I love this show including the main cast. Vic morrow #1 ! I really enjoyed Terry Carter's performance. As of may 10th 2020 Mr. Carter us 91 years old and still kicking.
Hey James Bond for a tv series about the war I’ll agree with you. But there have been good tv series like Band of Brothers and Rat Patrol and Baa Baa Black Sheep. And great movies like The Longest Day and The Hurt Locker and Black Hawk Down and Battle LA and The Green Berets and many others …
A fine episode. There were only four Germans, and their machine gun kept on jamming. It was an impass. The breaking of the impass was the arrival of the tank. Very credibile. As always an excellent episode.
I read a Negative Comment on another episode, that Morrow and Jason whined and complained about having to carry the Heavy Weapons, during non shooting scenes and they make Plastic Replicas for them. I hope it’s not true as I have much Respect for them as Professionals and not Crybaby Actors
I love all shows each them two or three times and steal whacking Great stories and fantastic actors Who plays their role unbelievable Good thank you Jaleh nadji
A lot of people who never served in the military don't understand the concept of sacrificing a few to save many. It's a decision many commanders have to make, both civilian and military.
Saunders was like Batman. Just pulled loose shit from inside his jacket like if it was magic. magazines, maps, grenades. Nothing would fall off from the running and crawling
His belt was over his jacket and his belly was fat enough to keep everything inside. Cage and Kirby were thinner and seldom kept anything inside their jackets. Just sayin …
Did not know sarge was color blind. Calling the truck driver GREEN proves that. Making the truck driver say white rook 50+ times makes sarge a rascal. Just kidding. Love these shows. Watch one every night since I found them. Nothing being made today compares.
Put your uniform on and join in then, because I sincerely doubt you're a veteran, and if you were, you would know the trauma of combat. It's semi-controlled chaos, with arms and legs flying through the air. You actually disgust me.
PS - " Combat ", was a made for TV show. Get a grip, and come back into reality. Odds are you won't, as you're a teen who plays Grand Theft Auto. GROW UP, man, with a little M.
I watch these shows, the graphics, action and represented mayhem. I am real glad I did not grow up during that time, That is for far better people then me.
In Star Trek - TOS they had also used this location. :) Fun Fact: in the classical BATTLESTAR GALACTICA series with Lorne Green he had played Colonel Tigh the actual Captain of the Galactica. 1:24 THE CUTS UP TO HERE had been taken from the episode BRIDGEHEAD
Incredible episode. Keep in mind that this was produced in 1965 in Los Angeles. Race riots were on the rise. How do I know? I was 7 years old and living in LA and you could cut the race tension with a knife. A daring episode to put on TV at that time indeed.Terry Carter passed away a few months ago at the age of 95. What an actor! Vic Morrow, who sadly died in 1982 is buried at Hillside Cemetery in in Culver City. You can see the memorial park from the 405 fwy. I pass it several times a week. I know that the sarge was a Sergeant but I can't help but salute him everytime I pass the cemetery. Weird? I don't care. We love you sarge!
Poor Kirby! Not only do they give the smallest guy the BAR, he get's hit again! My great uncle carried a BAR through the Pacific. He said he loved having it, but hated cleaning it every damn day. When his buddies got to rack out, he and the other BAR guy in his squad would have to strip their rifles or they'd certainly have problems when they needed them.
Why because he was black . You never been shot at . Color doesn't matter when someones trying to kill you . Only skills at getting the job done and staying alive . Lollipop. ??....????
grew up with combat i was 8yrs old on every tuesday night 730 p,m, channal 7 abc. now im 64 yrs. old still watch them all always. was the greatest ww2 series it was like watching a movie more than a t.v. series. vic marrow was my hero.
Welcome to the club - 64 to - I enjoyed watching Combat also. The only show where the actors prepared themselves by going through Boot Camp I believe. Sad what happened to Vic Morrow in the Twilight Zone movie.
I watched it also. But I wanted to be a submariner because of the movie Run Silent Run Deep with Clark Gable and Burt Reynolds. But I got scared when the Thresher went down. Then I got over it and still wanted to join that branch. But when the Scorpion was lost I gave up on the idea and decided I wanted to be a marine in Vietnam. But the draft board messed with me for 4 months and I decided not to join anything. Made my mom happy …
The opening footage is the same as the main battle scene of "The Bridgehead" episode including the soldier throwing multiple grenades tied together to make a larger explosive charge, through the hole in the wall.
It's his B.A.R. weapon, (gas operated .30 cal Browning Automatic Rifle.) At over $300 a piece, the Army could only afford to equip a squad with one such light to moderate machine gun at MOST, (which is also why only about 350,000 were ever manufactured for the War by 1945,) while everybody else used a Thompson, (like Sgt Saunders,) or the much more abundant, (and reliable, in the field,) U.S. Military standard issue M1 Garand (M1903 Springfield,) in their respective theaters of operations. Just like a longer range high powered rifle, like a 30 or 50 cal, the Browning takes top-fed chains of .30-06 ammunition, as opposed to cartridges or clips like everyone else. Way to notice the difference though lol usually most people don't. 👍
@@twstf8905 note that this episode Kirby is using the BAR almost as intended. The BAR is supposed to lay down heavy automatic fire on the enemy to keep them occupied while the fusiliers maneuver to flank the position.
