Easy Company Assaults the Guns at Brecourt Manor on D-Day - Animated

Lt. Winters is thrust in charge of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment on D-Day, and must lead an assault on the artillery battery at Brecourt Manor. If the guns can't be neutralised, they will do untold damage on Utah Beach as the 4th Infantry Division move ashore.

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[jerometaperman]

Elliot Richardson, who later was Richard Nixon's Attorney General, was on Utah Beach that day and was pinned down by those guns. Decades later, he read Band of Brothers and, for the first time, understood why the fire from those guns stopped. He wrote Richard Winters a letter thanking him.

[tomcarl]

The story of Band of Brothers would never exist and nobody would ever know the name of Dick Winters if it weren't for historian Steven Ambrose. He was researching his D-Day book and stumbled upon their story. He wrote the book as a side story. Hanks and Spielberg both read the book and the rest is history.

Now, imagine all the thousands of other men who accomplished extraordinary things whose stories will never be told.

[TheOperationsRoom]

So in Band of Brothers they show Lorraine missing everything and Guarnere mopping up. In reality Lorraine hit, Guarnere missed and Winters mopped up. I thought that was an interesting bit.

[ZoobieDoodie]

″‘Hitler made only one big mistake when he built his Atlantic Wall’, the paratroopers liked to say. ‘He forgot to put a roof on it.‘

[scottfirman]

Winters saved my dad that day as well as others. A True hero.

[heyheyzx]

Damn makes me wanna watch Band of Brothers again

[jonathanallard]

Imagine the balls it requires just to turn a corner in an enemy occupied trench.

[Anamericanhomestead]

Love these infantry assault videos. Veteran 1st Battalion 6th infantry here.

[dreamsofsnow]

That attack by Winters and his Men is still taught at West Point on how to attack a prepared position as such.

[seccretasianMAN]

I can literally picture the episode from Band of Brothers as you walk us through each action sequence. Brilliant work.

[figurativeride]

I personally love these little "war stories" in between the bigger pictures

[Wolfeson]

6:50 Winters himself brings up one of the things that always impresses me about this attack (one of many things, of course). Keep in mind, that this was the *first* combat action for the vast majority of this division (including, I believe, all of the soldiers in this attack), and things had already gone awry with the scattered parachute drops. And yet, all over the area, these soldiers gathered themselves into what groups they could, figured out where they were in the middle of a battle zone in the pitch dark, got to work, and still accomplished stuff like this. How good must their training have been, and how courageous must these soldiers have been, to have the will and the capability to successfully carry on with their mission despite everything working against them?

[zhizunbao]

One day the grandson asked "grandpa, were you a hero in the war?"
"No, i'm not a hero, but I have served in a company of heroes"

[AP-uioi]

To say Dick Winters was “ a very capable leader” is an understatement. Great video.

[kldsup]

Imagine getting shot in combat and just saying “I goofed”

[woodchuckcider]

My weekend pass was revoked after watching this.

[Twoonefive]

"Led by a capable officer that day".... Wished my LT was 5% as capable as Winters when I was in🤦🏽‍♂️...

[brendanmccallion]

Unbelievable how Winters pulled this off. This is actually so inspiring.

[McGyverATGMAIL]

Winters was an impressive leader every step of the way, and his meticulous notes in recording history led to us learning of the great sacrifices these men have daily.

[Flociety]

6:47 "Our success was due more to our training" You have to think what Easy Co. would have been like without the "help" of Cpt. Sobel. Yes, he was a terrible combat leader, but many of the men of Easy did agree that he did toughen them up.