Naples ’44

Person · Allied colleague

Captain Cartwright

Background

The section’s Field Security Officer.

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In Naples ’44

Smashed up in a car crash the day before embarkation and left in hospital in Oran, so the section lands in Italy leaderless; when he finally reaches them, his face ‘covered with plaster’, it is to admit that their presence at Paestum serves ‘no purpose of any kind’.

Appears in 2 diary entries.

  1. September 9 1943
    Landing at Paestum amid dead soldiers and eerie calm; the section is left rudderless, with no briefing, next to the ancient temples.

    Field Security Officer, injured in a car crash before embarkation

  2. September 21 1943
    Ordered back to the idle beachhead life at Paestum despite its pointlessness; the section finally gets a small, real intelligence task that evening.

    tells the section their presence at Paestum serves no purpose

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