I've met Terry Carter at a Battlestar Galactica convention (he was the original Colonel Tigh in the 1970s version) . He was an extremely pleasent man to talk to.
He was a pretty good actor. Delivered his lines well, with appropriate emotion, not over doing it and very good facial expressions - something few actors are really good at.
Hard to believe that in the 5 years this series was on the air not one of the privates in the squad ever got promoted. You'd think that at least one of them would have made corporal in all that time. And Saunders should have made staff sergeant by the time the show went off the air.
Patton put Kirby in the stockade for his constant bitching and insubordination against Saunders and Hanley. He’s scheduled to be released in 2025. Just sayin …
Edward Lasko, the kiss of death to a script. Way too drawn out and with a heavy machine at that range you could get away with playing around like that. Plus what happen to the tank's machine gun(s)? Grrrrrr. Lasko really gets annoying.
No matter the inconsistencies of armament & strategies... what was driven home in each sequence of episodes, were the lessons of morality. Yet to see one without it! 61617 -Former Recondo Sgt. "Rock" 82nd Abn. 1/504 Inf. '71-'74 "AMERICA'S GUARD OF HONOR"
The Germans had some good weapons. One of them was the MG.42 aircooled machine gun made by the germans. You don't see any of them in this episode,or others in.alot of their episodes.
A group of Germans soldiers, well positioned with machine guns, waiting to ambush the unaware Saunders and his crews on that truck. A few minutes later, all the germans were dead.
I'm sure the wounded and Doc really were happy when that 76mm main gun went off just above and behind the canvas of the Deuce. When I was a kid in the 60's I used to watch this show, Battleground, Mchale's Navy, 12 O'clock High, War at Sea and any of the others I could find on our 4 station TV. Now, after doing my time and knowing first hand about the weapons, tactics, communications etc, it is different and still entertaining in a technical kind of way.
If he was a full fleged Dr, and the military found out he would automatically be a gentleman by act of Congress. Not a demolition man. Just another tv fiction.
Recently saw a demonstration of a grenade launcher from a M1 Garand. Makes you wonder why they didn't have it at their disposal? Particularly with a truck full of ammo.
I am wildly bored and am addicted to this show. So, about what I could tell Saunders was shot 18 times Hanley: 8 Kirby: 13 Caje: 10 Littlejon: 13 Doc: 4 Keep in mind, these are just the times they’ve been shot. Not counting the beatings, burns, sprains, concussions and all the other good stuff
The Germans displayed an amazing skill at shooting low, unless winging one of the squad. Saunders ' bunch needed the Queen Marry to haul their Purple Hearts back to the states!
One group that nobody hardly ever gives a standing ovation to is the medics. They went into battle and didn't get to carry a firearm, amazing how brave these individuals were. I would not have been that brave for no amount of money. Hats off to all the paramedics out there. From back then til now I don't think it has changed any has it?
I think many carried.45s in the Pacific because the Japanese were intent on killing them first and wouldn’t show any mercy for them or the wounded. There’s a painting of a corpsman who’s shooting his.45 while holding up a plasma bottle in a jungle. The painting is in a hardware store in Washington state near Lake Sylvia. Just sayin …
I watched an interview of a medic from the Vietnam War. He carried a shotgun and sidearm. North Vietnam never signed the Geneva convention. Medics were a target so all gloves were off in the field. I wasn't there but this didn't seem like a false interview.
It's really hard for me to believe that the Germans were that inaccurate with their weapons , And I can't believe that these grunts can't shoot straight either !
Maybe an armour piercing round into the boulders that the krauts were using would have caused enough injuries or death for the Sarge to escape. But it was jolly decent of the Germans to stay in place to be blown to pieces eventually.
I don't know why Saunders puts up with so much back-talk, but, I would just tell that driver to shut-up unless he has something constructive to say. And if a jaw soaking was needed, it would be done. Enough of that yappin!
We also had the best truck drivers in the world, and a logistics system that was second to none. The Red Ball Express was a big reason why our rapid drive over France was even possible.
My understanding is that Patton requested them to resupply his tanks and soldiers. He didn’t care about their color or the color of the 332nd Nisai regiment. If anyone was willing to serve and do his job then he would have you. In that respect he wasn’t prejudiced against anyone. Maybe it was his California upbringing or something else. He came from a rich family and probably had servants all his life. He had his own personal horse farm back home when he was at West Point. Who knows what he would have done back home after the war if he had survived. Just contemplating …
@@manuelbermudez211 Patton believed in reincarnation. It meant he didn't fear death, and that he believed he had been many men in the past. He thought he had been Hannibal in an earlier life, and so had experience commanding African troops.
