Saunders must have gotten 30 purple hearts! that's ok. this program didn't concern itself with continuity. it was all about telling a story in each and every episode. I don't really quite know why this series is not lauded as one of the best on TV. MASH get's all the credit and that show was preachy as hell. an episode like this "Don't give up as a human..." is way more powerful.
What about Kirby ? His right hand and arm was wounded so many times in this show it’s a wonder that it didn’t just fall off during a battle hahahahaha. Just sayin …
In the episodes where Saunders doesn't have the canteen and triple stick-mag pouch on his duty belt, he's wearing the prototype for Paul Harrell's magic "walking armory" jacket.
Refeal Ibazeta if you watch the episode The doughboy you'll see Saunders change mags 3 times in house an once outside. Writers never made an emphasis on changing. Many episodes he runs out completely.
"Recently,I have clapped my hands,with glad triumphant emotion,at the out'come of such first'class drama'acting,action,and hard hitting background orchestra music' 3--31-2021'
These small-cast episodes really focus more on the characters in a way that the larger ones do, making them more intense. I saw something I rarely see since I started re-watching the episodes, something I didn't think about as a kid. I actually saw soldiers reloading! One thing I like is that the Germans speak German, especially amongst themselves, as you would expect them to (with no subtitles), and to Americans unless there's a specific reason for them to speak English. I love the attention to detail in the series!
I remember talking to combat medic that was attached to my father's rifle company during WWII. He saved German POW lives because he said that they were people just like he was. He told me it was the right thing to do and I agreed with him.
I knew personally someone who rose high in the world after the war,he was an elite in hitlers madness,he said hitler was insane and had Zero feeling for his people,zero,white Christian Germany fighting white Christian americans,english,australian,canadians absolutely insane,someone who loved Germany should have shot that demon to death
@@strattuner They tried to blow Hitler up. He got pissed and executed 84 of his Generals. If you are going to blow someone up, you need a Plan B. As far as counting bodies goes, the American Civil War claimed 600,000 (mainly White) Americans fighting other Americans.
Even buried in a cave, Tommy Sands still looked like the teenage idol that he was. I'm still jealous of his good looks and the fact that he married Nancy Sinatra.
I am not sure this story is about a coward growing a spine. It is more about an NCO helping a kid become the solder the drill instructors were trying to prepare the kid to be. A good sergeant pushes men to be soldiers and soldiers to be better at what they do.
enerZise Spot on! Far too many "tough guy" comments saying they would murder him or kick his ass. This wasn't the first time Sgt. Saunders encountered someone new to the battlefield.
I am 65 this year. My father was an old timer and fought in that war in the Canadian army. He would hide behind his news paper smoking and secretly watch combat with me. I never realized it until years after he pass away. Great shows. Great memories. Thanks Combat.
I was a young teen when this show first aired. I watched it every Tuesday night. I even bought the first 4 seasons on DVD but not the 5th because they were color. It just didn’t look right, like Vic Morrow said. I’m 72 now and still watch the episodes, even on H&I channel on Saturday. FYI…I’m a Marine Nam Vet 68-69 and my dad was a Marine 38-46.
it amazes me how Vic pulls out a clip from places in his jacket that are not designed to secure extra ammo those tommy clips require a elongated clip holster, you never see him wearing one, gives the appearance that he only carries one ammo stack going on patrol.
He had his head chopped off by a helicopter. As the mortars went off. While the helicopters tail was over one. Filming a movie, The Twilight Zone. There was a big lawsuit over it.
Surprising that the Americans would be the ones to run out of ammunition as GIs generally carried far more ammunition than Germans. Another wholly improbable episode that was especially memorable--enough so that I remember it 54 years later. Ron Soble, who played the German, reminds me of Nicholas Cage. Soble played a villain in True Grit, the western that won John Wayne his Oscar. The Carey role was something of a reprise for Sands of his role in the 1962 D Day epic The Longest Day. That same year--1965--Sands appeared in a Sinatra-directed WW 2 movie "None But the Brave". It followed a similar theme in that it featured US & Japanese units cut off from the war who agree to live together until the war makes them relevant again. Another wholly improbable but memorable story.
"billboth4814," I CRINGE every time Sands opens his mouth in "None But the Brave." He's truly embarrassing. Can't believe Sinatra let those scenes of his remain as filmed -- even though he was his daughter's 'steady.'
That is true sir. I am almost 66 now and sometimes it takes years to learn to have courage and be a leader. We all come to a point in our life where we have to take a stand and fight.
This was such a great story and the series always had shown how soldiers had depended on each other for survival. There was no glory to war, it was just about the man standing next to you.....is what I heard so many soldiers say. Plus this series always had some life lessons to teach us all, even today. I'm 64 and watched this incessantly as a kid. My father was a Lt. Col. in the US Army and as a kid, living on Ft McClellan Alabama military base, we used to play soldiers all of the time in the woods. My father was a Major at the time, our last name is Sanders. We used to get orders for buckets of chicken to go at two in the morning a lot......
Lucky you have such a goid relationship with your father, mine is cold to me and fights with me, im always wrong. Mr Negitive. I'm 55 and still fight with him. I wish we had a friendship like many do with their dad's, it makes me jealous
Hey m42037 my dad was a dickhead also. He never cared for me after he abandoned me. But he wasn’t a grandfather nor a great grandfather to my kids and grandkids. So I didn’t go to his funeral because he’d already fucked off 3 generations who could’ve loved him but instead he turned his back on them. Just sayin …
Here's a.life lesson for you. I turned 75 6 day s ago. I am a Vietnam Era Vet, my Dad was career Air Force. I had a great relationship with both of my parents but especially my Dad. His next duty assignment was that of Chief M/Sgt of the Air Force Academy. During his transfer physical he was diagnostic sed with Chronic Mylogist Leukemia.he died in 1975, I was 25 and stationed at Lakes Air Force Base in the Azores Islands. I was 6000 miles away, never got to see him one last time. I always said "I love you" but the thing I never told him haunt me to this day. I should have told him he was my mentor, my role model, my hero. As an adult I considered him my best friends and confidant. He was always there for me with an arm to lean on, a shoulder to cry on or just there to listen. He always had my back regardless if I was right or wrong. Simply put he was always there.i would give everything I've ever had, have or will ever have to have 10 more minutes with my Dad so I could say good-bye and tell him thank you for being my Dad. We all get one Mom and one Dad. That's it one of each. Be grateful you still have your Dad. Say what you have to say now and if there are issues fix them. Take it from someone who knows. Love him now and except him for who he is.
