COMBAT! s.2 ep.16: "Gideon's Army" (1963)

[@landser4377]

I'm 22 years old and am a WW2 reenactor. I watch this show in between events! TV will never be this good again.

[@oatis053]

When I was just ten years I did not realize just how good this show was. But now that I am 65, and I re-watch these episodes I can fully understand just how great this show was. Awesome writing and acting!!!

[@MrUhwoody]

I know what you mean. By the way, I still have a bunch of Sgt. Rock comics.

[@r.lb3807]

I'm your age, loved this show growing up and now I see how good it really was, Vic Morrow makes a great squad leader

[@johnmandas4407]

Great show

[@TheFishdoctor1952]

@@MrUhwoody Lost all my Sgt Rock comic books when we moved years later. Always thought Combat came from the comic book series. Though the characters on combat had different names, you could see the relationship to the characters in the comic book.

[@shackman9566]

I know that every thing we see in these episodes isn't all fact or historical record. But so much of it is. And it is a reminder that we must never forget the sacrifice of those who gave all.

[@JoseGarza-f7p]

Agree. 100%

[@DrkKnight2]

How can anyone not be moved by this? Mr. Morrow's reaction upon discovering them was absolute majesty. Incredible episode from and equally incredible show.

[@emelitabelolo8304]

Being a jewish himself, Vic Morrow seemed emotional in this episode.

[@triciajohansen7124]

How could he NOT? He was Jewish and I'm sure it broke his heart. I am an Orthodox Christian and I am sobbing at the way the Lord's people were treated!😪🙏☦

[@571951rhoehn1]

The great, one of the great things, about this series was Vic Morrow. He could tell you how difficult something was to him or the situation was, just in his facial expressions!

[@Thompson-xp1mk]

Your wink was so pretty that I was moved.

[@bolinfan1519]

@@triciajohansen7124 There must be many memorials in Israel for the Poles who died in WWII, no?

[@leezeidel3630]

Just another in a long line of great episodes always with lessons to be learned .

[@kathymcmahon6582]

But this actually happened!!!!!

[@Anonymous123147]

Few television shows have moved me more than this. Truly inspiring storytelling.

[@ebutuoy406]

wow!!! you are correct.

[@motomark9736]

I'm 55 and didn't ever watch combat as a kid but since I've found it through searching on you tube about WWII because my Dad was in the Navy on a submarine in WW2 and was in the Army before the bombing of Pearl harbor . I've been watching nothing else for weeks great show

[@jessfrankel5212]

Good episode. The one-eyed prisoner is played by Reginald (Reggie) Nalder, who appeared in Star Trek as an Andorian ambassador. He had a very odd speaking voice, and was a fine character actor.

[@jasonfrew6015]

Each of these episodes of COMBAT! are about as good (sometimes better) than many feature length war films.

[@croatianknight1160]

These were the true Band of Brothers. What excellent episodes. Better than today,s movies.

[@kathrynmcmahon4048]

I miss them all soooo very very much. They and Combat CANNOT be duplicated, EVER. Like the Little Rascals!!!. Vic you are so sorely missed!!! I pray they were BELIEVERS!!!!

[@manuelbermudez211]

There have been PLENTY OF MOVIES THAT ARE BETTER THAN COMBAT. Don’t be so locked in on the past cause you haven’t grown up since the 60s. Just sayin …

[@maureenwood9759]

just seeing a portion of these, due to poor bandwidth, brings me back to the time when I was a carefree kid of 13 and thought there was nothing else but to be a soldier and to go to war. Thanks for the videos, and the wonderful memories!

[@rickyellison9103]

The halcyon days of long ago !!

[@bozotheclown935]

I know most of these stories. Watched em as a kid as they were aired. Best war portrayal's ever put into a TV series. I have all the series on DVD. They spoiled it when they went to color. Filming locations then started to look like California. Hard to believe Vic Morrow died as he did. His top acting life was in this series. I particularily like Pierre Jalber. Would have liked to have met him the most out of all of them. Long live this series...

