Band Of Brothers

[Jim Oaks]

Anyone watch it on Spike this weekend?

I'm a bit lost on this. I thought this series was going to run through the fall. Saturday they played parts 1,2 and 3. I figure next weekend they would play parts 4+. I turn on the TV tonight and part 8 is ending. WTH! I watched 9 and 10 (the final episode) tonight (Monday), so now I'm missing 4-8.

I look on line, and find out this series came out on HBO in 2001 .

So now I'm confused wondering if Spike is going to replay this, or if I'm going to have to find another way to see episodes 4-8.

Damn.

Great series though........

 

[countryboy]

if i can find it i have the whole series on dvd and if i can find it i will send u copies of it and ya it kicks ass

 

[mattpresley]

Same here I got it on DVD for my 16th Bday(3.5 years ago) Im a huge fan of BofB. If you want I would also be willing to copy the set and donate it to Jim Oaks

 

[Hahnsb2]

Yeah I've got it too. It's an amazing series!

 

[Jim Oaks]

Gawd.


I feel like I've been living in a cave.....


I can't believe I've missed out on this for all these years......


Just a little side note:

There is a pastor at my church that flew during WWII. He's not the main pastor anymore, but he still attends regularly. He directed the choir a few weeks ago. Waving his arms and full of energy. It amazes me to see him still going and wonder what all he's seen in his life.

 

[michowski]

I watched it on history channel when they debuted it 1 chapter a week. Definatly a great movie. Definatly worth picking up on dvd if you want to own it.

 

[countryboy]

most of ww2 vets are gone from my area but i loved to talk to them and here what they had to say

 

[mattpresley]

Gawd.


I feel like I've been living in a cave.....


I can't believe I've missed out on this for all these years......


Just a little side note:

There is a pastor at my church that flew during WWII. He's not the main pastor anymore, but he still attends regularly. He directed the choir a few weeks ago. Waving his arms and full of energy. It amazes me to see him still going and wonder what all he's seen in his life.

You may have been living in a cave if you haven't seen band of brothers

My grandfather fought in WWII against the Germans. Hearing his story's was something that I was very lucky to be around for. He died a year ago but you can't really be sad when many of his friends died on the battlefield.

 

[hoosier1104]

Band of Brothers is one of the best damn mini series EVER period. If you like WWII movies you will love this series. I own the set and watch it maybe once or twice every 6 or 7 months.

Side Note:

I got my Hoosier Veterans plate today for the truck.

 

[daniel3507]

I LOVE Band of Brothers. If it wasnt so damn expensive i would own it.

 

[fastpakr]

If you keep an eye out, you can find it for a good price. Pretty sure the Bluray was $35 or so recently in a discussion on Slickdeals.

Edit - $41 right now for the Bluray at Amazon. Looks like it's been as low as $35 in the past, though.

 

[Downey]

yeah i have them on dvd too i love the series

 

[warrior24]

yeah it was 35 on slickdeals. I have it on dvd but heck I want it on blu-ray to bad I was broke at the time.

 

[AllanD]

Gawd.


I feel like I've been living in a cave.....


I can't believe I've missed out on this for all these years......


Just a little side note:

There is a pastor at my church that flew during WWII. He's not the main pastor anymore, but he still attends regularly. He directed the choir a few weeks ago. Waving his arms and full of energy. It amazes me to see him still going and wonder what all he's seen in his life.

Spike isn't the only channel that has run it.
Usually the History channel runs it in a super marathon a
couple times each year. Usually around Jun 6th (Can't imagine why...)
and again around christmas (Bastogne Anniversary)


As a side note on BofB, but Shifty Powers passed away recently

I met Dick Winters briefly several years ago, we both attended a funeral
(No connection to any veteran) and All I could say to him when I was introduced was " I know who you are!...Thank you!" He smiled and nodded.

There is a big push to get extensive interviews of ALL WW2 veterans.

More pass away every year, it is important to get their eyewitness
accounts while they can still give them.

IF your pastor was a pilot it is important that you get him to sit down
with an interview team.... if he has not already done so.

One of my neighbors (who passed a few years ago) was a Navy Pilot
He flew SBD's (Dauntless Dive Bomber) as a carrier aviator, and later
was one of the first group of Naval pilots assigned to the "Cactus Airforce"
He flew off the carrier to support the invasion and later was sent back as one of the naval pilots.
He was one of the very few that survived the entire Guadalcanal
Campaign, but that was likely because he was usually assigned
maritime recon (looking for enemy naval forces) rather than
ground support... as he put it "There are fewer hills and trees
to fly into when looking for enemy ships"
Marines were usually tasked ground support, naval pilots maratime interdiction.

Then again he also commented those ships would turn in the
damndest way to avoid the bombs... but it didn't do them any good...

I'd spend hours letting him tell me about it.
but it probably helped that I knew both the geography and the
plan for the invasion of the Solomons, and all the dates....
as well as most of the units that served there.

I have a memory for that stuff and had previously read virtually
every book on the subject

Every year between I met him and when he passed we'd sit down
and open a bottle of bourbon on August 7th. to celebrate the invasion.

AD

 

[warrior24]

Another good movie is Saints and Soldiers, pretty good for a low budget movie .
I had the opportunity to meet a turret gunner on a torpedo bomber from the USS Enterprise he did not mention what years he served but he said during WW2. I was actually kinda speechless at first all I could say was "WOW you guys had guts Thank you". I finally got to meet someone who served on the Enterprise. Since many old retires come to where I work (grocery store) I wonder how many of them were in the military. It makes it easy to be patient with them since I know many of them were in the military. Yet I will never be able to repay the debt I owe them.