I'm a sucker for war films with anti-war messages and this episode of Combat doesn't disappoint. Excellently written, filmed and acted. I'm binging through the entire Combat series and up to this point, The Chapel at Able-Five is in my top three, along with The Little Carousel (S03E08) and The Cassock (S03E17).
To the reviewer who dismissed the episode as "gimmicky" and pretentious, I would suggest that all television is gimmicky and pretentious on some level. On the one hand, it's meant to be an escape from reality. On the other hand, this episode, to my thinking was very realistic in concept. While perhaps unrealistic in the way it played out, it brought a very real and realistic element to the table in introducing the peace lover element and non-resistant nature of a true believer who answered to a higher authority and thus a higher "duty". Perhaps the reviewer just didn't like the message.