One of the Hectorforce men could not, nevertheless, resist trying. “Yellah sonsabitches!” he called after them across the ground to Dave and Carmen. “They’re licked and they know it.”
“It’s the Nineteenth Armored that did it,” another neighbor speculated. “They must have showed up in the night.”
“No. It’s the air. It’s the Forts. Even the Krauts know this weather can’t last forever. They know they’re on borrowed time.”
“You got it, boy! Say what you like, the sonsabitches may be yellah but they’re awful smart. They want to do their dealing while they’re still alive.”
The colonel and his two accompanying officers went back with the Germans. The senior officer and the senior German had saluted simultaneously, offering no hint of which one was on top. As they walked away they were chattin
