The chapters include one entitled "Saving Private Putnam." It is listed as chapter 4. With the plot being somewhat similar to Saving Private Ryan (1998), one has to wonder if this Combat episode inspired the Tom Hanks movie.
Beau Bridges, who guest stars in this episode as 15-year old Private Orville Putnam, who lied about his age to get into the Army, would the next year guest star in a 12 O'Clock High episode, "Then Came the Mighty Hunter " (S2.E3), as 15-year old Corporal Steve Corbett , who also lied about his age to get into the Army Air Corps. In real life, Bridges served in the Coast Guard.