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    EddieIzzard

    [1]Apr 16, 2009
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    I haven't read the book yet but my friend has and told me this:

    Private Blithe in 'Day of Days' (played by Marc Warren from Hustle) gets shot in the neck at the end of the episode.

    Then it says "In 1945 Albert Blithe died of the injuries he sustained in Normandy."

    Apparently he didn't die.

    Apparently he was still alive when it was broadcast and his family didn't know they'd put in that he'd died.

    Thats got to be the weirdest thing to make up - would it really have made a difference?

    Does anyone else know if theres any more lies in the show which make make baby Jesus cry?

    I do love the show, just to clarify

    xx

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    jokipper

    [2]May 1, 2009
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    Albert Blithe did indeed survive the war, and died on December 17, 1967 of kidney failure.

    Many Easy Company veterans believed that Blithe had failed to recover from his neck wound (he was actually shot in the shoulder) and died in 1948 in Philadelphia, and it was from them that Stephen Ambrose gathered this false information. The HBO series repeated the error as written in the book.
    Edited on 05/01/2009 2:46am
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    efc91

    [3]Aug 2, 2009
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    EddieIzzard wrote:

    I haven't read the book yet but my friend has and told me this:

    Private Blithe in 'Day of Days' (played by Marc Warren from Hustle) gets shot in the neck at the end of the episode.

    Then it says "In 1945 Albert Blithe died of the injuries he sustained in Normandy."

    Apparently he didn't die.

    Apparently he was still alive when it was broadcast and his family didn't know they'd put in that he'd died.

    Thats got to be the weirdest thing to make up - would it really have made a difference?

    Does anyone else know if theres any more lies in the show which make make baby Jesus cry?

    I do love the show, just to clarify

    xx
    He wasnt alive when it was broadcast he died years ago like the user said above me, also the episode was "Carentan" not "Day of Days".
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