"You don't need to worry about paying the Germans back," chuckled Billy.  "You paid them in advance.  You don't owe them a thing.  Say, what George Washington did to the cherry tree with his little hatchet wasn't a circumstance to what you did to the Huns with that axe of yours.  The axe is your weapon, Frank.  A rifle doesn't run one, two, three, compared with it."