Black , white, green, or yellow, we all bleed red. One of the first items taught and learned in basic. War, bullets, bombs, are color blind...they do not care who they kill. Saunders character is a well rounded, and well versed common foot soldier.
hey did you guys know that by union rules each uniform had to washed and pressed every night after shooting for the next day? yea its true when the guys put their uniforms on for that morning shoot they would role around in the dirt to make them look like theyve been in war all day
Some made a comment in the section never an episode made with a black man in it ha. Same tank same driver in hills are for heroes, he was killed in that episode.
SmoothRide What I couldn't figure is why he wasn't on that tire instantly! If he was so gung ho to keep moving he should have enabled the vehicle to do so.
PatriotNC1, You are exactly right. Sgt. Saunders should've put that smart-a** black Soldier in his place. Regardless of race, no soldier should be insolent to an NCO like he was.
Love this series, always did. But at 39:55 "Ver ist er?" (Who is he?) should be "Wo ist er?" (Where is he?). I think the actor kind of forgot his line so mixed in a little English with a German accent (Ver for where). Ver means who. Have noticed a few other Americanisms from the Germans in the series but it is all minor. Much better than if they had just made the Germans totally speak English with a German accent. Oddly enough this series is one of the reasons I learned to speak German. When I was a kid I hated not knowing what they were saying so I started studying it. Thanks for posting. Loved it when I was a kid and still do.
I learned a bit of german myself just watching this series! Ironically I found out years later, half of my mothers' side of the family came from Germany in the mid 1800's...
The Germans had plenty of ammo but couldn't hit worth of shit good for us but glad we had that one last smoke bomb left I love this show 60's TV great shows 👍
Not sure why the tanker didn't use his heavy machine gun. Lucky for Saunders the Germans didn't have a grenade in return. Terry Carter - an excellent actor and I remember him from McCloud and in the late '60s as an anchor for WBZ
When I was a teenager, we were playing ball at the VFW field. Dad and a couple of other Fathers were having a heated discussion because a couple of the idiots (that's what Dad called them) didn't want a Nisei (who was in WW2 and Korea) in the VFW. Dad said the Post Commander told the idiots that they could move their membership to another VFW Post.
For three years, in the mid sixties, Terry Carter was the weekend news anchor at WBZ TV in Boston. I always thought that was his start, but his acting record goes all the way back to the fifties, when he was on the Phil Silvers Show. Idon't remember him in that show, but I do remember his stint at 'BZ.
Guess with a truck full of ammo there were no rifle grenades in the truck which i believed had a range of over 150 yards. Not part of the script I guess, make it too easy
I carried an M60. Don't think I ever used the bipod. When we set up used the T&E tripod. Loved the swivel handle on top to carry it. Especially in a hurry.
As has been pointed out in previous episodes, Morrow had a congenitally shortened right index finger. They did an amazing job hiding the fact, but that's something you can't keep in the dark forever. You can get a fair view of it when he's rolling Kirby over after Kirby gets hit.
A lot of talk in this comments section is about race. Wasn't it the case that for most of WW2 segregation was actively applied in the US Army? I thought that one of the first cases of black troops being used in combat was during the "Battle of the Bulge" in 1944 as reserves? I believe it caused a lot of controversy at the time. If the above is true (and I would be happy to stand corrected) then this episode is close to an accurate representation of the times it was set in. Personally, I am glad times have changed.
fldinosaur My opening comment was intended to refer specifically to WW2. I am aware that both the union and confederate armies used black troops (and that they generally served with distinction). I apologise if I didn't make that clear.
That water cooled machinegun on a tripod should have shot that truck to pieces. Radiator, driver, Saunders, and a bunch in the back. 7.92x57 ain't no .22. It would have gone through all but the engine block and axles. Say... when is Kirby ever gonna open that bipod on the BAR and, you know, actually hit something. All the tank guy has to do is hook a towing chain and drag the truck back. Then trundle forward and use that 90.. speaking of that, sure didn't know Patton tanks were used before Patton even died. Surely they had Sherman tanks... I mean even Clint Eastwood had 'em in Kelly's Heroes.
Deaf Smith There's a lot of inconsistencies, like weapons and vehicles. American corporations like Rockefeller's, Ford, and others made millions from Hitler. Ford built their vehicles and sued the US gov after the war for his plants blown up there and won. Those fluted water cooled machine guns were relics of WW1 and were used by the axis and allies because all the countries using them bought patent rights. Can't remember who the patent owner was.
Opel built the German trucks of WW2. Porshe, Mercedes and Henschel built Germany's tanks. Ford only sold tractors to Germany in the 1930's before the war, as did many American companies. Just as they do today since they built modern China into another enemy for us.
The Germans did not use the slow vickers machine gun they used the high rate MG42 and the MG38 only the English used the obsolete vickers as they had nothing else.
I love this show including the main cast. Vic morrow #1 ! I really enjoyed Terry Carter's performance. As of may 10th 2020 Mr. Carter us 91 years old and still kicking.
