Born in 56 and watched them when I could, with my dad and brothers. These are the greatest scenes I have ever seen in any current movie. Dad severed in Korea till the end. USArmy driving 1/2 track. When he watched it so did I .
IM 61 YEARS OLD. IN 1963 I WAS 3 YEARS OLD. I REMEMBER WATCHING COMBAT, WHEN I WAS A LITTLE KID. I ENJOY COMBAT. TEALLY GOOD ACTING BACK THEN. MUCH ENJOYED. BRETT L.
This was my favorite TV show when I was little. I watched it in Japanese every week in Japan. One day, I told my mom that I liked Americans. Because they all looked cool. Then, Mom told me that Japan fought against U.S.at same time. I was surprised to hear that, and asked which won. She said U.S.,Japan lost. I had nothing to talk back to her. I was just sad. Now I live in U.S. Watching in English as a U.S. citizen.
My dad was a Pearl Harbor survivor and in the Navy 39-45. He used to watch Japan News when it aired in the US . He wanted to understand why they attacked. He held no ill will but just wanted to understand the different culture . He took us to Hawaii when we were teens to explain it and show us.
My Father was a tail gunner On a B-25 In the Pacific Theater And his brother Was a truck driver Some of the things he told us kids About his missions My father and uncle were very very fortunate to make it home
Most of these episodes were shot in Sonoma County, California. Reason was the vineyards and the open land. Funny thing is sometimes you’ll see eucalyptus trees 😂 as there are no eucalyptus tree in Europe. 😂 I’m 70 years old and like others on the page, I always enjoyed COMBAT! 😊
The eucalyptus trees were introduced in Greece in the late 19th century. They planted them close to marshes to control the mosquitoes and therefore malaria
@BARNOWLFLEDGLINGS: seems we’re both right. IMDB mentions Korbel Winery of Guerneville, Ca. and a winery in a town I lived in for a year, Rancho Cucamonga, Ca!
Not only that but they were limited with their prop guns and equipment. There are many scenes where the Germans are shooting M1’s and M1carbines. But, the plot of each episode kept us watching.
I loved combat from the time it first came on the air on our black and white TV. Now seriously, lieutenant's LED platoons but this is a perfect example of Hollywood I would say because they regularly had him lead squads rather than a sergeant and I don't think in the entirety of the series you ever actually saw an entire platoon.
Just a quick note, thanks for this particular episode. My father was one of those "flyboys" - It is always interesting to see the back and forth. My father was a B-17 Bomber Pilot...His plane went down over the Channel two months before I was born. He managed to keep it in the air long enough for his men to get out but he didn't make it.... 12 o'clock High and Combat are my favorite series - while just tv...they give me a bit of a picture back to that time in our history...Thank you again!
A little fun fact for you too, Rick Jason (Hanley) and Conlan Carter (Doc) were both pilots in the military. Jason was in the Army Corp in WW2 and Carter was in the Air Force in Korea
The thing about Combat that nobody mentions is the plots were so involved, so well written, that they pass off Southern CA for France and you never question it for one nanosecond! 🇺🇸
I friend of mine told me that his father flew a P47 and his group of four planes were shot down by a famous German group called the Black Aces. His father was the only plane to land safely and said that the German planes attacked out of the sun. I do not know what the planes the Germans flew against the P47, but I think that they must have been either ME109 or FW190. My father who fought in Italy and France saw a German pilot flying over Naples and a number of US planes attacked the sole German plane. He said that the German pilot shot down all of the US planes and must have been someone good. I worked with many WWII veterans and many of them were involved in combat like my father and a number of them suffered wartime injuries. I believe that being in a war is something no one ever forgets and we should always remember their service to our country.
what I liked about this episode is a different area to shoot in and having use of a vineyard., a orchard and a river and a pond The camera angles are quite nice. The last time I saw this was in the dead of winter with lots of snow and wishing a warm summer and this episode put me in a different mind for 50 minutes
Much of combat was filmed at Franklin Canyon Park the same place where Andy Taylor used to go fishing with Opie, as well as the opening scene of the A. Griffin show with them going fishing.
This was one of the many classic TV series we enjoyed viewing as children circa 1960s along with BONANZA, WILD WILD WEST and A LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE.
I agree with you about how the use of the actual languages lends to the sense of authenticity. One of the reasons that I like this series so much is that it gives me a chance to hear some of the french that I learned as a kid and have since mostly forgotten.
Lt Hanley ( RICK Jason) in 1960 was on the show “ The case of the dangerous robin” the series ran 38 episodes, he played suave insurance investigator Robin Scott. Jason was the first actor to use martial arts (Karate) on TV.
I always find it humorous to see the Germans bouncing along on those old bikes.Especially when they are slogging through the mud.A very entertaining episode!
P-47s falling to JU-87 Stukas? Very unlikely scenario! For an ace pilot with over 20 kills you'd have thought he would consider a Stuka easy prey. The boys back at the base would have had a field day with him!
