Between 00:48 and 01:40 GMT +2 on 6 June 1944, as part of the first wave of jumps code named Mission Albany, 6,928 paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division were carried aboard 432 C-47 aircraft into Normandy where they jumped into hostile enemy territory. Among those who jumped were about 2,000 men of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, including 140 soldiers of the famed Easy Company.
Normally I watch Band of Brothers each November in honor of the internationally celebrated armistice, but this year my girlfriend and I will be watching it in June to commemorate the 75th anniversary of these landings. I will be watching the first episode, "Currahee", the day before. The actual jump takes place in the second episode, "Day of Days". Since we live in New Zealand the jumps will have taken place between 10:48 and 11:40 our time, 75 years ago. We then plan on carrying on with the rest of the series, watching each episode around the dates that the various campaigns would have taken place.
If they were interested, I would encourage anyone else to find out what time the jumps coincide with their own time zone and join us. If you were interested, members of Easy Company specifically would have dropped at around 01:20 GMT +2. Lt. Winters and the men with him jump at around the 10:55 mark of episode two if you wanted to co-ordinate these.
>Red Army > WASP babies >Generation Kill > BoB debate me
Matthew Morales
Is The Pacific any good?
Julian Phillips
Generation Kill is superior in every way, fuck off with this second rate shit
Gavin Morris
Not as good as Band of Brothers but good in its own right. Has some pretty kino shots and the intro music/artwork is kino as fuck. That's great. It has nothing to do with D-Day or the second world war which is the entire point here you industrial cock inhaling faggot
Adrian Walker
Describe your gf for me please.
Luke Fisher
We are talking about TV show with soldiers. Who the fuck cares which event is fictionalized? Only the quality of the result matters.
Joseph Russell
kike propaganda for normie faggots like op
Jacob Campbell
the entire OP is literally about watching band of brothers for the 75th anniversary of the actual fucking band of brothers jumping on dday. what does a miniseries about the iraq war have to do with that? if you were talking to you probably should have linked him in your post
Hunter Morris
>bitching about the thread not beingabout what the OP intended Is this reddit?
Ryder Ramirez
Nobody is bitching about that. If you don't link the guy you're talking to people assume you're addressing OP. You are so fucking gay and stupid, never post here again.
Landon Hill
Posts women will never understand
Ryder Fisher
nice thread, thanks for the you too. see you around, reddit.
Benjamin Martinez
its not my thread genius
Ayden Carter
No
Ayden King
>gf has never seen band of brothers >we watch the first episode >why is Ross such a dickhead >I know him! He was in that thing! >why does he keep shouting at them? >wait they’re all dead? >why are they just flying into the shooting why don’t they just go round We don’t date anymore
Parker Rogers
>6 June 1944, as part of the first wave of jumps code named Mission Albany But user, it says right here war started in 1939 and ended in 1945. What was meant by this?????
Blake Smith
Americans were too busy eating breakfast and turned up 5 years late to a war that the UK had basically been fighting on its own
Matthew Myers
>UK had basically been fighting on its own But user it says right here that UK basically just sat on their little island the entire war. What's going on, who was actually fighting whomst this whole time?????
Eli Wright
I saw BoB and literally don't remember any of it, only that it had lots of actors that became big.
Fucking Bobby Axelrod i dont remember anything about him in the show other than his last name lol.
Lincoln Wilson
Currently watching it and I have to say some of the episodes are absolutely shit. What was that medic episode even about. Still, the good episodes are solid 7.5/10s
Juan Murphy
>watching each episode around the dates that the various campaigns would have taken place You waiting until January 2020 to watch breaking point?
Elijah Reed
you still suck
Hunter Johnson
not op but why not? he said he usually watches in november and is only starting now because its a special anniversary
Jace Morales
>What was that medic episode even about What do you mean?
Oliver Reed
Literally what was it about? Nothing happened in that episode, they just ran around the forest for a while.
Adam Jones
Only the battle scenes
Isaac Kelly
Read about the Battle of the Bulge. They were surrounded by Germans in the dead of winter with no supplies. The story in the episode revolved around the doctor trying to do what he could to help because they didn't have appropriate winter weather clothes and nowhere near enough medical supplies and the NCOs trying to keep up morale. They were dug in like that for over a month.
Carter Martin
Reminder that USSR's sacrifice in the WW2 led to the victory. Thank you based commies.
Yeah I know the battle was. I mean what happened in the episode itself? The dude ran around for an episode and then it ended. Pretty boring
Alexander Jackson
>all those civvie deaths in countries that fought Japan Damn Nips really are bug monsters
Ethan Cruz
It's meant to illustrate a different aspect of the war. It's a 10 episode series stretching from training all the way to the end of the war, it can't all be trees exploding and blood spilling, you've got to flesh out the characters and their actual experiences. And even still in that episode you saw quite a bit of action. You're basically saying you want it to be an all-action capeshit memefest.
