The Glory Among Men is a story about whether or not it's worth risking extra lives to save one. One of the squad's more undesirable men Mason (played by Eddie Ryder,) is wounded and pinned down after the squad is ambushed. To save him is to commit suicide; but in our compassionate way we try anyway.
Vic Morrow directed a superb episode here and I liked his using music from some of the old half hour westerns to denote extreme danger scenes. I even detected some music used in the old Sea Hunt series from the mid 1950's as well. If I did not know it was Vic Morrow, I would have guessed Bernie McEveety directed this. There's a lot of fire fight throughout, the essence of Combat. And the night scenes are terrific lighting up the battleground.
Character development is excellent with Peter Helm, Eddie Ryder, and Bernard Kates as Laslo, Mason, and Hacker respectively. Without their strong performances, the episode would not have been successful.
Laslo puts on a fine performance as a young irrational GI while Mason is excellent as the whining, wounded bait.
Hacker and Bauer (played by Paul Busch) have a great scene denoting why the Americans refer to the Germans as doves sometimes during radio communication.
Saunders, Kirby, Caje, Littlejohn, and Doc put together the game plan based on what they think the Germans are least expecting. And I must admit I would agree with their foregoing logic and plan.
Great episode !!