True Story: My farm ground was next door to Russ Dunham. Medal of Honor, DSC, 3 Silver Stars and the Big Croix de Guerre. He saved a private at Anzio who went on to be Marshall Matt Dillon of Gunsmoke. Early 60s and James Arness tells the producer of Combat, "you need this guy, he was THE combat infantry Sergeant over there; a real hero the men wanted to follow." Russ is hired to work with Vic Morrow as to how an infantry sergeant acts and handles himself. Mrs Dunham said "Brad I popped popcorn and made cokes to watch the 1st episode and during the show our little girl said daddy he walks just like you and sounds like you too." Vic Morrow copied Russ to a Tee.
Combat, Sea Hunt, Whirlybirds, Rat Patrol, Flipper, and Star Trek were the staples of my childhood growing up in the ‘60s. TV has been going downhill from there.
Not many remember Whirlybirds, Everglades and Sky King. I always swore that I would get myself an airboat when I grew up but there isn't much use for one in Ohio.
Thank you for posting the best show ever, Combat, power packed with life lessons and illustrated sermons, accompanied by great patriotic music to spur us onward and to not give up.
Perfect for Memorial Day . Excellent WW2 post Normandy series. Always good acting. Good mix of drama and action. Characters you can know and care about. Its just great 1960s TV.
My favorite war movie combat. Vic morrow. In 1962 I was 14 years old in the phil. I'm 73 now and still watching the series. Best war movie. Rip vic morrow.
I never missed a episode as a kid. when we were out playing in summer time we use to tell each other it's almost 8 pm time for Combat , and we all ran home to watch it. ! Was fun being 8-13 back then!
Me too, I was about the same age. My dad was in the army, a retired Lt. Col. When we were kids playing Combat in the woods......guess who got to play Sgt Saunders? Back then, Mattell was making a look alike Tommy gun that fired plastic bullets, including a life size .45 pistol, which I had both. Wish I had those now, they'd be worth some cash! Take care
@@stevenstoll2016 You can buy them used, but no one has the plastic bullets that went with them. I'd buy it if they did. I got into a lot of trouble with those guns. I shot some young 2nd Lieutenant in the face accidentally when I was a kid and he wanted to beat my ass.
One of my favorite episodes. Ben Cooper who had so many roles in Television episodes, especially westerns, is great here. One of two times he acted in Combat.
I thought it was extremely hilarious that Little John was so obsessed with his new bicycle. It was even more funny watching him ride! It was my favorite part of the episode because it helped break up the tension and seriousness of the war.
@@williamhiles7404 Gunsmokes O.K. it was my dads favorite T.V. show years ago. Westerns I liked was Wild wild west and Wagen train, 2 totally diferent animals, but both a Western series. Ward Bond was perfect as wagen master in Wagen train.
Washed this growing up I was 12 great tv back then not like today I found this show about week ago for the first time great so excited to found it love Vic morrow he was great actor RIP
I used to watch this when I was a kid back in the 60’s and it was one of my favorite shows. Glad I found it on TH-cam again. 👍 I even had the board game to play soldier with my friends.
I'm pretty sure there was a COMBAT! lunch box. That would've been sweet. Can you imagine a fifth grader bringing one of those to school today? Sad. Alex in Montana
@@alexdawson7266 Mattel made a great Thompson machine gun that 'shot' caps. While it wasn't marketed with the show show at all, you couldn't play Sgt. Saunders without it. lol
@@dmutant2635 Hey, I'm going to track that gun down just for fun. I remember I had the Winchester repeating rifle that always pinched the flesh on the palm of your hand. A buddy of mine had the grenade launcher. "You can tell it's Mattel - It's swell!"
Mine as well! Still one of my favorites. With 11 family members that served in WWII and all returned, it ignited a deep curiosity in WWII. This was further fuel by meeting and visiting with a number of individuals that survived German concentration camps! The last one was Elizabeth Hozak. She is the only member of her family to survive the CONCENTRATION camps. I ask her to talk with my son about her experiences which included her showing him her CONCENTRATION camp prisoner tattoo number. She was 15 when taken prisoner. Sent to Dr Joseph mengele's camp where she was subjected to his heinous experiments. Legs broken same location to see how it heals. Raped 16 times. Last time she killed her attacker. As she was trying to escape she ran into Allied tropps liberating the camp. Which lead to her living here!
Rich Dudley Thank you for your service, Rich. Sgt Saunders already always had that pained, tired-of-this-stuff look on his face. And that was while carrying a prop tommy gun. ACTING!
