Get back from hospital today [a total of 16 days spent in hospital with yellow jaundice]. We have received orders to deploy to Italy in one week.
Tuesday, October 5, 1943
We move staging area at 3 p.m.
Friday, October 8, 1943
Load on boat (LST).
A very rare color photograph of a LST being loaded for the journey from Tunisia across the Tyrrhenian Sea to Italy. [public domain]
Saturday, October 9, 1943
Start for Italy.
BACK IN THE WORLD: New York Yankees win the World Series, defeating the St. Louis Cardinals four games to one.
Editor's note: despite earlier rumors that Howard's company would lose their trucks, they remained a transport outfit and retained their vehicles as they transferred to Italy.
This is what it looked like from a landing craft loaded with trucks, supplies and men as we crossed the Tyrrhenian Sea, heading northeast to Italy and into a new theatre of operations. The voyage was approximately 340 miles and took 48 hours to travel. [(c) Time, Inc]
Monday, October 11, 1943
Land at Salerno, Italy, and go to bivouac area.
We streamed into Salerno, Italy, on October 11, 1943. [(c) Time, Inc.]
WAR UPDATE: October 13, 1943. Official Italian government declares war on Germany.
Thursday, October 14, 1943
Our troops are suppose to be crossing Valturno River. I start working again about this time. It took me a month to recover from yellow jaundice.
Friday, October 15, 1943
We move to Maddeloni.
The yellow dots indicate our transit to Salerno. From there we moved to Maddeloni, northeast of Naples.
Saturday, October 16, 1943
I get trip to Naples.
Thursday, October 21, 1943
Air raid Naples (30 min.)
Saturday, October 23, 1943
Air raid at Naples 7 p.m.
Monday, November 1, 1943
40 min. air raid over Naples. Plenty of fireworks.
The remnants of a rail head in Naples, Italy, after a Luftwaffe air raid in 1943. [public domain]
Friday, November 5, 1943
Pull out at 3 a.m., move to new area near 0414 ammo dump, across Volturno River.
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