Naples ’44

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San Gennaro catacombs

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In Naples ’44

The early-Christian catacombs entered from behind the church of San Gennaro; a fifty-strong joint force of Italian police, American counter-intelligence and the section is sent down to search them during an October 1943 spy scare.

Appears in 1 diary entry.

  1. October 13 1943
    A week of fruitless "spy scares" turns up only harmless eccentrics, while a new bureaucracy of mail and phone censorship intercepts trivia.

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