I thought it was cool when I was a kid but some of the characters seemed so disgruntled which is fine but it causes me to not put it on the patriotic list.
I like the “Combat” series quite a lot, but indeed, it oftentimes maintained a certain downbeat and world-weary mindset that was actually more emblematic of the time it was made in the 1960s (akin to many other 1960s-era semi-anthology series like Route 66, Gunsmoke, Naked City, etc.), as opposed to the wartime 1940s. All great tv-shows, but that whole “psychological character study” approach to scripts at that time was very postwar and modernist, and ultimately rather discordant to the social-cultural vibe of the 1940s.