Especially since STUKAS ( short for Junkers-87 STURZKAMPFBOMBER ) were ment in first and second line to bombard things for terror reasons. Othereweise those airplanes had been suicidal in a clear direct air-fight. This was the reason the British could shot down so many in the BLITZ over England. Nothing against SPITFIRES but those English machines were not THAT good. In the last phase of the European War they were used for suicide missions against bombers crashing tnto them as living bombs ( something that was kept from the public even long after the War was over )
Airmen over Europe had a nasty job. The 8th Air Force (just the Bombers and just over Europe) lost more men Killed than the entire United States Marine Corps did in WW2. An infantryman had a horrid job but WAY better odds of coming home in one piece. Great Episode. Another Classic!
"Major, all respect, the sky is YOUR battlefield, and these woods are MINE. This is MY rescue mission; you and your wingman are the subjects of same. You are passengers, just as you'd be as an observer on a bomber. Keep your head swiveling, your mouth shut and don't do anything unless I tell you to."
I love the fact that these episodes are so true to life in that the majority of soldiers wouldn’t have understood any other foreign language. I like that there are no captions in these episodes and that someone must interpret what others are saying so everyone can understand. Makes it more believable, rather than having everything just in English. Would be nice thow if I could understand another language, too.
An incorrect assumption. The American soldiers of the Second World War were the children and grandchildren of European immigrants. A great number of them spoke foreign languages.
@@topixfromthetropix1674 You are exactly wrong. The language abilities of Americans today cannot and should not be compared to the language abilities of men from 75 years ago. These men often spoke the European languages of their parents and grandparents in the household. Stop thinking of skool.
I remember the part where the major says that he rubbed his neck raw on his wool shirt and that’s why he has a silk scarf. Saw this one when I was a kid …
GR. Thanks for uploading. I have watched all first 4 seasons. I was 9 in 1962 and this was the first show I watched. Never knew how good the writing and directing. I absolutely lost it at the end of The Little Carousel. Saunders Finally letting it out. What an amazing character and actor. Kirby awesome performance and there are two Hanleys. The one that is in the Morrow led episodes as tough and the one in his solo episodes of kind such as the one with De Wilde
You are absolutely right on with your comments here!! I was 10 when these first ran and I watched many with my father. Morrow was an amazing actor and truly was the lead but the rest of the crew were also top notch performers. I'm about half way through all the seasons now and love every single episode. All were very sad stories but this was war. Thanks for your right on comments.
i remember this episode, i was 10 yrs. old that time and remember every friday night, me and my playmates watching combat to our neighbor who has t.v that time black and white.
I feel a bit intimidated by you older folks, for I was a mere five years old in 1962. Yet I recall Combat vividly, and I never missed an episode. My father was a tail-gunner on a B-24 but in the Pacific theater (less flak). It's funny really, because I can't get my 40 yr old to watch an episode.
Hans-Ulrich Rudel - Germany's Most Decorated Ace had shot down nine Soviet aircraft with his Stuka, an incredible achievement for a dive bomber, but not the only dive bomber pilot who managed to do so. In the Pacific theater an American pilot flying a Dauntless dive bomber also shot down at least two Japanese Zeros during a dogfight no less, and purposely did a head- on collision with one; the heavily built Dauntless sheared part of the lighter Zero's wing off sending him spiraling into the ocean, so technically not a shoot down, but a darn good clipping.☺
when you see an episode with 2 unfamiliar characters like private Harmon and Palmer, you feel like saying, "Hey corporal, post these letters to Mr and Mrs Harmon and Palmer."
Caldwell lecturing Harmon about keeping alert and staying alive is hilarious, considering it was Caldwell who stupidly charged headlong into the obvious trap that got Palmer killed.
I watched this show as I was growing up and I still like it. A few things I notice now that make me laugh like they always walk down the middle of a road all grouped together. Oh well for TV it was still a good series and I never missed an episode.
Again, they left behind a perfectly good Garand. That would have been better than the Major's pistol in a firefight. For that matter, the Major could have upgraded his firepower by grabbing a Mauser from one of the dead Germans. About halfway through my 5-year tour in Germany they put out a directive that all medics who weren't conscientious objectors would carry .45s.
Mishawaka Post Clark Kent huh? Well it was superman that did 5 years in ww2 so i believe it. Thanks for your service. I’m sorry for what our country has become. But you can be proud before God for your generation.
I watched this combat series years 70s, one thing comes to my notice now that the lieutenant @ Rick Jason just a handsome man! I like this movie very much even black in white! A very classic movie!
those flyboys started the hells angels in the forties after the war, because they needed the adrenaline, thus the words chopper, and other, biker words, Harley-davidson picked up on it, and now has really taken off on it, the sportster model alone is different in every way, and you can buy a model for every body style, yes, those flyboys did a lot.
These last few episodes are skipping a lot. However, the video quality is amazing considering it's from the 60's. I watched an episode of Gunsmoke earlier on cable TV and it looked like a bad VHS recording. Thanks for the uploads. Jim Stetzer, US ARMY. 1SG Retired. Today is my 18th retirement anniversary. Woo-hoo. Birthday in 2 days. Big 60.
