No raids to-day. CHIETI, a village about ten miles from here, has proved quite an attraction for Squadron personnel.
It is, in a way, quite an attractive village but is very pro-Fascist. All the PESCARA residents during the battles raging here left their homes with what they could carry and flooded CHIETI. 200,000 people were there until the fall of Pescara.
The Hun played havoc with Mussolini's pet town and demolished it pretty thoroughly.
Pescara airfield has proved a very useful landing ground for American aircraft returning from raids over Germany. It is almost a daily occurrence to see Liberators and sometimes Fortresses coming into land, having suffered some damage or other. Their officers are accommodated thro’ Wing and 21 has often had the pleasure of Uncle Sam's lads for meals and bed. There seems to be a great bond of friendship between the Yanks and South Africans. To Illustrate this, three Yanks O/R's came all the way from beyond Biferno to Pescara to spend their three days leave with some of our lads, whom they had met down there.