Posted on 10/18/2015 3:21:56 PM PDT by Oakleaf
There was a B&W TV show I saw in the sixties set in the ETO in WW2 where Germans had hijacked an American convoy of trucks. They were hiding in the back with American drivers. One truck was stopped at a checkpoint and the driver said to the guard that everything was fine "But we got erryjays in the uctrays". The guard didn't understand this, let the convoy start through and mentioned it to one of the other guards who shouted "Jerries in the trucks!" and opened up with a Thompson.
I have searched the net for "Combat' and "The Gallant Men'. I thought this was an episode of one of them but can't find anything like it mentioned for either series.
Does anyone have any information on what this episode was? If it wasn't either series do you know what show it was on?
Thanks for any help!
Yep, Rat patrol, Combat, 12 O’clock High, etc. were great shows.
I felt bad when Vic Morrow died. He was one of my favorites (Sgt Saunders on Combat).
He reminded me of my uncle who served in WW2 as a Stewart Light Tank commander.
He could have been his brother, the resemblance was uncanny.
I always wondered if “Gallant Men’s” lack of success (not making it beyond its initial season) was due to the unusually large cast of regulars, each of which would invariably have episodes center around them.
In a critical sense, “Combat” was pretty clearly a better series, with often stark, harrowing scripts, and great photography. And it was an independent production, unlike GM at Warner Bros., which always suffered from a sort of cookie-cutter, assembly-line approach to its tv-fare, in terms of script and direction. Yet there is one curious aspect in which I think “Gallant Men” was better at. That was in capturing more of the actual mindset of the early-1940s WW2 attitude and cultural mindset. “Combat,” as great as it was, still sometimes reeked of that downbeat, 1960s-era psychological ‘character-study’ type of film narrative. Very 1960s-ish, in its semi-existentialism. Not of the 1940s. But still a great, great show. Both shows, in fact.
You never ate Froot Loops? They used it in their ads, and had instructions on the back of some of the boxes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSp3eHDYAx8
Roland La Starza.
He was a pretty darn good boxer. A middleweight if I remember correctly.
Star Spangled War Stories!
“Takka-takka-takka-takka-takka!!!”
It was my favorite show. William Reynolds was a good actor and was later in the FBI series.
I too missed Vic Morrow. I recall watching Combat, and he reminded me of my brother who was in Vietnam at the time.
Remember that smoking pineapple grenade Sarge lobbed at the Jerry/Tojo, and of course he pulled the pin with his teeth.
And Rock and his Brass Balls platoon didn’t need parachutes: they just landed on their feet!
(Then down on a knee to break the fall. Let’s not go crazy here.)
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And whenever Sgt. Rock killed an enemy soldier, the death was depicted by an empty enemy helmet & weapon falling to the ground. No mangled bodies were to be shown.
If Sgt. Rock used a grenade, the blast fireball had a helmet in the epicenter, usually German.
His all time best shot came when a Stuka dive bomber began strafing his squad; Sgt. Rock slapped a rifle grenade launcher on his M-1 and lobbed one right into the Stuka’s cockpit.
He regularly shot down Stukas with his Thompson submachine gun; they dove straight at him which made it simple.
;^)
Robert McQueeney became a catholic priest after his annulment.
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