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Hey James Bond for a tv series about the war I’ll agree with you. But there have been good tv series like Band of Brothers and Rat Patrol and Baa Baa Black Sheep. And great movies like The Longest Day and The Hurt Locker and Black Hawk Down and Battle LA and The Green Berets and many others …
A fine episode. There were only four Germans, and their machine gun kept on jamming. It was an impass. The breaking of the impass was the arrival of the tank. Very credibile. As always an excellent episode.
I read a Negative Comment on another episode, that Morrow and Jason whined and complained about having to carry the Heavy Weapons, during non shooting scenes and they make Plastic Replicas for them. I hope it’s not true as I have much Respect for them as Professionals and not Crybaby Actors
I love all shows each them two or three times and steal whacking
Great stories and fantastic actors
Who plays their role unbelievable
Good thank you
Jaleh nadji
Combat's The Long Wait. What else but simply magnificent!
A lot of people who never served in the military don't understand the concept of sacrificing a few to save many. It's a decision many commanders have to make, both civilian and military.
Amazing the dumb trucker didn't get killed right off. Oh well, that's Hollywood.
That concept is in 12 o’Clock High too. Lose 10 men today you save 10,000 tomorrow.
I am proud to see a black guy truck driver on combat,
Sgt Saunders was the best. I’d watch it as a kid.
Saunders was like Batman. Just pulled loose shit from inside his jacket like if it was magic. magazines, maps, grenades. Nothing would fall off from the running and crawling
mantenimiento but yet his helmet fell off in almost every other scene and he never put the strap on LOL
Lovin' it all.
@@android4873 33:04 where did the grenades come from :9
Saunder's magic jacket was the prototype for Paul Harrell's One Man Army Walking Armory shooting coat.
His belt was over his jacket and his belly was fat enough to keep everything inside. Cage and Kirby were thinner and seldom kept anything inside their jackets. Just sayin …
Did not know sarge was color blind. Calling the truck driver GREEN proves that. Making the truck driver say white rook 50+ times makes sarge a rascal. Just kidding. Love these shows. Watch one every night since I found them. Nothing being made today compares.
That tank was clean and shiny enough to have just rolled out of a museum. Oh, wait...
Littlejohn should have been able to knock out that machine-gun nest with ease from that distance with that M-1 Garand 30.06 even with open sights.
Put your uniform on and join in then, because I sincerely doubt you're a veteran, and if you were, you would know the trauma of combat. It's semi-controlled chaos, with arms and legs flying through the air. You actually disgust me.
PS - " Combat ", was a made for TV show. Get a grip, and come back into reality. Odds are you won't, as you're a teen who plays Grand Theft Auto. GROW UP, man, with a little M.
@@Little_Muskrat13 I am not interested in sparing with someone that comes unglued over comments on a 60-year-old TV show.
@@Little_Muskrat13 I am 71, I was in the US Army 1971-1973 as a 13A10 so my chances of growing up have long since passed by. 😃
I watch these shows, the graphics, action and represented mayhem. I am real glad I did not grow up during that time, That is for far better people then me.
Great show
God bless America and every soldier 🪖🇺🇸 in the armed forces. 👍
In Star Trek - TOS they had also used this location. :)
Fun Fact: in the classical BATTLESTAR GALACTICA series with Lorne Green he had played Colonel Tigh the actual Captain of the Galactica.
1:24 THE CUTS UP TO HERE had been taken from the episode BRIDGEHEAD
Porfa pásame en español combate
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Yea I noticed that too the building n the bridge where he threw the grenade
Incredible episode. Keep in mind that this was produced in 1965 in Los Angeles. Race riots were on the rise. How do I know? I was 7 years old and living in LA and you could cut the race tension with a knife. A daring episode to put on TV at that time indeed.Terry Carter passed away a few months ago at the age of 95. What an actor! Vic Morrow, who sadly died in 1982 is buried at Hillside Cemetery in in Culver City. You can see the memorial park from the 405 fwy. I pass it several times a week. I know that the sarge was a Sergeant but I can't help but salute him everytime I pass the cemetery. Weird? I don't care. We love you sarge!
I would, too.
For those of you not aware, that was Colonel Tigh from the original Battlestar Galactica that was the guest star.
Okay gotcha !!!
Oh yea no shit I didn't see that lol
Poor Kirby! Not only do they give the smallest guy the BAR, he get's hit again! My great uncle carried a BAR through the Pacific. He said he loved having it, but hated cleaning it every damn day. When his buddies got to rack out, he and the other BAR guy in his squad would have to strip their rifles or they'd certainly have problems when they needed them.
BAR men were special targets
Johnsoningary-- your uncle was a true hero.
Throughout the entire episode, not a word is spoken about Masters being Black.
Refreshing.
No, there wasn't but, Sarge should have been verbally tougher on him!
Why because he was black . You never been shot at . Color doesn't matter when someones trying to kill you . Only skills at getting the job done and staying alive . Lollipop. ??....????
The guy with the smoke bombs saved the day, and the tank obliterated the guns. I love combat the values are timeless
the guy is terry carter still living...
grew up with combat i was 8yrs old on every tuesday night 730 p,m, channal 7 abc. now im 64 yrs. old still watch them all always. was the greatest ww2 series
it was like watching a movie more than a t.v. series. vic marrow was my hero.