Look, murder is the killing of someone who doesn't deserve to die. We in the US Army infantry merely kill to make the enemy stop whatever it is they're doing. In a case like this, Herman the German was stopped, and that's all we want.
Even in combat, murder is murder. your are soldier not a killer. in a situation like this, give consideration to others, enemies or friends in distress
Presiosa serie Combate ; cn 2 actoraso q personifica bien a los soldados yankes d la segunda guerra ; cmo Vic Morrow y Jakson , mas los otros actorasos q hacen d soldados yankes y alemanes ; muestran la realidad d la segunda guerra mundial
Weird that Sarge fires with his middle finger. But anyway, Vic was an enormously talented actor who was extremely emotionally intelligent. I'm no expert on WWII or anything military, but I think Vic Morrow added something to the genre in this time that had never been seen before- honesty.
Over the years, I've been seen a few shooters that use the middle finger to pull the trigger, it would be interesting on a double action revolver i suppose.
"jmweed1861," Well, nearly every "Combat!" fan justifiably raves about 'Hills Are for Heroes' -- ranking IT high. The writing of 'More Than a Soldier' is superb and the director keeps the tension going, despite being in a single set for much of the hour. Sorely missing are EVERYBODY except Saunders, the usual abundance of versatile, outdoor settings and scenes plus a REALLY good guest star who has the 'chops' to 'carry' this pivotal role throughout much of 'More Than a Soldier's' scenes. Tommy Sands' teeth are bright enough to light up a 1960s Las Vegas showroom, his regular haunt 'back in the day,' and here they appear bright enough to illuminate the cave set. Make-up department could have slightly shaded or tarnished Tommy's artificial 'choppers' to make them less distracting and appear more 'real.' Speaking of make-up, pre-fade-out, when he visits bed-ridden Saunders, looking closely we see -- barely -- his left hand bandaged as it (too easily; no pain) motions his helmet backwards and forwards. . . . . . . . . The "Combat!" faithful have confidence in Saunders' soldiering skills that when he runs out of ammo he can pick up a discarded enemy submachine gun, the German MP - 40, and 'go to town' with it and 'fire away.' However, it seems a stretch that, from what we've seen of the preposterously averse-to-shooting character Sands portrays that in the Act IV climax he can skillfully hunt AND mow down with automatic fire a trio of German soldiers -- expelling three times the amount of ammo necessary, seemingly forgetting about conserving precious ammunition resources; THAT'S what got them into this life-or-death predicament in the first place -- so adeptly and effortlessly. I don't buy it [nor the exterior wooded set, clearly on a soundstage]. Not everyone can be multi-talented, i.e., Sands is a better singer than dramatic actor. Case in point: 45:53 - 46:02 Saunders informs him: "By the way, the German sergeant died this morning." Carey (Sands): "Oh yeah . . . well [delivered with a pause and blank, facial expression -- both ineffective here as far as dramatic components]." [Behind-the-scenes, assumed likely scenario -- Morrow to Sands after that completely lackluster reaction: "Tommy, you know, there are three or four effective ways you can respond visually and verbally to what I just said, that KEY statement; THAT -- what you just tried -- is NOT one of them."] So. back to "jmweed1961"'s declaration of praise -- 1) Hanley, Kirby, Little John, Doc, Cage essentially M.I.A.; 2) the limited, confined, claustrophobic feel of a single set; 3) a subpar performance delivered by the guest artist clearly not up to Vic Morrow's level. "Best episode outside of 'Hills Are for Heroes.'" -- NOT.
In the entire series he was wounded almost 50 times. And don't forget that before the series starts he already had a purple heart and a silver star from either Italy or northern Africa.
Its the truth, in a firefight you kill the enemy, in a situation like this, it would be murder, maybe not in your eyes but mine, yes, sands lost his chance on the battlefield.,now he wants saunders to bail him out, and if you noticed he hardly helped at all.
Has anyone noticed that when there is a close up of Sarge firing a weapon, he uses his middle finger? At 1:52 he's using his middle finger to fire his Thompson. Later he does it to fire his 1911 and the M-1. I've noticed this several times during the series. Other shots show him with his index finger on the trigger, but he won't be firing. Just an observation.
Walter Webb I say that's a reflex, because the first time I picked up a pistol I placed my index finger along the barrel and my middle finger on the trigger. My instructor corrected this. Then a friend showed me a Luger. It had no sight, the way you aimed it was with your index finger along the barrel.
I do a lot of shooting with a lot of different guys, I've seen some pretty strange things, I know of only one other shooter that uses his middle finger, and that's because his index finger got cut off by a table saw.
But then it might conflict with all the other pimple-faced guest "stars" that had cycled through. I guess the producers told the casting guy that they wanted to plus-up their bobby-soxer audience. They already had the guys with The Thompson and The BAR, and the housewives with Vic & Rick.
