Band of Brothers.... Did Spears do it?

[GtoRA2]

So I have wondered about this for some time, did Spears shoot the German POWs?


What does everyone think?


I am reading the book and watching the DVDs again:cool:

[GRUNHERZ]

I donno if spears did it, maybe we  can do a scientific recreation tommorow with some german looking shilouettes...  

 

[Nash]

No idea....

But after seein' the guy in that last scene, I aint exactly gonna ask him - know what I mean?

[mechanic]

you dont screw with spears. and no smoking around him imo.


in truth, i do not think he did it. i think they made quite an obvious hint that it was a story to make him seem 'the baddest arsed mean bastard around' for moral purposes. he never denies it but never admits it either.

he reminds me of clint eastwood in the good the bad and the ugly.

[Tarmac]

Speirs is probably my favorite character in Band of Brothers... and one of the reasons is because we don't know for sure.  

[Yeager]

I never thought he actually did it.  I thought it was just an example of how rumors of war get started and are perpeptuated.  I think Spears is the kind of guy that simply has too much class to kill people clearly out of the fight.

[Hangtime]

If you think our side didn't shoot POW's on occasion or for 'expeidence' yer living in a fantasy world. My father and Grandfather both told me of shooting surrendered germans that had wooden bullets in their possession. They were both Navy, on the same LST. The shooting occured on the beach at Normandy. The prisioners were being searched before loading 'em on to the ship for transport back to England. They witnessed what was in essence summary executions.. GI's hit with those wooden bullets (training rounds) were maimed cruelly, died in writhing agony.

War is war.. it ain't a popularity contest on either side.

[lazs2]

I talked to soldiers who were  in the pacific who said they shot jap prisoners.  

lazs

[SkyWolf]

Originally posted by lazs2
I talked to soldiers who were  in the pacific who said they shot jap prisoners.  

lazs

I heard that the Japanese shot one or two of ours as well. Apparently they could be somewhat unpleasant when it came to the treatment of prisoners.

[Hangtime]

^^ that's something of an understatement.

[Dux]

SkyWolf, read "Flyboys" sometime. (Your sarcasm is just sinking in now... good read, anyway.)

[Aubrey]

I  Think when they take the artillery guns a couple days after the landing. IIRC He is the guy giving the cigarettes to some germans. In fact the guy from Oregon talked to one of the doomed men. The poor guy had lived in oregon with his parents and then they went back to serve the fatherland.

The you hear a bunch of shots and the guy is dead.

[SKJohn]

Re: shooting prisoners.....
One time a friend of my father's got to talking on a fishing trip after they had been drinking.
Said he was given charge of about 10 prisoners, and told to escort them back to area where prisoners were being collected a few miles behind the lines.
Said the officer said something to the effect of " take these pows to the collection area and be back in 10 minutes."
Said the officer was very clear on the be back in 10 minutes part, so he marched them a couple hundered yards back of the lines and hosed them with a "burp" gun.
IIRC, this was during Korea, but could be mistaken.

[SKJohn]

Originally posted by Dux
SkyWolf, read "Flyboys" sometime. (Your sarcasm is just sinking in now... good read, anyway.)

Our guys may have shot some prisoners on occasion, but I doubt they ever chopped them up into "kimo" and ate them!:confused:

[lasersailor184]

I believe that Speirs set it up so that they would think he did it.

I.E. He gave them ciggarettes and then hosed the ground right infront of them.