#Bastogne

[miss-nerd-alert]

There’s a restaurant in Bastogne called Le Nuts (named after General McAuliffe’s famous reply to the German surrender ultimatum) that actually serves your beer in a ceramic helmet, to commemorate this.

True homies will walk through a war zone to get their bro's a beer.

[theworldatwar]

A US M10 ‘Wolverine’ from the 773rd Tank Destroyer Battalion at the edge of a forest near the Belgian village of Benonchamps just 5 miles from Bastogne - Jan 1945

[ghostofadragon]

god would never give something so painful

[adventures-of-grim-and-gracey]

I love how 'get a hot meal' became 1940s man code for you look fucked up

[saintmalosunsets]

Band of Brothers but it's just Gene looking for supplies

[magnoliasforyourmedic]

I was dead. My right leg was blown off, and the snow was red from all the blood. I went from burning hot to freezing. Me and Joe lay there freezing in the snow, shivering, bleeding, both of us were full of shrapnel. He said, "Jesus Christ, what the hell do I have to do to die?!" It was Joe's fifth time hit. Lipton, Malarkey, and Babe came running over to help, I was half out of it. Doc Roe was right there, trying to patch us up. Without him, we wouldn't be alive. Roe was the best medic we ever had. He was born to be a medic. You could always depend on him. You hollered, "Medic!" he was right there come hell or high water, he knew what he was doing. He was compassionate, took care of you mentally, physically, every way.

— William “Wild Bill” Guarnere describing Eugene “Doc” Roe in the book he cowrote with Babe Heffron, Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends

[yourspeirs]

[balladofthe101st]

[terriblesolomons]

Ok but guys isn't it actually crazy how Eugene Roe's presence is literally defined by the ineffable silence of God....ep 6 has no narrative voice beyond the languageless vision of Roe's literal perspective....he brings with him silence in every episode he's in like the chaos after Jackson blows himself up stills completely when Doc runs in - they all go silent & frozen & breathless - when any man is wounded the very concept of words beyond orders fail...he talks about how Renee is blessed to calm the wounded she treats but it's evident that he brings with him something even graver than calm; it's unutterable, literally, it's a prayer, it's a response to the silence we meet (Roe meets) in his prayers (it's a reflection on the insane power we - they - have over our own - and their own - mortality - that silent and sometimes apparently godlike capacity to return (to the front lines) from the dead (that hell of lost brotherhood in the hospitals)?)

[aliciax3]

I was watching an interview with the sons of George Luz and Bill Guarnere, and Guarnere's son was talking about how he and his brother went to see Bill in the hospital when he had a heart attack and the doctor asked when he lost his leg and one of his sons goes "episode 7" 😂😂 and then the doctor asked when the last time Bill saw a doctor was and Bill said "Doc Roe in Bastogne" 🤣

[sharkboyandlavalieb]

BASTOGNE - LINES & DOC ROE'S PRAYER OF SAINT FRANCIS -insp. x

[cirr0stratus]

you guys ever think about how babe looked at gene after julian was killed. how he looked at HIM, and only him, and then back at the ground. do you think he thought just for a moment oh i get it now. i understand why you’re so distant. why you don’t keep anyone close.

you guys ever think about how gene couldn’t find babe that night because he wasn’t in his foxhole. he was with spina, in his and genes foxhole.

you guys think that maybe babe wasn’t looking for spina? how he didn’t talk until gene found him? maybe he was always looking for gene.

[theworldatwar]

Soldiers of the US 2nd Infantry Division celebrate Christmas - Belgium, December 1944.

Wishing a Merry Christmas to all my amazing followers and friends, old and new. A huge thank you for all your help and support again this year - I wish you and all your families all the very best and a wonderful Christmas - Thank you so much, I really appreciate it. I’m going to have tomorrow off and then back to business on Boxing Day.

[atomicradiogirl]

renée lemaire and the bastogne aid station

[pookielious]

In honor of d day here's some of my random bofb cast photos collection !

[saintmalosunsets]

Doc Roe holding medical supplies in his mouth