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 …
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
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.
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.
This is a great episode! I never knew that Terry Carter starred in this! I only remember him from the original Battlestar Galactica TV series as Colonel Tigh. Awesome once again!
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 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 …
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. ??....????
In most cases, in the ETO, blacks were only used in the Red Ball Express (trucks running supplies from Normandy to forward areas) or cooks and other behind the lines support personnel. I find it hard to believe a black might have been in front line duty as a driver, and also carrying a M-1Garand as he is, or speaking up with a white flag to counter Saunders obvious orders from a white sergeant. (They were called Negro by all or N+++ers then. The term "black, if used at all, was a derogative, like nig++er.) And he most certainly would not have known how to use the SCR-300 radio!
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
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.
My Uncle Sid enlisted in the Navy when he was 16 and, because he enlisted, they gave him a choice of what he wanted to do.......he picked a sub in the Pacific and turned out to be a lifer. No one in the family could ever get him to give an honest story of why he picked a sub (for all God-forsaken reasons). But he brought a whole bunch of really cool souvenirs!
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 …
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!
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Man the sergeant is doing the best he can. That guy cant blame him if they die. It’s not Saunders fault. Why are all these combat shows cut up into quarter episodes? That stinks! It makes the shows stink! You tube fix the shows so their solid shows please.
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.
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 …
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.
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"
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.
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.
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!
ccsra5 - sure you do, OUR Sarge shows a little irritation on the outside just to show he’s human but on the inside he’s all calm, cool and collective, and just full of self-control and confidence. He’s infallible, he always comes through and saves the day. Which he can come save me anytime.
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.
Quit harrassing the Sarge. He’s thinking! When Saunders is quiet like that and doesnt pay attention to the hecklers the wheels of his brain are rolling! That mind loves a good challenge.
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.
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.
Saw this one when I was a kid. FYI: there's one episode where one of the German soldiers is Black, he's only in one scene. Best I can figure is they needed an extra for the scene he was the only person available.
Just watched "Combat!: "Memories" Documentary - 1960s TV Show", the other day. They said on there that the extras would play the Germans in the morning and be the Americans attacking them in the afternoon, so it's possible the same guy might be seen shooting himself.
That's because realistically , blacks were used mostly as truck drivers , and graves registration. Roles that didn't require any bravery. They can be seen unloading supplies at Omaha beach , but you can be sure , not before they had dug their bugout holes which fighting men didn't have. Tuskegee airmen and such units had grandiose movies made , but they only did what was expected of them at the time. That was movie worthy? Doing what is expected ? And noteworthy , he wanted to surrender.I don't see him volunteering to take out the machine guns.
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.
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...
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 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
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 !
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.
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.
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.
It want till the 2000's that Marines learned that kotex tampons stuffed in to a wound would swell up and stop bleeding. Another item was added to the kits and guys had their girlfriends send more. A friend in Tx had 2 son's in Iraq, sent em regularly.
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 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 👍
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.
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.
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😂
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
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
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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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.
This is a great episode! I never knew that Terry Carter starred in this! I only remember him from the original Battlestar Galactica TV series as Colonel Tigh. Awesome once again!
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 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 …
Ric Jason is the Lt. but the Sarge Vic Morrow was my hero when I was a child.Love Combat.
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. ??....????
In most cases, in the ETO, blacks were only used in the Red Ball Express (trucks running supplies from Normandy to forward areas) or cooks and other behind the lines support personnel. I find it hard to believe a black might have been in front line duty as a driver, and also carrying a M-1Garand as he is, or speaking up with a white flag to counter Saunders obvious orders from a white sergeant. (They were called Negro by all or N+++ers then. The term "black, if used at all, was a derogative, like nig++er.) And he most certainly would not have known how to use the SCR-300 radio!
I love combat ever since l was kid back in 60.
Everyone's a critic now days. Combat is still the best tv show ever made.
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
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
My Uncle Sid enlisted in the Navy when he was 16 and, because he enlisted, they gave him a choice of what he wanted to do.......he picked a sub in the Pacific and turned out to be a lifer. No one in the family could ever get him to give an honest story of why he picked a sub (for all God-forsaken reasons). But he brought a whole bunch of really cool souvenirs!
I had many capable African American buddies, and we watched each other's backs. There is no color in combat.
Roger that! 🫡🇺🇸
Combat - the best war series ever !!!! Chester - subscribed fan
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 …
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.
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.
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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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.
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😢
Sgt Saunders was the best. I’d watch it as a kid.
The " Red Ball Express " got some play pretty cool .
I am proud to see a black guy truck driver on combat,
I want to see the black GI 🪖😠🤼⚔️🤺🏃🏿🎖️🤸🏿in better combat servile actions,_& teaching he man 🤨 toxic masculinity practical skills 😮
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.
Combat's The Long Wait. What else but simply magnificent!
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.
That tank was clean and shiny enough to have just rolled out of a museum. Oh, wait...
