I loved this show as a kid. It led me to read every account of WWII I could get my hands on, which led me to reading and studying military history books in general.
Damn that brought back memories, watching Combat and The Rat Patrol then going out and playing army. Today if kids went out and played army they would risk getting shot by some chickenspit psycho cop.
I loved that show as a kid. Never missed it.
Have a great memory of Vic Morrow in the
mess hall in Quang Tri.One of the guys asked
him if he’d like to go on patrol with us joking.
Seemed like a great guy.
Had to be to have been over there entertaining troops.
Hated it when he got killed by that sob Landis.
I didn’t know that show was still on. I used to watch it and “Citizen Soldier” probably back in the 50s or 60s. Also had my favorite comic book, other than Superboy, it was “Sgt Rock”.
I noticed the “Military Channel” is changing it’s name to the American Hero Channel”. they are advertising a show on Monday night about the combat engineers who stopped Pieper’s near breakthrough to Antwerp.
Loved it as a kid and recorded every episode during its run on Encore 10 years or so ago. Talks were underway for a movie back the late 90s, but never materialized. Just as well - there have been enough real accounts covered since then, such as Band of Brothers, to make a fictionalized movie kind of pointless....
Ping
I remember this show when I was a kid, would watch it as frequently as I could. One of the things I remember was the Vic Morrow character always saying to Kirby, “Kirby, take the point.” Always felt a little sorry for Kirby!
I saw these when they were still not reruns, but that is the first time I ever saw the very first one
CAGE known as Caddie?? Was that his real name on the show?
And we always spelled it CAGE, is it supposed to be CAJ?