I'd take Kirby in a heartbeat on patrol with his kick tail big punch power BAR (not in this episide) Jack Hogan (Kirby) lugged around a REAL B.A.R. on the later episodes for realism at TWENTY odd lbs, of course with the trigger group deactivated for television. Rest of cast used plastic/wood mock ups. Hats off to Jack Hogan!
I was 12 years old when this TV show come on TV. We baby boomers had some excellent TV with some strong moral role models. Vic Morrow of Combat was one of my favorites. We just had great television!
@Bubba B I rode a train from Paris to the beaches of Normandy. A lot of countryside and it reminded me very much of So. California. Much of filming was done on sound stages but the producers had scenery filmed in France to use for backdrops, etc. My uncle was on Destroyer in WWII, came back and worked for studio's until he retired.
Isn't the bazooka a 2-man weapon? In a number of Combat episodes, a new guy amazes the squad with his courage and "one-man-army" abilities. However, regular Combat viewers will appreciate that Saunders, Cage, Little John & Kirby do just as much in virtually every episode....without getting any Awards for Valor, or even promotion.
Kirby wouldn't mind a promotion...Also, I can't remember if Saunders ever had a corporal...other tan this episode! Great series!!Loved it as a kid, love it now, I'm 68.
This program was my favorite when I was a kid, we played Combat at recess and in the neighborhood. My dad had a recorder and we had recorded gun shots to play on the reel to reel when it was to cold outside to play.
"Admirable,among the casts of characters,namely acting Soldier men,are the incredible energy they have had in running alot, climbing hills,mountains,entering a broken down illapidated building,while walking on hazardous debree;even being struck across the head by falling debree; also on numerous occasions. . ."6--6--2022'
Vic has that same swagger here that he had in Blackboard Jungle. I like the cast chemistry. It's one reason the show went 5 seasons. Cpl. Cross squeezed off something like 14 rounds non-stop out of his Garand. As the series matured you don't see too many more errors like that.
My Dad was in the Marines,his buddy was carrying that type of heavy machine gun , they were on a long march ,so my Dad says after a long hump if his buddy wanted him to carry the machine gun for a little bit , so my Dad says he only carried it for about 5 minutes, and a big brass stops him and asks him if he’s been carrying it all this time or something like that ? He said yea he got a dayS liberty ! Lol he only had it 5 mins ! His buddy was pissed ! Lol 😂
@@pizzafrenzyman He could kept his job on combat and done movies!! Back than a Disney movie was giant step for a actor, more rolls and more money. Hated see him go, and the original Doc on the show.
Funny that Saunders asked Cross if he was with the 423rd. The real 423rd Infantry was part of the very green 106th ID in Middleton's VIII Corps in front of St. Vith in Belgium when the Germans went on the offensive on December 16th, 1944. They had been in the line only 4 days. Sadly, they were cut off and surrounded by nightfall on the 17th. They tried to breakout westwards towards St. Vith, but were cut to pieces and forced to surrender along with the 422nd Infantry about 4pm on the 19th. About 7500 GIs were bagged.
It's a good thing that the US Airforce, Artillery and Tank units were having a few days vacation or we wouldn't have had this episode with Saunders and the boys doing their thing
It's U.S. Air Force ( two words ) and it did not exist until 1947..after World War II. It was the Army Air Corps. The Navy had their flyers as did the Marine Corps.
Dunno why Littlejohn doesn't just walk his bike assembled. Bicycle troops did it all the time. It would have made carrying that HMG and ammo a lot easier too.
At Indiana University chemistry Dept 1973 you could take German if you wanted to poison someone, and they had you take French if you were planning on inventing Plavix, Chlorpromazine or an effective new antibiotic.
had a toy tompson pull the charge and pull trigger acc,acc,acc,acc and so on.lots of time playing soldier back then.parents now a days won't let a kid have a toy gun.
I had a toy tompson too, as a kid, with drum magazine. I think Matel made it. We use to play paratrooper by jumping off the garage roof, to roll and come up standing in a crouch ready to move. My Mom always freaked that we would hurt ourselves doing that.
@@bob_btw6751 Did your Thompson have a thick wire stock rather than plastic fake wood? Mine did. Back in the day everyone's choke at the end of the barrel broke off. I think it was because when you got "shot", you'd twirl around and throw your gun in the air with the barrel of the gun always hitting the ground first.
I noticed that the bike tire was American. I guess the prop staff didn't know that French/Euro valves are different. Great series. Those guys had to be filthy after those bombing shoots. All that dust, dirt, and gravel, even if it was Hollywood dirt......