"Vic Morrow had an absolute dislike of firearms. He used a Thompson submachine gun in our series, but that was work. In any other respect he’d have nothing to do with them. On one of the few days we got off early while there were still several hours of daylight left, I said to him, "I’ve got a couple of shotguns in the back of my station wagon. You want to shoot some skeet?" Without so much as a pause he responded, "No, thanks. I can’t stand to kill clay." He knew he could always break me up and during our five years together he did it quite a bit. His sense of humor happened to tickle my funny bone and he knew he had my number." -Rick Jason
Hello Mr. Jason, What an Honor it is to have read your word's. Thank You for being the Gentleman that you are. May God alway's walk with You and your Fa-mily. Respectfully, Robert Solis Ft. Worth, Texas
The Wehrmacht and the Glorious Revolutionary Peoples Workers Protectors of the Motherland both SHOT their "balky" troops. Yeah this lightweight punk would have needed a little wall-to-wall "career counseling".
Or a warehouse crew boss like Denzel in "The Equalizer". Or a bouncer in some waterfront dive. Or an ice-cream truck driver. Or the foreman on Hanley's goat ranch.
It's total suspense. I'm Air Force, but I almost saw why Chicka is yelling for "Cover" Must to the suspense of the opening of the show, it's not forthcoming.
To ROENA the studio crews that produced this series were very close (17 years closer to WORLD WAR 2) than WE ARE so it shows in the WRITING/MESSAGE TAUGHT IN THE STORY LINE/ACCURATE UNIFORMS/WEAPONS USED/LANGUGE OF THE TIME /MANNERISMS and FIRST HAND ACCOUNTS of ACTUAL SCENARIOS/SITUATIONS of the time of the ACTUAL WAR 17 YEARS BACK TO 1945*plus passing the test given in the early 1960s of becoming a LIGHTING TECHNICIAN/WEAPONS AMMUNITION (blank rounds) SUPPLIER/EXPLOSIVES HANDLERS/CAMERA OPERATOR/CREW HAND SPECIALTIES/PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/SOUND ENGINEERS and countless others to bring the COMBAT TV SERIES to its FINISHED PRODUCT!
Combat! - S03E19 - "More than a Soldier" - 1965 Five Stars [*******] This Episode is for the True Soldier of combat...Another Heart Throb episode as we see Sgt. Saunders and Private Cary escape a small German Company as their Squad is cut to pieces...Tommy Sands plays Private Cary a Fresh recruit right out of boot camp. Cary cannot kill the Enemy and both him and Saunders get trapped in a mine cave-in with a German Sergeant played by Ron Soble...Worst comes to worst as the German sergeant makes them did out with a lack of Oxygen to breath...Sgt. Saunders gets wounded outside the Mine and Private Cary realizes he has to kill 3 German Soldiers to protect Saunders who is wounded...Saunders tells him there's a difference between being a Killer and a Murderer...Cary goes back in the mine and digs out he German sergeant after Saunders tells him "Cary! - Don't give up on being a Human Being! "The ending is believable and touches on real life when Saunders tells Cary additional information on the German Soldier...Great Episode - Please watch this! - Glenn E. Smith Jr. Vietnam Veteran, Wednesday 07/08/2015
Tommy Sands was a big teen idol in late 50s early 60s. That is until his marriage with Nancy Sinatra folded in '65 and daddy Frank got him blacklisted from the entertainment industry. He really has never done much of anything after that.
Not sure why they had to kill off the German Sergeant at the end there. Not a big thing, just seemd they could've easily just said he's getting shipped of to a POW camp.
How can the air be going out when there’s a hole in the ceiling? When it caved in you could see light above their heads camera men screwed up. They could have escaped through the ceiling. They had to make this show more dramatic by making it looked blocked. Why did they go into the cave to begin with? They should have hid somewhere else.
Even if he is a German he is a human being. If the other Germans would not of shot at. them they probably would have told them that there fellow soldier was in there.
unless youre a squad leader or platoon leader the odds of carrying a flashligt by an ordinary soldier is unlikely just for the fact its a normally non essential item to lug around unlike grenades ammo etc
In Vietnam I generally carried twice as much ammo and grenades as most everyone else. You just don't want to run out of either when you need them the most. As a platoon leader I did carry a flashlight. However, you didn't want to be going thru the jungle with a light showing exactly where you were.
He was a poor excuse of a solider. I doubt someone that weak would turn a round. Digging dirt with his head liner still in his helmet, no brains. He couldn't dig a fox hole with a #2 shovel. I bit that was pretty tough, oh Vic had to pull off a acting stunt to make the seen look at list fair.
Proves we can over come hate , by remaining human. Most soldiers don't take pleasure in killing or destruction but rather in saving and building society.
How can the air be going out when there’s a hole in the ceiling? When it caved in you could see light above their heads camera men screwed up. They could have escaped through the ceiling. They had to make this show more dramatic by making it looked blocked. Why did they go into the cave to begin with? They should have hid somewhere else. I find this ironic when both of these guys when they were alive. They both smoked cigarettes. Who knows what else. I think their both deceased. Vic from a helicopter accident and tommy is still alive at 83 years old. Wow!
never point the thompson [ army way ] never pick up down men ammo [ army way ] never point the bar [ army way ] .never reload the 1911 or carry extra mags ??? coward never carryed extra ammo ?? . the hun with the mp-40 changed mags 3-4 times ...real with the rate of fire and 4-5 rd burst .....sanders shoots up in the air forever with the same mag .....still love the show ..