[@flintrichards945]

Near the end of the war my father who was a Sargent in the Army was one of some men that found a concentration camp of the Germans he said it was the worst thing he ever saw during the war he could not believe the horrors that the Germans perpetrated on the people of there own country and others . God bless the men who fought and won that war. Sic semper Tyrannus.

[@Lajs657]

God bless your father, Sir.

[@flintrichards945]

@@Lajs657 thank you I loved him very much he was my hero.

[@bolinfan1519]

Recall the scenes at the beginning of the episode showing attacks by Allied bombers and P-51 Mustangs strafing convoys and trains. It was the destruction of Germany's lines of supply and communications which led to the starvation of prisoners in the camps. That is why the Poles were starving in this camp. The Germans couldn't supply them with food because the Allies prevented them from being able to do so. That is why those particular scenes were shown at the beginning, to explain what happened to them.

[@Invictus13666]

@@bolinfan1519 yes. The conditions in the labor camps was all the American’s fault.

[@bolinfan1519]

@@Invictus13666 What about the British? Did you forget about them or did you not know that they were also involved in attacking Germany's lines of supply and communication?

[@love_janee7629]

What a realistic episode. Encountering one of these concentration camps as a soldier is unimaginable. There is a small number of Combat! episodes that were not written that well( like when Vic Morris’s as Sergeant Saunders single handedly taking on a German Panzer without a weapon or explosives) but this episode is true to life.

[@frankhitch5080]

"and what more shall I say? For time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets, who by faith conquered kingdoms, performed acts of righteousness, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions, quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight." (Hebrews 11) The LORD sent Gideon to deliver Israel from the hand of Midian and said to him "surely I will be with you and you will defeat Midian as one man." He could certainly send six soldiers to deliver a group of Polish prisoners! Thanks for posting this episode.

[@kathrynmcmahon4048]

And God was with Gideon!!!

[@tomlong4848]

Powerful message in this episode! Never give up, believe and have faith, and all things are possible.

[@clintonstahlman4618]

It must be nice to be so naive! Justice does not always win out. But the battle does go on and one has to fight for what is right. You are naive but I like your style. Never give up , never surrender if your cause is just!

[@kathymcmahon6582]

@@clintonstahlman4618 As God Himself saids trust in me. I will provide!!

[@kathymcmahon6582]

God NEVER said it would be easy!!!!

[@keithrissolo7437]

I remember back in 1990, as a Soldier taking a tour, we walked through Dachau...If anyone thinks these things did not exist, I urge you to go to one of them and do a walk through....It was one of the most overwhelming feelings I had ever felt to this very day....And to this very day I don't know if what I was feeling was simply my own mind, or the spirits crying out to me....

[@Invictus13666]

Just your overactive imagination, fed on years of bs like this.

[@topixfromthetropix1674]

The first scene in the prisoner ward was very powerful, I found myself holding my breath because of the imagined stench.

[@vernwallen4246]

Vic and Rick were tailor made for this series.🗽👍

[@viperexpress305]

The great generation is almost gone & it's good to know that Combat will keep telling the story of World War 2 !!

[@m42037]

There's also concentration camp survivers also 76 and older. They'll be around another 20 years

[@sutonchef]

Amen

[@karsiminadhi2196]

Mo

[@Deebz270]

@@m42037 Doubtful. Most of us will be struggling for survival well within 2 decades.

[@Deebz270]

A great generation for sure, but what did they fight and die for? Just look at the rise in right-wing facsist ideologies that are a metastazing cancer infecting most nations, especially the western democracies. . Most of our forefathers who fought in WW2 would no-doubt be turning in their graves, if they knew what has come to pass; Dead democracies on a planet where the biosphere is in a state of flux, where a mass extinction is ongoing and where the chances for survival are becoming more limited by the day.

[@markadams7597]

Wow! What a great episode! This one is award worthy...

[@karencupples1339]

Thank you for posting the best show ever, Combat, power packed with life lessons and illustrated sermons, to inspire us onward and to not give up. See also my continued comments below ( while freedom of free speech still exists )

[@kennethduval6769]

This tv show is the best I’ve ever seen , past and present. I can’t stop watching it. I need Help! Help!!

[@chriscarreno4930]

Amen!!! The Bible says, There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the Lord.

