My brother's Tommy gun
A neighborhood kid broke my brother's Mattel Tommy gun so he broke the kid's arm with a claw hammer.
A neighborhood kid broke my brother's Mattel Tommy gun so he broke the kid's arm with a claw hammer.
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semperfi71
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A neighborhood kid broke my brother's Mattel Tommy gun so he broke the kid's arm with a claw hammer.
My oldest brother intentionally broke my Mattel Tommy Gun. I cried to Mom, she said, "That's it. No more toy guns." I wanted to whip my brother's tail but she didn't.
I later began to make my "guns" out of wood stolen from my Dad's carpenter shop. I had about 30 or so.
I loved "Combat" as a kid. Never could figure out how Sgt. Saunders got a Marine helmet cover.........
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What's MeTV ? I watch Combat on You Tube as well as Rat Patrol & Garrison's Guerillas
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I was gonna ask the same question. I have never heard of MeTV.
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His "brother" was in the Marines sending it to him I guess to make think of him more? as mentioned once in a 1st or 2nd season episode. However, that is a continuity mistake, because in any other episode, the kid brother was not in the military.
The only other thing I can think of, is he got it off a Marine serving on one of the ships while visiting an English port?
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Ever notice Sgt. Shultz on Hogan's Heroes carried a Krag? The actor was actually Jewish and I read somewhere that he refused to carry a German military rifle. Here he is with his Krag...
https://www.google.com/search?q=sgt...gIZDuoATs2YDwBg&ved=0CEUQsAQ&biw=1600&bih=758
BigBill
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Don't forget his fast firing hip shots too. And little Luke little Johnny Crawford he's still around today still little.
BigBill
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The browning BAR was the most feared weapon by the Germans. There were two BAR's in each squad I been told. One would sustain covering fire while the other one reloaded. I been told they would bounce bullets off stone, cement structures so they would rattle there way through towns. No Germans would stick there heads out.
Quite a few.....
Quite a few of the 'Nazis' on Hogan were Jewish actors. Even LeBeau the Frenchman was Jewish.
Quite a few of the 'Nazis' on Hogan were Jewish actors. Even LeBeau the Frenchman was Jewish.
Robert Clary, who played LeBeau, spent part of WW2 in a Nazi concentration camp. Regarding Sgt. Saunders helmet cover the story I read is that it is not a USMC helmet cover. It was a piece of parachute from D-Day. IIRC most of the squad had actually spent time in the military before they took up acting.
I enjoyed watching the show as a kid but my dad didn't seem to like it. When I asked why he said "That wasn't my war." Now when Black Sheep Squadron came out he watched it religiously but that was partly to point out inaccuracies. I remember watching Stalag 17 at my aunts and uncles house and one of my cousins asked me "Do you think that's what a POW camp was really like?". I replied "How should I know, ask your dad, he was a POW." My Uncle got up and left the room and my cousins just looked shocked. My aunt said "We don't talk about that, the kids didn't know."
I enjoyed watching the show as a kid but my dad didn't seem to like it. When I asked why he said "That wasn't my war." Now when Black Sheep Squadron came out he watched it religiously but that was partly to point out inaccuracies. I remember watching Stalag 17 at my aunts and uncles house and one of my cousins asked me "Do you think that's what a POW camp was really like?". I replied "How should I know, ask your dad, he was a POW." My Uncle got up and left the room and my cousins just looked shocked. My aunt said "We don't talk about that, the kids didn't know."
When I was still working we'd watch Combat followed by 12 O'Clock High. My partner and I used to joke that the Allies would have won WWII a couple of years earlier if the had kept Gallagher from flying. He must have gone through 20 Picadilly Lilly's over the course of the show.
That aside, both were pretty good shows for their time.
That aside, both were pretty good shows for their time.
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Wew don't get MeTV. Could you have meant WeTV? That we get.
zzzippper
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I lost track of how many plastic Thompsons I had. Seems like there would be a new one every Christmas. There was even a black and blue night version that had a scope with red lenses.
My brother had an M1919 water cooled .30!
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I did. He also carried in one episode, an FG-42 Paratrooper rifle. In true history, towards the end of the war, a lot of Stalag personnel carried Krags and other captured weaponry. I think I might have an original photo or two showing that. Ill look and see if I do?While looking at something, I was surprised that some toy company came out with realistic Hogan, Klink and Schultz, toys.
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Thats something I forgot to put in my reply to his post. LeBeau was Jewish and had a number tattooed on his arm, he lost over 20 members of his family do to their murderous policies. Also, Werner Klemperer, Howard Caine the Gestapo Major (Major Hochstetter) General Burkhalter (Leon Askin) all were Jewish and all escaped Germany. I know Klemperer joined the US Army in WWII, and I THINK John Banner (Schultz) was in our military too.
It must have amused them to play the Germans as such buffoons. I know it would have amused me.
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The reason that Sgt. Saunders had the camo helmet cover was to make it easier to spot him on film or make his character stand out from the others in the distance shots. Like his Thompson didn't ? At least that's what I read somewhere and it makes sense.
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Too bad where I live it's opposite "The View", so I can't watch it.
