Naples ’44

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Torre Annunziata

Torre Annunziata
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Background

Torre Annunziata is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Naples, in the Italian region of Campania. It is located on the Gulf of Naples, at the foot of Mount Vesuvius.

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In Naples ’44

A grim coastal town south of Naples where thirty-five operational maps for the Anzio landing are found on a warehouse floor, being carried off by civilians for firewood.

Appears in 2 diary entries.

  1. October 4 1943
    Discharged and hitching toward newly-liberated Naples, Lewis passes through Battipaglia, devastated by Allied carpet bombing, and learns nearby Altavilla was shelled to rubble on the mere suspicion it held Germans. Further on, he witnesses desperate Neapolitan housewives publicly exchanging sex for tins of rations with American soldiers.
  2. January 22 1944
    The Anzio landing succeeds, seemingly aided by German unpreparedness — underscored by discarded operational maps found being burned by locals for fuel.

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