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The Twilight Zone: The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms (1963)
Three 1960's Army National Guard soldiers on maneuvers near the Little Big Horn battle site find themselves unwittingly involved in Custer's last stand.
This was one of my favorite episodes when I was a child and I still enjoy it very much. After years of (Air) National Guard service, seven trips to the battlefield and reading dozens of books, I related well to it as I got older. It is interesting to ponder the source(s) of the misinformation. For example, I have never run across anything that mentioned a trooper shooting an Indian riding by before the battle, nor encountering a "village" (vs. the actual lone tepee) (Poetic license, I suppose. I am just glad that Mr. Serling seemed to be a Little Big Horn battle buff. (Note his naming of Richard Basehart's character, Capt. Benteen, in the episode, "Probe 7 Over and Out". ) I never did understand why they couldn't take the tank! Out of gas? Mechanical breakdown? It is a fun episode.