Damn. That BAR looks heavy. Was a commercial carpenter and all bldg trades. Always known as hard worker, regular promotions and raises. but at 165-75#, even I would have trouble waking miles with that.
That wasn't a BAR (ie Browning Automatic Rifle M1918A2, 20 round box magazine in 1944, 16 pounds), it was a Browning M1919 air cooled machine gun, 250 round feed belt, 31 pounds. Interestingly, effective range and the rate of fire of the two are fairly similar. However the M1918A2's 300-650 rounds per minute doesn't mean much when the magazine holds only 20 cartridges. 5 to 10.8 rounds per second, empty in 4 seconds max at 300 RPM and under 2 seconds max at 650 RPM. I have to believe it was impossible to keep the gun on a target at those rates of fire. I suspect they were fired in short bursts of 2 or 3 rounds.
@@garypulliam3740 I carried our M-60 machine gun from 82-89 when I was an assistant gunner on a 105 howitzer. It weighed 25 lbs. I volunteered for the job. I liked it a lot more than the M-16A1 I had.
@@timhoovermusicman That was what everyone in our Batterty seemed to call me back then. Lol ! But if I was really tough, I would have carried the 105 howitzer around!
Not always...In the previous episode Lovelace for example...Greenhorn just joins and ends up the hero...Depends on whether their just a bit player; or if their the main focus in the story. If their bit player they usually bite the dust.
@Legion 57 Yo he wasn't trying too a jerk Dumbass he was just makeing a Fucking Point DUD Greenhorn's from bootcamp r the same Star Trek Red Guys Because Only Idiot's Want too get Killed or get Others too My Son was in the Military in Afghanistan Had too Deal with Thoes People Only Fools Want Too Get Kill and Have Others too Real Heroes Don't Want Too Be Killed or do it too others
At 1:11 the sarge says come in king tiger instead of king two.In real life with a tank just a few feet from running you over and at the same time spraying machine gun bullets at you, it would be easy to get mixed up.
Man, if I was in that foxhole like Saunders and a tank came bearing down on me like a T-rex from Jurassic Park I’d be leaping out of there with multiple swear words in my mouth. Saunders said not a word. I heard no 4-letter word throughout this entire series.
I've always loved the Combat series, but they sometimes show the Germans as being stupid.....and they were far from that. Like when the pair of Germans approach the farmhouse with supplies talking away, seemingly without a thought of checking out the premises first before unloading supplies, while being observed by the Americans.....Not. Still a fantastic series and have been watching it since it first came on TV in '63. They usually have great stories with some kind of life lesson involved. Thanks GR!!!
that is my one and only problem with this series - a lot of times the Germans ran right into the shower of bullets to be killed. Great series, but for this little flaw.
@@ourladyofguadalupebotanica6732 I know, I don't know how many times I would say " Why the hell would he just get up and attack right out in the open like that?!" But, you can't have a stalemate on an hourly TV series....someone had to go. You could usually tell what GI was going to get it, when they were a new face on patrol.
Voludo amo esa serie y pero en castellano?o si no me quedo con mis recuerdos cuando era chico y volvia de la escuela rapido y hacia mi tarea para ver combate y el grancha parral 😀
Impaired episode. 1-Any sergeant would NOT allow one of his men to carry around a bicycle wheel. 2-A medic would NOT waste surgical tape to fix a bicycle tire. 3-Corporal Cross lets the kraut go then shoots through the door,Saunders asks;"Did you get him",sees no body just bullet holes in the door and let's it go at that.
So I didn't catch it there at the end: Did they get pushed off the hill by the Germans?? I thought they got all the mortar guys and had those few remaining ones at the top taken care of with the BAR. If there were more Germans who pressed them off the hill, they certainly seemed to be rather casual in just standing at the bottom of an enemy-occupied hill... Pretty funny, though, that Little John would've grabbed that damn bicycle tire out of the rubble, bent in half, in the midst of a hasty retreat.
Love them guns that make their own bullets. Remember? Army. Cops and robbers. Cowboys and Indians. Always with guns that made their own bullets. Hollywood style. I'm from L.A. so I should know. I suppose.
Later when Billy and Little John are talking in front of the burning fireplace I realized Sgt Sanders wouldn,t have let anyone lite that fireplace with Nazi,s due to recon their position
True Story: My farm ground was next door to Russ Dunham. Medal of Honor, DSC, 3 Silver Stars and the Big Croix de Guerre. He saved a private at Anzio who went on to be Marshall Matt Dillon of Gunsmoke. Early 60s and James Arness tells the producer of Combat, "you need this guy, he was THE combat infantry Sergeant over there; a real hero the men wanted to follow." Russ is hired to work with Vic Morrow as to how an infantry sergeant acts and handles himself. Mrs Dunham said "Brad I popped popcorn and made cokes to watch the 1st episode and during the show our little girl said daddy he walks just like you and sounds like you too." Vic Morrow copied Russ to a Tee.
