Naples ’44

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Persian Gulf

Persian Gulf
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Background

The Persian Gulf, sometimes called the Arabian Gulf, is a mediterranean sea in West Asia. The body of water is an extension of the Arabian Sea and the larger Indian Ocean located between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran (Persia). It is connected to the Gulf of Oman in the east by the Strait of Hormuz.

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In Naples ’44

Part of the route of Lewis’s abrupt final assignment — repatriating Russian ex-POWs from Port Said via the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf and Iran — with which the book ends.

Appears in 1 diary entry.

  1. October 24 1944
    Lewis is abruptly ordered to a new mission repatriating Russian ex-POWs, sensing this marks the end of his time in Naples.

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