+Roy Rodriguez Well, they did actually show Saunders and the Feldwebel changing magazines - very unusual for the show. (And haven't seen the clips of the PzKw Is and IIs in 1939 Poland for some episodes now.) It really is a great series.
oh love it and loved it when it came out ..but could of been a little bit more real in the gun handling ... mu uncle would laugh at the way the bar was used .. spray away never bipod use ... or aim
+Roy Rodriguez Thanks - we are in violent agreement! Most of the episodes are a definite A or an A-. The little things we discussed would have made it an A+ to me. It just blows my mind when they show film of Stuka J87 dive bombers obviously in the midst of a bombing mission as attacking a huge flight of P-47s in 1944 over France (and downing a top American ace and his wingman!) or panzers rolling through Poland in 1939 or Russia in 1940 as France in 1944. Don't know if they had no budget for a real film researcher or someone on the payroll was really uninformed or just lazy. That's a lot worse for me than plot and cinematic liberties with carrying ammo, changing clips/mags, marksmanship, cover, interval, policing weapons and ammo from the dead/wounded/prisoners, etc. I too loved it when it came out and would never have noticed those little things then. Still a great series - but I only have 1.5 seasons left to rewatch!
The shows often had a message of humanity and morals that I missed as a kid.
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“You killed those men as a soldier now save the other as a human being.” Might be the best quote ever
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Du Der Anderes getoten...jetzt diese menchen als ein human gesaven.
I watch an episode every night before bed. My dad fought in that war rest his soul.
My dad was also. We watched this together. Vic Morrow was my first "crush", lol. Have always preferred the more rugged guys.
@@lindalcoomes 🙂👍💯🇺🇸 thanking them both for their service ❗❗
Mine too. In high school grade 9s were put into army cadets, but dropped the program the next year. I just got to handle a .303
Thanks for adding COMBAT. I usedto watch these w/ my father when I was 8-12 yo...GREAT MEMORIES:)
I remember this as a kid, and I'm enjoying it now at 67. In hindsight, this portrayal of war, was way ahead of its time.
Best tv show, watched it all the time with my dad back in the 60s who fought in WW2
Saunders must have gotten 30 purple hearts! that's ok. this program didn't concern itself with continuity. it was all about telling a story in each and every episode. I don't really quite know why this series is not lauded as one of the best on TV. MASH get's all the credit and that show was preachy as hell. an episode like this "Don't give up as a human..." is way more powerful.
MASH gets the cred bcz Alda is the darling of all the other leftists.
What about Kirby ? His right hand and arm was wounded so many times in this show it’s a wonder that it didn’t just fall off during a battle hahahahaha. Just sayin …
Old Hollywood line, don't let the facts interfere with a good story.
Until your ass is in a ditch
In the episodes where Saunders doesn't have the canteen and triple stick-mag pouch on his duty belt, he's wearing the prototype for Paul Harrell's magic "walking armory" jacket.
Although I started watching the series in the 1970s Henley,Saunders,Cage & Kirby are still my heroes.
I won’t choose between them.
I wasn't a fan of Hanley.
Always remember people never give up as a Human!🌟💯
Very good episode. Lesson to be learned.
Great memories of my childhood watching my favorite show
This has always been one of my most favorite episopes
Great show!!!! Vic morrow is awesome!!! Cant believe he literally lost his head in later life!😥 I'm 58 grew up with this and rat patrol!! ☺
God be with Vic and those children!!!
This is one of the best episodes
That German in the cave is actor Ron Soble. He played bad guys a lot and never saw him as a good character. He died on May2,2002 of cancer.
Omg! This is the first time i have seen Saunders change mags. Even when i was a kid never seen it. Lol!
Refeal Ibazeta if you watch the episode The doughboy you'll see Saunders change mags 3 times in house an once outside. Writers never made an emphasis on changing. Many episodes he runs out completely.
Yes, mine as well!!! Cant believe he lost his head! Terrible way to go!!!!!!
I've been watching the series in order from the very first episode. Saunders actually changes mags in several. You just have to keep an eye for it.
@@ericjohnson1797 It was MURDER
This was one of the first shows I can remember that
showed soldiers/Sarge reloading. That gave it a lot of cred.
What a great line Sgt Saunders said don't give up on being a Human being
I also liked when he drew a distinction between murder and killing in the line of duty.
A biblical conundrum, as best as it can be summed up
The real lesson of this episode.
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"Recently,I have clapped my hands,with glad triumphant emotion,at the out'come of such first'class drama'acting,action,and hard hitting background orchestra music' 3--31-2021'
These small-cast episodes really focus more on the characters in a way that the larger ones do, making them more intense. I saw something I rarely see since I started re-watching the episodes, something I didn't think about as a kid. I actually saw soldiers reloading! One thing I like is that the Germans speak German, especially amongst themselves, as you would expect them to (with no subtitles), and to Americans unless there's a specific reason for them to speak English. I love the attention to detail in the series!
Great drama with tension and suspense but the writing of Shirl Hendryx carries the day!
thanks as always appreciate your time and effort. This was a really good episode
Infantry, scouts out, bob BAR RANGER, COMBAT Staring black and white TV
I remember talking to combat medic that was attached to my father's rifle company during WWII. He saved German POW lives because he said that they were people just like he was. He told me it was the right thing to do and I agreed with him.
I knew personally someone who rose high in the world after the war,he was an elite in hitlers madness,he said hitler was insane and had Zero feeling for his people,zero,white Christian Germany fighting white Christian americans,english,australian,canadians absolutely insane,someone who loved Germany should have shot that demon to death
@@strattuner They tried to blow Hitler up. He got pissed and executed 84 of his Generals. If you are going to blow someone up, you need a Plan B. As far as counting bodies goes, the American Civil War claimed 600,000 (mainly White) Americans fighting other Americans.
As I've said before always lessons to be learned in each of these episodes .
Even buried in a cave, Tommy Sands still looked like the teenage idol that he was. I'm still jealous of his good looks and the fact that he married Nancy Sinatra.
I am not sure this story is about a coward growing a spine. It is more about an NCO helping a kid become the solder the drill instructors were trying to prepare the kid to be. A good sergeant pushes men to be soldiers and soldiers to be better at what they do.
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enerZise Spot on! Far too many "tough guy" comments saying they would murder him or kick his ass. This wasn't the first time Sgt. Saunders encountered someone new to the battlefield.
