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Pompeii and her conqueror, Mount Vesuvius were but a truck-ride distant from Naples. Excavated from her bed of lava after 1800 years of silence, the ancient city ' s glories and perversions were bared in their artistry and baseness. Slowly emerging from the centuries ' dust were the House of the Vettii, the theatre, the forum, and the Temple of Jupiter. The eruption of March, 1943, assisted the Allied bombers to find their targets in Naples. By one eruption, the volcano enslaved and silenced a people; by a second eruption, she freed another. A landing craft, loaded to the gunwales with gold braid, left Naples for the Isle of Capri. The group, familiar with Radar, Loran, and radio direction finders, ignored the fog and proceeded on their course. Such basic navigational observation as the sun ' s irregular appearance in alter- nate quarters of the sky worried some, but the coxswain held their con- fidence. He was following another craft across the mine field so he didn ' t need a compass. If the other craft had a compass he did not know. He did know, however, that the other coxswain had taken the route before and knew the way. Neither boat had a compass! All faces were red. But they blossomed a deeper scarlet when an Army tug rescued them from the mine field and led them to Capri. The lushness of the Blue Grotto and the relaxation of swimming in the Mediterranean relieved the nervous tension of the trip. At Mondragona Beach the ship ' s party was greeted with a shaded welcome. If you set off a mine when in swimming, please realize that it was not left there intentionally . The German command had expected this beach to be a point of invasion. Anzio, instead, had been used. This beach became a rest center for those who invaded elsewhere.
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