As a 10 year old boy obsessed with WW2 I watched this show for years with my father who was a WW2 combat veteran. I never knew until much later that it was painful for him to watch but he did it for me. Even later we had some pretty frank discussions about the horrors of war and how his role as a mortar gunner in the mountains of Italy was dangerous. He is my hero but would always talk about how the real heroes are lying under the soil in cemeteries both foreign and domestic. He and my mother are buried under a cross at Calverton National Cemetery on Long Island and I visit it and salute it whenever I can. Love you Mom and Dad.
Be very proud of what your Father did, He and many thousands of young American men came over and help us to kick Nazis Ass. Be Proud From London the home of the Bliz.
The mtns. of Italy sounds like Monte Cassino, perhaps. A very tough battle for the allies. Americans, Brits, Poles and Indians. High casualties all around. Yes many thanks to your father and all the Greatest Generation.
Saw Infant of Prague 1967 at channel 11 Saigon, South Vietnam. Didn’t understand a word of English. 43 later saw again in Minneapolis,Mn. At U Tube channel such a beautiful story.
One of my favourite shows as a young man. It was very saddening to learn Vic Morrow died in a filming accident and Rick Jason committed suicide in 2000. May they Rest In Peace.
Jeanette Nolan, the elderly nun, was married to John McIntire the actor and it was her voice that was used as the screams of "mother" in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho".
Weird without Sgt. Saunders but still love all episodes. I do nothing anymore but view them and cry ...and drink wine and an occasional Xanax! I am now 54...was always the Sgt., uniform and all playing Army as a child, all 'cause of this show and my dear Dad; Special Agent CIC 430th detachment in WWII...my Bro' served on the USS Fletcher in Viet...God bless all who served and thank you for the wonderful uploads!!!
Amo ❤ todos os filmes Kombat, fez parte de minha infância e hoje eu com 67 anos continuo amando Kombat! Parabéns pelo seu canal e obrigado pela postagem!
Fantastisco. The people here in Europe easily forget what the United States did for us Europeans. They freed us from centuries of tyranny. These series help you remember. Thank you for replacing this magnificent series.
The Germans sacrificed an entire generation of young men protecting Western Europe from the Soviet Union. The Germans and their allies pre-empted the USSR's "Operation Icebreaker," scheduled for July 1941, with their own "Operation Barbarossa," launched in June 1941. Go ahead, look it up. Victor Suvorov's book, "Operation Icebreaker." It will change your outlook on history. If not for the German invasion of the USSR, and Germany's fight to the death up to 1945, your grandparents and millions more people in Western Europe would have been conquered by the Communists by the end of 1941 and genocided.
Man in 65 I was a junior in high school 2yrs later I was in the military not by choice and sent to the Corp because they needed men how time flies I lost friends and my life has come full circle
We were stationed at Landstuhl during the 1960s when the series was on. It was on late on AFN, the single channel available, so I stayed up late to see it when the rest of the family had gone to bed. Good memories.
This one hits home. Our Son was a fire support specialist in Iraq. He suffered a severe abdominal hernia while working on a large radar during a sand storm on the roof of his fob. He came home after his 13 month deployment. He needed and operation. The VA doctors put him off for six years. They finally operated on him but by that time he was addicted to opiates. He struggled to beat his addiction but would relapse at least every 8 to 12 months. He never quit he worked and went to tech school and always had a 4.0 average he relapsed 2 months before his graduation at Dean tech for HVAC but was arrested for theft for money for heroin. After he got out of jail he could not go back to dean tech. He was living at a VA domesary and decided to go to Rosedale tech for diesel tech he was accepted. He didn't have a car and so he rode a bicycle to a bus stop put the bike on the rack on the front of the bus road 30 miles to another bus stop and then changed buses and road another 15 miles. He attended school for 6 hours and then returned home to the VA facility. He had attended school for around six months and they held a hiring event at school. He was hired by a very good company to service Sheets fuel transport trucks. He then added another 8 hours of work to his days plus another 5 miles to commute but he did the trip from school to work on the bicycle and then caught a shuttle bus to a regular bus stop another 5 miles further away from home to begin his long trip back some 50 miles to the VA. He saved up enough money after a few months and bought a truck to drive to school and work. And a few months later found an apartment 4 miles from school and 10 miles from work. He was happy and getting settled in. We thought that finally he would be ok. He met a really nice girl and they were getting serious. Well she went to see him at his apartment on a Saturday morning. He had given her a key. She found him dead on his bedroom floor. She said he had been breaking out in sudden uncontrollable rashes and had become very irritable or moody. He bought a batch or heroin that had fentanyl in it. Our Son was always a model student well liked by all his peers a star football player all of his youth. He joined the Army while in high school and left for basic training just after graduation. He received two of the four awards at his basic training graduation and tied for a third but they felt it might not look good if one guy got all the awards. He was not spoiled he always had chores and responsibilities and we were a very close loving happy family. He received commendations for his service in combat and served his country with honor and distinction. I don't know why the doctors waited so long to do the surgery that had they done right away he might still be alive. We believe in Jesus Christ and he believed in Jesus Christ and we know we will see him again someday.