Today is May 26th As we approach Memorial Day We need to remember Why we have that day To Honor the Men and Women Who sacrificed. There lives To protect our freedoms
Jason/Jacobson would have been familiar with "hotshot" pilots from his WW2 service with the USAAF. With all the stock footage of ME-109s & FW-190s, its curious that the producers used Stuka footage as they would never have been sent to intercept Allied fighters.
Always feel sad when anyone but the regulars show up! It's not if they will die but how long into the episode and how many lines they get before they get it!
@GR....watch a day in june when hanley and the saunders were both nco's, they had a little thing for the same woman, amazing episode, but Saunders and hanley made the show, as did lil'John, Kirby, caje, and the Doc.
Stukas!! More 1940 images. Stukas were rarely seen in the skies over western Europe in 1944 as they were slow and easy meat for Allied fighters. In fact during the Battle of Britain they were withdrawn from the fight halfway through the battle because they were just getting massacred by Spitfires and Hurricanes.
Another lazy film editor. Did not wish to spend any more time looking for some FW 190 or ME 109 footage. Like mentioned, Stukas were all but gone by the time the invasion of Europe rolled around, and they were by any stretch of the imagination a match for a P 47!
Wayward. They still used them on occasion though. On the Order during the Soviet assault there in the winter of 1944/45 the airfields the Soviets had captured on the east side of the river were all dirt fields. The rains had turned these into a sea of mud, effectively grounding the Red Air Force. The airfields on the German side were more permanent structures, with concrete runways and taxi strips. This meant that the German air force was able to fly. For the first and probably the only time since Kursk the Luftwaffe had control of the skies, once again the Stuka came into its own. But this was only temporary as the Soviets advanced they captured better airfields or their engineers laid artificial runways over the mud and after short time the Red Force won back control of the skies.
That's OK. If you want to be picky about it, the markings make those P-47s Mediterranean Theater, not ETO. But nobody paid any attention to that in those days. Not that they would pay any attention now for TV, either. As for the Ju-87 vs. P-47 thing, I'm just impressed they actually got film of P-47s. Do you think the film editors knew those were Ju-87s or knew anything about the Ju-87's chances against P-47s? They never gave that a moment's thought. They just got film of German aircraft. That was enough for them.
I was reading that when the invasion of Japan did not go off because Japan got nuked, all of the weapons in storage on Iwo Jima stacked 4 and 5 pallets high were sent to Hanoi. The French were defeated at Dien Bien Phu by American weapons. Look up Col. Fletcher Prouty. He was an intelligence officer in the south Pacific during the war.
Stukas!! More 1940 images. Stukas were rarely seen in the skies over western Europe in 1944 as they were slow and easy meat for Allied fighters.In fact during the Battle of Britain they were withdrawn from the fight halfway through the battle because they were just getting massacred by Spitfires and Hurricanes.
I agree that it does seem implausible that a Stuka could defeat a P-47, unless the "Jug" pilot was asleep at the switch. The Ju 87 is slow and can't climb worth a damn against a Jug, but it can out turn the Jug and it is a very stable gun platform. Still, though, if I were a Stuka pilot and saw enemy fighters in my vicinity I'd drop all external stores and try to haul butt out of there.
That particular fact is mentioned in a couple of different documentaries on History and Military Channel. Also, when reading about casualties in WW2 that number kind of jumps out at you. A good friend of mine's dad was a Belly Gunner in a B17 and when I was in High School (30 years ago) he told us a pile of stories about his flights over Europe. Really dangerous stuff...
He couldnt have said it that way. He would have said, "Major, with all due respect, your expertise is in the air, mine is here on the ground, so do as I say and we'll get you back in the air shortly." Unfortuantely, way to many lives have been lost due to people out of their expertise taking charge and giving orders that went contrary to what should have been done.
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Rick Jason in real life was a private pilot and a crack shot as an avid hunter. Like his role as Hanley as much as Saunders. Fits perfect as a 2nd or 1rst Liutenant. Kind of a Robert Taylor type, and that distinct voice.
Wow !!! A Stuka that could shoot down a P - 47 Thunderbolt WOW !!!! Yea Right !! That's like the Wright Flyer shooting down an F - 14 Tomcat . Not only could the P - 47 take the same damage as an B - 17 Bomber witch was an actual comparison but could tear a Stuka in half with its 6 - 50 caliber Browning machine guns and could fly rings around it .
One thing that strikes me as odd is that, regardless of the hotshot pilot's rank & importance, I would have thought that Hanley would be in command of the rescue operation and would not be taking orders from the pilot.
After D-Day the Germans had few planes left...if you watch The Longest Day movie they manage to get 2 airplanes in the air to attack the americans at Normandy Beach.
