"Doc" was a good athlete

Do you remember the character "Doc" (the medic) from the old Combat! television series? That role was played by actor Conlan Carter. He actually was born in Center Ridge, Arkansas, and grew up in the bootheel area of Missouri.

I include him here because he was a very good athlete. He was the state pole vault champion in Missouri, and attended Southeast Missouri State on an athletic scholarship.

We loved to watch that program with my father. There was a lot of German spoken in the dialogue, and Daddy had studied German in college and could speak it fairly well, so he could translate it for us.