[@obbor4]

I didn't go a Sunday School either, but I saw this tactic used in Beau Geste. Great going, Sarge!

[@fuyu5979]

Wow ! What an episode that's different from the regular writing of Combat. It took a humanistic view n casualty of the war. Kudos for uploading this vid. Looking forward to ur next one.

[@tycobb1955]

One of the best episodes.

[@grizzlycountry1030]

Friend of mine has his grandmother's concentration camp number tattooed on his arm in memory of her and to remember what his family endured.

[@onlythewise1]

thye shouldnt of fucked the original Germans in Germany then

[@kathrynmcmahon4048]

God bless anyone who is still alive who went through such horrors as that!!! I pray they turn to Jesus. That-s the only way in Heaven!!!! TRUTH!!!!

[@bob_btw6751]

I lived and worked in the SF Bay area for many years some of it in retail. I had customers with their camp tattoo numbers on their arms. They were very frail and a strong wind would blow them off balance. I used to wake up from nightmares and remembered from them a tattoo number being on my arm. Those customers I treated with extra special care and courtesy and gave them a discount on the products they purchased. Management was okay with my doing that, but the other sales clerks didn't do it. As a veteran I remembered the little bit my father told me about his time in Europe as a soldier. He never talked about the horrors he saw, but only funny stories. He did not let us watch this show on the tv when it was first broadcast.

[@bolinfan1519]

@@bob_btw6751 Those were bank account numbers.

[@rogerlynch5279]

When you think that Hitler and his bunch had justified themselves by quoting Nitzsche. " A STRONG LEADER IS NOT BOUND BY THE LAWS OF THE COMMEN ETHIC OR MORALE RULES" and "THE OLD AND USED HAS TO GIVE PLACE TO THE NEW ". Also. " GOD EITHER DON`T GIVE A DAMN OR IS DAED/NEVER EXISTED " Nitzsche had phrased those thoughts and others in his famous bouk DER ÜBERMENSCH ( THE SUPERMAN ) Even though I grant that the famous phiosopher never had thsi in mind. But theis gritty interpretation of his writings still exists in the heads of some people

[@larrywood8427]

Gideon's Army, like all the other Combat episodes, was simply magnificent. Thought I was a 13-year-old again in 1963. Is this rerunning anywhere? Love it beyond measure!

[@youtubegregg]

Heroes and Icons channel once a week

[@peterbartolomeo956]

H& I tv. Heros n Icons

[@peterbartolomeo956]

Sat. Night about 9 pm EST

[@chrisroman3415]

Most likely one of the best episodes in all 5 seasons sad but the sarge saves the day.Comrade that's Richard Jaeckel great actor 👍Milton Selzer was great as the leader 👍 of the polish people and at the end Conlan Carter short speech was 👍.

[@rayscott4780]

Never underestimate the ability of the American fighting man. Airborne all the way.

[@keithrissolo7437]

AND THEN SOME....

[@VincentasEU]

Great episode. Thanks for uploading. Watching from European Union, Lithuania.

[@Robbi496]

Milton Selzer was such an excellent actor!

[@MrUhwoody]

A superb episode. Love that King James Bible. Accept no substitutes.

[@gdblackthorn4137]

MrUhwoody, you can say that again!

[@shimshonbendan8730]

@Marki Faux The King James Bible has perhaps the best English translation there is. Everything from the Hebrew Bible-Tanach, was included. The same applies to the New Testament. Now, if you are talking about extra-Biblical books like Enoch or the Book of Jasher, they are so full of errors, they obviously are not part of scripture. Nobody "cherry picked" anything. Only an ignoramus could make such an assertion. I guess the real question is, "Who in the heck are you that you think you are so high and mighty?" Dude, get an education and quit making such astoundingly ignorant, asinine statements.

[@strattuner]

Marki,there is enough to lead any man back to god,jesus said you must be born again,and only the pure in heart shall see god,that covers it right there,the words of the bible will stand when the worlds on fire,repent and be saved,men in foxholes know god real well,my dad was there in Europe during this slaughter,he said there were few atheists

[@simonbroberg969]

Hail Thor!

