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TV Episode "Errijays in the Uctrays" Was this in 'Combat' or "Gallant Men"? Some other show?
Vanity | October 18, 2015 | Oakleaf

Posted on 10/18/2015 3:21:56 PM PDT by Oakleaf

There was a B&W TV show I saw in the sixties set in the ETO in WW2 where Germans had hijacked an American convoy of trucks. They were hiding in the back with American drivers. One truck was stopped at a checkpoint and the driver said to the guard that everything was fine "But we got erryjays in the uctrays". The guard didn't understand this, let the convoy start through and mentioned it to one of the other guards who shouted "Jerries in the trucks!" and opened up with a Thompson.

I have searched the net for "Combat' and "The Gallant Men'. I thought this was an episode of one of them but can't find anything like it mentioned for either series.

Does anyone have any information on what this episode was? If it wasn't either series do you know what show it was on?

Thanks for any help!


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1 posted on 10/18/2015 3:21:56 PM PDT by Oakleaf
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To: Oakleaf

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=erryjays+in+the+uctrays


2 posted on 10/18/2015 3:25:25 PM PDT by TomServo
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To: Oakleaf

Gallant Men. I don’t remember who spoke the words but he was addressing DeAngelo.


3 posted on 10/18/2015 3:25:41 PM PDT by mkmensinger
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To: Oakleaf

I used to watch those shows too but don’t remember that particular episode. There was another one too. It was called “Citizen Soldier” and was similar to the others.


4 posted on 10/18/2015 3:28:19 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: mkmensinger

Oto-pha aphic-gra emory-ma?


5 posted on 10/18/2015 3:30:48 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: yarddog

I just looked up the Gallant Men on Youtube; a real gem! Thanks for sharing.

TV sure has changed.


6 posted on 10/18/2015 3:33:38 PM PDT by Ueriah
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

This is how whites converse at Walmart in California, absolutely harlious


7 posted on 10/18/2015 3:40:48 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: Oakleaf

‘The Gallant Men’.


8 posted on 10/18/2015 3:50:26 PM PDT by Jack Deth (Knight Errant and Resident FReeper Kitty Poem /Haiku Guy)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

No but it’s funny how some things stick with you.


9 posted on 10/18/2015 3:51:18 PM PDT by mkmensinger
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To: Oakleaf

That sounds like a parody of Pig Latin, the use of which was popular back then in TV, and popular music. I never understood it, and always thought people were making up the sounds as they went along. Sort of like “The Name Game”, Shirley, Shirley, Bo-Berry, Banana Fanana-Mo Berry, Fee- Fi-Mo Mary, Shirley!”


10 posted on 10/18/2015 3:59:02 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: lee martell

Chuck Chuck Bo Buck Bonana Fana Fo...


11 posted on 10/18/2015 4:04:26 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: Oakleaf

Igpay Atinlay isyay oodgay orfay allyay ootay owknay! -
InkieTwa 2015


12 posted on 10/18/2015 4:06:36 PM PDT by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: Oakleaf

Piece of trivia from “Combat:” Rick Jason, the lieutenant, in real life was the son of a wealthy stockbroker who volunteered in WW II.


13 posted on 10/18/2015 4:07:37 PM PDT by LS (YSess"Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Oakleaf
I thought it was Combat but maybe not. I do remember the vignette well. I didn't understand Pig Latin and had to ask “what’d he say, what’d he say?”
14 posted on 10/18/2015 4:10:42 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: MUDDOG

Oops!!


15 posted on 10/18/2015 4:11:44 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: mkmensinger

Actor/Character (Gallant Men)

William Reynolds-Capt. Jim Benedict

Robert McQueeney-Conley Wright

Robert Ridgely-Lt. Frank Kimbro

Richard X. Slattery-1st Sgt. John McKenna

Eddie Fontaine-PFC Pete D’Angelo

Roland La Starza-Pvt. Ernie Lucavich

Roger Davis-Pvt. Roger Gibson

Robert Gothie-Pvt. Sam Hanson


16 posted on 10/18/2015 4:18:24 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: headstamp 2

Funny D’Amgelo was the only name I remembered but I remember the series. I was just a kid at the time.


17 posted on 10/18/2015 4:21:17 PM PDT by mkmensinger
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To: lee martell
I learned the logic behind Pig Latin before I was 10.

Any word, say, Pig. The first letter sound, P, is moved to the rear of the word, and the syllable 'ay' is added.

Thus, Ig-Pay Atin-Lay. It's not High Tech. It takes a little thought, but it was right up there with elephant jokes in midwestern suburbia, for wit, and it kept something like "I Tarted-Say Y-May, Eriod-Pay" from the Peanut Gallery in the back seat...

18 posted on 10/18/2015 4:22:22 PM PDT by jonascord (It's sarcasm unless otherwise noted... This time, it's not.)
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To: mkmensinger

You know, I was a TV head with the best of them but could not remember this series. It was quite short-lived though running from fall 1962 to early summer 1963.


19 posted on 10/18/2015 4:24:51 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: headstamp 2

I was 10 years old so I was into shows like that.


20 posted on 10/18/2015 4:35:39 PM PDT by mkmensinger
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