Bri G. That. True how didn’t they kill the last two planes over that beach. Air support was not good. The men on the beach was running fir their lives and had to deal with machine guns on the beach planning not so good 😊
That's what I thought. What kind of "ace" gets shot down by a dive bomber while riding in his bullet resistant aerial tank? An arrogant damn fool. That's who
Exactly!!. and a P47 'D bubble canopy late war variant with EIGHT 50's, drop tanks, and, ir underwing bombs or rockets that was fast, and almost as manuverable as a Mustang..LOL!!..Robert at 66.
I just never get tired of combat. I can watch these shows over and over and over again. ❤
Born in 56 and watched them when I could, with my dad and brothers. These are the greatest scenes I have ever seen in any current movie. Dad severed in Korea till the end. USArmy driving 1/2 track.
When he watched it so did I .
IM 61 YEARS OLD. IN 1963 I WAS 3 YEARS OLD. I REMEMBER WATCHING COMBAT, WHEN I WAS A LITTLE KID. I ENJOY COMBAT. TEALLY GOOD ACTING BACK THEN. MUCH ENJOYED. BRETT L.
Im 63. Born in 58' I was stuck to the old black and white Zenith tv every time this show came on. A B C
The live action films make the series even more realisticly looking. Brings it back home to us who wasn’t ever there.
This was my favorite TV show when I was little. I watched it in Japanese every week in Japan.
One day, I told my mom that I liked Americans. Because they all looked cool.
Then, Mom told me that Japan fought against U.S.at same time.
I was surprised to hear that, and asked which won.
She said U.S.,Japan lost. I had nothing to talk back to her. I was just sad.
Now I live in U.S. Watching in English as a U.S. citizen.
Interesting comment. Good luck.
My dad was a Pearl Harbor survivor and in the Navy 39-45. He used to watch Japan News when it aired in the US . He wanted to understand why they attacked. He held no ill will but just wanted to understand the different culture . He took us to Hawaii when we were teens to explain it and show us.
My Father was a tail gunner
On a B-25
In the Pacific Theater
And his brother
Was a truck driver
Some of the things he told us kids
About his missions
My father and uncle were very very fortunate to make it home
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Combat was one o my favorite shows when I was a kid!!!
Awesome episode! If I’ve ever seen it, I certainly don’t recall. Born in 1960, Combat was a staple in our household. 🇺🇸
Born in '55..great stuff as a 10 year old. Also the 'Outer limits'
LOVE LOVE EVERY EPISODE OF COMBAT....THANK YOU YOU TUBE.....
Most of these episodes were shot in Sonoma County, California. Reason was the vineyards and the open land. Funny thing is sometimes you’ll see eucalyptus trees 😂 as there are no eucalyptus tree in Europe. 😂 I’m 70 years old and like others on the page, I always enjoyed COMBAT! 😊
Watched with my dad long time ago,great memories.😊😊😊❤
The eucalyptus trees were introduced in Greece in the late 19th century. They planted them close to marshes to control the mosquitoes and therefore malaria
San Bernardino county at that time and some now, has vineyards. And it’s a hell of a lot closer to Hollywood.
@BARNOWLFLEDGLINGS: seems we’re both right. IMDB mentions Korbel Winery of Guerneville, Ca. and a winery in a town I lived in for a year, Rancho Cucamonga, Ca!
Not only that but they were limited with their prop guns and equipment. There are many scenes where the Germans are shooting M1’s and M1carbines. But, the plot of each episode kept us watching.
I loved combat from the time it first came on the air on our black and white TV. Now seriously, lieutenant's LED platoons but this is a perfect example of Hollywood I would say because they regularly had him lead squads rather than a sergeant and I don't think in the entirety of the series you ever actually saw an entire platoon.
Just a quick note, thanks for this particular episode. My father was one of those "flyboys" - It is always interesting to see the back and forth. My father was a B-17 Bomber Pilot...His plane went down over the Channel two months before I was born. He managed to keep it in the air long enough for his men to get out but he didn't make it.... 12 o'clock High and Combat are my favorite series - while just tv...they give me a bit of a picture back to that time in our history...Thank you again!
Iris Motley My Uncle was also a bomber pilot. His whole crew were lost when he went down in the channel in July 1942.
A little fun fact for you too, Rick Jason (Hanley) and Conlan Carter (Doc) were both pilots in the military. Jason was in the Army Corp in WW2 and Carter was in the Air Force in Korea
very sorry for your loss thanks for his service
I'm so sorry for your lost. RIP for your father!!!
Hope you carried on in his footsteps Iris
The thing about Combat that nobody mentions is the plots were so involved, so well written, that they pass off Southern CA for France and you never question it for one nanosecond! 🇺🇸
YES the MGM Hollywood Hills backlot. Watch out for the rattlesnakes when filming.
Abandoning BMW motorcycles just any where.
I can’t tell you how often I see the So Cal hills in movies or TV shows where they’re being passed off as somewhere else-I grew up down there.
Now California can pass for berlin after the bombings
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Thank you for all your services sir
I can't stop watching these tv classics! Thank You!
