SABATON - Screaming Eagles #ww2 #symphonicmetal

Screaming Eagles is the fourth song on the Coat of Arms album by Sabaton. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OePPvDoAJe4

The song was released as a single in 2011.
The lyrics directly quote the answer ("NUTS!") of the American General Anthony McAuliffe to German Commander who wanted the American forces to surrender.[1]
For the video, the band filmed their scenes in a studio in Stockholm in Sweden.[2]
The battle sequences for the video were shot on the 27th and 28th November, 2010 near Świnoujście in Poland.[3]
Re-enactment groups that took part in the video: Big Red One, SRH Wrzesień 1939, GRH 17 Infanterie Division 21.[4]
Big Red One expressed their regret that the initial plans to involve more reconstructors in the video, especially on the American side, had to be dramatically limited.[5]
Around 2011, the band released a strictily limited batch of t-shirts with the song. (see right)
Besides the American flag and the Bald Eagle, the t-shirt artwork depicts Battle of Britian which would be more fitting for Aces in Exile than Screaming Eagles. The reason for this is unknown.

101st Airborne Division Campaigns during World War II
The 101st was deployed to Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944 and was subsequently surrounded in Bastogne by German troops. The unit refused to surrender and held out until the 4th Armored Division arrived to provide it with badly needed support.