It showed that you still have humanity no matter what
En mi infancia. ..La veía todos los domingo por la televisión. .Me trae muchos recuerdo
Just love those “French” eucalyptus trees
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There is plenty of this trees in Cali where they mostly film combat. Lol!
Three years have passed since I watched this episode.and at almost 66 I still love the show and Sgt. Saunders is still my hero.
Never could figure what they saw in Tommy Sands
I am in my sixties daddy was a 82nd 504th PIR he was my hero but sarge was also loved the show. Daddy said the Germans were damn good soldier's.
@@willgeyer5010 Me either I didn't like him. He was the Lt. Right.
@@willgeyer5010 Rick Jason was the Lt.
Sgt. Saunders was a disciplined soldier.
I’d love to have visited Stg Saunders house at Christmas after the war. His tree would be totally decorated with all the Purple Hearts he won.
Just to let everyone know........Kirby, played by Jack Hogan.......passed away December 2023 in Washington state..... 94 years old.
R.I.P. Kirby
A classic episode ! Vic was the 🌟 of this show.
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Love love live Vic😃😃😃
Love. The. Back ground. Music
" Don't give up as a Human " . . . classic words from Sgt. Saunders ...!!
brian wills indeed.
COMBAT IS REALLY À NICÈ WAR PICTURE i like
Sort of like the Rifleman tv show...
God I SORELY miss Vic and the guys!!!
@@johnrogan9420 and Vic Morrow was in two episodes!
I am 65 this year. My father was an old timer and fought in that war in the Canadian army. He would hide behind his news paper smoking and secretly watch combat with me. I never realized it until years after he pass away. Great shows. Great memories. Thanks Combat.
I was a young teen when this show first aired. I watched it every Tuesday night. I even bought the first 4 seasons on DVD but not the 5th because they were color. It just didn’t look right, like Vic Morrow said. I’m 72 now and still watch the episodes, even on H&I channel on Saturday. FYI…I’m a Marine Nam Vet 68-69 and my dad was a Marine 38-46.
Yeah, I was only 6 years old when Combat first aired. It instantaneously became my favorite TV show when it first aired. I am 64 now.
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Thank you and your Dad for y'all's service.
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it amazes me how Vic pulls out a clip from places in his jacket that are not designed to secure extra ammo
those tommy clips require a elongated clip holster, you never see him wearing one, gives the appearance that he only carries one ammo stack going on patrol.
There are episodes where he has the triple pouch for the 20-rd stick MAGAZINES and a canteen on his belt.
Even 300 rounds not enough..I'd never go in to a hot LZ with only 40 rounds....
@@mikearakelian6368 40 rounds are only 40 bullets
I've never seen more expressive eyes than when Vic was urging the other American to do the right thing. How did this man not go further?
Vic was an underrated actor, who died needlessly while making the utterly lame movie, the twilight zone
Vic Morrow always added veracity to any role he played.
He had his head chopped off by a helicopter. As the mortars went off. While the helicopters tail was over one. Filming a movie, The Twilight Zone. There was a big lawsuit over it.
I'm watching every series almost everyday...till now.
Surprising that the Americans would be the ones to run out of ammunition as GIs generally carried far more ammunition than Germans. Another wholly improbable episode that was especially memorable--enough so that I remember it 54 years later. Ron Soble, who played the German, reminds me of Nicholas Cage. Soble played a villain in True Grit, the western that won John Wayne his Oscar. The Carey role was something of a reprise for Sands of his role in the 1962 D Day epic The Longest Day. That same year--1965--Sands appeared in a Sinatra-directed WW 2 movie "None But the Brave". It followed a similar theme in that it featured US & Japanese units cut off from the war who agree to live together until the war makes them relevant again. Another wholly improbable but memorable story.
"billboth4814," I CRINGE every time Sands opens his mouth in "None But the Brave." He's truly embarrassing. Can't believe Sinatra let those scenes of his remain as filmed -- even though he was his daughter's 'steady.'
In war and peace one must probe himself to be a real man!
That is true sir. I am almost 66 now and sometimes it takes years to learn to have courage and be a leader. We all come to a point in our life where we have to take a stand and fight.
This was such a great story and the series always had shown how soldiers had depended on each other for survival. There was no glory to war, it was just about the man standing next to you.....is what I heard so many soldiers say. Plus this series always had some life lessons to teach us all, even today. I'm 64 and watched this incessantly as a kid. My father was a Lt. Col. in the US Army and as a kid, living on Ft McClellan Alabama military base, we used to play soldiers all of the time in the woods. My father was a Major at the time, our last name is Sanders. We used to get orders for buckets of chicken to go at two in the morning a lot......
Lucky you have such a goid relationship with your father, mine is cold to me and fights with me, im always wrong. Mr Negitive. I'm 55 and still fight with him. I wish we had a friendship like many do with their dad's, it makes me jealous
Buckets of chicken in Alabama???who knew???
Hey m42037 my dad was a dickhead also. He never cared for me after he abandoned me. But he wasn’t a grandfather nor a great grandfather to my kids and grandkids. So I didn’t go to his funeral because he’d already fucked off 3 generations who could’ve loved him but instead he turned his back on them. Just sayin …
Here's a.life lesson for you. I turned 75 6 day s ago. I am a Vietnam Era Vet, my Dad was career Air Force. I had a great relationship with both of my parents but especially my Dad. His next duty assignment was that of Chief M/Sgt of the Air Force Academy. During his transfer physical he was diagnostic sed with Chronic Mylogist Leukemia.he died in 1975, I was 25 and stationed at Lakes Air Force Base in the Azores Islands. I was 6000 miles away, never got to see him one last time. I always said "I love you" but the thing I never told him haunt me to this day. I should have told him he was my mentor, my role model, my hero. As an adult I considered him my best friends and confidant. He was always there for me with an arm to lean on, a shoulder to cry on or just there to listen. He always had my back regardless if I was right or wrong. Simply put he was always there.i would give everything I've ever had, have or will ever have to have 10 more minutes with my Dad so I could say good-bye and tell him thank you for being my Dad. We all get one Mom and one Dad. That's it one of each. Be grateful you still have your Dad. Say what you have to say now and if there are issues fix them. Take it from someone who knows. Love him now and except him for who he is.