We are all tgg the same,thanks also
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I friend of mine told me that his father flew a P47 and his group of four planes were shot down by a famous German group called the Black Aces. His father was the only plane to land safely and said that the German planes attacked out of the sun. I do not know what the planes the Germans flew against the P47, but I think that they must have been either ME109 or FW190. My father who fought in Italy and France saw a German pilot flying over Naples and a number of US planes attacked the sole German plane. He said that the German pilot shot down all of the US planes and must have been someone good. I worked with many WWII veterans and many of them were involved in combat like my father and a number of them suffered wartime injuries. I believe that being in a war is something no one ever forgets and we should always remember their service to our country.
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I haven't seen this series in such a long time. Thank you for uploading these vintage memories.
Its now on the hero's and icons channel, with rat patrol and 12'o clock high
what I liked about this episode is a different area to shoot in and having use of a vineyard., a orchard and a river and a pond The camera angles are quite nice. The last time I saw this was in the dead of winter with lots of snow and wishing a warm summer and this episode put me in a different mind for 50 minutes
That bridge looked like the same one in "The Casket", S04E12
Much of combat was filmed at Franklin Canyon Park the same place where Andy Taylor used to go fishing with Opie, as well as the opening scene of the A. Griffin show with them going fishing.
This was one of the many classic TV series we enjoyed viewing as children circa 1960s along with BONANZA, WILD WILD WEST and A LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE.
Great episode, and Doc pulls some good one liners too.
They went all out making each and every episode that's why they look so real 55 years later.
Word!🌟💯
Easily one of the best episodes of this series
I agree with you about how the use of the actual languages lends to the sense of authenticity. One of the reasons that I like this series so much is that it gives me a chance to hear some of the french that I learned as a kid and have since mostly forgotten.
Jim Nesta Only RC saw one episode where Germans were captioned while in a tank.
I love using my high school French to understand what's being said and to check on Caje's translations.
I remember skipping work and watching this on METV 10 years ago and liked it for a different location in the wine field .
Lt Hanley ( RICK Jason) in 1960 was on the show “ The case of the dangerous robin” the series ran 38 episodes, he played suave insurance investigator Robin Scott. Jason was the first actor to use martial arts (Karate) on TV.
Interesting. I did not like him on Combat.
Thanks for the tip. Took a peek at this Dangerous Robin. Refreshing to se RJ in a different role. In Combat he was so stiff.
I always find it humorous to see the Germans bouncing along on those old bikes.Especially when they are slogging through the mud.A very entertaining episode!
It looks like they must of had blood in their urine after some of those scenes, they're getting hammered on that old BMW...
COMBAT, THE FUGITIVE, COLUMBO, GUNSMOKE, EVERY EPISODE WAS EXCELLANT. TODAY NO GOOD WRITERS, NO MANLY ACTORS.
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They knew how to tell stories.
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P-47s falling to JU-87 Stukas? Very unlikely scenario! For an ace pilot with over 20 kills you'd have thought he would consider a Stuka easy prey. The boys back at the base would have had a field day with him!
Especially since STUKAS ( short for Junkers-87 STURZKAMPFBOMBER ) were ment in first and second line to bombard things for terror reasons. Othereweise those airplanes had been suicidal in a clear direct air-fight. This was the reason the British could shot down so many in the BLITZ over England.
Nothing against SPITFIRES but those English machines were not THAT good.
In the last phase of the European War they were used for suicide missions against bombers crashing tnto them as living bombs ( something that was kept from the public even long after the War was over )
Considering the Stukas were dive bombers not fighters you are absolutely right. Obviously somebody used the wrong clip for that scene. LOL
Sounds like you haven't seen much TV...
yes i posted the same thing. i scrolled down to see your post
I like how he managed to keep his hat on even after bailing out,
Airmen over Europe had a nasty job. The 8th Air Force (just the Bombers and just over Europe) lost more men Killed than the entire United States Marine Corps did in WW2. An infantryman had a horrid job but WAY better odds of coming home in one piece. Great Episode. Another Classic!
A great book to read regarding the 8th Air Force is "Masters of the Air" by Don Miller. They are coming out with a 10 part series based on the book.
This is a s.a.r. ( search and rescue ) mission. The sar officer( Hanley ) has rank over the major. Writers overlooked this one.
En español
Is Reason because the Major is The Mission, To keep Him out of Enemy hands, and back safely ?
My favorite movie in 1976....age of 9....now 52... still enjoying this...tq Sir....
A big THANK YOU for uploading this series.
"Major, all respect, the sky is YOUR battlefield, and these woods are MINE. This is MY rescue mission; you and your wingman are the subjects of same. You are passengers, just as you'd be as an observer on a bomber. Keep your head swiveling, your mouth shut and don't do anything unless I tell you to."
I love the fact that these episodes are so true to life in that the majority of soldiers wouldn’t have understood any other foreign language.
I like that there are no captions in these episodes and that someone must interpret what others are saying so everyone can understand.