Thanks to Russ as I love Matt Dillon.
Combat, Sea Hunt, Whirlybirds, Rat Patrol, Flipper, and Star Trek were the staples of my childhood growing up in the ‘60s. TV has been going downhill from there.
Not many remember Whirlybirds, Everglades and Sky King. I always swore that I would get myself an airboat when I grew up but there isn't much use for one in Ohio.
Amen
Can’t forget Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, Paladin just to name a few
@@loganpollock1689 I loved Sky King ( with Penny & Song Bird). Whirlybirds and Everglades only came on sporadically. How about Rescue 8 though!
Don’t forget “Ripcord.
Thank you for posting the best show ever, Combat, power packed with life lessons and illustrated sermons, accompanied by great patriotic music to spur us onward and to not give up.
The best TV show of my young adolescent life,awesome acting. And yes the lessons of life lived through the eyes n ears of American combat veterans!!
On how many videos did you post this comment?
@@shelfcompact
Brilliant communication
Subsequently USA i AGREE
Perfect for Memorial Day . Excellent WW2 post Normandy series. Always good acting. Good mix of drama and action. Characters you can know and care about. Its just great 1960s TV.
My favorite war movie combat. Vic morrow. In 1962 I was 14 years old in the phil. I'm 73 now and still watching the series. Best war movie. Rip vic morrow.
Kirby is still alive!
i loved this show as a kid! we use to play combat during recess at school.
Us guys too.
I never missed a episode as a kid. when we were out playing in summer time we use to tell each other it's almost 8 pm time for Combat , and we all ran home to watch it. ! Was fun being 8-13 back then!
Me too, I was about the same age. My dad was in the army, a retired Lt. Col. When we were kids playing Combat in the woods......guess who got to play Sgt Saunders? Back then, Mattell was making a look alike Tommy gun that fired plastic bullets, including a life size .45 pistol, which I had both. Wish I had those now, they'd be worth some cash! Take care
@@mach1gtx150 I had that 45 pistol, got it for Christmas sometime in the mid-60's.
@@stevenstoll2016 You can buy them used, but no one has the plastic bullets that went with them. I'd buy it if they did. I got into a lot of trouble with those guns. I shot some young 2nd Lieutenant in the face accidentally when I was a kid and he wanted to beat my ass.
We had the best TV in the sixties wish we had these shows like this today don't watch much TV today nothing on it
We stopped watching television about 10 years ago. Don't miss it at all.
One of my favorite episodes. Ben Cooper who had so many roles in Television episodes, especially westerns, is great here. One of two times he acted in Combat.
I thought it was extremely hilarious that Little John was so obsessed with his new bicycle. It was even more funny watching him ride! It was my favorite part of the episode because it helped break up the tension and seriousness of the war.
What a super show. Love the fact of so many writers and directors. Shows unity.
These episodes are better than I remember them.
For a $150,000? budget per show, pretty darn good.
This, and 'The Outer limits', 2 best tv shows of the mid 60's..Robert at 67
Gunsmoke and Combat are tied for number one in my book.
@@williamhiles7404 Gunsmokes O.K. it was my dads favorite T.V. show years ago. Westerns I liked was Wild wild west and Wagen train, 2 totally diferent animals, but both a Western series. Ward Bond was perfect as wagen master in Wagen train.
Washed this growing up I was 12 great tv back then not like today I found this show about week ago for the first time great so excited to found it love Vic morrow he was great actor RIP
I used to watch this when I was a kid back in the 60’s and it was one of my favorite shows. Glad I found it on TH-cam again. 👍 I even had the board game to play soldier with my friends.
I'm pretty sure there was a COMBAT! lunch box. That would've been sweet. Can you imagine a fifth grader bringing one of those to school today? Sad. Alex in Montana
@@alexdawson7266 Mattel made a great Thompson machine gun that 'shot' caps. While it wasn't marketed with the show show at all, you couldn't play Sgt. Saunders without it. lol
@@dmutant2635 Hey, I'm going to track that gun down just for fun. I remember I had the Winchester repeating rifle that always pinched the flesh on the palm of your hand. A buddy of mine had the grenade launcher. "You can tell it's Mattel - It's swell!"
