Victory Celebration with British Friends
- Creator
- Cobb, John Candler, II, 1919-2016
- Creation Date
- 1943
- Who
- WWII driver
- When
- WWII
- Where
- North Africa
- license
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Photo: John C. Cobb, courtesy AFS Archives, NY.
Crammed in here with us were all the junior officers of the 51st Medium Artillery: (L. to R.) [Left to Right], Bill Cobb, Gordon Ellis, Bombardier Jones (Medical Orderly), Bob Orton (AFS Volunteer), Dick Corse, Doc Brown, Tom Jones.
At midnight, the Colonel whom we had neglected to invite, torpedoed our party, said we were too rowdy, and sent us all to bed.
We had been through a lot together, had bonded, and remained in touch for many years after the war.
Location: In the Back of My Ambulance, Tunisia.
The Italians never had their hearts in this war; after the invasion of Italy by the Americans and the British in the Summer of 1943, Italy became neutral. Many Italians actually helped the Allies; most had been unhappy with Mussolini’s Fascist regime.