[@strattuner]

that berg explains everything,use some common sense,if you have any ,any at all

[@spunkychk5555]

The actual WWII footage had me replaying this one.

[@rbm6184]

Richard Jaeckel playing the Nazi Sergeant in this episode played in many roles of many movies back then. A good actor.

[@johnindo6771]

I think that Richard was also in “Circus Boy”. It might have been “Rin Tin Tin”.

[@williamhiles7404]

Richard Jaeckel,great actor, was also in numerous Gunsmoke episodes. The best were The Raid and Larkin.

[@RrR34025]

WOW - what a great episode ! ARE THERE ANY GOOD WRITERS LEFT IN HOLLYWOOD? WHERE HAVE ALL THE GREAT WRITERS GONE

[@kathrynmcmahon4048]

There are no great writer's in Hollywood anymore. That's why tv schedule us always changing. And if a show us really funny the suits take it off the air!!!

[@Rosebud-m5v]

These videos can't be made without the knowledge of the Bible and the awesome God in it, who sacrificed and sacrifices for us and showed us and empowers us in Christ by his Spirit in our spirit how to live a life of self sacrifice and love, by calling on Him. We need to return to such a solid ground in the culture, as those who founded this nation modeled for us and intended for this nation and as God did!

[@kathymcmahon6582]

@@Rosebud-m5v Yes, indeed we do!!!

[@edbecka233]

They died off and were replace by know-nothing mice with "leftist arts" degrees from subverted "schools".

[@stephencox4224]

When you look at the different episodes you realise that in almost every episode there were different writers involved in each storyline and I would bet that was to bring first hand knowledge of the scenario being portrayed to each episode, That is why Combat is head and shoulders above so many others when it comes to what they achieved and add in that in the fifties and sixties many playing WW2 roles actualy were involved in WW2 and added their own experiences into the roles they played

[@billhuber2964]

My uncle liberated one of those camps. What he saw words can't describe the horror. The perpetrators are burning in hell.

[@michaelh7429]

Thanks for his service

[@valenkadayanaarevaloaguila6281]

@@michaelh7429 Di vio

[@georgesslowik7752]

And yet there are still many who are denying the existence of those camps

[@Lajs657]

God bless your uncle, Sir.

[@bolinfan1519]

The starvation was caused by the Allies as noted above. What about Eisenhower's death camps for surrendered German soldiers along the Rhine meadows? 2 million starved to death. And 10 million German civilians were starved to death after the war.

[@louismattajr9040]

A team never knows what it's fully capable of until it is backed up against a wall.

[@user-yu1yz6qk1g]

All credit goes to the wall.

[@commandosolo_193]

I don't understand how people could think this didn't happen. Even 20 years later these guys didn't gain the weight or anything.

[@bolinfan1519]

You are very confused.

[@kathymcmahon6582]

A lot of ppl do not want to see/hear

[@markcollins2666]

I was a soldier stationed in Germany, in the mid 70's at the time the TV miniseries "Holacaust" came out. There were plenty of Germans that came out of their houses the next day, and swore that this never happened, and they never knew anything about it. Yeah, right.

[@sambeach2726]

Good to see correct radio procedures. So many other military shows get it wrong.

[@Tipi_Dan]

6:50 There was a similar scene roadside in the little known James Stewart movie "The Mountain Road", which presented a rather brutal depiction of China during WWII. In that film the fellow trying to give food away was trampled and smothered.

[@Rikki0]

The Mountain Road is a really a good movie. Did not get the acclaim it should have. Loved Lucy Liu in that.

[@maureenwood9759]

Gideon's Army was excellent, as is all the Combat tv series episodes L.A. Wood

[@rickyellison9103]

I love it that some ladies appreciate this show !

[@Rosebud-m5v]

@@rickyellison9103 yes! We love the valor of our men and the wonderful self sacrifice they showed in the face of such extensive evil!

[@deborahlangnese7645]

Richard jackal as a German. Great actor

[@wasnhas]

Powerful episode !

[@saulpaulus]

Of course, Morrow was Jewish and I seem to recall reading something about him having a special sensitivity for the Holocaust. I wonder if he played any role in writing or producing this episode.

