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Combat! (1962)

Combat! poster
Genre
war television series
Country
United States
Length
5 seasons, 152 episodes
Rated
TV-PG
Rating
7.8 of 10 from 114 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

The show follows a squad of American soldiers fighting in France during World War II. It focuses on the grim realities and personal struggles of the men as they face combat.

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What happens

Combat! is an American television drama series that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The exclamation point in Combat! was depicted on-screen as a stylized bayonet. The show covered the grim lives of a squad of American soldiers fighting the Germans in France during World War II. The first-season episode "A Day in June" shows D-Day as a flashback, hence the action occurs during and after June 1944. The program starred Rick Jason as platoon leader Second Lieutenant Gil Hanley and Vic Morrow as Sergeant "Chip" Saunders. Jason and Morrow would play the lead in alternating episodes in Combat!. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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