Makes it more believable, rather than having everything just in English.
Would be nice thow if I could understand another language, too.
You're exactly right, I live abroad and the number of Americans who can speak more than one language is very small.
Il suffit d'en étudier une ... et de beaucoup travailler.
An incorrect assumption. The American soldiers of the Second World War were the children and grandchildren of European immigrants. A great number of them spoke foreign languages.
@@topixfromthetropix1674 You are exactly wrong. The language abilities of Americans today cannot and should not be compared to the language abilities of men from 75 years ago. These men often spoke the European languages of their parents and grandparents in the household. Stop thinking of skool.
@@bolinfan1519 Zwei jahre in der schule. Dos anos in Zaragoza Espana.
Walk with an Eagle was one of the best episodes I've ever seen in the Combat tv series--utterly magnificent! L.A. Wood
I remember the part where the major says that he rubbed his neck raw on his wool shirt and that’s why he has a silk scarf. Saw this one when I was a kid …
GR. Thanks for uploading. I have watched all first 4 seasons. I was 9 in 1962 and this was the first show I watched. Never knew how good the writing and directing. I absolutely lost it at the end of The Little Carousel. Saunders
Finally letting it out. What an amazing character and actor. Kirby awesome performance and there are two Hanleys. The one that is in the Morrow led episodes as tough and the one in his solo episodes of kind such as the one with De Wilde
You are absolutely right on with your comments here!! I was 10 when these first ran and I watched many with my father. Morrow was an amazing actor and truly was the lead but the rest of the crew were also top notch performers. I'm about half way through all the seasons now and love every single episode. All were very sad stories but this was war. Thanks for your right on comments.
u were born in 53 i was born in 52
my uncle from my childhood passed today
i remember this episode, i was 10 yrs. old that time and remember every friday night, me and my playmates watching combat to our neighbor who has t.v that time black and white.
I feel a bit intimidated by you older folks, for I was a mere five years old in 1962. Yet I recall Combat vividly, and I never missed an episode. My father was a tail-gunner on a B-24 but in the Pacific theater (less flak). It's funny really, because I can't get my 40 yr old to watch an episode.
Hans-Ulrich Rudel - Germany's Most Decorated Ace had shot down nine Soviet aircraft with his Stuka, an incredible achievement for a dive bomber, but not the only dive bomber pilot who managed to do so. In the Pacific theater an American pilot flying a Dauntless dive bomber also shot down at least two Japanese Zeros during a dogfight no less, and purposely did a head- on collision with one; the heavily built Dauntless sheared part of the lighter Zero's wing off sending him spiraling into the ocean, so technically not a shoot down, but a darn good clipping.☺
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I love that they’re pretty much talking about a life or death situation and Doc’s just hanging out playing with a piece of grass 😂😂😂
when you see an episode with 2 unfamiliar characters like private Harmon and Palmer, you feel like saying, "Hey corporal, post these letters to Mr and Mrs Harmon and Palmer."
Just like Star Trec. The new guy/gal was a dead man walking!
Yep, those were the first RED SHIRTS ::)
A double thank you to all you guys who've provided the Combat tv series videos!
L.A. Wood
This episode is very interesting. Soldiers walked with an eagle (metaphor), flying bird, as compared with fighters.
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The P-47 Thunderboldt in the late war 'D trim bubble canopy variant was an awesome and tough plane to take down.
Caldwell lecturing Harmon about keeping alert and staying alive is hilarious, considering it was Caldwell who stupidly charged headlong into the obvious trap that got Palmer killed.
I also was born in 1956 I never missed this show when I was a boy
I watched this show as I was growing up and I still like it. A few things I notice now that make me laugh like they always walk down the middle of a road all grouped together. Oh well for TV it was still a good series and I never missed an episode.
Again, they left behind a perfectly good Garand. That would have been better than the Major's pistol in a firefight. For that matter, the Major could have upgraded his firepower by grabbing a Mauser from one of the dead Germans.
About halfway through my 5-year tour in Germany they put out a directive that all medics who weren't conscientious objectors would carry .45s.
@Marki Faux I was amused by the stuka in a dog fight too no way it could drop a P47 thunderbolt
Mishawaka Post Clark Kent huh? Well it was superman that did 5 years in ww2 so i believe it. Thanks for your service. I’m sorry for what our country has become. But you can be proud before God for your generation.
Doc was a C/O. Refused to carry a weapon.
I watched this combat series years 70s, one thing comes to my notice now that the lieutenant @ Rick Jason just a handsome man! I like this movie very much even black in white! A very classic movie!
love doc motoring away with his leg sticking out over the motorcycle side car :)
Had forgotten this one ,probably only seen it ten time..has somewhat of comedy relief to it
In addition to the psychological and interpersonal realism on "Combat," I like the snippets of French and German conversation you hear sometimes.
those flyboys started the hells angels in the forties after the war, because they needed the adrenaline, thus the words chopper, and other, biker words, Harley-davidson picked up on it, and now has really taken off on it, the sportster model alone is different in every way, and you can buy a model for every body style, yes, those flyboys did a lot.