[@dindinprivate3477]

Perhaps that is why they took the quote from the Torah (the Five Books Of Moses), that the Christians call the Old Testament.

[@AbdulKarim-sw6fy]

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[@SaltySaints]

@@dindinprivate3477 uhhhh the Book of Judges, I don't think, is in the Torah. But it certainly was appropriate for the point.

[@MasterChief-sl9ro]

@@SaltySaints The Torah refers to the five books of Moses. The first written accounts. I'm sure they knew the story of the other books..Which were passed down orally. And what is amazing these oral accounts are highly accurate. Given the Dead Sea scroll find..As these stories were put down in written word form hundreds of years later...

[@williamrichards3707]

@@dindinprivate3477 Maybe however Christians know the story very well themselves. I have an Italian Irish mother and a Czechoslovakian Jewish father who's family were victims of the Holocaust 95% of them. However I wasn't brought up Catholic or Jewish I was brought up Christian and know the story of Gideon well

[@williamhiles7404]

In this episode the Jewish man on crutches played Jezra Cobb, PA Hack, and Albert the bank clerk, and other characters on Gunsmoke, which I have tied with Combat as the best shows ever on TV. Thanks again.

[@glenne.smithjr.5846]

Combat! S02E16 "Gideon's Army" - 1963 ******** 6 Stars - This is one of the most Serious Episodes in the Combat TV Series .Sgt Saunders and Squad come across an Abandoned Polish concentration Camp with survivors inside. They meet Colonel Glinski played by Milton Selzer a Polish Jew survivor. Worst comes to worst when they see starving survivors and a desperate call to the O.H.Q. Saunders finds out that a small German patrol is on the way. A German Sgt played by Richard Jaeckel is captured when he is forced to surrender after his Squad is wiped out. Sgt Buxman won't give any information but Saunders figures away to make him talk. Very warming scene when Doc reads from the Old Testament on the Book of Judges on the "Sword of Gideon" . The last 5 minutes of the episodes is very emotional as the 3 Medical Convey Trucks comes in to pick up the survivors...A War that changed the World forever -- World War II... 20 of the Greatest Episodes of Combat were released in 2012... I hope this Episode is one of them...Glenn E. Smith jr. Tuesday, 08/18/2015, 1:18PM Vietnam Veteran...

[@Greyjoy6]

Glenn E. Smith Jr. "Polish concentration camp" ? Some of concentration camps were located in conquered Poland but they were built and administered by Germans and it would be proper to call them "German" or "nazi concentration camp", for god's sake! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camps

[@dindinprivate3477]

chris richard: The Germans used cattle cars on the railroads to transport Jews from anywhere in Europe (incl. Greece) to the Death camps in Poland. POWs were also sometimes transported in cattle cars, but not squeezed in till there was no room to sit. The forced labour were transported similarly. This episode depicts forced labour from Poland sent to France.

[@MrBobthebird]

The Sargent From The " Dirty Dozen " He Never Ages

[@bailey9r]

No Marki he's talking about Richard Jaeckel. He was also in John Wayne's "Chisum", Paul Newman's "The drowning pool" and a thousand other roles.

[@zacharyjohnson6453]

Don't forget Guadal Canal Diaries and Sands Of Iwo Jima..

[@keithrissolo7437]

This one was very powerful, very emotional.....

[@erieliver8887]

The emotion was the faces of Saunders and Doc when they saw the prisoners....

[@triciajohansen7124]

I can't even begin to imagine what Vic Morrow was thinking.

[@bolinfan1519]

@@triciajohansen7124 They were Polish prisoners.

[@dinahnicest6525]

When Doc said it's been done before, I thought he was going to tell him about Beau Geste.

[@bobmalack481]

Kirby with the BAR and the attitude is awesome!..my kind of guy..Robert at 67.

[@Bielostotsky]

R.I.P. dear Vic! forgive them...Love

[@watchgoose]

He is buried in a Jewish cemetery.

[@kathrynmcmahon4048]

I miss Vic soooo much!!!

[@monk8u]

This was the best episode.