Welcome to the club - 64 to - I enjoyed watching Combat also. The only show where the actors prepared themselves by going through Boot Camp I believe. Sad what happened to Vic Morrow in the Twilight Zone movie.
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I watched it also. But I wanted to be a submariner because of the movie Run Silent Run Deep with Clark Gable and Burt Reynolds. But I got scared when the Thresher went down. Then I got over it and still wanted to join that branch. But when the Scorpion was lost I gave up on the idea and decided I wanted to be a marine in Vietnam. But the draft board messed with me for 4 months and I decided not to join anything. Made my mom happy …
Racing around California pretending to kill Heer troopers😂
The opening footage is the same as the main battle scene of "The Bridgehead" episode including the soldier throwing multiple grenades tied together to make a larger explosive charge, through the hole in the wall.
I love it when they use clips of other episodes!!!!
Kirby seems to be the only one openly carrying ammo in his belt.
It's his B.A.R. weapon, (gas operated .30 cal Browning Automatic Rifle.)
At over $300 a piece, the Army could only afford to equip a squad with one such light to moderate machine gun at MOST, (which is also why only about 350,000 were ever manufactured for the War by 1945,) while everybody else used a Thompson, (like Sgt Saunders,) or the much more abundant, (and reliable, in the field,) U.S. Military standard issue M1 Garand (M1903 Springfield,) in their respective theaters of operations.
Just like a longer range high powered rifle, like a 30 or 50 cal, the Browning takes top-fed chains of .30-06 ammunition, as opposed to cartridges or clips like everyone else.
Way to notice the difference though lol usually most people don't. 👍
@@twstf8905 note that this episode Kirby is using the BAR almost as intended.
The BAR is supposed to lay down heavy automatic fire on the enemy to keep them occupied while the fusiliers maneuver to flank the position.
Actually, 85% of the truck drivers in World War II were Black. My uncle was one of those drivers.
Gerald Johnson Yea They Were Truckers, Kitchen Help, Errand Boys, Etc. But! They Were Also Fighter Pilots! & Very Good! Look It Up!
Josh Lonewolf - Right. The Tuskegee Airmen. A couple of good videos with their story on TH-cam.
That part is cool!!!
True three-quarters of the Red Ball Express were African-Americans.
Thank him for his service
I've met Terry Carter at a Battlestar Galactica convention (he was the original Colonel Tigh in the 1970s version) . He was an extremely pleasent man to talk to.
ahh thats where I knew him from - TY
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Everyone's a critic now days. Combat is still the best tv show ever made.
This driver was probably part of the Red Ball Express.
matrox Terry Carter was Colonel Tigh in "Battlestar Galactica".
He was a pretty good actor. Delivered his lines well, with appropriate emotion, not over doing it and very good facial expressions - something few actors are really good at.
Hard to believe that in the 5 years this series was on the air not one of the privates in the squad ever got promoted. You'd think that at least one of them would have made corporal in all that time. And Saunders should have made staff sergeant by the time the show went off the air.
Yeah. Why no corporal?
@@johnevans347 The producers would have to have given him a raise !!
If they were promoted, they would likely have been reassigned to other duty.
Similar to Ensign Kim on Star Trek Voyager. He saved the day many times but, he was the only one to never be promoted.
Patton put Kirby in the stockade for his constant bitching and insubordination against Saunders and Hanley. He’s scheduled to be released in 2025. Just sayin …
Watched this with my Dad in the 60s and in the army for yrs and still watching this 😮😅❤😊
The " Red Ball Express " got some play pretty cool .
It's 0300 hours and I should be catching some z's, but I have Ammo to deliver and wounded to get to the First Aid Station first.
Edward Lasko, the kiss of death to a script. Way too drawn out and with a heavy machine at that range you could get away with playing around like that.
Plus what happen to the tank's machine gun(s)? Grrrrrr.
Lasko really gets annoying.
Caje is a soldier that the Germans better not f--k with if they know what's good for them.
No matter the inconsistencies of armament & strategies... what was driven home in each sequence of episodes, were the lessons of morality. Yet to see one without it! 61617
-Former Recondo Sgt. "Rock" 82nd Abn. 1/504 Inf. '71-'74 "AMERICA'S GUARD OF HONOR"
The Germans had some good weapons. One of them was the MG.42 aircooled machine gun made by the germans. You don't see any of them in this episode,or others in.alot of their episodes.
Right. The MG.42 was one of the most feared german weapons of WW2. The machine gun the germans are using looks an american one.
A group of Germans soldiers, well positioned with machine guns, waiting to ambush the unaware Saunders and his crews on that truck. A few minutes later, all the germans were dead.
I'm sure the wounded and Doc really were happy when that 76mm main gun went off just above and behind the canvas of the Deuce. When I was a kid in the 60's I used to watch this show, Battleground, Mchale's Navy, 12 O'clock High, War at Sea and any of the others I could find on our 4 station TV. Now, after doing my time and knowing first hand about the weapons, tactics, communications etc, it is different and still entertaining in a technical kind of way.
