Combat!: Season 4
Season 4 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Combat! Season 3.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 4 Progress Shield
Main Event
Sep 14, 1965
Saunders' latest green replacements are a boxer and his cocky fight manager, Murphy, who wants to run both the war and Saunders.
The First Day
Sep 21, 1965
The squad, worn-out and exhausted, receives four green replacements. The story follows these four teenagers as they attempt to survive their first day on the front line.
S.I.W.
Sep 28, 1965
Kirby rejoins the squad in the field, bringing with him a new replacement, Kalb. Kalb is already known to Fleming. Fleming believes Kalb is a coward who ran at Omaha Beach and has
The Linesman
Oct 5, 1965
A hostile signal corps sergeant, McClosky, balks at having Saunders as escort on a mission to lay wire.
The Farmer
Oct 12, 1965
Waiting for the battle, Noah plants the crops of an evacuated French farmer. His love for the land and farming overshadow his obligations as a soldier.
Evasion
Oct 19, 1965
In an ancient castle that the Germans are using as a POW camp, Hanley's fellow prisoners provide him with a fake Albanian uniform for his escape attempt.
Hear No Evil
Oct 26, 1965
Sgt. Saunders, alone and deafened by a grenade, tries to make his way back to American lines.
Crossfire
Nov 2, 1965
Saunders returns from patrol with one of his squad, a decorated veteran of Omaha Beach, under arrest.
9 Place Vendee
Nov 11, 1965
After losing a superior officer in the field, Hanley goes alone to locate a wounded intelligence officer in German Held territory.
The Old Men
Nov 16, 1965
The Squad is saddled with three over-aged replacements: an injured vet of the Italian campaign who refuses to accept that he is incapable of fighting as he did as a youth, a homesi
Soldier of Fortune
Nov 23, 1965
An explosion destroys the cellar of a German communication center where Saunders, Marsh, and Wallace were tapping lines. Trapped beneath a beam and fearing he will be left behind,
The Casket
Nov 30, 1965
Saunders, trying to get a wounded Kirby to a hospital crosses an elderly mother determined to give her son proper burial.
Luck with Rainbows
Dec 7, 1965
Hanley, Little John, and Kirby attempt to salvage film from a crashed reconnaissance plane. They are interrupted by a British Major who commandeers the film and abandons the squad
Breakout
Dec 14, 1965
Facing a German advance, Saunders and squad are ordered to destroy a valley of construction equipment, to keep it out of the hands of the Germans.
Finest Hour
Dec 21, 1965
Caje forces a Frenchman to aid him and a wounded Hanley. The Frenchman takes them to a German occupied chateau where the countess must tend to his wounds while keeping his presence
The Raider
Dec 28, 1965
Hanley is captured by the infamous SS Captain Reichhardt. Saunders captures Reichhardt's men but does not learn the location on Hanley.
The Mockingbird
Jan 4, 1966
Three days before a German advance, a spy posing as a downed American flyer is sent to secure information on the French resistance.
The Good Samaritan
Jan 11, 1966
Marsini the sole survivor of an ill fated patrol blames Saunders for the fate of his fellows since Saunders has orders to keep his position and could not render aid
Retribution
Jan 18, 1966
After his sister's fiance is killed by an SS Colonel, Kirby goes after the colonel.
Counterplay
Jan 25, 1966
An impostor masquerades as a French resistance fighter to lead Saunders squad on a mission.
Nothing to Lose
Feb 1, 1966
Vinnick, a tough G.I. with no regard for danger, clashes with Burke, a soldier who covers his own cowardice with big talk.
Ask Me No Questions
Feb 8, 1966
A German Lieutenant posing as an American sergeant is placed among arriving American prisoners, including Saunders. Mastin learns locations of key American units.
The Ringer
Feb 15, 1966
A suspicious straggler joins the squad and behaves erratically, endangering the lives of Saunders and company.
The Flying Machine
Feb 22, 1966
Hanley flies in a rickety observation plane with a wisecracking pilot. Returning from their mission they see a German convoy and fly in for a closer look.
Hills Are For Heroes (1)
Mar 1, 1966
In this 2 partter Hanley & his men have to try & take out 2 bunkers. Hanley finds this almost hopeless and with Saunders wounded, (he only able to give morale support to Haley).Ev
Hills Are for Heroes (2)
Mar 8, 1966
In this 2 partter Hanley & his men have to try & take out 2 bunkers. Hanley finds this almost hopeless and with Saunders wounded, (he only able to give morale support to Haley).Ev
Gitty
Mar 15, 1966
The squad find a young girl at the convent they are using as OP. Saunders has to try & tell the girl her father is dead. When they are attacked by the Krauts.
One at a Time
Mar 22, 1966
After his men are all killed by Saunders' squad, a wounded German escapes and vows to kill Saunders' men, one at a time.
A Sudden Terror
Mar 29, 1966
Hanley tries to save a terrified soldier caught in quicksand.
Run, Sheep, Run
Apr 5, 1966
In his first battle, Pvt. Corey freezes. Afterworld, the squad commends him for his actions, believing he destroyed a machine gun nest.
The Leader
Apr 12, 1966
Saunders has to return to HQ for a meeting - leaving Kirby in charge. At first being left in charge starts going to his head, But! after Caje is wounded and the phone lines are cut