[@garymazur2217]

Yes that's MP sergeant from the dirty dozen standing above the foxhole way back starting his career looks so young here. Looks much older in the movie.Many actors starred on this show, was very popular at the time. One of my fav,s who starred was Charles Bronson. Surprised Charleston Heston never did an episode.

[@mandolndoc]

ANOTHER VERY POWERFUL EPISODE.

[@MasterChief-sl9ro]

Any Military student of Warfare should read the Bible. It teaches tactics and training used to this day..Patton was an astute reader of the Bible. He understood the basic concept of warfare..It comes down to people. They can be cruel to each other or instruments of God to stop it..Why America fought a civil war to stop Slavery..As some just refused to give up them Slaves.

[@stephencox4224]

When you look at the different episodes you realise that in almost every episode there were different writers involved in each storyline and I would bet that was to bring first hand knowledge of the scenario being portrayed to each episode, That is why Combat is head and shoulders above so many others when it comes to what they achieved and add in that in the fifties and sixties many playing WW2 roles actualy were involved in WW2 and added their own experiences into the roles they played

[@GoldenWinger001]

The reality is that very few aimed shots are taken in combat. Mostly, both sides lay down a withering fusillade to allow other element to maneuver in for a kill at close ranges and failing that, they hope that the enemy loses interest and will leave.

[@saulpaulus]

BTW a German infantry platoon in 1944 would have had, at most, 32 men total assuming it was at full strength. Having lost 9 men, that platoon surely had less than 2 dozen left. Still heavy odds, but not 7 to 1.

[@Archie583]

This episode is awesome. When the German soldier is tied to the gallows and the prisoners come for him, it's like the first Zombie movie ever made! I am in my 70s. Combat! was my favorite show as a kid. We spent hours with our Army surplus helmets, jackets, belts, etc. and toy rifles being Sarge, the lieutenant, Cage, Kirby and Little John, recreating war scenes in the park nearby. Unfortunately, Viet Nam came, and half our crew had to do this for real. God bless our troops.

[@lynnesaginaw8061]

Did you notice that the frightened German was the fine character actor Richard Jaeckel, eventually an Oscar nominee for "Sometimes a Great Notion"?

[@stevensica5918]

And now the Zionist perpetrate war crimes against Pally civilians in Gaza. They have become the monsters who formerly oppressed them.

[@robertjacob6674]

What a squad what a bunch of cool dudes if this was real life I'd love to be with these men

[@stevenmelides555]

The cast is amazing some ov the best actors from back in the day

[@milehayes888]

I got to see and meet Rick Jason in Clarksville once he was very nice and he gave his autograph I wish that Vic Morrow would have been there

[@jkmorrison1013]

Good episode, and so wonderful to hear God's word read, even in this capacity. Today, they would never allow the Bible to be read - burned, yes, "discredited," - yes, but never read aloud.

[@doctorartphd6463]

That's changing - because the patriots are changing that. Fight, stand up, and have courage !!

[@shackman9566]

That must change or our nation will continue to deteriorate from within. The bible is the living word of God. The power to change men's hearts.

[@MasterChief-sl9ro]

That is a Myth.. One in which the education system uses to promote fear. Fact is, you can read what ever you want even in class. As the Supreme Court ruled many years ago..And any school that tries to prevent it. Can and will be sued. Why your taxes are so high. They had to payout $Millions... And no I'm not religious. I just hate Bigots of any kind. The ones that use Science as cover to practice it..

[@jkmorrison1013]

no myth, the ACLU and others of their ilk fight it constantly and usually win, not because they are right, but because of liberal judges. it's a matter of record a million times over. not just schools, everywhere, and not just in America.

[@MasterChief-sl9ro]

@@jkmorrison1013 It's a myth. No such law exist. And you can sue for anything. Why they got you fooled. You believe their horse shit..As many have sued the ACLU and won. Now go read....

[@hiyallhiyall1644]

I am JEWISH. This episode has a lot of meaning to me. The nazis murdered dozens of my family members in Hungary. God Bless our military. God Bless the USA. God Bless President Trump.