The duty station I was at when my Dad died was Lajes AFB on the island of Terciera in the Azores.
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Love this episode, it explains the difference between killing and murder according to the military, remarkable..
Look, murder is the killing of someone who doesn't deserve to die. We in the US Army infantry merely kill to make the enemy stop whatever it is they're doing. In a case like this, Herman the German was stopped, and that's all we want.
Even in combat, murder is murder. your are soldier not a killer. in a situation like this, give consideration to others, enemies or friends in distress
Presiosa serie Combate ; cn 2 actoraso q personifica bien a los soldados yankes d la segunda guerra ; cmo Vic Morrow y Jakson , mas los otros actorasos q hacen d soldados yankes y alemanes ; muestran la realidad d la segunda guerra mundial
Weird that Sarge fires with his middle finger. But anyway, Vic was an enormously talented actor who was extremely emotionally intelligent. I'm no expert on WWII or anything military, but I think Vic Morrow added something to the genre in this time that had never been seen before- honesty.
Saunders fires with his middle finger because he was born with a genetic anomaly. His index finger is too short.
Over the years, I've been seen a few shooters that use the middle finger to pull the trigger, it would be interesting on a double action revolver i suppose.
One of the best episodes, getting to the heart of soldiery.
great series
Best episode outside of "Hills Are For Heroes "
"jmweed1861," Well, nearly every "Combat!" fan justifiably raves about 'Hills Are for Heroes' -- ranking IT high. The writing of 'More Than a Soldier' is superb and the director keeps the tension going, despite being in a single set for much of the hour.
Sorely missing are EVERYBODY except Saunders, the usual abundance of versatile, outdoor settings and scenes plus a REALLY good guest star who has the 'chops' to 'carry' this pivotal role throughout much of 'More Than a Soldier's' scenes.
Tommy Sands' teeth are bright enough to light up a 1960s Las Vegas showroom, his regular haunt 'back in the day,' and here they appear bright enough to illuminate the cave set. Make-up department could have slightly shaded or tarnished Tommy's artificial 'choppers' to make them less distracting and appear more 'real.' Speaking of make-up, pre-fade-out, when he visits bed-ridden Saunders, looking closely we see -- barely -- his left hand bandaged as it (too easily; no pain) motions his helmet backwards and forwards. . . . . . . . .
The "Combat!" faithful have confidence in Saunders' soldiering skills that when he runs out of ammo he can pick up a discarded enemy submachine gun, the German MP - 40, and 'go to town' with it and 'fire away.' However, it seems a stretch that, from what we've seen of the preposterously averse-to-shooting character Sands portrays that in the Act IV climax he can skillfully hunt AND mow down with automatic fire a trio of German soldiers -- expelling three times the amount of ammo necessary, seemingly forgetting about conserving precious ammunition resources; THAT'S what got them into this life-or-death predicament in the first place -- so adeptly and effortlessly. I don't buy it [nor the exterior wooded set, clearly on a soundstage]. Not everyone can be multi-talented, i.e., Sands is a better singer than dramatic actor.
Case in point: 45:53 - 46:02 Saunders informs him: "By the way, the German sergeant died this morning." Carey (Sands): "Oh yeah . . . well [delivered with a pause and blank, facial expression -- both ineffective here as far as dramatic components]." [Behind-the-scenes, assumed likely scenario -- Morrow to Sands after that completely lackluster reaction: "Tommy, you know, there are three or four effective ways you can respond visually and verbally to what I just said, that KEY statement; THAT -- what you just tried -- is NOT one of them."]
So. back to "jmweed1961"'s declaration of praise -- 1) Hanley, Kirby, Little John, Doc, Cage essentially M.I.A.; 2) the limited, confined, claustrophobic feel of a single set; 3) a subpar performance delivered by the guest artist clearly not up to Vic Morrow's level. "Best episode outside of 'Hills Are for Heroes.'" -- NOT.
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Which shoulder of Morrow's left or right have had more purple hearts? I think it's about even.
In the entire series he was wounded almost 50 times. And don't forget that before the series starts he already had a purple heart and a silver star from either Italy or northern Africa.
Its the truth, in a firefight you kill the enemy, in a situation like this, it would be murder, maybe not in your eyes but mine, yes, sands lost his chance on the battlefield.,now he wants saunders to bail him out, and if you noticed he hardly helped at all.
Has anyone noticed that when there is a close up of Sarge firing a weapon, he uses his middle finger? At 1:52 he's using his middle finger to fire his Thompson. Later he does it to fire his 1911 and the M-1. I've noticed this several times during the series. Other shots show him with his index finger on the trigger, but he won't be firing. Just an observation.
Walter Webb I say that's a reflex, because the first time I picked up a pistol I placed my index finger along the barrel and my middle finger on the trigger. My instructor corrected this. Then a friend showed me a Luger. It had no sight, the way you aimed it was with your index finger along the barrel.
Morrows first finger on his right had was deformed. It was shorter that a normal first finger should be.
I think most guys used middle finger when firing a Thompson. It's more comfortable.
I do a lot of shooting with a lot of different guys, I've seen some pretty strange things, I know of only one other shooter that uses his middle finger, and that's because his index finger got cut off by a table saw.
@David Theile After almost 3 whole seasons of shows, this is the first time I noticed it, and even then only because it was pointed out.
