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...walls up the limestone and pumice heights of the Sorrentine peninsula. From the ridge the patches of chestnut forest tumbled into the brown Campania plain. The General looked in the direction of the ashen ruins of Pompeii, the lava-scarred cone of Vesuvius. Beyond the volcano rose a huge shroud of smoke over the port of Naples. In that city of 900,000, rising in tourist times like a white amphitheater from the blue sea, the Germans were dynamiting and burning. It was clear proof that the Wehrmacht had lost the Battle of Salerno, had now begun an earth-scorching...
...white cross on the airfield, a white flag on the wrecked harbor installations. By 12:22 p.m. British landing parties had scrambled ashore, mopped up a few troops who had either not been informed of the surrender or could not see their own signals through Pantelleria's shroud of brushwood smoke. The landing party herded together the first 8,000 bomb-dizzy troops while 50 German dive-bombers, sneaking south from Sicily in the hope of a sudden kill, were slapped about by Allied fighters...
Cooled by the Humboldt Current, the islands are not as hot as might be expected. Mists shroud the tops of the 2,000 volcanic crater cones that splotch the group's 2,800 square miles; on all but the shore the climate is humid. The handful of inhabitants, mostly Ecuadorians and Scandinavians, grow coffee and sugar cane, raise cattle on the craters' slopes. In the '30s, the islands became famed in U.S. Sunday supplements because of a bizarre free-love colony founded by a German dentist, which came to an unhappy end with the violent deaths...
...Wakefield could no longer be distinguished within her shroud of smoke and steam. But messages beep-beeping from the sparks' cabins aboard the cruiser and the destroyers told the story. "The engines are still okay. Fire hasn't got below B deck. The captain (Coast Guard Commander Harold Gardner Bradbury) thinks it will burn out the superstructure...
Under the shroud of fog the four men paddled quietly towards shore. The submarine which had brought them turned its nose again to the open sea, vanished into the Atlantic...