If you've visited Foy or seen Episode 7 of Band of Brothers and didn't realise that there was a much wider story attached to the liberation of the village here then let me know in the comments below!

I think it it’s important to remember that BoB was only given 10 episodes to tell the story of 150 men across 2 year during World War Two. The narrative was to tell a story about a company of men through their eyes, which had not really been done in such detail until then.

Many war films, especially covering this period were about the ‘battle group’ sized formations focusing heavily on the commanders of such units; thinking ‘Longest Day’ ‘A Bridge Too Far’ & ‘Battle of the Bulge’. These stories were great but never dialled in on company cohesive tactics, the loss of soldiers\friends, living in the field and many more micro details.

To have told the wider picture in 10 episodes would have lost the feeling of BOB, and yes this has meant that there are details missing, but there are even details of individual soldiers of Easy Company that are missing because of the tight turnaround of this series.

I do think that had this been re-written for 2023, Apple/Netflix would have given this a couple of series with 22 episodes to tell the same story, which might have given the chance to have expanded, even if it had just expanded the 2nd Battalion story.

Thank you so much for the accuracy. My uncle John Butler was in the 11th Armored Infantry and died in Foy on January 13, 1945. He stepped on a landmine.  So I know exactly where he died as only a section  of the road was mined. You are the only one who’s acknowledged them and I thank you. I will be visiting there in May 2025.

Great video. In all fairness, it was called Band of Brothers not Band of Battalions. It was a series made to reflect the experiences they encountered through their eyes. It wasn’t a comprehensive documentary. I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Very well explained.

Well stated my friend. Well done. Fine explanation of a single complex, multi-day encounter in Foy with the Germans. As we all know, there were tens of thousands of combat encounters across the course of war. Hours, days, weeks into years reduced to minutes of video. My father USMC, started his Pacific vacation in Dec. 42,  Guadalcanal. This took him through Salomon's, Bougainvillea, New Britian, Tinian, finally Iwo. He was once interviewed for TV about experiences and it was summoned up in 5 minutes by a man who most likely never shot a rifle. How can a video or movie possibly begin to express in minutes, what took thousands of men, millions of personal encounters to experienced to explain? Most moved on just wanting to get back to life.

Band of brother was a series to show what easy went through during the war. The entire focus of the series was to hear and see the war experiences of easy co. and easy only. It wasnt a war documentary but an easy co. Retelling of only their war. But thank you for clarifying the entire experience for us. Always great to hear the whole story of all the heroes of WW2 who gave all to save our countries and freedoms that we've now let get pissed away.

Yes there were many more units involved. Most people realize it wasn't just a single company that did it. Band of Brothers is a book and movie about Easy Company and their story, not an all inclusive detailing of the whole battle or war. Thanks for telling the full story of Foy. Love content like this.

Thank you for your work on this subject of the battle of FOY. It was so interesting that, new thoughts of how this battle really must have taken place occured to me as you explained it as you did. I knew somehow that there must have been more attacking units than was shown in the Band of Brothers series, but, as the series was mainly focused on that companies exploits, I realised the time factor had to be sustained as was shown in the series and it was meant to express that this was happening everywhere along the line of attack and could not include everything which was happening at the time everywhere at once. Otherwise we would have just lost the plot in the confusion and the Fog of War as usual.
It simply had to be shown that way to achieve the dramatic effect nessesary to get to the point of what ONE Company went through, was the collective task and fate of all the fighting units which had to face this terrible task, whatever it was going to cost. And Easy Company achieved this level of Maximum effort for all the units involved as equally as could be shown in the Filming time they were alloted.

I knew it must have been much harder than was shown. But the series was meant to pictorialise for all time what All these brave men had to face every day of their soldierly lives, so that we might know them forever truly as the men they truly were, are, and always will be to us. "MEN OF RENOWN" who must never be forgotten for that what they sacrificed for our sakes and for all mankind who have the possibility to live in peace far away from those times they had to go through. I cannot thank them enough. And I thank you too sir for your determination to show us, they are not forgotten by the ones who appreciate their memory, from all those years ago. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we shall remember them.🙏

Just found your Channel, in one word OUTSTANDING. You do all of these brave men, and their families a great service in the true accounts of what actually happened. In my last few years I have become interested in all that this conflict and especially as it relates to the freedoms we all have now with their blood, the civilians and their children , wives and relatives at home.  Sadly , most people today from all ages think only of themselves, their house price going up etc and throw away these sacrifices when submitting to the new liars, tyrants, and dictators like ; BIG TECH, MSM, MACRON, SCHULTZ, BIDEN, ADERN , JOHNSON, SUNAK etc and like cowards they mask up for their overlords.

Your narration…and vocal delivery…are excellent. As is this content. I’m 56 and educated in WWII…and learned a lot from this. Thanks. Very brave men.

These videos with actual human research are so damned good! One of the best channels on YT!! Thank you from Minnesota.

Thanks for the information and corrections, appreciated. Not sure how many veterans would appreciate all the metal detectorists, disturbances and vandalism around these sites where people fought and died.

I actualy follow your trips using my first monitor with google maps
and a second monitor to watch your video .

Makes me feal I am with you walking around !

Thank you for this in depth analysis. I had a friend that was on a 57mm AT crew with the 11th AD. He fought in the Battle of the Bulge.

Maximum respect and kudos for your articulate clarification on this battle...add the fact that all of this took place "in the bleak midwinter"...makes the action waaaaaaaaay  more compelling😮

Outstanding battlefield study!  I will be walking the Foy battlefield in a couple of weeks and will use this as a reference

Just subscribed to your channel!!  You make great content mate 😉 keep up the great work

you're living my dream man, keep up the great content!

This is a great piece of work!  Really enjoying the content, thank you.

Man very informative, you deserve more views, well done! Just subscribed! Looking forward to more like this!😊