Red Ball Express Page #4

Yeah.

Uh, say, uh, I wouldn't

like this to get around,

but how do you start

one of these things?

Oh!

Now what?

Step on the starter!

Where is it?

Sir, the sergeant said

I was to ride in this truck.

Well, hop in.

Move over, Mack. I'm drivin'.

Oh, sure, Sarge, sure.

My name's Heyman.

I'm Red Kallek.

What do you think

of this outfit, Sergeant?

With an officer like Campbell

in charge, not much.

- You got somethin' against him?

- Yeah, I got somethin' against him. He killed my brother.

I guess we should

get to know each other a little better.

My name's Andrew Robertson.

My friends call me Robbie.

Nice to know you,

Robertson.

I come from Detroit.

Worked on the sports desk of a Negro newspaper there.

I guess that's because

I picked up a medal once in a Golden Gloves.

- Where you from, Lieutenant?

- Hmm? Uh, Colorado.

You work for a trucking company there?

Yeah.

That's a coincidence.

Sergeant Kallek's a trucker from Colorado. D'you know that?

I guess you two

knew each other before the service.

Look, Corporal,

I appreciate your interest.

If ever I want to go

to confession, you'll be the first one I call on.

Sure, Lieutenant.

I get it.

Grab your mess gear!

All right, we'll take

a half-hour for chow while they're loadin' the trucks.

Make it snappy, huh?

Whaddya know,

stew.

Stew, stew.

This is new?

Hey, the guy's a poet

and don't know it.

Lift and load

Lift and load

When the trucks

are loaded, Lieutenant, where are we headed?

Somewhere off the Seine

River, if General Patton's still there.

That Patton. He's really makin' a war out of this.

We must be a pretty important

outfit to be picked to supply the hottest general in the army.

McCord, I have a feeling

before we're through,

this is gonna be one

of the biggest things the army's ever done.

You really think so?

I could be wrong.

I don't think so, sir.

You know, it's great to be on a winning team for a change.

Back in the high school

I went to, we were always getting beat at football.

We won just one game

in four years...

and then only because

their fullback dropped the ball behind the goal line.

One of our boys tripped

and fell on it accidentally.

What position did you play?

I was a cheerleader.

With a team like that,

you must have had the softest job in school.

The softest job? Did you

ever try to get up in front of your student body and scream:

All right, gang,

remember what they did to us last year?

Are we gonna let 'em get away

with it again? We are not.

Let's have a big locomotive

for the team.

Tell you what.

When the going gets rough,

you give us a big locomotive

for the team.

Yes, sir.

And one for the fraulein

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