The Do or Die Raid

 is the sixth episode of the first season of The Rat Patrol. It first aired on 17 October 1966.

Synopsis
A covert operation to plant false intelligence data in enemy headquarters is severely jeopardized when the special operative the Rat Patrol is escorting has a heart attack at a critical stage in the mission. With time running out and failure not an option, Troy must somehow ensure the success of the mission and still manage to get away before the Germans even know they were there, lest the deception be discovered.

Some men rowing inflatables at night. They come ashore. Then a machine gun emplacement starts shooting at the water. "Sergeant Troy, you're dead," declares Sergeant Frank Griffin (Warren Stevens).

It was just a simulation. The Germans won't be shooting over their heads, like Sergeant Griffin did in the simulation. The Rat Patrol are to smuggle Griffin onto an OSS base, so that he can break into a safe and replace an important map with a near duplicate, different only in that it gives a false location for an oasis.

Time for the real thing. The Rat Patrol, along with Griffin, successfully make it in, but there's a problem: Griffin has a heart condition, and the pressure of the situation gives him an anxiety attack so bad it threatens to derail the whole mission. Troy's angry Griffin did not disclose this sooner, when he could have refused to endanger his men on this particular mission.

And another problem: the new OSS commander has decided to show up to his new command ahead of schedule, and he has a woman with him. We hear some dance music playing, presumably from a phonograph.

With Troy and Moffitt's help, Griffin makes it back to the room with the cabinet and gets it open. They hear a new waltz start up. Griffin opens the safe, finds the pertinent map, and makes the swap.

The phone rings. The OSS commander says there was "kein Problem" at his new command. "Ja, ja, gute Nacht." Griffin and the Rat Patrol escape with the new OSS commander none the wiser.

Main cast

 * Christopher George as Sergeant Sam Troy
 * Gary Raymond as Sergeant Jack Moffitt
 * Hans Gudegast as Hauptmann Hans Dietrich
 * Lawrence Casey as Private Mark Hitchcock
 * Justin Tarr as Private Tully Pettigrew

Supporting cast

 * Warren Stevens as Sergeant Frank Griffin
 * Larry Ward as Colonel Quint (uncredited)
 * Katia Losser as Helga Braun (uncredited)