Close call

It turns out after, that they'd gone north of the, of the autobahn at that time. And so, they weren't encroaching on our field at all. About two days later though, no I guess it was about a week later, I was, it was my turn to ride in the cart. I was just dozing in the straw. And the other guys walking behind, and I don't know what the hell, I got up and looked over the top of the horse's rump. "Oh shit," and here comes a gray field car, and I, and its got a flag on it so it has to be a colonel or above and I said, "Oh Christ, we've had it." So I yelled at Sam, I said, "Tell the guard to assume prisoner of war position and get in behind the cart and for God's sake hangdog. And don't look at anybody. Hangdog, and look sick." And the car stopped, it was a major, and a colonel and a captain and two guards. And I said, "God, this is gonna be something." And our guard was sweating like nothing, and he was as gray as the damn car but it was lousy weather, and hot as hell so didn't catch on. The colonel said, he wanted to know where they were, and what the name of the next village was, which we had just come through. And so we told him, we didn't, the guard did. And he said, then he said, "What's the, what's all this? And the guard said, "I'm taking these prisoners of war to Luftwaffe", a camp in Lübbecke. "Ah," understand, he knew the camp was there. We didn't know the camp was there, but he knew there was a camp there. But anyhow, that was fine, off he went. We had to head south for another two days, and back up because you couldn't take a chance with them. And, but everything went fine.