July 18, 1944
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No letter from René on July 18, 1944, so here’s an excerpt from the journal of Dr. Philip Westdahl about the unit’s new locale – “a field between Battipaglia and Paestum” – about 30 miles south of the Amalfi Coast. Salerno, like so many cities on the coast of Italy, as well as Sicily, […]