Lee S. Manwill, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Luke Kelly, July 11, 2001: Saving the legacy tape no. 267

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Lee Manwill ul 11 2001 That was their official greeting. Well, I didn't return it of course and I p her. And she didn't understand- just a few words of English. But I bought s m roll r donuts, or something for my breakfast. But that was quite an impression there. veryone you met said, "Heil Hitler." And, by the way, this was kind of interesting, too, and I forgot to mention this. When I got to Rome from Germany, I arrived there the same day that Hitler did, and I've got some photos I took with a little Brownie box camera the same day Hitler arrived in Rome to have his first axis conference in Italy with Mussolini. So the crowds and the streets were just loaded. They were loaded with German and Italian soldiers. And I stayed in a bed and breakfast place there one night. This kindly old Italian lady was-I think it cost me fifty cents, or something like that-and she fixed breakfast for me. And fifty cents was a lot of money to her, especially in Italy in those days. And the next morning my train left to go to Naples and Pompeii. So I went to Naples first, and then back by way of Pompeii to Rome. But she insisted on putting up a lunch for me. That was sweet of her. So I had some-! don't know what you call them-some kind of Italian garlic sausages and everything, and bread for lunch. But on the way from Rome to Naples I looked out the window. And every fifty or seventy-five yards-on each side of the road of the railroad tracks, on one side and the other side-was an Italian soldier, an armed Italian soldier guarding that railroad line all the way from Rome to Naples. I think it was about eighty miles. And you could see those soldiers the 19