"combat"

[The Wizard]

DaveN,

They are Tool, Entrenching, Model of 1910.

[LeagleEagle]

I just found a set of "Combat" DVDs last year and it sure did take me back to my early teen years in the '60s. And, like my brother used to say, they faced the "deaf, dumb and blind" German brigade!

[DaveN]

hey wiz,
is tool, entrenching 1910 correct for combat (the real thing---42-45) or is this another incorrect item that makes us so smart to notice.
also can anyone tell me the truth about how vic was killed in filming and
who else if any. i recll vic and someone else and a helicopter was involved.
i don't know the date but i seem to remember seeing it on the news when it happened.

[The Wizard]

DaveN,
The short answer is yes it is correct for World War 2. In fact I think they were produced until 1942. You have to remember there was a large stock pile of equipment left over from World War 1. The end of the war in November of 1918 took planners by surprise. A BIG allied offensive was being planned for spring 1919 and equipmenmt was being made to support it.

I am sure if you Google Vic Morrow (just last night I saw a younger Vic Morrow play a totally different soldier in "Men At War") you can find out the story of him death..

[Bob Womack]

Vic was performing in a scene with a helicopter and pyrotechnics. The chopper was directed do too close to the ground and into the path of an explosive effect. When the explosive was fired, the chopper was "shot down." It landed on Vic and two children he was carrying and killed all three. More HERE .

Bob

[grvv@aol.com]

I was With 1st Cav Airmobile in 1965-66, when we were in from the field they would show us reruns of the series "Combat". Our standing joke was " we'll find out what we did wrong today.
Greg
by the way, I went over with a full auto Winchester M14 issued to me right out of the shipping crate in the States.

[DaveN]

I'm In the third season and out of all the episodes I can honestly say I only remember a few.
I'm sure I truly only watched 10 or 12 when I was 10 yrs old. That's good cause it's all good.
I also may have seen the ones at the end of the series. Time will tell. Does anyone think they will bring it back, what I mean , like for instance "Hawaii 5 O" you know new actors and modern film tech, not reruns?

[Mike D]

I've got the whole series, also. Haven't watched it all, but I do recall catching Rick Jason walk out of a room with an early carbine (no bayo-lug), and then he comes into the next room with a carbine with the bayo-lug! Great show!

[DaveN]

Wait till you see the episode when he's trapped in a farm house and the German patrol goes by. At the front door his carbine isn't there and a second later it's leaning against the wall but he hasn't moved. Full scene ,quick head shot, full scene again. Rifle,no rifle or no rifle, rifle I'm not sure which but one of several bloopers of which on the DVD they point out if they catch them.

[bentonville]

Hills are for Heroes in one scene Hanley has a field pack on and the very next minute he steps into a bunker and no field pack. Still, those bloopers never have bothered me. They did a lt with a little with that series, according to what I was told by Jack Hogan. They had five days or less to film an episode from start to finish. They had a low budget in which Jason and Morrow got the most. If they were running low on budger for series, they would write out one of the characters such as Cage or Kirby. The special effects were really good for that time and required live action and live controlled explosions. Who cares if Sarge can throw a grenade better than any Major League Pitcher and kill more Germans with a single chop to the side of the neck than any Stegal character. The acting was really great.
When Jack Hogan, who's real name is Roland Benson, told me and my son about filming Hills are for Heroes, he claimed that as his personal favorite. He explained to us that when doing the scene where he was called down off the hill his squad had fought and died for, he improvised a line that was very poignant. He had a dramatic response as he motioned to a dead G.I. and said.."....what about him.......I don't even know his name.....he can't come down..." I always had loved that scene and when Roland told us about it, he actually had tears in his eyes. He loved that show and was amazingly willing to talk to us for several hours about the cast and guest stars.
I am sorry to run on about it but I have always admired the acting and story lines on the show. I am 60 and instantly I go back to my childhood and happy times of my life as a young boy.