[Tricks]

I have recently learned, that there is an extremely horrible mistake in that series! It protrays Easy taking the Eagle's nest, when it was actually the 7th US infantry Division This has seriously affected my opinion of the series....it makes me sad now...

[Uboat]

The HBO mini series was based on the book "Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest" by Stephen Ambrose. I'm not sure what your source is for the US 7th Inf. but what was depicted in the mini series was pretty accurate factually. Like many things in history, there may be some dispute as to who actually took the Eagle's Nest, but E/506 was there.

[Tricks]

One sec, Ike and Taylor (101st General) Both have said the 7th took it.

Here it is

Quote:

In his book, "Crusade in Europe", on page 418, Gen Ike wrote, "On May 4th....the Third Division captured Berchtesgaden," In General Maxwell Taylor’s memoir "Swords and Plowshares", wrote, in part, on page 106, "On May 4th the Division (Taylor’s 101st Airborne) received an order to move on Berchtesgaden....unfortunately a bridge was destroyed on our side of the autobahn so that the 3rd Division got to Berchtesgaden ahead of us on the after-noon of May 4th."

3rd Division, 7th regiment. I still like the series, but it kinda put a little damper on it

[Uboat]

Tricks, from the same website you linked to.

Quote:

Three names have always been tangled up to suggest, wrongly, one location: Berchtesgaden, which often served as the generic term, though in fact it was nothing more than the nearest resort town (one that had survived the Allied bombs virtually unscathed); the Berghof, which, although it was the domicile of a megalomaniac, was not of imperial size, more a McChalet than a McMansion; and, a few thousand feet higher, at the summit of the closest mountain, the Kehlsteinhaus, or Eagle's Nest, a work of architectural brutalism, which Hitler never liked because he hated heights.

So again, sometimes history can be a little fuzzy on these matters. So perhaps the 3rd Div. captured the town of Berchtesgaden while E Co. was tasked to take the actual Eagles Nest which is not situated in the town. In any case nothing will tarnish my image of units like the 101st or the 82nd.

[camerontech]

Band of brothers is my favorite ww2 series. and the bob games for ps2 are the best war games released so far

[Tricks]

I agree that nothing will tarnish my image of them, but the series may have been tarnished.

[Thematic-Device]

don't be so hasty...

http://www.warfoto.com/berchesg.htm

To the belief of the 506th paratroopers they were the first ones there, Winters even wrote about how he wondered how the 7th infantry could have the town first if, when he arrived, they were nowhere to be found.

[Tricks]

OK! I'm happy again. Should put an interesting spin on my presentation on the movie

[Lord-Beaverbrook]

It should. Nice quotes by the way, they are humorous.

[Tricks]

Lord-Beaverbrook wrote:

It should. Nice quotes by the way, they are humorous.

what quotes?

[derk]

band of brothers is sweet.they should make a mini series on the canadian infantry though.

[BartSimpson]

Stephen Ambrose distilled "Band of Brothers" from his other works - "D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II" and "Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beachs to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany" - he also drew a bit off of his various works on Ike.

I'd recommend reading those two books as they set the backdrop against which Band of Brothers was played out.

[Tricks]

BartSimpson wrote:

Stephen Ambrose distilled "Band of Brothers" from his other works - "D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II" and "Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beachs to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany" - he also drew a bit off of his various works on Ike.

I'd recommend reading those two books as they set the backdrop against which Band of Brothers was played out.

I did, they were fucking amazing.

[BartSimpson]

Tricks wrote:

BartSimpson wrote:

Stephen Ambrose distilled "Band of Brothers" from his other works - "D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II" and "Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beachs to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany" - he also drew a bit off of his various works on Ike.

I'd recommend reading those two books as they set the backdrop against which Band of Brothers was played out.

I did, they were fucking amazing.

Good for you! Nicely stated, by the way!

[Bodah]

There's suppose to be a pacific version of Band of brothers in the works due out in 2009

Cant wait to see that.