‘Easy Company G.I.s Carved Their Names Into Trees In This English Village’
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 second episode of this three-part series, Luke Tomes explores the advice given to American G.I.s before they arrived in England on how to adapt to the British way of life. Shortly after, Luke travels with archaeologist Dan Miles to the forests around Aldbourne, where members of the 101st Airborne Division have left their traces behind through various, remarkably preserved tree carvings.
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00:00 Introduction
02:14 “A Welcome To Britain”
06:13 Blue Boar Pub
07:31 Uncovered Foundations Of Nissen Hut
09:21 WW2 Tree Carvings
14:54 Next Time…
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Great episode but the Richard Spencer WN haircut is off putting. JS
The phrase of “it doesn’t mean anything what side our grandfathers fought on in the civil war. It doesn’t mean anything now.” Is something many modern Americans would stand well to be reminded of.
Wow, a 70 year old excavation site, can't wait for the next digs of a 1980's roller disco, then a 1999 CD store.
I wonder if the hard lessons learned from American troop deployments in Australia influenced the creation of this rulebook? They certainly wouldn't have wanted to see a repeat of the Battle of Brisbane in the UK.
There's one for Australia though it's light blue, I found it so hilarious I bought a copy.
So basically Burgess Meredith was 80-years-old his entire life. Interesting.
Are you the same dude one of you become knight in Adidas trainers 😉but apart from that your research is brilliant well worth to watch and share👍👍👍
Completely new environment? Rural farm village in the Northern hemisphere where everyone speaks English
Okay let's go watching now fantastic channel pure information
13:00, The ones who carved into the trees were the GIs from NYC, who were forced to deploy without their cans of spray paint…
4 minutes of repetition before we actually got some detail. Some being the operative word.
Walking around in that uniform in the US would get you popped with a Stolen Valor charge quicker than you can say "it's a costume"
No doubt interesting channel
Are baseball caps common in the UK now? Was surprised to see the one archeologist wearing one.
My great grandpa always talked about the hot beer, totally blew his mind.
Loving this series. So much so I've started watching Band of Brothers again. Been at least a year since I last watched it all 🙂 Looking forward to the next episode
My local pub it’s a heap of history !
Born, raised and watching from S.C. Crazy looking around at that area and that SC carving thinking, If I would have been born in that time…That could have been me. Leaving everything I've ever known with a very good chance of never seeing it again. I can't imagine how lost and scared they must have been. Was another breed of men back then it seems. RIP for all those we lost on all sides in a war I hope the world never sees the like of again. The world forever owes y'all a debt of gratitude that we can never repay.
HELL YEAH I'D GO DRINKIN WITH BURGESS MEREDITH!
On the cliffs of Tourcross in Devon the USA servicemen serving there leading up to the D_Day landings have their names carved on the walls of the cliff by the hotel
I'm a forestry consultant, there's quite a few of these on an estate I manage in Berkshire, interestingly also on beech trees
Carwood was from West Virginia!
My dad fought in WW Two and brought back a dozen or so of these little booklets covering all the countries he was in from Burma to Iraq.
Good old English pub….no such thing anymore.
I wonder if you could xray these to get the details out. There should be a resistance differential.
Very poinigant those tree carvings.
Carwood Lipton was from West Virginia, no?
Shame it didn’t cover the part where GIs were told not to be shocked to see white AND black soldiers be invited into a white persons household
That's Burgess Meredith (the penguin from 1960s Batman TV series).
Wonderful video: this was well made! Cheers 🍻
Years ago – 1983 – I went to England on holiday and met up with people that mum and dad knew growing up in the town where they lived. I don't remember how the topic came up now but I remember more than one comment about how the US servicemen seemed to target women whose husbands were away fighting overseas (think it might have been because one of the women targeted was friends with my grandparents (my grandfather was in the ARP, medically unfit for service) and there were some very very harsh words for them even after all that time. It really wasn't appreciated when married women with husbands who'd been serving overseas for the past 3 years or more were deliberately targeted by the ''yanks'' because they were seen as easy prey.
And I often heard comments growing up in NZ about how the ''yanks'' treated the Maori soldiers they met in the war, and the comments weren't very polite either. We even covered it in a topic when we learned about the war in history, we were also told that they allegedly treated many of the commonwealth soldiers from Africa and the pacific islands in the same way though I don't know how true this is. Would be interested in finding out if anyone knows the answer.
That’s Mickey from Rocky!!!!
Carwood Lipton was born and raised in Huntington West Virginia and attended Marshall University for one year before leaving school due to financial hardships, he was not from South Carolina. He read an article in Life Magazine about he paratroopers and enlisted in 1942.
I helped make that book mostly by hand. It didn't go far as was made in wiltshire too
More permanent than tree carvings are rock carvings. Like the J TIPTON carved into a boulder in Devils Den, Gettysburg.
Warm beer. I will never understand that. 😄 Great stuff!
"killroy was here.' "overpaid. oversexed. and over here!"
i bet if you did an xray of the tree, you could read the letters.
Surely they could find a 'period' Jeep..it's a post war one. The UK has masses of wartime Willys/GPW Jeeps.
Hell, we like to do tree carvings where we live too lol
In Band of Brothers, Carwood Lipton tells Lt. Dyke he is from Huntingdon, West Virginia, not South Carolina as you say.
11:30 It's unfortunate to say that it is not Carwood Lipton, as he was not from South Carolina. He was born and raised in Huntington, West Virginia, where he eventually attended the local Marshall University for a year before enlisting.
Band of Brothers is my favourite WW2 series. Nice to see the placed the stayed before D Day.
God Bless America And Her Great Allies That Will Always Stand Tall And Defend This Great World 🌍 Of Ours
Dear History Hit. Love your series. I'm Australian but one of our ancestral residences, Askerswell House in Askerswell Dorset was used as a POW camp for captured German servicemen during WW2. Apparently there is swastika carved in a beam in one of the outbuilding lofts. Would that be of interest to you as a subject to investigate?
just behind the military houses in tidworth there are dozens of trees with similar engravings, about 3 miles down the road.