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Romulus augustulus said:
I wonder how often guys even loaded en blocs themselves in WW2 & Korea? pretty sure they came preloaded.
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I don’t remember which book, but WWII vets have talked about often topping up their clips while they were still in their rifles during lulls in the fighting. I’m sure it happened all the time, I bet there was many instances where guys would cannibalize rounds from BAR mags or delink machine gun ammo to put in enblocs. I bet Korea was much of the same.
 
Romulus augustulus said:
It’s diverges from reality quite a bit for sure. Lt Dike wasn’t actually a coward at Foy. He was shot which is why Spiers replaced him. Everyone disliked Nixon except winters. Moose hyliger was shot because harry welsh was drunk on duty. Far as I can tell Spiers’ depiction is the closest to reality. He did shoot the prisoners, he did shoot sgt carington, and he did run through enemy lines at foy. The whole story is filtered through the biased and aged minds of winters, Lipton, guarnere and Heffron. Their distaste for some others taints their recollection and thus the book and show

It is still a fantastic show, I’d argue almost perfect from a structure point of view.
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The issue is Ambrose relied on a few standout veterans to tell the story and their recollections were terrible. It’s an example of how memory is affected by what you felt at the time.

The most egregious example was private Blythe. He didn’t die from his wounds but survived and served in the Army until 1967 when he had a medical emergency possibly related to his heavy drinking. Two easy company veterans who knew him by his home town attended a funeral thinking it was him, or at least told Ambrose it was him. In reality it was some other poor sap. Those two guys barely knew Blythe to begin with so they couldn’t tell the difference

Ambrose was a pretty lazy writer for Band of Brothers and the show made it worse. Still quality television, though.

As an ironic side note, S.L.A. Marshall was a noted military historian who is known for his slippery writing and not doing enough research for his War Department write ups. Ambrose defends him in the book over the Beaucourt Manor fight write up Marshall did.
 
Anyone have any basic suppressor height glock sights they recommend?

The TX22 TORO is apparently glock-sight compatible.

Since it's a .22 fun gun I don't need fancy $200 trijicons or anything nuts.
 
fuck dude i just found out ruger sneakily released a G147 version of the RXM. just ordered the 147 slide and a full size frame. we're finally bringing back a new era of ship of theseus glocking
 
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ellroy said:
The issue is Ambrose relied on a few standout veterans to tell the story and their recollections were terrible. It’s an example of how memory is affected by what you felt at the time.

The most egregious example was private Blythe. He didn’t die from his wounds but survived and served in the Army until 1967 when he had a medical emergency possibly related to his heavy drinking. Two easy company veterans who knew him by his home town attended a funeral thinking it was him, or at least told Ambrose it was him. In reality it was some other poor sap. Those two guys barely knew Blythe to begin with so they couldn’t tell the difference

Ambrose was a pretty lazy writer for Band of Brothers and the show made it worse. Still quality television, though.

As an ironic side note, S.L.A. Marshall was a noted military historian who is known for his slippery writing and not doing enough research for his War Department write ups. Ambrose defends him in the book over the Beaucourt Manor fight write up Marshall did.
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Blithe was also from philly like some of the other guys, not a southern hill billy like in the show. IIRC, the southern accent was the only American accent that actor could pull off so they went with it. Strayer's actor's irish accent comes out sometimes when he yells. I don't understand why they don't update the end titles with the real info. Blithe in the 50s (?)

Some more trivia:
  • Nixon was rich, really rich. his family owned Ryer Island in California, and lots of land in the east. he was in the elite of both coasts.
  • Lt. Dike went to yale with Nixon, and Nixon likely got him that post.
  • Col. Sink's nickname was "bourbon Bob". On D-Day he drove his jeep through german lines twice. shame that wasn't in the show.
  • Winters was a rigid commander. His attack plans were the same, always. 1st platoon attacks, 2nd covers, 3rd in reserve. for the whole war. that's why 1st platoon took so many casualties.
  • Nixon considered Buck Compton a coward.
  • in the show Winters lets the german commander in "points" keep his Luger. IRL winters kept it.
  • In "the last patrol" Cobb is depicted as being a drunk and getting in an argument with Lt. Jones. IRL it was a fist fight. Col. Sink remarked that "It would have been easier if you'd just shot him."
  • Webster intentionally played up his injury so he could stay out of the battle of the bulge.
  • Lt. Peacock disliked Webster and would make him do menial labor for no good reason, at least that's what Webster alleges.
  • Liebgott was Catholic.
 
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