late 1943.
In the first episode of a three-part series, Luke Tomes and the History Hit crew join Richard Osgood’s team of archaeologists hoping to unearth the remains left behind by Easy Company.
What traces will they find of the real Band of Brothers?
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00:00 Introduction
02:14 Operation Nightingale – Digging Band Of Brothers
07:52 History of Easy Company
08:38 2019 Finds – Aldbourne Heritage Centre
11:29 M1 Garand Clip
15:38 Next Time…
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Wow, I was just thinking about this the other day. Places like Toccoa, Aldbourne etc must have a ton of items from such groups. Glad there's actually people preserving this history!
Easy Company eeeeee hows the Josh..
Lovely, beautiful place to be.
What did the Military leave in England? Children!
Stop getting civilians to do these documentaries. Not doing the real men any justice.
my dad and i were on an easy company tour in may…
we met these fine historians
the documentary made me wanna become a paratrooper ….. I stil appreciate the documantary series of it
My grandfather Homer Pease was in the 101st during ww2, d day through eagles nest. I wish I could have met him. He was killed in Vietnam 11/19/66
I'm glad this gentleman brought up the M1 Garand clip *ping*.
The idea that a German or Japanese soldier would hear that sound in the midst of a firefight, pick out the American soldier who was out of ammo and charge across open ground to take him out is b.s. The M1 rifle can be reloaded in a matter of seconds, U.S small arms doctrine dictated a rifle team be covered with automatic weapons or other forms of covering fire while on the move.
That chic is a dude
love it
Nothing like a dude dressed as a woman explaining history.
Great video but the stolen valor with this clown wearing an American uniform. Even tho it’s WW2 era it’s still stolen valor
I was born in Aldbourne and I can remember my Grandad telling me stories, when I was a kid, of the Americans that lived on the football pitch during the war. It wasn't until a bit later in my life that I realised that they were the 101st. At the time 'Band of Brothers' came out, I kinda used it as a claim to fame lol. I would've loved to have taken part in this dig but I didn't hear about it until it was over. Might have to get my metal detector out and go for a wander round my old stomping ground.
So, I'm a lifelong military historian, US Army veteran and current Civil War reenactor. I'm gonna put this out there and it will likely piss some of you off.
I'm tired of hearing about Easy Co. /506th PIR.
There. I said it.
That doesn't mean that I have any kind of poor opinion of that particular company. I have nothing but the sincerest respect for them.
But the fascination of some people [many of whom ought to know better] with documenting where every Easy Company soldier took a piss by the side of the road really does a disservice to the men that fought beside the 101st.
The story of War Two isn't told in the glamorous elite units. It's told in the stories of the draftees in the infantry regiments of Not Famous Army. It's told in Bill Maudlin's 'Willie and Joe'. It's told in the endless grind of infantry combat in units that are completely ignored. Units like the 5th Infantry Division, or the 99th Infantry Division. Units that went into the Hurtgen Forest or had to climb up the Apennines of the Gothic Line. Units that DIDN'T get famous or showered with medals at the Bulge, but damned near every man got a CIB and a Purple Heart. THERE is where the story of the US Army in the ETO/Med is told.
And it would be really nice if somebody gave *those* men the 'Tom Hanks' treatment.
How about doing a doco on what the American military left behind in Vietnam after dosing the country with Agent Orange???… What type of country doesn't accept the objects it leaves behind??.. You can't get anymore American than that, right?????
What the easy company when it is not being real ? Were they special or something? Chosen at random ?
The last member of Easy died this week ,RIP
That’s a confusing gentleman
Trans dude ruined the whole video.
God rest the souls of easy. They are all real super heroes