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(065) Silver Service 
SYNOPSIS:
Sent to the rear to recover from injuries, Kirby and Caje encounter Harry
White (Mickey Rooney), a dice-cheating schemer who has been fighting the war
from bar stools. During a German breakthrough, Kirby survives a barrage in
the French village, fortuitously finds a B.A.R., and wanders into the home
of Claudine Longet and her grandfather. To evade the Germans, all must flee
through the snow, dragging the ailing grandfather and Harry's mysterious
package. (Combat's homage to the Battle of the Bulge)
In
"The Silver Service," Kirby shows his leadership ability. When faced with
someone more irresponsible than himself, Kirby becomes the model of responsibility. 
·
Jack Hogan at the Combat! reunion said: "They sent a
second unit to Squaw valley, and the rest of us, Mickey and Claudine and myself, we worked
in plastic snow. And that stuff gets in your eyes and you think you're going to croak.
[...] Mickey Rooney was funny in his own way. Mickey was a compulsive talker and joke
teller. Sometimes you'd do a scene and they would say cut and everybody would go to learn
their next lines. But Mickey, the second they'd say cut, would grab your sleeve and keep
on talking to you. And you couldn't get away to go to the john or get a drink of water
because Mickey was talking." 