I noticed that too, permanent hearing.......................
If he was a full fleged Dr, and the military found out he would automatically be a gentleman by act of Congress. Not a demolition man. Just another tv fiction.
@@falconmoose1589 ooooooooo
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Actor Terry Carter (born John Everett DeCoste) is alive at 94 yrs young.
yes he is....beautfiul
He passed away this year on April 23 age 95😢
I had many capable African American buddies, and we watched each other's backs. There is no color in combat.
Roger that! 🫡🇺🇸
Recently saw a demonstration of a grenade launcher from a M1 Garand. Makes you wonder why they didn't have it at their disposal? Particularly with a truck full of ammo.
I'm here in 2020.
Been watching through several seasons, nice to see afro-American ......🙈🙈🙉🙉🙊🙊
indeed and a good story told w/o telling a great story
Were the Germans trained to shoot by F Troop?
+dgrichmondbc LOL
+dgrichmondbc I don't know but it must have been the same people who taught Saunders how to throw grenades.
Just Hollywood. They can only hit small pigeons in flight at 500 yards as in that one episode with the carrier pigeons.
I would enjoy seeing the number of wounds the squad had over the run of Combat. Kirby alne must have had a trunk load of purple hearts.
I am wildly bored and am addicted to this show. So, about what I could tell
Saunders was shot 18 times
Hanley: 8
Kirby: 13
Caje: 10
Littlejon: 13
Doc: 4
Keep in mind, these are just the times they’ve been shot. Not counting the beatings, burns, sprains, concussions and all the other good stuff
@@alexisjordan9055 Impressive totals! They must have been arthritic old men when they got home! Good job!
Adds a new meaning to “ Get the Lead Out “ !!!
The Germans displayed an amazing skill at shooting low, unless winging one of the squad. Saunders ' bunch needed the Queen Marry to haul their Purple Hearts back to the states!
On all these episodes why do the majority of the guest stars blame all the hardships they are having on Sargent Saunders?
Because the Sarge is usually correct, and then they wind up tripping over their own inflated egos. Ego - a true "albatross".
Good thing for Saunders the krauts didn’t have a single grenade between the four of them!
Wonder why ???
One group that nobody hardly ever gives a standing ovation to is the medics. They went into battle and didn't get to carry a firearm, amazing how brave these individuals were. I would not have been that brave for no amount of money. Hats off to all the paramedics out there. From back then til now I don't think it has changed any has it?
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F Y I According to DOD & Geneva Conventions,Medics are allowed to carry sidearms for personal defense,in today's Military.
I think many carried.45s in the Pacific because the Japanese were intent on killing them first and wouldn’t show any mercy for them or the wounded. There’s a painting of a corpsman who’s shooting his.45 while holding up a plasma bottle in a jungle. The painting is in a hardware store in Washington state near Lake Sylvia. Just sayin …
I watched an interview of a medic from the Vietnam War. He carried a shotgun and sidearm. North Vietnam never signed the Geneva convention.
Medics were a target so all gloves were off in the field.
I wasn't there but this didn't seem like a false interview.
Terry Carter is 95 years old now
He passed away last month.
Bueno serie
It's really hard for me to believe that the Germans were that inaccurate with their weapons , And I can't believe that these grunts can't shoot straight either !
They were trained by galactic storm troopers.
Ric Jason is the Lt. but the Sarge Vic Morrow was my hero when I was a child.Love Combat.
Kirby gets another purple heart. Nothing new here
Seems like everybody in the squad earned at least 25 purple hearts.
I've seen that German machine gunner on many Combat episodes. He always misses.
Timothy Jordan This is the blind platoon. Germans shoot at the sounds of the enemy.
Senior man in the Hollywood Machine Gunners Union. He got the lion’s share of the gigs.
He's the granddaddy of the Star Wars Imperial Storm Troopers.
Maybe an armour piercing round into the boulders that the krauts were using would have caused enough injuries or death for the Sarge to escape. But it was jolly decent of the Germans to stay in place to be blown to pieces eventually.
I wonder if post-war Germany (1950-60) had the Hollywood hoopla, to create war stories like "Combat", showing the Germans killing Allied soldiers?
I don't know why Saunders puts up with so much back-talk, but, I would just tell that driver to shut-up unless he has something constructive to say. And if a jaw soaking was needed, it would be done. Enough of that yappin!
tell that to kirby as well..mr back talk himself lol how we forget!!
We also had the best truck drivers in the world, and a logistics system that was second to none. The Red Ball Express was a big reason why our rapid drive over France was even possible.
My understanding is that Patton requested them to resupply his tanks and soldiers. He didn’t care about their color or the color of the 332nd Nisai regiment. If anyone was willing to serve and do his job then he would have you. In that respect he wasn’t prejudiced against anyone. Maybe it was his California upbringing or something else. He came from a rich family and probably had servants all his life. He had his own personal horse farm back home when he was at West Point. Who knows what he would have done back home after the war if he had survived. Just contemplating …
@@manuelbermudez211 Patton believed in reincarnation. It meant he didn't fear death, and that he believed he had been many men in the past. He thought he had been Hannibal in an earlier life, and so had experience commanding African troops.