Watching this at 20. I usually roast older shows but Combat has nothing to roast. 10/10
This show had 100% of it's SHIT PACKED AWAY!! Damn ✅!!!
You can watch every episode over and over again .
That's so true.
I have!
Word!🌟💯
Love the whole series,and I have every season of Combat on 📀 DVD!!
El modo de andar de Vic es sensacional.Sus movimientos y actitud...Bogart.Tracy.Cagney.Era de esa raza.😃👀👍❤🌹🍃🌹🍃💪
Mine as well!
Still one of my favorites. With 11 family members that served in WWII and all returned, it ignited a deep curiosity in WWII.
This was further fuel by meeting and visiting with a number of individuals that survived German concentration camps!
The last one was Elizabeth Hozak. She is the only member of her family to survive the CONCENTRATION camps.
I ask her to talk with my son about her experiences which included her showing him her CONCENTRATION camp prisoner tattoo number.
She was 15 when taken prisoner. Sent to Dr Joseph mengele's camp where she was subjected to his heinous experiments. Legs broken same location to see how it heals. Raped 16 times. Last time she killed her attacker.
As she was trying to escape she ran into Allied tropps liberating the camp. Which lead to her living here!
Thank Almighty God that she survived and was rescued.
I’ve never seen a bad episode of “Combat🗡”. Vic Morrow is just great and the perfect actor for the role.
Exactly me either 😉
😊 I agree.
Rich Dudley
Probably a teamster thing.
Rich Dudley
Thank you for your service, Rich.
Sgt Saunders already always had that pained, tired-of-this-stuff look on his face. And that was while carrying a prop tommy gun. ACTING!
They were all great actors.
I'd take Kirby in a heartbeat on patrol with his kick tail big punch power BAR (not in this episide) Jack Hogan (Kirby) lugged around a REAL B.A.R. on the later episodes for realism at TWENTY odd lbs, of course with the trigger group deactivated for television. Rest of cast used plastic/wood mock ups. Hats off to Jack Hogan!
Combat. Ome of my Favorite TV Shows ever, besides STAR TREK Which WAS NUMBER one. Nothing beats Combat. Brett L.
My favorite show as a kid. Vic Morrow was cool ....R.I.P.
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Combat and 12 o'clock high.
Used to watch this show religiously when I was a kid
I was 12 years old when this TV show come on TV. We baby boomers had some excellent TV with some strong moral role models. Vic Morrow of Combat was one of my favorites. We just had great television!
@Bubba B I rode a train from Paris to the beaches of Normandy. A lot of countryside and it reminded me very much of So. California. Much of filming was done on sound stages but the producers had scenery filmed in France to use for backdrops, etc. My uncle
was on Destroyer in WWII, came back and worked for studio's until he retired.
We hardcore Combat fans just love our Walker Bulldog tanks, I smile every time that they show up, sometimes they even have schurtzen...
Used to watch every Sunday afternoon at my grandmothers, loved it and still do.
Great show when I was a kid growing up. The Rat Patrol was also a great WW2 show.
That Rat Patrol image loomed large a few years ago
when I finally bought a jeep....
I belong to You, sergeant. (says the corporal who just smoked a tank, and saved their bacon.)
Isn't the bazooka a 2-man weapon?
In a number of Combat episodes, a new guy amazes the squad with his courage and "one-man-army" abilities. However, regular Combat viewers will appreciate that Saunders, Cage, Little John & Kirby do just as much in virtually every episode....without getting any Awards for Valor, or even promotion.
And Caje never complains about taking point!
I think the bazooka guy explains that he just lost his number two.
Kirby wouldn't mind a promotion...Also, I can't remember if Saunders ever had a corporal...other tan this episode! Great series!!Loved it as a kid, love it now, I'm 68.
Hats off too all veterans,double thanx too combat veterans.🗽🗽👍👍⚓⚓
This program was my favorite when I was a kid, we played Combat at recess and in the neighborhood. My dad had a recorder and we had recorded gun shots to play on the reel to reel when it was to cold outside to play.
"Admirable,among the casts of characters,namely acting Soldier men,are the incredible energy they have had in running alot, climbing hills,mountains,entering a broken down illapidated building,while walking on hazardous debree;even being struck across the head by falling debree; also on numerous occasions. . ."6--6--2022'
My dad, Sgt WW2, totally approved of Combat
There wasCombat, 12 0' Clock High and Colditz in the seventies and from the UK we had Secret Army. All excellent...
And Ben Cooper passed away just a couple of weeks ago at 86.
Nothing more beautiful than the sound of a full fire Thompson.
I've always wondered why they didn't supply more grenade launchers and bazookas??
