here he is out with the map with the private red pelke who was lucky to survive the war. anyway, ernest while he's driving with red bumps into a group of french resistors who he later describes as naked to the waist, armed with -- it's summer in france. it's not unreasonable. armed with unconventional sorts. they happen to be communists. the french resistance, kind of two major flavors. the rightist flavor and the communist flavor. these guys happen to be come knew -- communists which doesn't bother ernest at all. they have a leader but they say whatever ernest does, that's going to be okay with us. tow task force hemingway is red pelke, ernest and these 12 guys from the french resistance. ernest more officially -- unofficially, take your pick. he comes up with u.s. uniforms and weapons and ammunition for these guys. bruce is kind of doing the same thing. getting ready for paris. he says i've got it figured out. everybody's got to come through here. why don't we go there? and bruce says oh. okay. at this point ernest is leading american intelligence operations far day or

and so now task force hemingway is red pelke, ernest and these 12 guys from the french resistance. ernest more officially, unofficially take your pick, he comes up with u.s. uniforms, weapons and ammunition for these guys. and then he -- while he's doing this, while he's doing these ear's he runs into david k.e. bruce and bruce is kind of doing the same thing, getting ready for paris and ernest says, hey, david, i've got it all figured out. it's going to happen at this place called rambouillet 23 miles west, looks at the map. everybody has to come through here. why don't we go there? and bruce says, oh, okay. you know, so at this point ernest is kind of leading american intelligence operations in for a day or two in that theater. and so here they are in rambouillet, that's bruce on the left. that's the french resistance guy in the middle and there's ernest on the right. ernest, by the way is kind of overweight at this point. he's six feet. he's 220 or so during the war. kind of a little extra to love for a bit. when bruce gets to rambouillet, he gets there independently. ernest has