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Lieut. Summers Relates Visit to Isle of Capri“We stayed in a grand hotel f called the ‘Morgano Tibero.’ had * marvelous food, service and j 1 rooms It was a welcome change ' from living in a tent in the mud -and the cold of Italy. writes 1 First Lt. Joseph B. Summers, of c near Ardon, to relatives there. 1 Lt. Summers was recounting I his experiences during a rest, t period spent at the Isle of Capri t in the Bay of Naples. Italy. Lt. 1 Summer.* is a bombardier on a c ; Liberator bomber with the 15th t air force, based in Italy. t“My room faced the sea. said i Lt. Summers, “and the view was t beautiful. The lounge was huge 1 and the dining room beautiful— t | with the side next the sea being j t of glass. f“The island itself contains many . 1 places and things of historical na- ture, so we hired a guide and took I in all the places of interest. The lt;Roman emperor Tiberius died lt;■ here in 37 A. D.. and though he has been dead 2.000 years, his j -c memory still dominates the place, e He had built 12 splendid villas on; t the cliffs on one of these ruins I j ( attended mass in a church in I i which the organ was made of i r pure gold. It really was something i to see. s lt;“Legend has it that the man't who made the organ was blinded j t by the government then in power) t so he could never make another J lt;There is also the legend of San! i Michele. Italian for St. Michael, J and everywhere you go you are ilt; hounded to buy the ‘Lucky Bell i f of'San Michele.’“We went into the world famed j Blue Grotto—a cave at the level lt;of the sea. You enter through a • small opening in the rock, by a i i boat holding two people, and you j have to lie down in the boat and j are pulled in by a rope fastened ( ' on the inside. Light gets in from c this small opening and gives the i most beautiful tint of blue to i 3 everything and the silence of the lt;place is most impressive. We ( really hated to leave Capri and I lt;I hope some day I can return.Lt. Summers then tells how he and his crew hired an Italian con- t | tractor to put a cement floor and . j brick walls up for their quar-• tei s. They paid five cents apiece 1 for the brick and S9 a sack for I ! the cement. “It cost a heck of a lot. but its worth it as the stove lt;' we built really heats up the place , | and we at least are dry and ! warm,” he asserts.I Lt. Summers has the air medal and two citations. He was made ( a first lieutenant on Jan. 8 of this : I year. Lt. Summers has flown 1 many missions into Germany, 1 Austria. Jugo Slavia and North- 1
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Muscatine Journal and News Tribune
Muscatine, Iowa, US
Thu, Feb 15, 1945
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