A good officer, like a soldier who loves himself like his brother, follows him and feels safe.
A good officer can always give correct command in time and lead everyone to victory.
Encouraging morale comes from good officers who lead troops, and from continuous victories.
By virtue of his power and a fierce face, it is impossible for the soldiers to respect him.
When it's time for him to make a decision, he drags his feet and will miss the opportunity of the fighter.
The chief who always makes wrong decisions will definitely be abandoned in the end.
This is the bad officer.
Takoya Recruit Training Base in Season One
Sober, the first company commander of E Company, was only a captain at the end of the war, and he was only suitable to be a strict instructor.
Normandy Landing in Season 2
E Company’s second company commander, Mihan, disappeared during the parachuting. On the day of landing in Normandy, E Company lost 24 people, 17 of whom died in the crash.
Winters was temporarily ordered to command the entire company and led the remaining 12 men to clear out four 105mm cannons on Utah beaches with grenades. The West Point Military Academy has used it as a model for attacking fixed positions (forts).
The third season captures Carrington
The German armored units in Omaha and Utah Beach were in Carrington. If Carrington is not taken, the landing troops will always be trapped on the beach. So Carrington is very important to the enemy and ourselves.
The Germans fought back desperately. Company D and Company F on the left and right wings of E Company retreated. Only Company E stood firm and finally waited for the arrival of the Second Armored Division.
Market Season 4-Operation Garden
After the Allied forces landed in Normandy, Patton in the south and Montgomery in the north, both wanted to take the lead in occupying Berlin. The 3rd Allied Army led by Patton rushed out of Normandy and launched a large pursuit of the Germans on the French Plains. Not to be outdone, Montgomery proposed a military operation codenamed "Market·Garden", with the intention of using airborne troops + armored troops to seize the Ruhr area, a heavy industrial center in Germany.
The British and American Air Forces invested 17,000 aircraft, 35,000 paratroopers, and 2,000 armored vehicles in hopes of ending operations on the European battlefield before Christmas in 1944. This is the largest airborne operation in the history of human warfare.
The mission of the US 101st Airborne Division in this operation was to occupy Eindhoven and seize the bridge to Germany.
In this operation, the entire 101st Airborne Division killed 750 people and injured 2,100 people. In the 506 regiment, 180 people were killed and 560 injured. In this operation, E Company exchanged 1 death and 22 wounds for two SS companies, annihilating about 50 people and wounding about 100 people.
However, the German army effectively prevented the Allied forces from crossing the river here to enter Germany.
The fifth season rescued the British First Airborne Division that was besieged in Arnhem
Winters served as the instructor of the E company for less than four months. At this time, he was the chief staff officer of the second battalion. The company commander of the E company was Dyke sent by the division. Moose Hellig led E Lian to cross the river to rescue the remnant of the British First Airborne Division that was besieged in Arnhem.
Two German armored divisions broke through the Ardennes Forest, defeating the 28th Infantry Division and the Fourth Division of the Allied Forces. The Allied Command also asked the 101st Airborne Division to go for reinforcements.
Defending the Bastogne defense line in the sixth season
Bastogne in Luxembourg, this is a traffic artery with seven roads.
In the absence of artillery and air support, the 506 regiment had to defend the ridge of the forest area near Bastogne. The second battalion was deployed in the forest area east of Bastogne, the first battalion was on the left flank to the north, and the third battalion was the reserve. But the front is drawn very long, and there are too many gaps in the middle.
The battle of Bastogne may be the most difficult of the entire World War II. The troops lacked ammunition and had no coats to protect against the cold. The regimental commander asked the battalion commander to find a way, whether it was to beg, borrow, or steal.
Until Patton's Third Army broke through the German defense line, came to rescue the besieged 101st Airborne Division. However, no officers and soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division thought they needed to be rescued.
In critical situations, the soldiers believe that the trenches are the people they can trust the most, not the soldiers who will kill them.
The seventh season captures the town of Foy
Knowing that Norman Dyke was an incompetent bad officer, but Winters, as the battalion commander, couldn't get rid of him.
Who is suitable to be the company commander of E company?
In the Ardin Forest in the Belgian mountains, the 506 regiment stared at the small town of Foyi for more than a month, and finally waited to launch an attack. But in the battle, the company commander Dyke was so scared that he hid behind the grass and dared not move forward. He called to retreat and completely lost the ability to command the battle. Winters wanted to rush forward by himself, but was stopped by the captain, and asked Spiel to replace Dyke, continue the attack mission, and finally captured the town.