They should have named this episode "Teen Idol."
But then it might conflict with all the other pimple-faced guest "stars" that had cycled through. I guess the producers told the casting guy that they wanted to plus-up their bobby-soxer audience. They already had the guys with The Thompson and The BAR, and the housewives with Vic & Rick.
"Vic Morrow had an absolute dislike of firearms. He used a Thompson submachine gun in our series, but that was work. In any other respect he’d have nothing to do with them. On one of the few days we got off early while there were still several hours of daylight left, I said to him, "I’ve got a couple of shotguns in the back of my station wagon. You want to shoot some skeet?"
Without so much as a pause he responded, "No, thanks. I can’t stand to kill clay."
He knew he could always break me up and during our five years together he did it quite a bit. His sense of humor happened to tickle my funny bone and he knew he had my number."
-Rick Jason
Hello Mr. Jason,
What an Honor it is to have read your word's. Thank You for being the Gentleman that you are.
May God alway's walk with You and your Fa-mily. Respectfully,
Robert Solis
Ft. Worth, Texas
@@robertsolis8017 That is not Rick Jason, he is using a quote from Rick Jason. Rick Jason committed suicide in 2000.
Why did u shoot yourself Rick?
@@dhart8451 . . . with a gun.
@@scvandy3129 Respect !
Sergeants are the same all over the universe...LMAO!!! Saunders must have been awarded 5 bazillion purple hearts!!!! :-)
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Him and Littlejohn. Perhaps Kirby.
I think you're right. He played Wyatt Earp. That was a good first contact episode.
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That guy was about as useful as a screen door on a submarine. Saunders should have slapped some sense into him.
The Wehrmacht and the Glorious Revolutionary Peoples Workers Protectors of the Motherland both SHOT their "balky" troops.
Yeah this lightweight punk would have needed a little wall-to-wall "career counseling".
Sgt saunders you are my hero!
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I wonder how many soldiers got killed because another soldier wouldn't do his duty and fire his gun.
After the war Saunders would have made a helleva football coach
Little league coach bad news bears tough on those kids too
Or a warehouse crew boss like Denzel in "The Equalizer".
Or a bouncer in some waterfront dive.
Or an ice-cream truck driver.
Or the foreman on Hanley's goat ranch.
I watched combat as a boy now in my 50's still not tired of watching.
RIP VIC MORROW
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It's total suspense. I'm Air Force, but I almost saw why Chicka is yelling for "Cover" Must to the suspense of the opening of the show, it's not forthcoming.
" chicka " ???
It about being a human being in terrible circumstances
I watched this series as a boy and at almost 63 I still love it. Vic Morrow is still my hero.
Alan R Secor Vic Morrow/or do you mean(SGT.Chip Saunders)
Yep, i'm almost 65 and I watched it growing up and as you, I still love it.
I'm 62 we watched reruns in the later 60s when it came out dad was stationed in Germany and we didn't have a tv. still loved it
Hahaha always my favorite movie I 'm 52... start watch in 1976.... regards from Malaysia...
I'm.63 starting watching in 63 👍
To ROENA the studio crews that produced this series were very close (17 years closer to WORLD WAR 2) than WE ARE so it shows in the WRITING/MESSAGE TAUGHT IN THE STORY LINE/ACCURATE UNIFORMS/WEAPONS USED/LANGUGE OF THE TIME /MANNERISMS and FIRST HAND ACCOUNTS of ACTUAL SCENARIOS/SITUATIONS of the time of the ACTUAL WAR 17 YEARS BACK TO 1945*plus passing the test given in the early 1960s of becoming a LIGHTING TECHNICIAN/WEAPONS AMMUNITION (blank rounds) SUPPLIER/EXPLOSIVES HANDLERS/CAMERA OPERATOR/CREW HAND SPECIALTIES/PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/SOUND ENGINEERS and countless others to bring the COMBAT TV SERIES to its FINISHED PRODUCT!
Keep in mind that many in the audience were verans of that war,
Combat! - S03E19 - "More than a Soldier" - 1965 Five Stars [*******] This Episode is for the True Soldier of combat...Another Heart Throb episode as we see Sgt. Saunders and Private Cary escape a small German Company as their Squad is cut to pieces...Tommy Sands plays Private Cary a Fresh recruit right out of boot camp. Cary cannot kill the Enemy and both him and Saunders get trapped in a mine cave-in with a German Sergeant played by Ron Soble...Worst comes to worst as the German sergeant makes them did out with a lack of Oxygen to breath...Sgt. Saunders gets wounded outside the Mine and Private Cary realizes he has to kill 3 German Soldiers to protect Saunders who is wounded...Saunders tells him there's a difference between being a Killer and a Murderer...Cary goes back in the mine and digs out he German sergeant after Saunders tells him "Cary! - Don't give up on being a Human Being! "The ending is believable and touches on real life when Saunders tells Cary additional information on the German Soldier...Great Episode - Please watch this! - Glenn E. Smith Jr. Vietnam Veteran, Wednesday 07/08/2015
That stupid coward bastard. I'd of shot him or gave him to the germans. BETTER to just shoot the asshole coward. I can't stand cowards.
hola soy de argentina me encanta está serie pero no hay nadie que suba más capítulos en español muchas gracias
every episode had a higher message than war itself, sometimes they were delivered subtly, but they were always delivered, I loved this tv series
I've loved this show since I was a young kid ,stilldo
Wow This movie gives me a good lesson of what human being is.
This show always had a lesson in it!!!
1.39 SGT. Saunders using his middle finger as a trigger finger!
His index finger is genetically short.
The title should read, Less than a soldier
this is the exact opening scene used in at least 6 other episodes
A little compassion, is proof that their just might be a higher power!
I agree and I'll be back here tomorrow nite same bat time same bat channel.good nite combat fans
Compassion is a human instinct.