God bless America and every soldier 🪖🇺🇸 in the armed forces. 👍
Man the sergeant is doing the best he can. That guy cant blame him if they die. It’s not Saunders fault. Why are all these combat shows cut up into quarter episodes? That stinks! It makes the shows stink! You tube fix the shows so their solid shows please.
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. 😃
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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...
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 …
Another great episode ! 👍
I watched this regularly as a kid in Australia. So did my dad
Finally a black actor. Like WWII was won only by Caucasian’s. Good job, Mr. Carter and Vic always.
Great show
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.
I complain about the technical stuff on Combat! but I really like what we see on Combat! on YT!
Combat did great at telling a story of real life
Great story
Watched this with my Dad in the 60s and in the army for yrs and still watching this 😮😅❤😊
Terry Carter is 95 years old now
He passed away last month.
Bueno serie
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 !!
Saunders never misses a shot, he never runs out of ammo either
And gets shot a million times and always lives
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"
Johnsoningary-- your uncle was a true hero.
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.
not like Saunders to take lip from a truck driver. you knew he was going to save the day in the end.
I love it when they use clips of other episodes!!!!
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
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.
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!
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😂😂，桑德斯的小隊，總是能有效，突出重圍😅😅😅😅😅🎉🎉🎉❤❤，好看又叫座😅😅❤❤❤
For those of you Terry carter who just passed not only started in combat but also played in the tv show mccloud rip Terry carter
RIP ❤ 🙏 He was great in Battlestar Galactica too.
The SCR 300 walkie-talkie was an FM radio. It would not have produced static as shown at 19:00
ccsra5 - sure you do, OUR Sarge shows a little irritation on the outside just to show he’s human but on the inside he’s all calm, cool and collective, and just full of self-control and confidence. He’s infallible, he always comes through and saves the day.
Which he can come save me anytime.
Elsbeth Humphrey Glad to know there are women that appreciate “real” men today.
And comfort me as well 😁😁😁
@@mystuff1405 Heck yea
Es una buena serie de años. Atrás pero sería bueno que lo pasarán en español gracias😮
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.
Wow, Sgt. & Squad gonna need all that ammo they got in that truck in this firefight.
Quit harrassing the Sarge. He’s thinking! When Saunders is quiet like that and doesnt pay attention to the hecklers the wheels of his brain are rolling! That mind loves a good challenge.
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.
Good thing for Saunders the krauts didn’t have a single grenade between the four of them!
Wonder why ???
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.
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.
Wow! First combat show with a black GI. Never saw one before when I was a kid watching the show.
Saw this one when I was a kid. FYI: there's one episode where one of the German soldiers is Black, he's only in one scene. Best I can figure is they needed an extra for the scene he was the only person available.
He never said anything about surrendering. Maybe he was trying to see if the Germans would let the wounded pass.
Just watched "Combat!: "Memories" Documentary - 1960s TV Show", the other day. They said on there that the extras would play the Germans in the morning and be the Americans attacking them in the afternoon, so it's possible the same guy might be seen shooting himself.
@SmoothRide 😂😂😂
That's because realistically , blacks were used mostly as truck drivers , and graves registration. Roles that didn't require any bravery. They can be seen unloading supplies at Omaha beach , but you can be sure , not before they had dug their bugout holes which fighting men didn't have. Tuskegee airmen and such units had grandiose movies made , but they only did what was expected of them at the time. That was movie worthy? Doing what is expected ? And noteworthy , he wanted to surrender.I don't see him volunteering to take out the machine guns.
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?
And another excellent combat cobra what a good show baron any show they got now all the shows they got now stink😊
Thank you, 2nd Armoured!
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...
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.
Been watching through several seasons, nice to see afro-American ......🙈🙈🙉🙉🙊🙊
indeed and a good story told w/o telling a great story
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 “ !!!
I'm here in 2020.
Vic Morrow dropped out of high school at age 17 and joined the Navy!
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.
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.
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 …
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.
Caje is a soldier that the Germans better not f--k with if they know what's good for them.
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.
Dang first man of color I've seen in an episode so far.
yeah...makes you wonder.they were there for sure...this is a good episode -should have been more color in spots
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.
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
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.
Kirby gets another purple heart. Nothing new here
Seems like everybody in the squad earned at least 25 purple hearts.
@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.
So truck of dying sat idle all. that time and what happened at end.??Truck delivered ammo or went to aid station??
What one good squad marksman could do with a scoped rifle...
Thank god for tree trunks and bushes and don't forget those Cement drainage ditches. Just saying.
It want till the 2000's that Marines learned that kotex tampons stuffed in to a wound would swell up and stop bleeding. Another item was added to the kits and guys had their girlfriends send more. A friend in Tx had 2 son's in Iraq, sent em regularly.
Yep
Red ball express
Someone was somewhere dreaming up a new aircraft.
The helicopter arrived in a later war but, it’s obvious to see why it arrived.
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.
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..
That's an M47 Patton tank from the 50-60s, They should have had a M4 Pershing Tank
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 👍
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.
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.
it's also cool that both cage & kirby are left handed shooters...
TerrryCarter second in commmand on Batttlestar Galactica
Or token in space.