Name This One

[geofflambert]

Here's Caje (Pierre Jalbert)

[geofflambert]

Curses, Steve beat me again.

[geofflambert]

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

I'm afraid that's not Pierre Jalbert ("Caje") . And I have everyone of the episodes. He always carried an M-1

You have every one? In my recollection they were always the same. There was always an Italian or French girl and they were always trying to keep the girl, or her parents, or her little brother from getting killed.

How do you tell these episodes apart? Are you sure you didn't get scammed by some sharpie selling you multiple copies of the same episode? [:'(]

[rogueusmc]

A friend of mine has one...actually, two friends have one but I have shot this one. They are great shooters!

[pnzrgnral]

Crap! My mistake about Cage - can't think of the name but it was the BAR man. Been more than a few days since I watched COMBAT! Good catch.

[wdolson]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

Right, the series with Vic Morrow who was killed along with a child he was holding trying to make a movie and a helicopter crashed on top of them?

I thought that was the Twilight Zone movie.

Bill

[geofflambert]

ORIGINAL: wdolson

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

Right, the series with Vic Morrow who was killed along with a child he was holding trying to make a movie and a helicopter crashed on top of them?

I thought that was the Twilight Zone movie.

Bill

I was being rather loose, no that didn't occur during the TV series.

[AW1Steve]

Jack Hogan played Kirby. Much of the early episodes showed him cajoling Saunders (Vic Morrow) into letting him be the "BAR man". The BAR was usually carried by the biggest guy in the squad (it weighed 22 pounds without ammo) and the most steady. It was the one weapon that had enough firepower to "break" an ambush. So a squad leader chose who carried the BAR VERY carefully.

[AW1Steve]

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

Jack Hogan played Kirby. Much of the early episodes showed him cajoling Saunders (Vic Morrow) into letting him be the "BAR man". The BAR was usually carried by the biggest guy in the squad (it weighed 22 pounds without ammo) and the most steady. It was the one weapon that had enough firepower to "break" an ambush. So a squad leader chose who carried the BAR VERY carefully.

[AW1Steve]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

ORIGINAL: wdolson

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

Right, the series with Vic Morrow who was killed along with a child he was holding trying to make a movie and a helicopter crashed on top of them?

I thought that was the Twilight Zone movie.

Bill

I was being rather loose, no that didn't occur during the TV series.

In 1975 (when he was killed) Morrow was trying yet another comeback. He had a very "up and down" career.

[AW1Steve]

OK....so we've migrated from "grafted airplanes" to Chinese (later Japanese) "battleships" to "who starred in Combat". Is it possible that a thread can change so much in two pages as this one? Obviously yes , as it happened. But how much more can it morph? Only the mad Gorn can tell. Where will he take us next? The world wonders.

[Lecivius]

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

OK....so we've migrated from "grafted airplanes" to Chinese (later Japanese) "battleships" to "who starred in Combat". Is it possible that a thread can change so much in two pages as this one? Obviously yes , as it happened. But how much more can it morph? Only the mad Gorn can tell. Where will he take us next? The world wonders.

Gorn fashion?

[geofflambert]

The mad gorn says movies: Which was the star of "The Sand Pebbles", Steve McQueen or the BAR?

[AW1Steve]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

The mad gorn says movies: Which was the star of "The Sand Pebbles", Steve McQueen or the BAR?

Neither. Both were supporting actors. Obviously the star was the movie's namesake. The USS San Pablo , aka "the san pebbles". One of my favorite all-time movies , and my favorite novel.
[:D]

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

The mad gorn says movies: Which was the star of "The Sand Pebbles", Steve McQueen or the BAR?

[:D]

Lizard-that's the funniest thing I've read today. [&o]

[HansBolter]

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

ORIGINAL: pnzrgnral

The picture of the WWII US soldier holding what appears to be an FN-FAL looks like the character Gage (Cage?) from the early-60's TV show COMBAT! aired on ABC. Can't be a real WWII photo due to the weapon, so it might well be the TV show.

Right, the series with Vic Morrow who was killed along with a child he was holding trying to make a movie and a helicopter crashed on top of them?

I'm afraid that's not Pierre Jalbert ("Caje") . And I have everyone of the episodes. He always carried an M-1

Damn I only have one season. Got some catchin up to do. When we were kids playin army in the neighborhood EVERYONE wanted to be Sgt. Saunders.

Except my skinny little brother who always played Kirby. [:D]

[geofflambert]

I had one of those pillbox hats and a submachinegun (toy) that I can't remember what the real one was, but in one of those Eastwood movies a Marine wasted a bunch of IJA soldiers with one. My one had this ratchet thing you could pull back and when you pulled the trigger it released (tooth by tooth). Because of my equipment I was always the officer. [:D]

[AW1Steve]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

I had one of those pillbox hats and a submachinegun (toy) that I can't remember what the real one was, but in one of those Eastwood movies a Marine wasted a bunch of IJA soldiers with one. My one had this ratchet thing you could pull back and when you pulled the trigger it released (tooth by tooth). Because of my equipment I was always the officer. [:D]

Officers didn't carry SMG's (sub machine guns) NCO's did. Officers carried pistols , or later M-1 carbines (generally, there were exceptions like Dick Winter , who had M-1 rifles). Snipers were taught , 2 ways to tell an officer. 1) a pistol. 2) a map case.

[AW1Steve]

ORIGINAL: HansBolter

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

ORIGINAL: geofflambert




Right, the series with Vic Morrow who was killed along with a child he was holding trying to make a movie and a helicopter crashed on top of them?

I'm afraid that's not Pierre Jalbert ("Caje") . And I have everyone of the episodes. He always carried an M-1

Damn I only have one season. Got some catchin up to do. When we were kids playin army in the neighborhood EVERYONE wanted to be Sgt. Saunders.

Except my skinny little brother who always played Kirby. [:D]

Only because 1) he had a Thompson 2) he wore a USMC camouflage cover on his helmet. [:D]

[geofflambert]

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

I had one of those pillbox hats and a submachinegun (toy) that I can't remember what the real one was, but in one of those Eastwood movies a Marine wasted a bunch of IJA soldiers with one. My one had this ratchet thing you could pull back and when you pulled the trigger it released (tooth by tooth). Because of my equipment I was always the officer. [:D]

Officers didn't carry SMG's (sub machine guns) NCO's did. Officers carried pistols , or later M-1 carbines (generally, there were exceptions like Dick Winter , who had M-1 rifles). Snipers were taught , 2 ways to tell an officer. 1) a pistol. 2) a map case.

Let me clarify. I had a submachine gun. Nobody else did. Let's play this out. Steve has a squirt gun. Julie has a toy grenade. Herman has a Luger (let me tell you about Herman later). In case your attention span is short, let me remind you I had the submachine gun. I'm the Lieutenant.

I did have a couple of kids who were neighbors, I think they were twins but one was a boy the other a girl. I can't remember their names but their last was Hess, or Hesse, and they actually had German accents and were both blonde. They usually had to play the bad guys. They weren't bad guys, they just got stuck with the role. But they were different than the rest of us, I'm not sure I can explain how.