Vic has that same swagger here that he had in Blackboard Jungle. I like the cast chemistry. It's one reason the show went 5 seasons. Cpl. Cross squeezed off something like 14 rounds non-stop out of his Garand. As the series matured you don't see too many more errors like that.
I love all these guys
Thanks again for another quality upload! Ben Cooper is now 78 years old and quietly retired in Conn.
Now 85 and still alive.
@@simul8guy75 I was just going to ask that question.Thanks for the info.
R.I.P. Ben Cooper (September 30, 1933 - February 24, 2020)
@@calcynic dam, I hadn't heard that. That guy was in everything.
I heard he passed away
My Dad was in the Marines,his buddy was carrying that type of heavy machine gun , they were on a long march ,so my Dad says after a long hump if his buddy wanted him to carry the machine gun for a little bit , so my Dad says he only carried it for about 5 minutes, and a big brass stops him and asks him if he’s been carrying it all this time or something like that ? He said yea he got a dayS liberty ! Lol he only had it 5 mins ! His buddy was pissed ! Lol 😂
Another magnificent episode - they're just all plain good
I love the inner actions between Billy and Little John, it times comical and lol Kirby is always gripping about something!!
until Billy was KIA
@@pizzafrenzyman That's right K.I.A.!!! Do remember that episode name?? I can't!!! R.I.P Billy
@@jamesrichardson3322 He was written out at the end of the 2nd season when he got a movie deal with Disney. The KIA is just show lore.
@@pizzafrenzyman He could kept his job on combat and done movies!! Back than a Disney movie was giant step for a actor, more rolls and more money. Hated see him go, and the original Doc on the show.
Thanks for sharing. Watching from European Union, Lithuania.
Ich schaue aus die Europäische Union, Litauen.
R.I.P. Ben Cooper (September 30, 1933 - February 24, 2020)
I just happened to go to WikiDead after watching this episode and saw his name there.
R.I.P. Ben Cooper
"That tank had us in a bind for an hour."
Great, we juuust missed another tense episode with the tank!
How comethe Germans had an M-48 before we did?
@@johnminehan1148 superior engineers
After the war Kirby got on with the National Park Service and got promoted to Chief Ranger at fictional “Sierra National Park,” working for Jack Webb!
Funny that Saunders asked Cross if he was with the 423rd.
The real 423rd Infantry was part of the very green 106th ID in Middleton's VIII Corps in front of St. Vith in Belgium when the Germans went on the offensive on December 16th, 1944. They had been in the line only 4 days. Sadly, they were cut off and surrounded by nightfall on the 17th. They tried to breakout westwards towards St. Vith, but were cut to pieces and forced to surrender along with the 422nd Infantry about 4pm on the 19th. About 7500 GIs were bagged.
Vic Morrow dropped out of high school at age 17 and joined the Navy!
It's a good thing that the US Airforce, Artillery and Tank units were having a few days vacation or we wouldn't have had this episode with Saunders and the boys doing their thing
It's U.S. Air Force ( two words ) and it did not exist until 1947..after World War II. It was the Army Air Corps. The Navy had their flyers as did the Marine Corps.
Just found this series about a week ago. Love it! Thanks!
Dont forget lassie rin tin tin garrison guerrillas
Dunno why Littlejohn doesn't just walk his bike assembled. Bicycle troops did it all the time. It would have made carrying that HMG and ammo a lot easier too.
Sarge can really handle himself in that early dialogue with Cross!
Little John stood a lofty 6'6".
The Japanese used to really picked on there prisoners who were over 6 feet tall.
@@danrobinson572 ' their '.
@@hermanator74301 okay teacher 👩🏫
Thank you for this program
My favourite show...
combat WAS THE REASON i TOOK GERMAN LANGUAGE COURSES IN HIGH SCHOOL.
later i was stationed in Nuremberg (1976-1979)
At Indiana University chemistry Dept 1973 you could take German if you wanted to poison someone, and they had you take French if you were planning on inventing Plavix, Chlorpromazine or an effective new antibiotic.
Newsflash Cpl Cross! A Good NCO wants and needs to know everything about the men under him!
The northern French should irrigate their vast scrubland and grow grapes.
Seargeants spent a lot of time on point in War 2!
had a toy tompson pull the charge and pull trigger acc,acc,acc,acc and so on.lots of time playing soldier back then.parents now a days won't let a kid have a toy gun.
I had a toy tompson too, as a kid, with drum magazine. I think Matel made it. We use to play paratrooper by jumping off the garage roof, to roll and come up standing in a crouch ready to move. My Mom always freaked that we would hurt ourselves doing that.