So very sorry! Addiction is so easy. Years ago I went down to a progressive neuromuscular disorder. Pain above seven. Discomfort seven Or below. Scares me. Never did get a diagnosis except it’s a disease
Wow what raw guts amidst mixed distractions, great episode. Nonstop drama. I didn't get into this show, just as I was a few years young for this one. born 1959. But I remember Rat Patrol episodes. But that makes it a first time view and treat for Me now. And These guys never take it easy. Having shells dropping down on a wood and cement tower. Jeez! That statue. I don't know for sure, but I bet these episodes didnt get the praise they deserved in real time. But in time I bet They did. Well written entertainment.
Rat patrol was inauthentic even when I was a kid in the early seventies, but it was my dad who introduced me to this show. Everyone speaking in their own language, and the uniforms were especially well done.
The old Religious Sister who cherished her Infant of Prague statue was played by Jeanette Nolan. She played the character "Dirty Sally" in the Gunsmoke episode "Pike" s16 e23.
I'd forgotten how much a pain in the tochus those commercials were back in 1963. It's rather nice to have the time-on-tenterhooks no more than a few seconds at a stretch.
loved watching combat as a child...the whole family loved it. they had good stories. we would also look out for the germans..and remark how smart their uniforms were
Thanks for posting these! I was a little kid when this show use to come on TV. Right at my bedtime. Despite my best efforts to delay going to bed, I never got to watch whole episodes. I now have the chance to see what I missed!...lol And I'm enjoying every moment!!
I was 15 in 1964 and missed so many episode. So interesting to watch after 50 years. I loved it. They don't make this kind of film anymore. Thanks for posting.
I may not be the first to post this but the Infant of Prague is a real thing. It was created in the 1500s and remains in Prague. Copies, however, were distributed widely so its possible that a French convent would have one. Religious and other artifacts of the past were destroyed all over Europe, most notably at Monte Cassino in Italy. A movie worth seeing is "Monuments Men" about the efforts of the Allies to recover art, artifacts, & gold looted by the Nazis. Not to beat a dead horse, but those familiar with Nazi armor will note that the stock footage used in COMBAT! of Germans advancing is universally of early &, by 1944, obsolete German armor. That's because by 1944, the Germans were not advancing but retreating on all fronts. In France, once Operation Cobra (early August) drove them from their hedgerow fortifications, the Germans were in non-stop pell mell retreat across France until the Allies outran their supplies in September. By then most of France had been overrun and the front lines were in northern France, Belgium and Holland.
Not looted by the "Nazis." Protected. The Kunst Korps. The Germans did the same thing in the First World War. Protected works of art in salt mines. Low humidity, safe from Allied bombing raids. You have been deceived. Nearly everything Americans think they know about the Second World War is false, and demonstrably so. And your analysis of the situation with stock footage is ridiculous. There's plenty of footage available on RU-vid showing later German military actions in all theatres and advanced types of armor and aircraft which take your breath away, but most of it was unavailable to the producers of Combat! in 1962-'65.
@@bolinfan1519 Looted actually. I haven't been deceived. And whether or not footage of 1944 Nazi tanks was available to the prodcuers, the footage shown inaccurately portrayed the armor being used.