[@Baskerville22]

Did they say the prisoners were Jewish ? The leader said they were Poles. It would be very unusual for the Germans in WW2 to take Jews from Poland to France for laboring work. Most were killed in Poland at the 'death camps' there.

[@hapgood22]

Trump is a racist SOB. You are a deluded fool.

[@MrUhwoody]

And you're a luciferian tool, R. Dingleberry. @@hapgood22

[@benlee913]

@@MrUhwoody thank you're funny don't You? What exactly is a luciferian???

[@Crackshotsteph]

@@benlee913 Satan worshiper.

[@Schtuperfly]

This show depicts the Greatest Generation better than any history book. For example how they all covered their noses when they found the prisoners. I've been to the Halacaust Museum in Washington which was an absolutely overwhelming experiance (I lost it in the "shoes of the dead" display looking at baby shoes) but, the Halacaust Museum left out the smell, not Combat.

[@grizz49jq]

What a great episode!

[@alexisjordan9055]

Poor Doc got the wrong end of a dog pile. Pretty sure he got some emotional scarring from that experience alone.

[@159yy]

These polish prisoners depicted here in this episode were probably infantry. In The Battle of Britain movie, watch the ending where it lists the many different countries the allied pilots came from, I learned the Polish pilots helped a lot in helping the English pilots win that major air battle for England. You can watch free with ads The Battle of Britain movie on You Tube.

[@ashman187]

LT: Sgt:3kia Caje:1kia Kirby:2kia LJ:1kia 1.5 seasons total LT: 23kia, 2PH, 5trucks Sgt: 98kia, 5PH, 2BS, Prisoner Caje: 26kia, 2PH Kirby: 26kia, 1PH, 1BS, Prisoner LJ: 18kia, 3PH

[@SuperIliad]

Gideon's Army, Season 2, Episode 16, aired Dec 31, 1963. Vic Morrow as Sgt. Saunders; Rick Jason as Lt. Hanley; Milton Selzer as Col. Glinski; Jack Hogan as Kirby; Pierre Jalbert as Caje; Tom Lowell as Billy Nelson; Dick Peabody as Littlejohn; Conlan Carter as Doc; Albert Szabo as Karacz; Reggie Nalder, Man With One Eye; Ray Baxter as Cougher; Marc Cavell as Jan; Peter Hellman, German Sergeant; Hans Heyde (as Dean Heyde), German Soldier; Lou Robb, German Lieutenant; Richard Jaeckel as Sgt. Buxman; Walt Davis, German Soldier.

[@rickyellison9103]

Richard Jaeckl ? was another great character actor. Wish they would rerun Combat on METV or 1 of the many sub channels they have these days. BTW, I know a 96 year old navy vet I need to go visit. He was a diesel mechanic on a wooden mine sweeper in South Pacific working primarily in Philippines. He's still quite a rooster, sharp and joke and laugh at himself. I don't know if they were the "Greatest" generation but dern they're good people and it 65 I really miss the ones no longer here

[@zacharyjohnson6453]

I bet this episode must have hit close to Home for Vic considering he himself was Jewish.

[@triciajohansen7124]

@GeraldTheBusDriver yes, he was. His parents were Russian Jewish immigrants.

[@danrobinson572]

Or anyone who was.

[@kathymcmahon6582]

Rick Jason was also.

[@kathymcmahon6582]

So I'd Rick

[@saulpaulus]

Guessing the prior episode was meant to lighten the mood for a shell-shocked public after the JFK assassination and prior to this episode. Don't believe there were any such camps in France but Morrow esp had strong feelings about the Holocaust as his parents were Jewish immigrants. BTW Ike knew some would try to deny the Holocaust so he ordered every GI possible and every German civilian possible to visit the camps. He wanted as many witnesses as possible.

[@maureenorourke3292]

There is film of townspeople forced to march past a camp and ordered to look at the piles of dead skeletal bodies waiting for the incinerators.

[@saulpaulus]

Yes & that is due to Ike's orders. That would have been in Germany. There were transit camps in France but no extermination camps.

