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 this 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.
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00:00 Introduction
02:14 Operation Nightingale – Digging Begins
07:52 History of Easy Company (506th Infantry Regiment)
08:38 2019 Archaeological Finds
11:29 M1 Garand Clip
18:04 US WW2 Training Film (On Living in the UK)
22:00 WW2 Nissen Hut
23:51 US Soldier Tree Carvings
30:17 Original D-Day Helmet
34:44 Band Of Brothers Cast
39:16 Easy Co. Dog Tag Finds!
47:05 Family Reaction
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Wooo!
Greatest Show ever made! Real life hero’s! Thank you for honouring their legacy!
8min 50 I'm not watching anymore 😢
Steven E. Ambrose was a hack writer & lousy historian, his books Crazy Horse & Custer & Embattled Courage are poorly researched claptrap. And I actually knew the man. His Band of Brothers is certainly no better. And who really cares about one tiny cog in an immense Allied machine. I mean, really? "Inspirational?" OMG! I can't fathom Brits & their Yankee hero worship. – George Kush, CD, Alberta, Canada.
History Hit, I love this! Can we be friends?
Zoomer Historian referenced a British book who's author spoke to veterans of WW2 In around 2000. The vast majority REGRETTED their service and the sacrifice of their countrymen and would not have done what they did then if they had seen the state of the country as it was now.
Please help Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge so their animals don’t suffer! https://youtu.be/vOr8_w4C1Mg?feature=shared
4 on a strip tuners would have been half of a mandolin set, not guitar.
Richard and the team are back digging at the site in Aldbourne again this year! Here's hoping they dig up some more amazing finds! 🙏
Could have probably been presented without the PEN 15 outfit that had nothing to do with airborne forces 😂
Awesome job History Hit! Amazing artifacts that brings chills and inspire us all. Currahee is just down the road from us. Lots of work has been put forth in Toccoa to tell the story of these brave men. From the museum located at the Depot to the Camp Toccoa at Currahee. Please visit if you are near us. These Band of Brothers shall never be forgotten. Remembering those today, Memorial Day here in America! We from America thank you for the wonderful series and those in Wiltshire for telling their story.
My Uncle Sergent George Sharpe was a member of the 101 airborne and jumped on D DAY and survived the war , he was one of seven of my Uncle's by blood who served in WW2 all made it home but one my Uncle Sergent Neal Sharpe who served in the Pacific, I also have four Uncle's by marriage who also served
All known actual artifacts are at the 101st Museum in Fort Cambell, Kentucky. Lets not forget thar there were more than just the infantrymen at thar site.
Timeline World History Documentaries, & Tony Robinson did this same site with his show, "Time Team History-official" How many times are they going to "repurpose" this footage? Just look in the feed, it'll show up again with another title. They just reshoot w another host. WTF
How many film crews were there for that dig carefully avoiding one another? Time Team did the same site including using some of the same footage from this documentary.
Not trying to be contrary, but I thought Carwood "Lip" Lipton was from West Virginia?
Another great video, really enjoyed it. Though I did wonder if Luke was a bit disappointed he had to wear 21st century clothes for most of it. 😄
I loved seeing the 'Cloven Hoof' pub sign outside the Blue Boar, a souvenir of Aldbourne's being the site of the classic 'Doctor Who' story 'The Daemons'.
16:52 Isn’t that Burgess Meredith? I think I would recognize his eyes and lower teeth anywhere.
A very exciting dig – congrats to all involved! Easy Company will never be forgotten.
Carwood Lipton was from West Virginia, not South Carolina
This was a most appropriate and enjoyable video to watch on American Memorial Day, 27 May 2024
Is this old video, there are same exact clips from a video last year
Much work, small but excellent finds.
Dear everyone complaining about this being "reused" footage:
Today is Memorial Day in the US. Makes perfect sense that History Hit would drop a video about the 101st Airborne's time in Britain on Memorial Day, HH has a large American audience, and the 80th anniversary of D-Day is next week.
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This is great, our American brothers need to be remembered with enormous gratitude. However, I wish there was more made of the British, Commonwealth nations and others effort and sacrifice too. I worry young people think it was just Tom Hanks and Dick Winters who won it!
Is this reupload
Great job, HH. 👍
Fun fact- when firing an m1 garand its very difficult if not impossible to hear the "ping" that comes when the mag is empty
The french never liked you as you believe. It was about fucking and eating not more than that. Or in other words survival.
My son and I are taking the 2 week Stephen Ambrose Band of Brothers tour in July 2024. We start out in Aldbourne and finish up at the Eagles Nest.
Carwood Lipton was from Huntington, West Virginia, not South Carolina. He lived in North Carolina until his death.