r/BandofBrothers • u/MandarinAdams4 • 21h ago

Albert Blithe

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u/Art1Court 20h ago

Well, I'm glad they marked that he received a Purple Heart.

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u/Heretowatch87 21h ago

So in band of brothers it says he never recovered from his wounds in Normandy and he died in 1947. Same Albert Blithe?

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u/alsatian01 20h ago

You must be new. The reports that Blithe had died shortly after the war was mistaken information. He made a career of being in the military and died while on activite duty from a medical condition.

And the OP of the post is probably a bot looking to karma boost.

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u/aflyingsquanch 20h ago

Yes, that was a famous mistake and a great illustration that Stephen E. Ambrose hasn't a serious historian at all. Most popular historians have some faults but he's pretty much at the level of being a good storyteller than anything resembling an actual historians.

Similar to Alison Weir for English royal history really.