[@PeterOkeefe54]

no religeon specified..no moralizing..its left to you to do any further research if you want..this is what I like about MSM of yesteryear as compared to today....this stirred interest rather than preach a certain agenda

[@kathrynmcmahon4048]

Israel is God Almighty's baby. Ppl have been after the Jewish/Christian ppl since forever!!! Believe and have faith that Jesus will one call you to your permanent home!!! God bless ys all!!!! Jesus is real!!!!

[@kathymcmahon6582]

Only one God Jesus!!!

[@tomrennick5130]

*Both Vic (Sgt Saunders) Morrow and Rick (Lt. Hanley) Jason died violently - Morrow was decapitated by an anti-Semitic helicopter blade and Jason blew his brains out with an anti-Semitic handgun. Back then, The Curse of Hitler was everywhere.*

[@mrtravdawg]

That's Richard Jaeckel. He's been in plenty of shows and movies. My favorite show with him was on a Bonanza when he played the head bad guy. He's a shorty for guy at 5'7".

[@jimc6687]

I also loved him on 'Spenser for Hire' as the lieutenant!! Jim C.

[@mikeburkholder9153]

Hey, Saunders is back after a couple of episodes.

[@benlee913]

He was probably on vacation that's why you miss a few of them here and there some of the characters that is

[@DrkKnight2]

Mr. Morrow was actually on strike for better pay and working conditions for the cast and crew.

[@lesleybryce5444]

I wish all bernie sanders supporters could watch this episode !!!!

[@bill3928]

Wow... what a show!!!!

[@williamhiles7404]

In almost every episode I see actors who were in Gunsmoke episodes. In the previous episode there was 5 people alone.

[@LoneWolf051]

Same set from Twilight Zone where the former Kommandant returns to his old camp, and is haunted by the ghost of a dead prisoner

[@Robbie_S]

Yes. The prison was replica of camp Dachau, in both of these episodes.

[@otis4119]

Not only Gideon, what about, "Beau Geste"? Good job sarge

[@doorswhofan]

Wild to see Richard Jaeckel in this one -- and only listed in the end credits. No guest starring billing at the episode intro.

[@edbecka233]

Same with James Caan. "before they were big" was the pool where the casting crew like to fish.

[@rogerlynch5279]

THE CONCENTRATION CAMP. This here is not the main one but rather a LABOUR CAMP as the Gerans had them to the Dozens. In sofar a good stage built up 6:15 DPs DISPLACED PERSONS for the younger crowd. Not shure if this term is still in use.

[@alfredagreen336]

Just Excellent!

[@49niners100]

This is the closest they came to the Holocaust in the series. Should have used this episode for the last show in the last year!!!

[@TheFishdoctor1952]

Couldn't help but notice this was the same set that Rod Sterling used in one of his shows about Dachau

[@richardnogan4579]

Great show! Kirby and Sunday school. 😂

[@scoobbbbbydo]

The german in the fox hole at 19.00 was in the dirty dozen played a mp sargent .

[@GoldenWinger001]

I'm glad that you bought a dictionary, they are very useful books.

[@mishawakapost2681]

Once there were operational Allied airfields in France, Germans were afraid to move during the day, especially after Rommel's staff car was strafed by an Allied fighter plane. There have to be some carts in that compound.

[@nicholascollora6709]

Thx gene vic and Jason. Noe Gideon appeared in Judges words USA thx

[@darylcumming7119]

Man's inhumanity towards their fellow man based on the belief in an ideology based on hatred ,sadly. Another top episode.

[@nicholascollora6709]

Mucho pasado anos por judges when Gideon communicated

[@doctorartphd6463]

When strafing ground targets, it seems that the pilots would line up their targets, rather than strafing from the side.... Curious.

[@TheEvilDrR]

Strafing ground targets was one of the most dangerous things a fighter could do. You took the shots you were given, and got the hell out.

[@dpetrano]

Top acting here; but like my parents used to joke about when this show was on, the entirety of USA's campaign against Germany on Europe's mainland was only Jun 44 - May 45. "War's over. Change the channel."

[@kathymcmahon6582]

There's always a war!!!

[@GoldenWinger001]

I have not seen reruns of combat in decades. I think that the last time was back in the 70s. Networks don't like to show black & white dramas.

[@kathymcmahon6582]

Best show ever!!!