One of these men is Ivan "Kinchloe" Dixon. Kinch, you got the coffee pot on? Since Hogan's Heroes was a 1960s show, The Man felt compelled to put a token black guy in the cast. They chose Ivan Dixon. Ivan would've been a stinking rich millionaire movie star after his performance as Duff in "Nothing But A Man" if Sidney Poitier wasn't the only black guy actor back then. When Ivan tired of sitting in the background he quit and became a teevee director. Remember Airwolf? Now he owns a radio station in Hawaii

The other guy is Kenneth "Sgt. Baker" Washington. His last acting role was in 1987. He was a red-suit expendable guy on an episode of Star Trek (episode 69, That Which Survives with the lovely Lee Meriwether). Star Trek also had the other black person on 1960s teevee. Nichelle "Lt. Nyota Uhura" Nichols also was a radio operator, but Martin Luther King Jr. talked her out of quitting. Also, in 1969 he played a Negro in the movie Changes. Yeah, "Negro." That's how he's credited.

Can you tell them apart? Apparently viewers in the 1960s weren't capable of noticing 'cause it was never explained. At least they changed the radio operator's name from Kinch to Baker.