Thank you, 2nd Armoured!
Another great episode ! 👍
Black , white, green, or yellow, we all bleed red. One of the first items taught and learned in basic. War, bullets, bombs, are color blind...they do not care who they kill.
Saunders character is a well rounded, and well versed common foot soldier.
SmoothRide - Wrong! Vic Morrow was too young for WWII. He enlisted in the Navy at 17 y.o. in 1946.
Antony Andre' / renaissance artist and artisan Don't think he was being racist.
@@joemcmurry7768 NOT Antony, It was that Charles, dude, who seemed a bigot.
My blood is blue!
REMF trucker was annoying but made a lucky move and drove away with a wounded arm and a smile.
hey did you guys know that by union rules each uniform had to washed and pressed every night after shooting for the next day? yea its true when the guys put their uniforms on for that morning shoot they would role around in the dirt to make them look like theyve been in war all day
LOL Thanks for that piece of trivia!
Combat did great at telling a story of real life
Great story
Cage and Little John had clear shots with excellent cover.
James Smith I could have hit a can lid at that distance.
@@mystuff1405 Ya funny the Krauts did not loose a single guy with all those sharpshooter G.I's !! And neither side ran out of ammo !!
TerrryCarter second in commmand on Batttlestar Galactica
Or token in space.
Does Little JOhn ever fire his rifle? Every episode I see he carries, but never shoots
William Battis yes he does
Magic Man. My basic and AIT buddy. Then my roommate at Fort Lewis, 9th Infantry Division Artillery.
We had a guy in my unit in '71 that never fired his rifle, he said it was because he didn't want to clean it.
They had a couple of Gewer 43s and they turn up in just about every episode. I don't think I have ever seen an Stg43/44 though.
Some made a comment in the section never an episode made with a black man in it ha. Same tank same driver in hills are for heroes, he was killed in that episode.
Whites & blacks were not integrated until the Korean war
@@aryanscience never said anything like that only said there was a great black actor in the series.
When your Sergeant gives you an order, you don't turn around and say, "What are YOU going to do?" Oh, noooo. :)
Airborne to that! 61617
SmoothRide
What I couldn't figure is why he wasn't on that tire instantly! If he was so gung ho to keep moving he should have enabled the vehicle to do so.
Lol. Its a tv show, make believe.
So how long where you in for...
PatriotNC1, You are exactly right. Sgt. Saunders should've put that smart-a** black Soldier in his place. Regardless of race, no soldier should be insolent to an NCO like he was.
Love this series, always did. But at 39:55 "Ver ist er?" (Who is he?) should be "Wo ist er?" (Where is he?). I think the actor kind of forgot his line so mixed in a little English with a German accent (Ver for where). Ver means who. Have noticed a few other Americanisms from the Germans in the series but it is all minor. Much better than if they had just made the Germans totally speak English with a German accent. Oddly enough this series is one of the reasons I learned to speak German. When I was a kid I hated not knowing what they were saying so I started studying it. Thanks for posting. Loved it when I was a kid and still do.
French too!!...leave it to beaver would allow no foreign language words!
German is good ...usa fuck halusination in fietnam
I learned a bit of german myself just watching this series! Ironically I found out years later, half of my mothers' side of the family came from Germany in the mid 1800's...
Regular members do not get shot. They do not run out of ammo. These facts make this great story go on.
Wrong - more than one episode where they run out of ammo and are captured or have to take refuge in a cave.
The Germans had plenty of ammo but couldn't hit worth of shit good for us but glad we had that one last smoke bomb left I love this show 60's TV great shows 👍
Not sure why the tanker didn't use his heavy machine gun. Lucky for Saunders the Germans didn't have a grenade in return. Terry Carter - an excellent actor and I remember him from McCloud and in the late '60s as an anchor for WBZ
I would have thought the Germans would have pulled back at the sight of the tank.
I thought the same thing. Knowing a tank will blow you to smithereens is enough to make you want to get out of Dodge in a hurry.
Should have called oddball
Enough with the negative waves.
This show cages the idea of how there's attrition, and it is not life. Life is not a priority in accute attrition.
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First with a black soldier but another that emphasizes that 'just drivers' can also be fighting men.
@gspowers: Go for Broke (1951) WWII movie - The Nisei - Army Guidebook to Italy: "Racial prejudice is abhorrent to our American concept of democracy."
When I was a teenager, we were playing ball at the VFW field. Dad and a couple of other Fathers were having a heated discussion because a couple of the idiots (that's what Dad called them) didn't want a Nisei (who was in WW2 and Korea) in the VFW. Dad said the Post Commander told the idiots that they could move their membership to another VFW Post.
The black guy (Terry Carter) played Sgt. Braudhurst from Mcloud.
He also played colonel Ty in the original battle star galactica
Nah that was Richard Roundtree.