There is GOD ALMIGHTY (YAWAAH). OUR CREATOR😃😃😃
@kathrynmcmahon4048 Yes! The triune God. Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. ❤.❤❤
Some people show no compassion they just want to look nice in front of other people.
Tommy Sands was a big teen idol in late 50s early 60s. That is until his marriage with Nancy Sinatra folded in '65 and daddy Frank got him blacklisted from the entertainment industry. He really has never done much of anything after that.
similar to what Altman did to Morrow
Early in the show you can see how Vic has to use his middle finger to pull the trigger, his right index finger was congenitally too short...
Maybe He invented Bump Firing
Not sure why they had to kill off the German Sergeant at the end there. Not a big thing, just seemd they could've easily just said he's getting shipped of to a POW camp.
If the 👢 was on the other foot. You better believe the germ would of killed them two.
I've learned more about life from Shows like Combat and Andy Griffith than I could ever learn from some of the garbage on T.V nowdays!!!!
The kill vs murder™: Cmp., When a civilian was killed close to a warehouse by a sentry (1960's), it wasn't a criminal case...
How can the air be going out when there’s a hole in the ceiling? When it caved in you could see light above their heads camera men screwed up. They could have escaped through the ceiling. They had to make this show more dramatic by making it looked blocked. Why did they go into the cave to begin with? They should have hid somewhere else.
So how many Purple Hearts dose that make it for Saunders? ;)
John Honey Hundreds
At 6:06 Sanders uses his birdie finger to pull triger on the M1. Odd, guess he was in a hurry.
Whatever works for him.
His right index finger was congenitally short.
Even if he is a German he is a human being. If the other Germans would not of shot at. them they probably would have told them that there fellow soldier was in there.
I can't stand stupid people...what a coward ! Should have stayed in the streets and collect garage, instead !!!!
Dobro,super.
unless youre a squad leader or platoon leader the odds of carrying a flashligt by an ordinary soldier is unlikely just for the fact its a normally non essential item to lug around unlike grenades ammo etc
In Vietnam I generally carried twice as much ammo and grenades as most everyone else. You just don't want to run out of either when you need them the most. As a platoon leader I did carry a flashlight. However, you didn't want to be going thru the jungle with a light showing exactly where you were.
@@christopherfranklin1881 thank you for your service!
I could do without seeing Tommy Sands try to act
he's fresh out of basic training, give him a chance.
He was a poor excuse of a solider. I doubt someone that weak would turn a round. Digging dirt with his head liner still in his helmet, no brains. He couldn't dig a fox hole with a #2 shovel. I bit that was pretty tough, oh Vic had to pull off a acting stunt to make the seen look at list fair.
@@jeffdowler9130 I noticed once Tommy's character tosses a rather large rock like it was styrofoam, which it probably was...
@@TheEvilDrR As end actor some things you don't want to fake.
@@jeffdowler9130 Well, in this case, it's something they should want to fake. It should look like he's throwing a 20 lb. rock, not a 5 oz. fake rock.
Proves we can over come hate , by remaining human. Most soldiers don't take pleasure in killing or destruction but rather in saving and building society.
How can the air be going out when there’s a hole in the ceiling? When it caved in you could see light above their heads camera men screwed up. They could have escaped through the ceiling. They had to make this show more dramatic by making it looked blocked. Why did they go into the cave to begin with? They should have hid somewhere else. I find this ironic when both of these guys when they were alive. They both smoked cigarettes. Who knows what else. I think their both deceased. Vic from a helicopter accident and tommy is still alive at 83 years old. Wow!
IN SEVERAL EPISODES OF COMBAT! SGT. SAUNDERS REMINDS US ALL THAT THERE IS A BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN KILLING AND MURDER!
It about being a human being in terrible circumstances
never point the thompson [ army way ] never pick up down men ammo [ army way ] never point the bar [ army way ] .never reload the 1911 or carry extra mags ??? coward never carryed extra ammo ?? . the hun with the mp-40 changed mags 3-4 times ...real with the rate of fire and 4-5 rd burst .....sanders shoots up in the air forever with the same mag .....still love the show ..
Roy Rodriguez Didn't grab any extra magazines for the Schmeisser either.
+Roy Rodriguez Well, they did actually show Saunders and the Feldwebel changing magazines - very unusual for the show. (And haven't seen the clips of the PzKw Is and IIs in 1939 Poland for some episodes now.) It really is a great series.
oh love it and loved it when it came out ..but could of been a little bit more real in the gun handling ... mu uncle would laugh at the way the bar was used .. spray away never bipod use ... or aim
+Roy Rodriguez Thanks - we are in violent agreement! Most of the episodes are a definite A or an A-. The little things we discussed would have made it an A+ to me. It just blows my mind when they show film of Stuka J87 dive bombers obviously in the midst of a bombing mission as attacking a huge flight of P-47s in 1944 over France (and downing a top American ace and his wingman!) or panzers rolling through Poland in 1939 or Russia in 1940 as France in 1944. Don't know if they had no budget for a real film researcher or someone on the payroll was really uninformed or just lazy. That's a lot worse for me than plot and cinematic liberties with carrying ammo, changing clips/mags, marksmanship, cover, interval, policing weapons and ammo from the dead/wounded/prisoners, etc. I too loved it when it came out and would never have noticed those little things then. Still a great series - but I only have 1.5 seasons left to rewatch!
+Roy Rodriguez thats cause they werent trying to hit anything it just had to look cool lmao
I cannot fire ! I cannot throw grenades ! I don't know what I'm doing here.
Saunders always finds the best in everyone
If he can't do it the easy way, he'll do the hard way. It makes no difference to him.
Sadly, too many people today have given up on being a human being.
Why wouldn't he have a flashlight? You never know when you'll be caught out at night.