@@bolinfan1519 Yeah, sure it is. Just for fun, what bombs were the Nazis "protecting" German museum art from in 1937 & German Jewish collector art from in 1938? "During the Second World War, Adolf Hitler mandated that other nations’ cultural property be obtained, often forcibly, for the greater good of the state. The Nazis targeted private Jewish collections, public museums and organizations deemed to be at odds with Nazi ideology, such as Freemasons. Their goals were both financial and cultural. Hitler wanted to enrich the Third Reich and its leaders with exquisite and culturally significant treasures, sell looted art that did not reflect the Reich’s ideals for foreign currency, and create the Führermuseum, envisioned as the cultural center of the world, in his hometown of Linz, Austria." www.ushmm.org/collections/bibliography/looted-art
@@billboth4814 Do you mean the wealth of Germans stolen by the Jews during the Weimar period? Like what they are doing in the US today? Show the mandate you mentioned.
Patton's men got to Prague, but I don't think these men ever did. The battle for France lasted about four months but this show stretched it out to five. I admire the American actors and actresses who have to learn their dialogue in French or German, especially the little girl in a previous episode.
And Pierre Jalbert (Caje) was Quebecois and a native French speaker. Paul Busch, who showed up on the show more than once as a German also spoke his language.
always enjoyed the music from the show. I believe it was taken from one of the classical composers. my father was there in france and he could tell stories about his tours during WW2. the stories would just frighten you!!!!
Kirby's lugging a REAL B.A.R. for realism on Combat set stage (20 odd lbs) of course with the trigger group deactivated for television. Rest of cast has wood/plastic mock ups, then he lugs around a field radio on the set on top of that..LOL!!..hats off to Jack Hogan for realism (Kirby) Robert at 67.
They're hunkered down under the culvert , nuns praying . Kirby - ' little John , what are you doing ? ( he's eyes closed, praying ) ' none of your business '
Was in those days more commen it seems. Same with a coupe of episodes in GARRISON´S GORILLAS and later on in MacGyver and THE A TEAM so other as in every day American life on TV sthey mostly showed respect.
Back then In the 50's and early to late 60's Movies and Television Had a code of ethics They followed Respect for all Religions No nudity, no cursing etc. No graphic violence Okay, People got shot But no gore That code is why Maryann on Gilligan's Island And Genie Of I dream of Genie Couldn't show their belly buttons And also why TV married couples Weren't shown sleeping together Even if the actor's were married to each other I.E. Lucy Ball and Desi Arnez Sadly things have changed Since then
2:54 - 3:32 The closing half minute of the 3 1/2 minute teaser is VERY effective; tugs at the heartstrings, both the dialogue [Cage: "The Mother Superior said they would be safe with us (the Americans)."], Cage's {yet again, his bi-lingualism in French and English proves insurmountably necessary) smile as he enthusiastically informs the Sisters they can accompany Hanley's squad; a soft variation of the "Combat!" theme underscores. And then the killer: 3:23 - 3:32, the CLOSE-UP of the young, bespectacled, smiling Sister with her gleaming, beautiful eyes, knowing their lives are saved, beaming "Merci!" to Hanley, responding with his CLOSE-UP's obvious look of concern, footage brilliantly edited and accompanied, illuminated by the swelling background music. Eliciting a tear even before the main titles . . . "Damn, that's good." *** SPOILER ALERTS *** 40:00 - 40:09 Overall a thrilling, emotional, graphic (i.e., Littlejohn knifing to death the two Germans at the canal) episode -- until this inconceivable, script-writer induced 'stunt' -- Doc 'forgetting' to bring the statue, its presence the CENTER, the FOCUS of the entire episode -- after he's earlier taken it out of the arms of the elder nun offering to carry it -- it representing her faith's MOST precious commodity -- for her. Even the way Conlan Carter (Doc) unconvincingly delivered the dialogue you could tell he thought it was preposterous. Cage and the others would have 1) noticed he wasn't carrying it; 2) the nuns would have noticed its sudden disappearance from his arms while walking and 3) the squad as a whole would have 'lit into' Doc something fierce for such an imbecilic move. 13:28 - 13:35 Preceding by multiple enemy vehicles passing along the road [filmed at Franklin Canyon Reservoir, a familiar location sight to "Combat!" regular viewers] that behind-the-scenes surely was a costly, man-power + rolling equipment intensive undertaking for the transportation captain, we witness the elder nun silently praying and then Littlejohn, also silent,, positioned closest to the camera, with his eyes firmly shut. Kirby -- of all people 'wouldn't you know?' -- nudges him "Whaddya doin'?" to which Littlejohn replies, eyes remaining shut, "None of your business." Then a minute later, 14:52 - 15:10, the man of faith feels his devotion on his side as he 'saves the day' by brutally and effectively heaving his knife's blade into the two curious Germans who'd responded to the sound of the elder nun's sneeze.
