The colonel's unit is similar to Britain's Special Air Service in WWII. Established in 1941, the SAS operated in jeeps with as many as four medium machine guns behind enemy lines. By 1944 the SAS troops parachuted behind enemies along with their jeeps.
The first shared acting credit of Telly Savalas and John Aniston (best known later as Victor Kiriakis in Days of Our Lives (1965)). Aniston would guest star on two episodes of Telly's iconic series Kojak (1973) (Down a Long and Lonely River (1974), The Best Judge Money Can Buy (1974)), after which Telly would become the godfather of John's daughter Jennifer Aniston (appearing in archive footage in the edition of Inside the Actors Studio (1994) titled Jennifer Aniston (2011)).