@@bob_btw6751 Did your Thompson have a thick wire stock rather than plastic fake wood? Mine did. Back in the day everyone's choke at the end of the barrel broke off. I think it was because when you got "shot", you'd twirl around and throw your gun in the air with the barrel of the gun always hitting the ground first.
never noticed before but Billy kinda looks like on of the figures from Bill Maudlin's Wille and Joe
I noticed that the bike tire was American. I guess the prop staff didn't know that French/Euro valves are different. Great series. Those guys had to be filthy after those bombing shoots. All that dust, dirt, and gravel, even if it was Hollywood dirt......
Presta valves
19:25 *Hey Vic, don't go down into that dark, damp, smelly, scary cellar, drop a pineapple instead, Kaboom!! Blam, Kapow!!( ;)*
Damn. That BAR looks heavy. Was a commercial carpenter and all bldg trades. Always known as hard worker, regular promotions and raises. but at 165-75#, even I would have trouble waking miles with that.
That wasn't a BAR (ie Browning Automatic Rifle M1918A2, 20 round box magazine in 1944, 16 pounds), it was a Browning M1919 air cooled machine gun, 250 round feed belt, 31 pounds. Interestingly, effective range and the rate of fire of the two are fairly similar. However the M1918A2's 300-650 rounds per minute doesn't mean much when the magazine holds only 20 cartridges. 5 to 10.8 rounds per second, empty in 4 seconds max at 300 RPM and under 2 seconds max at 650 RPM. I have to believe it was impossible to keep the gun on a target at those rates of fire. I suspect they were fired in short bursts of 2 or 3 rounds.
Not a BAR. .30 caliber machine gun. Belt fed. And yes, it is heavy.
@@garypulliam3740 I carried our M-60 machine gun from 82-89 when I was an assistant gunner on a 105 howitzer. It weighed 25 lbs. I volunteered for the job. I liked it a lot more than the M-16A1 I had.
@@shadowwolf7622 dam Rambo!😄
@@timhoovermusicman That was what everyone in our Batterty seemed to call me back then. Lol ! But if I was really tough, I would have carried the 105 howitzer around!
Strange how all the Germans in this series have American tanks that came into production after WWII
Richard Hoseason The producers were just hoping like hell you wouldn’t notice! 😁
@@kurtjensen4693 they also use Browning machine guns and M1 Garands from time to time
Richard Hoseason dangled tigers and panther tanks must’ve been all scrapped.
At least they HAD tanks! lol As a kid I always noticed when shows got the weapons wrong. Most were pretty good though.
Tigers and Panthers were at a premium for Hollywood…
back when people cast shadows from the inside on windows..
Q lindos los perris!!!🐶🐕❤
A beast is approaching.
you could always tell who was going to die in the show the guys that are new in the squad LOL
They're just like the red shirts in Star Trek. lol
Green Horns
Not always...In the previous episode Lovelace for example...Greenhorn just joins and ends up the hero...Depends on whether their just a bit player; or if their the main focus in the story. If their bit player they usually bite the dust.
@Legion 57 Yo he wasn't trying too a jerk Dumbass he was just makeing a Fucking Point DUD Greenhorn's from bootcamp r the same Star Trek Red Guys Because Only Idiot's Want too get Killed or get Others too My Son was in the Military in Afghanistan Had too Deal with Thoes People Only Fools Want Too Get Kill and Have Others too Real Heroes Don't Want Too Be Killed or do it too others
The boys from the "Repple Depple"
At 1:11 the sarge says come in king tiger instead of king two.In real life with a tank just a few feet from running you over and at the same time spraying machine gun bullets at you, it would be easy to get mixed up.
O come on little John, you know I got a sense for this kind of thing!” “Oh you mean like when you sensed there were no krauts on Omaha beach!😂😂😂😂
I really like combat show
Written and directed by Burt Kennedy! What's the over/under before someone says "Some things a man can't ride around."?
Amazing how nobody ever gets killed. I would give Lt. Henley hell for assigning that nut job to my squadron.
Plenty get killed, watch a few episodes
This is a great series. How can you possibly enjoy it is all you do is look for things to criticise?
Hear hear! Everybody's a damn 'expert'.
Very true, but why would the radio man be the one out front of the others? He would be the first to get shot.
mark clark because there’s idiots writing the scripts
@@phildevore4543 or maybe he was shot as they ran down the hill the first time...
luv kirby caje and lil john
They are ALL SORELY missed. God blesd!!!
