Combat! is an American television program that originally aired on
ABC from 1962 until 1967. (The exclamation point in
Combat! was 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 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. The series was unusual in that Jason and Morrow would play the lead in alternating episodes.