Hand motions squad leaders used to position their squad when they did not want to be heard. Excellent example is in Band of Brothers (if you've ever seen it).
nevermind...here they are. This website is pretty neat. Anything you want to know about a soldier's life in the early 20th century, from basic training to officers.
nevermind...here they are. This website is pretty neat. Anything you want to know about a soldier's life in the early 20th century, from basic training to officers. http://www.hardscrabblefarm.com/ww2/ww2_home.htm
What about the motions for Easy, Item, and Dog companies? And alot of the motions in BoB are not listed there, but Winters said in an interview he had no idea what they were, they almost never used hand signals.
Leitung, The sole purpose of this thread was to find the hand motions that you were talking about. When I found the ones listed I realized even more the Hollywood has a way of changing things from reality. Though BoB did an excellent job in capturing the essence of combat, the accuracy of the series as well as the book is questionable.
Probably, but they were hardly used, I imagine. Like I said before, BoB is a product of Hollywood and therefore cannot be trusted to give information. All those hand motions used by Winters in the series are probably not real.
i perfect example what you're on about eisenhower is in Saving Private Ryan. In the last battle on the bridge when that guy in using his hands to say to Tom Hanks he can see 50 infanty 2 tiger tanks ect or i'm i wrong
There has been a lot of speculation over this, by no less than the 101st vets themselves. Like Eisenhower, I question the authenticity of BOB, although I really like the "oral history" books that are now out as they tell history from the ground level instead of a Historian's comfy chair. I have commented on this before in a previous thread with regards to the swearing in BOB. Both this and the advanced handsignals according to: "A Historian's Critique of the HBO Miniseries-Overview" http://www.101airborneww2.com/bandofbrothers3.html are hollywood's efforts to make WW2 more modern, much like watching a vietnam film. I quote from the above website: On Handsignals: And Swearing: The above website is very very detailed in its episode by episode critique of BOB, it does not spoil the series, it is important to recognise this, surely, I didn't lose any respect for the members of easy company after reading all this, however, it did ram home to me the influences of hollywood and its shrink-wrapped attitude of making history palitable to the masses. [ 21. November 2003, 04:17 AM: Message edited by: BratwurstDimSum ]
*gasps* Vietnam? That makes sense though...the film-makers run out of material to fill in all that running and stopping, so they add some dramatic music and put in some stuff from VIETNAM! it all fits...
