In the middle of the assault, he freezes up and his dallying costs the lives of several Easy men as he sends Lieutenant Foley (played by Battlestar Galactica’s own Jamie Bamber) on an ill-advised flanking mission. To see these men being killed in such a bloody and sudden way, as well as the impact it has on their friends, can be difficult to watch.Īmazingly after so many gut-punches, there’s still the attack on Foy itself to come and it’s this battle which seals Norman Dike’s fate.
The faces hit home and you remember how far they’ve come and what they’ve been through.
It’s telling that by this stage of the series, you are becoming more attuned to the regular characters. This time, two prominent figures, Muck and Penkala, are killed. Just when you think that it’s all over, a third barrage arrives in the night and the men scurry for cover. We are reminded however that none of the other men thought any less of him for it. However in reality, he was just too shaken up by what he had been through. We are told that Buck was never the same after seeing his friends in such a state, and after an exemplary service record in the war he was taken off the line, in theory for ‘trench foot’. The anguished cry for a medic that Buck Compton lets out when he finds them both in such a bad way is a truly powerful moment, the pain and distress clearly etched all over his face. He and Toye lay there covered in blood, each missing a leg. As Lipton goes from foxhole to foxhole checking on his men, the second barrage begins and Guarnere is also hit. After the shelling stops, his pal Guarnere hears his anguished cries and goes out to find him. In the first barrage, Joe Toye is hit and loses a leg. As the men prepare their foxholes in the forests outside of Foy, they’re hit by a severe bout of shelling. The centre for this episode is First Sargent Carwood Lipton (Donnie Wahlberg), who does his best to maintain morale amongst the men and to cover for the woefully inept Company XO Norman Dike. As one tearful veteran points out, the things he saw there in the forest never truly left him and continued to trouble him throughout his life. Death was all around them, wherever they looked there was a dead soldier, and they had no time to look after their fallen friends when the worst came to pass. The opening talking-head moments are extremely touching as the real men of Easy let us know just how horrifying their experiences in the forests near Foy were.
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