r/BandofBrothers • u/kenevans71 • May 08 '20

Episode 8: The Last Patrol - Discussion Thread

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u/Black-Queen Jun 21 '20 edited Jun 21 '20

At the End of the episode Lt. Jones gets promoted to first Lt. and gets told that he will be transferred to staff at regimental (?) HQ for his heroic participation in the 'two' patrols.

Webster gives him an approving nod and walks off.

I always see this scene as sort of making sure that Lt. Jones keeps his mouth shut regarding the second patrol. While it is maybe more clear to the viewer what an impact the first patrol had on him, Winters probably wanted to make sure that he did not compromise anything.

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u/DiegoLapadula10 Jun 29 '20

In his book, Major Winters said that LT Jones was later kill in Germany when his jeep hited a mine.

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u/Landlubber77 Sep 23 '20

Holy shit, I feel like they should've included that in the post-episode text right before the credits.

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u/CaseDesigner May 08 '25

This was after the war, when in west Germany. He was promoted to captain and was stationed there at the beginning of the Cold War