A disappointing episode tries to make do without the series stars, not a good move. Instead we have Claude Akins as a guest starring sergeant who is one of the most dislikeable characters to be on the show in a long time.
He plays a condescending truck driver who's hauling tons of explosives to be used by the troops on the front line, with his buddy in a nothing role played by B movie heavy William Campbell.
Vic appears for a few seconds at the beginning of the show and Rick is on vacation. So we watch Kirby and Littlejohn take over the major assignments, working as relief drivers for Akins and Campbell.
There's plenty of action scenes and Kirby especially acquits himself in the fights against the Germans. One sequence of Akins driving ever so carefully across a damaged bridge seems lifted intact from Clouzot's 1950s suspense classic "The Wages of Fear".
It's all contrived for a sentimental ending but suffers from a very weak script, as well as the absence of those essential keys to the series: Vic and Rick.