These last few episodes are skipping a lot. However, the video quality is amazing considering it's from the 60's. I watched an episode of Gunsmoke earlier on cable TV and it looked like a bad VHS recording. Thanks for the uploads.
Jim Stetzer, US ARMY. 1SG Retired. Today is my 18th retirement anniversary. Woo-hoo. Birthday in 2 days. Big 60.
Depends what format the station has them in. I have the Gunsmoke boxed set and they are crystal clear.
Love this show but I just can't imagine how the 1st group of planes has no drop tanks but the 2nd showing they do.....oh well, I love this show
One of my favorite episodes of Combat!
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Jason/Jacobson would have been familiar with "hotshot" pilots from his WW2 service with the USAAF. With all the stock footage of ME-109s & FW-190s, its curious that the producers used Stuka footage as they would never have been sent to intercept Allied fighters.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. No Stuka is going to shoot down aP
The major in this episode also was in The Hunters, a Korean War jet fighter movie with Robert Mitchum and Robert a Wagner.
Combat meets twelve oclock high! Good episode!
I agree. Great episode....
imagine they had Paul Burke as an AAF pilot getting shot down as a guest star......just wow!
31:47 showed a belt of blanks across the dead german soldiers face. Still love this show.
Always feel sad when anyone but the regulars show up!
It's not if they will die but how long into the episode and how many lines they get before they get it!
@GR....watch a day in june when hanley and the saunders were both nco's, they had a little thing for the same woman, amazing episode, but Saunders and hanley made the show, as did lil'John, Kirby, caje, and the Doc.
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Twice I've seen Walk with an Eagle-- it's twice as good the second time!
A Thunderbolt (AKA flying tank) getting shot down by a Stuka which was a dive bomber, not a fighter? Someone didn't do their homework.
The Stuka was tough but the P-47 Thunderbolts would have annihilated every single one of them.
Stukas!! More 1940 images. Stukas were rarely seen in the skies over western Europe in 1944 as they were slow and easy meat for Allied fighters. In fact during the Battle of Britain they were withdrawn from the fight halfway through the battle because they were just getting massacred by Spitfires and Hurricanes.
Another lazy film editor. Did not wish to spend any more time looking for some FW 190 or ME 109 footage. Like mentioned, Stukas were all but gone by the time the invasion of Europe rolled around, and they were by any stretch of the imagination a match for a P 47!
Wayward.
They still used them on occasion though. On the Order during the Soviet assault there in the winter of 1944/45 the airfields the Soviets had captured on the east side of the river were all dirt fields. The rains had turned these into a sea of mud, effectively grounding the Red Air Force. The airfields on the German side were more permanent structures, with concrete runways and taxi strips. This meant that the German air force was able to fly. For the first and probably the only time since Kursk the Luftwaffe had control of the skies, once again the Stuka came into its own. But this was only temporary as the Soviets advanced they captured better airfields or their engineers laid artificial runways over the mud and after short time the Red Force won back control of the skies.
That's OK. If you want to be picky about it, the markings make those P-47s Mediterranean Theater, not ETO. But nobody paid any attention to that in those days. Not that they would pay any attention now for TV, either.
As for the Ju-87 vs. P-47 thing, I'm just impressed they actually got film of P-47s. Do you think the film editors knew those were Ju-87s or knew anything about the Ju-87's chances against P-47s? They never gave that a moment's thought. They just got film of German aircraft. That was enough for them.
I was reading that when the invasion of Japan did not go off because Japan got nuked, all of the weapons in storage on Iwo Jima stacked 4 and 5 pallets high were sent to Hanoi. The French were defeated at Dien Bien Phu by American weapons. Look up Col. Fletcher Prouty. He was an intelligence officer in the south Pacific during the war.
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It is to watch this again! Thank you!
Stukas!! More 1940 images. Stukas were rarely seen in the skies over western Europe in 1944 as they were slow and easy meat for Allied fighters.In fact during the Battle of Britain they were withdrawn from the fight halfway through the battle because they were just getting massacred by Spitfires and Hurricanes.
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hahhha...yea really weird choice of footage... a stuka shooting down a P47...of all the unlikely things.
Stukas were sometimes used later in the war for bombing missions. They would, of course, never have been sent to intercept Allied fighters
@@billboth4814 They were intercepted by the allies
Infact i really love war films as if I was also with them fighting together. I have been watching combat war because I love them
I thought he'd be a Colonel with the title "A walk with an eagle".
I agree that it does seem implausible that a Stuka could defeat a P-47, unless the "Jug" pilot was asleep at the switch. The Ju 87 is slow and can't climb worth a damn against a Jug, but it can out turn the Jug and it is a very stable gun platform. Still, though, if I were a Stuka pilot and saw enemy fighters in my vicinity I'd drop all external stores and try to haul butt out of there.
It was good to see the footage of those jugs at work.