I remember being station in the Berlin Brigade from 74 to 79. The older Germans appreciated us sometimes and the students wanted freedom for socialism. Now thanks to US Germany is a whole nation that has forgotten who gave them freedom.
It seems some people have it all wrong, I am Catholic, as one I can tell you we do not worship statues they are mearly a symbol of reference, much as you walk into a church and see a cross behind the alter. It's only a point of reference. You go to worship. And prey not to worship any statue!
possibly the best war series ever made,before band of brothers,brings back a lot of memorys of my youth,and as a ww2 buff have been to many of battles fields of europe ie:normandie,monte cassino,salerno,anzio,bastogne,foy.
For those trying to ridicule the old Nun. (and shame on you just because) The old Nun was no more attached to her Infant of Prague statue than the sheep of today with their smart dumb phones. Probably in reality the Nun a lot less, since she didn't sleep next to the statue and take it with her where ever she went.
LOL,again. I knew something hit me when I read your post. I know army families, from younger years and we all had big families with big age gaps between the siblings. There are the first 3 ( girl, boy, girl) and then the last two ( my younger brother and I). It's like two different generations. Little bro is 5 yrs younger than I, so he jst hoarded all my dads' army stuff. (Diary,pics and he's not little anymore, either!) Mom was always shipping out boxes of stuff to somewhere. Thanks!
I enjoy the many heartfelt stories of Combat and how they don't have CC in English during French and German dialogue. I like the challenge of figuring out the foreign languages, but it is hilarious to turn on the closed captioning to see the results of not being translated.
@@bullseyenow1 Rick killed himself bro in 2000 (my wife did also in 2016) and Vic was killed by chopper blades on film of The Twilight Zone in 83. This wasn't natural deaths of old age
@@torritor4954 We know the question is WHY?? He did it in bed next to his wife! My wife did it in broad daylight took a hsndful of pills. I won't get into family problems, car accident and marriage problems too much to type but will say she had bipolar depression. Nobody will say WHY Rick did it, it's all hush hush
Kirby should have donned the Nun's dress and kept the BAR under his habit. Would have tricked the Germans that way. Picture his face with that huge white hat.
36:54 throughout end of 3rd act and much of Act IV -- the unseen voice of Hanley's contact to whom he's spotting enemy positions sounds just like character actor William Bryant. Familiar to the "Combat!" faithful, Bryant recurred as the new squad member named McCall in the fifth season for six episodes after having popped up in different roles once each in years one, two and three.
From Americans, You’re all welcome, we did to help you guys mostly, but it was fun stopping those Gerries!!! The acting by Sarge & Lieutenant is fantastic, but notice how they’re the only 2 w credits?
I used to live in LA back then and was familiar with this set. I was a key grip assistant while attending college at Cal State Fullerton. All of this was shot within a 5 mile radius, but it was still the closest to the real thing shot back then...
Little John has turned it around. He started as a nice guy, never shown killing a German soldier, stumbling every now and then. But in Series 2 Episode 30, we see his acid remarks when displeased. And by this episode, Episode 31, we see him spotting the Germans on two occasions while on watch, and disemboweling a rugged German soldier with his bayonet. The producers decided they needed a meaner Little John and that's what they delivered in this episode. Let's see what happens in the next episodes, ja?
Offered C-Rats to the Sisters, who turned them down. Hmmm, C-Rats vs. MREs? The C-Rats we got in 71 we from Korea Era. Had to break up a cocoa cake with the butt of a bayonet once.
Guessing someone involved in the show was a devout catholic or at least religious. Many episodes emphasized faith esp rc. One flaw in this episode was that the Wehrmacht would likely have taken that op first thing.
Even catholic sisters are useful during combat ,which means that lieutenant Henry got German map because of an old sister and made US artillery bomb Germans and destroy them wholly.
Funny how if they never stopped to help the Nuns. They would have missed the Head Quarters and all the maps. Then finding the Panzer group 50 miles from where they thought they were. Then caught them out in the open.
Germans were the best dressed. Had the best vehicles. The best guns did everything best tanks And still lost the war. Why? Because we had the radio and jeep 🚙 !!
