I am seriously enjoying this journey ...so last night at dinner I was invited to attend a classroom session to hear a guest who is coming to discuss "history-film-television" with these children. Like myself, this man was brought into the discussion by a child attending the WWII course. At the age of 17, still in school, he had worked summers as a Clerk/Scout for an independent production company (SELMUR) which produced the TV series COMBAT in the 60s. Today he's a grandfather of two and helps with homework ...wrote a note about how the audiences back then took technical issues seriously ...the majority of these letters were from actual combat veterans, and while the letters were encouraging ...the cause for writing was almost always a technical issue they would try to address.
And SELMUR always answered. The complaint that took first place, which they corrected, related to the many features of the U.S. M1 Carbine, which went through changes over the years and made dated configurations easy to spot for a veteran, easy to understand. Anyone really remember this TV series? I'm looking forward to hearing this gentleman on Friday.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat!