Naples ’44

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Casoria

Casoria
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Background

Casoria is a city and comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Naples in the region of Campania in southern Italy, located about 5 kilometres northeast of Naples. It has 73,257 inhabitants.

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In Naples ’44

Another of the poor towns north of Naples that Lewis polices, tied to the fruitless wire-theft investigation and the wider Camorra-country cases.

Appears in 5 diary entries.

  1. December 5 1943
    Lewis avoids an unwanted arrest by spending the day on unrelated errands, reflecting on the unit's discomfort with being used for private vendettas.
  2. January 1 1944
    A tedious, unproductive investigation into telephone-wire theft, which the Army wrongly treats as sabotage rather than opportunistic copper theft.
  3. January 5 1944
    Lewis takes charge of security for several nearby towns, unknowingly located deep in Camorra territory, and finds poverty behind their picturesque exteriors.
  4. May 3 1944
    The story of Domenico "Lupo" (Wolf), a released bandit who reorganizes his Camorra-style Robin Hood operation with Allied-issued credentials.
  5. October 20 1944
    Official policy strongly discourages marriages between soldiers and Italian civilians, citing poor historical outcomes for such wartime unions.

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