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...Classical remains suffered less damage than was feared. Chief loss was the contents of the latest excavations at Pompeii...
...reached North Africa in May 1943, saw action on May 24, was hospitalized in August and September, made 21 combat jumps (the 21st on the day he left the hospital), was decorated, and wrote: "Over here in Italy it is very pretty. . . . There are many old historic places like Pompeii, etc. . . . But even with all this, I'd give anything to plant my feet on some U.S. dirt again...
...Explosive" eruptions of Vesuvius: in 79 A.D., when Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae were buried; in 1631, when 18,000 were killed...
...Pompeii was bombed chiefly in its most recently excavated areas; the older, archeologically more valuable sections of Pompeii were very slightly damaged. "Fortunately Herculaneum," wrote Sir Charles Woolley, "which from the scientific point of view is much more important than Pompeii, received no hurt...
They pushed westward toward Pompeii's poppy-splashed, bomb-battered ruins so fast they finally were in the van of the American Fifth Army. At Scafati where a group of American correspondents were also out in front of the troops, they were held up by a rear-guarding German tank...