For three years, in the mid sixties, Terry Carter was the weekend news anchor at WBZ TV in Boston. I always thought that was his start, but his acting record goes all the way back to the fifties, when he was on the Phil Silvers Show. Idon't remember him in that show, but I do remember his stint at 'BZ.
Thank god for tree trunks and bushes and don't forget those Cement drainage ditches. Just saying.
Guess with a truck full of ammo there were no rifle grenades in the truck which i believed had a range of over 150 yards. Not part of the script I guess, make it too easy
They had plenty rifle grenades but not a single cartridge to fire them. That's just like those lazy rear area supply people.
how come he didn't change the tire ASAP?
Wondering that myself. Retired Army 1SG here.
But the tire was changed. Don't you remember. The bad tire is shown numerous times lying against the rock
Is that a Sergent Schultz in that machine gun nest?
Does resemble him
Probably his brother.
Maybe
same rock pile that Kent went behind to come out as Superman
Saunders never misses a shot, he never runs out of ammo either
And gets shot a million times and always lives
i sure wish Kirby would use the bipod sometimes.
He hardly ever aims - just sprays. And appears to be left-handed, or ambidextrous.
I carried an M60. Don't think I ever used the bipod. When we set up used the T&E tripod. Loved the swivel handle on top to carry it. Especially in a hurry.
Anyone ever notice sarge using his middle finger to fire his tommy gun?Look at 0:40 frame.
Good eye.
Michael Romine middle finger is the strongest finger to use with that kind of weapon provides balance
His trigger finger was too short to fire it. He had some sort of problem with it. In real life, Vic did not like guns at all.
As has been pointed out in previous episodes, Morrow had a congenitally shortened right index finger. They did an amazing job hiding the fact, but that's something you can't keep in the dark forever. You can get a fair view of it when he's rolling Kirby over after Kirby gets hit.
The director:. No, no flank attacks this episode..
A lot of talk in this comments section is about race. Wasn't it the case that for most of WW2 segregation was actively applied in the US Army? I thought that one of the first cases of black troops being used in combat was during the "Battle of the Bulge" in 1944 as reserves? I believe it caused a lot of controversy at the time.
If the above is true (and I would be happy to stand corrected) then this episode is close to an accurate representation of the times it was set in.
Personally, I am glad times have changed.
They were the 761st tank battalion, one of Patton's best kept secrets
The 92nd Buffalo soldiers were reactivated in 1942 after deactivating after WW1, entered in Europe from 1944 to wars end.
David Wild Do we forget about the 54th Mass. and others in the civil war?
fldinosaur My opening comment was intended to refer specifically to WW2. I am aware that both the union and confederate armies used black troops (and that they generally served with distinction).
I apologise if I didn't make that clear.
he was a truck driver- many were black. But as a PRIVATE no way should he been getting away with the crap he was giving Saunders
It made me cheerful to see that enemies collapse by one shot of tank artillery.
Never saw Sgt. Saunders take so much 'back talk' from a buck private before. Wonder why ?
You know why.
I know the answer for 200 Pat.
how much back talk did kirby give to saunders and hanley...really!!! lol
Was it Cage who out dueled a machine gunner in the opening scene ? Damn I’m gonna rewind it right now. Just sayin …
Yeah I think it was him …
That water cooled machinegun on a tripod should have shot that truck to pieces. Radiator, driver, Saunders, and a bunch in the back. 7.92x57 ain't no .22. It would have gone through all but the engine block and axles. Say... when is Kirby ever gonna open that bipod on the BAR and, you know, actually hit something.
All the tank guy has to do is hook a towing chain and drag the truck back. Then trundle forward and use that 90.. speaking of that, sure didn't know Patton tanks were used before Patton even died. Surely they had Sherman tanks... I mean even Clint Eastwood had 'em in Kelly's Heroes.
Deaf Smith There's a lot of inconsistencies, like weapons and vehicles. American corporations like Rockefeller's, Ford, and others made millions from Hitler. Ford built their vehicles and sued the US gov after the war for his plants blown up there and won. Those fluted water cooled machine guns were relics of WW1 and were used by the axis and allies because all the countries using them bought patent rights. Can't remember who the patent owner was.
Opel built the German trucks of WW2. Porshe, Mercedes and Henschel built Germany's tanks. Ford only sold tractors to Germany in the 1930's before the war, as did many American companies. Just as they do today since they built modern China into another enemy for us.
Guudh
@chris richard wrong Chris the Nazi commandeered foreign companies did not pay any royalties to anyone, you could call it a hostile takeover
I have never seen Kirby actually aim his BAR.
Saundes has and doesn't have a pack twice in the first 1:13 of the show.
What one good squad marksman could do with a scoped rifle...
These guys would have had a ball playing the shootout stuff.
Officially US MILITARY SEGREGATED
Combat - the best war series ever !!!! Chester - subscribed fan
The Germans did not use the slow vickers machine gun they used the high rate MG42 and the MG38 only the English used the obsolete vickers as they had nothing else.
Poor Sgt. Saunders - always the punching bag, no matter what he does...