Loved the close up of the belt with blanks.
Vic Morrow absent from this episode doesn't seem quite right
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But it's real good seeing Lt. Henley having to take orders he doesn't like. LOL
Saunders would’ve tore that pilot apart
Most of the squad is red shirts and get knocked off.
sure brings back memories thanks a million
Lt. Hanley was a good CO but, you NEVER "take 5" in the open.
Always under cover.
..when he walked out of the treeline and stood like a clay pigeon I cringed as well!
I believe this episode was filmed at the Korbel winery in Northern CA
i believe you are correct I worked there in 1970 as a vineyard laborer
Too bad you were not there a few years earlier, they might have used you as an extra, Maybe a German general ??
ha- maybe- I worked out of the farm labor bureau in Oakville- lived in Lakoya on Mt Veeder-
But it suddenly became "French territory" -and full of Kraut troops... Hollywood trickery as usual.
Sure looks like Russian river wine country.
I never thought that there were these episodes..In 1964 i was just a kid ..we dnt have a tv .we watch in our neighbors..tv..
I Hate It When They Leave Saunders, Gage, Kirby, & Little John Out!
Caje. for "Cajun".
They're doing R&R
O piloto também é guerreiro
Chris Duke No you need to get past that. He was a fine actor.
@Josh Lonewolf That’s when a plot needs ‘casualties roles’ because those main characters can’t die.
That particular fact is mentioned in a couple of different documentaries on History and Military Channel. Also, when reading about casualties in WW2 that number kind of jumps out at you. A good friend of mine's dad was a Belly Gunner in a B17 and when I was in High School (30 years ago) he told us a pile of stories about his flights over Europe. Really dangerous stuff...
My dad use to do hillclimbs on motorcycles
Steve’s in heaven with Paul Newman.
He couldnt have said it that way. He would have said, "Major, with all due respect, your expertise is in the air, mine is here on the ground, so do as I say and we'll get you back in the air shortly." Unfortuantely, way to many lives have been lost due to people out of their expertise taking charge and giving orders that went contrary to what should have been done.
Yes, that's true
An example of how experience teaches humility and cooperation.
why didnt the major pick up one of the dead Germans guns???
'Cause he's an airedale?
I'm always asking myself the very same question.
@@benlee913 it's not just an officer it's been in every episode that they don't pick up guns.
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Where is Steve McQueen when you need him.
On his own show " Wanted Dead or Alive " .
I watched The Great Escape last night. Hilts finally jumped the bike over the wire and made it to freedom...
Rick Jason in real life was a private pilot and a crack shot as an avid hunter. Like his role as Hanley as much as Saunders. Fits perfect as a 2nd or 1rst Liutenant. Kind of a Robert Taylor type, and that distinct voice.
Two more men give up their lives so that the plot can advance.
Lol ! .... good one.
Been driving me crazy....also born in 1956...SELMUR Productions....Seligman Sel and his wife Muriel Mur = SELMUR.....
Wow !!! A Stuka that could shoot down a P - 47 Thunderbolt WOW !!!!
Yea Right !! That's like the Wright Flyer shooting down an F - 14 Tomcat .
Not only could the P - 47 take the same damage as an B - 17 Bomber witch was an actual comparison but could tear a Stuka in half with its 6 - 50 caliber Browning machine guns and could fly rings around it .
im so jealous who wouldnt love to play act soldier on COMBAT and get paid for it damn
One thing that strikes me as odd is that, regardless of the hotshot pilot's rank & importance, I would have thought that Hanley would be in command of the rescue operation and would not be taking orders from the pilot.
Unrealistic but beautiful story, Thank you.
After D-Day the Germans had few planes left...if you watch The Longest Day movie they manage to get 2 airplanes in the air to attack the americans at Normandy Beach.
The leaders had convinced themselves they were superior to other humans
That's Omaha beach. And then they only managed one pass
That one German pilots call sign was "pips".
Bri G. That. True how didn’t they kill the last two planes over that beach. Air support was not good. The men on the beach was running fir their lives and had to deal with machine guns on the beach planning not so good 😊
Not really.. They still had 2000 for the buldge
33:08 close up of the major shoulder and his insignia. Great show!
Hard to think a Stuka could outfight a P-47!!!!
That's what I thought. What kind of "ace" gets shot down by a dive bomber while riding in his bullet resistant aerial tank? An arrogant damn fool. That's who
I was thinking the same thing..lol how the hell did that happen.!
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Exactly!!. and a P47 'D bubble canopy late war variant with EIGHT 50's, drop tanks, and, ir underwing bombs or rockets that was fast, and almost as manuverable as a Mustang..LOL!!..Robert at 66.
I wonder where this was filmed? Nice vineyards and orchards and a forest but it is dry, dry, dry. Must have been in a terrible drought.
Horrywood!
The authentic film footage of the German Stukas was a small error. Stukas were dive bombers primarily and easy prey for allied fighters.
The good shows now can be counted on 1 finger. T.V. is more commercials than anything.