re: Rewatching Band of Brothers today

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Winters said before his death that he felt Sobel was not as incompetent as portrayed in BoB.

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Like a lot of others here, I’ve read different accounts of things from various members of Easy Company, and they all seem to agree on one thing, almost to a man: that while Herbert Sobel would’ve been an absolute disaster as a combat leader, they all credit his skill and methods as a training officer for building Easy into the unit it became.

Sobel was very bitter about losing Easy and never got over it. Bill Guarnere and others reached out to him throughout the years, but he always shunned them. A suicide attempt in 1970 left him blind and he died in 1987.