Two days later, E Company captured Norville and Laqianpu one after another.
In the monastery of Lachenpu, I spent the night indoors for the first time in a month. The nuns sang hymns for the soldiers, as if they were in heaven.
But Hitler launched a counterattack in Alsace, and Company E was sent to defend Hagenau in France.
E Company had 121 soldiers entering Belgium, plus 24 additional soldiers, for a total of 145 soldiers, and only 63 soldiers were left when it came out.
The eighth season went to the other side to capture prisoners
Hagenau, France, the final patrol.
The 101st Airborne Division became famous because of the Battle of the Bulge, and the newspapers claimed that they were the men of Bastogne who had experienced many hardships.
The soldier Webster returning from the hospital, although he was a veteran of the Normandy Landing and the Garden Market operation, but because he missed the Battle of Bastogne, he did not seem to be very welcome when he returned, as if they were deserters, at least not with himself. Spent the most difficult month together.
Colonel Sinker ordered E Company to send a 15-man patrol to the other side to catch a few live prisoners back. Martin replaced Malachi to lead this mission. In this battle, two German prisoners were captured. Eugene Jackson was hit by fragments of his grenade and was seriously injured and died.
Commander Xinke was a little bit overwhelmed, and actually asked E Company to perform another patrol mission the next day.
The soldiers risked their lives to cross the river to capture the prisoners. What they were concerned about was only trivial things like what color Hitler liked, as if they didn't know the price the soldiers paid.
Winster explained when he arranged the mission, and when he returned, he reported that there was no way to capture any German prisoners back alive, while Nixon wrote a false report as an exchange, and the regiment didn't even notice anything unusual.
Season 9 Randsburg Concentration Camp, Germany
The German army was defeated and surrendered, and the E company entered Germany, Randsburg.
The troops quickly sent them food and water. But the doctors of the regiment said that they should not be given too much food, which would lead to their deaths. They can only receive food and medical treatment slowly.
The division reported that such concentration camps were found everywhere. The Russians also found a larger one, with a gas chamber and crematorium.
The local residents didn't know that such concentration camps existed, and thought it was the Allied forces that were too exaggerated. Therefore, General Taylor ordered the healthy residents of the town between the ages of 14 and 80, whether they are nuns or arrogant officers’ wives, to participate in the burial of corpses and receive humanitarian education the next day.
From 1942 to 1945, 5 million ethnic minorities and 6 million Jews were massacred, most of them in concentration camps.
The tenth season of the war to capture the eagle's nest ends
In early May, entered Bavaria.
Everyone wants to be the first to enter Berchtesgaden, Hitler's lair. Zink hopes Winters will lead the second battalion ahead of the French.
This small town is located in the Alps and is the spiritual base of the Nazis. The leaders of the Third Reich have a residence here. Although Hitler committed suicide with a gun, he ordered the SS to use this as the last guard position against the Allied attack. They blew up the cliff and blocked the road.
After the war
Buck Compton, who later became a prosecutor in Los Angeles, participated in the trial of Robert Kennedy's murder.
David Webster later became a columnist for "Saturday Post" and "Wall Street Journal".
Johnny Martin, returned to his original railway company to work, and then opened his own construction company.
George Lutz, worked as a handyman in Prideville, Rhode Island. In 1998, 1,600 people attended his funeral.
Dr. Luo, who later became a construction contractor, died in Louisiana in 1998.
Frank Paconty returned to Chicago and worked as a postman at a post office.
Joe Ligott returned to San Francisco and worked as a taxi driver.
Daniel Landauman, one of the best soldiers I have ever brought, worked in excavating earth in Arkansas.
Orton Moore brought a special souvenir back to Wyoming. This is Hitler's private photo album. Spil had once threatened him to hand it over. Good officers also have the advantage of wanting to take advantage of soldiers.
Floyd Tabert, lost contact after retiring, did not see him until 1981 at a gathering before his death.
Carwood Lipton returned to North Carolina and became the supervisor of the glass factory, with factories all over the world.
Harry Welch, married Katie Grogan, became the administrator of the Wicks Balbin School.
Ronald Spiel, who stayed in the Army, participated in the Korean War, and returned to Germany in 1958 as the warden of the lieutenant colonel at the Spandor Prison.
Louis Nixon was not very proud after the war and was divorced several times.
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