Remarkable! Thanks for posting :)
I watched this show when I Was 10 or 12 years old. I knew John Wayneing your frags was a bed idea then. BUY THE PIN RINGS YET!
Man, if I was in that foxhole like Saunders and a tank came bearing down on me like a T-rex from Jurassic Park I’d be leaping out of there with multiple swear words in my mouth. Saunders said not a word. I heard no 4-letter word throughout this entire series.
Billy is back. I thought he died from a chest wound several episodes back...the Celebrity.
Yep. Don't quite understand how the producers couldn't keep the series in order. Maybe we aren't supposed to remember.
Because it really isn’t in any kind of order..
To close to the front, They needed the bed, They transferred him further back the line. Till he could recover, then return to the squad.
@@garymazur2217 Good answer.
I've always loved the Combat series, but they sometimes show the Germans as being stupid.....and they were far from that. Like when the pair of Germans approach the farmhouse with supplies talking away, seemingly without a thought of checking out the premises first before unloading supplies, while being observed by the Americans.....Not. Still a fantastic series and have been watching it since it first came on TV in '63. They usually have great stories with some kind of life lesson involved. Thanks GR!!!
that is my one and only problem with this series - a lot of times the Germans ran right into the shower of bullets to be killed. Great series, but for this little flaw.
@@ourladyofguadalupebotanica6732 I know, I don't know how many times I would say " Why the hell would he just get up and attack right out in the open like that?!" But, you can't have a stalemate on an hourly TV series....someone had to go. You could usually tell what GI was going to get it, when they were a new face on patrol.
The 'new face' was usually designated cannon fodder!
"...you worry too much , why don't ya just relax and enjoy the war , like the rest of us "
What's not to enjoy? Trench foot, bouncing bettys, maiming or death around every corner, POW if you're lucky....
Voludo amo esa serie y pero en castellano?o si no me quedo con mis recuerdos cuando era chico y volvia de la escuela rapido y hacia mi tarea para ver combate y el grancha parral 😀
Impaired episode. 1-Any sergeant would NOT allow one of his men to carry around a bicycle wheel. 2-A medic would NOT waste surgical tape to fix a bicycle tire. 3-Corporal Cross lets the kraut go then shoots through the door,Saunders asks;"Did you get him",sees no body just bullet holes in the door and let's it go at that.
HANLEY GOT PROMOTED,SAUNDERS SHOULD HAVE GOT HANLEYS STRIPES
2:28 He's like check me out! Yeah, I did that. Lol.
Do the critics also ask why the show was shot in Rancho Cucamonga and not France…?
There were people like that in my job.
RHIP . . .
What great camera work. 2500'kodak film
Kirby without his BAR.
Early episode.
even with the bar he never used the sights or even aimed
@@katana258 Kirby was "spray and pray".
I thought that was strange he wasn't carrying his Bar, why wasn't he carrying it.
So I didn't catch it there at the end: Did they get pushed off the hill by the Germans?? I thought they got all the mortar guys and had those few remaining ones at the top taken care of with the BAR. If there were more Germans who pressed them off the hill, they certainly seemed to be rather casual in just standing at the bottom of an enemy-occupied hill... Pretty funny, though, that Little John would've grabbed that damn bicycle tire out of the rubble, bent in half, in the midst of a hasty retreat.
Agreed. How did they get off the hill? Wouldn't the Germans had it surrounded sin ce they had the numbers?
Animalkindom
Love them guns that make their own bullets. Remember? Army. Cops and robbers. Cowboys and Indians. Always with guns that made their own bullets. Hollywood style. I'm from L.A. so I should know. I suppose.
I saw an episode of starkly and hutch where they were undercover on a cruise ship. Robert Loggia fired 19 rounds from a revolver😄
Saw s 1 epi 17. No Kirby or Little John. No Mosby from Georgia in this one.
Saunders gets his thompson and camo helmet.
They still got Lovelace in K Company?! 🤣 He was hilarious in the last episode (episode 17)
Saunders can always outrun bullets.
TOO OBVIOUS.
he was shot 9 times in the series
@@soulburst Is that all?
The hills are alive with the sound of music.
I always had to carry extra ammo or a barrel for the machine gun team.
Beats carrying the MG...
First time I saw Kirby w/an M1garand instead of his trademark BAR
Early 1st season
Later when Billy and Little John are talking in front of the burning fireplace I realized Sgt Sanders wouldn,t have let anyone lite that fireplace with Nazi,s due to recon their position
Oh Ben Cooper (Corporal Cross) Is So Gorgeous 💘❤💘❤💘❤💘❤💘❤💘❤