On the General's sleeve in the beginning, you can see the patch of the 1st Infantry Division, a.k.a. "The Big Red One".
Originally aired as an ABC Movie of the Week on 1/27/70.
The knife Capt. Carter (Stephen Boyd) throws into a tree looks like a Marine Raider Stiletto. The knife Pvt. Lewis (Billy Dee Williams) has and throws looks like a Ka-Bar fighting knife, or one of its many clones.
At the very start, one is informed that these events occur in Germany in 1944. The first day that allied troops got into any German territory was Monday the eleventh of September, 1944. This was the work of one Staff Sergeant Warner Holzinger, under the command of Lieutenant Vipond of B Troop of the 85th Reconnaissance Squadron, part of the Fifth U.S. Armored Division. It was 97 days after D-Day, Tuesday the sixth of June, 1944.
At some point in the early 1990's this movie was unofficially renamed The Black Brigade.