B.O.B "Day of Days" - Cigarette

The scene where Don Malarkey meets the German PW from Oregon did happen on D-Day although it isn't mentioned in Ambrose's book. The screenwriters learned of it from talking to Don and decided to put it in the film. But it had to be married to a more dramatic event to be allowed in, so it was made part of the scene in which Lt Speirs offers cigarettes to the same group of prisoners before gunning them down. Lumping the Malarkey story to the Speirs cigarette incident brought home the impact of the killings by making them more personal to the viewer.

Character of Lieutenant Ronald Spiers (currently with Dog Company, but he becomes commander of Easy in part seven) is introduced. Since the viewer does not actually see anything it presents the controversy that actually existed over whether Spiers did massacre German troops on D-Day.

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[redxsaxe]

man Speirs is like the MOST likely to find a career as a modern-day SEAL

lol

[warmadscot]

but if this scene had been germans shooting american pows... i'm just saying (by the way spiers is scottish not american)

[berserker276]

@PhiloAmericana I think nobody is sure why he did it, only reason could've been a senior officer ordering him to do it. Winters said he wasn't court-martialed because Speirs was too valuable to lose.

[PhiloAmericana]

@berserker276 I'll read the work. From what I understood, it was simply a rumor that he allowed to spread. Even if he did, I can hardly complain. He was protecting my country, and Germany and Japan drew us into war.

[berserker276]

@PhiloAmericana Actually, he did kill them, he told Winters. He never told the men because he used fear to his advantage. Read Winters book and you'll understand it a bit more.

[PhiloAmericana]

He also did never killed those Germans. He even states this later in the series.

[PhiloAmericana]

Ronald Spiers left Scotland at four years old, and spent his formative years in Portland, Maine. He ended up dying in Montana. He was damn proud to be an American. Keep your fucking mouth shut.

[PhiloAmericana]

@warmadscot Spiers was an American, you fucking idiot. He moved to America as a child, grew up there, and served in our forces. Get your shit straight.

[berserker276]

@Grunt922 The Japanese were worse though.

[Grunt922]

@PepperDr94 they did worse to our soldiers. they put them in work camps, starved them, beat them, tortured them, and worked them to death.

[PepperDr94]

WHY THE FUCK DID THEY DO THAT?!

[berserker276]

@Neivlak I think he told Winters that he did.