Person · Allied colleague
Bernard Durham
A sergeant in Lewis’s Field Security section, one of only four left to cover Naples itself.
In the book
Among the handful of section men — with Parkinson, Evans and Lewis — holding the city after the rest were dispersed to the coast and to Nola. Later shot through the shoulder by a bandit dressed as an American officer during an anti-bandit drive near Avellino — the section’s first casualty.
Appears in 2 diary entries.
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October 6 1943
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September 16 1944A section colleague is shot and wounded by a bandit disguised as an American officer, forcing Lewis to weigh his own role in the anti-bandit effort.
the section's first casualty, wounded by a bandit disguised as an American officer
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