Great story about the Sicilian spaghetti sauce uncle on page 10.
RE: page 6 Ploesti raid only losing 20 aircraft. Misinformation? The correct losses were around 50 or so?
54, according to my handiest source. I predict the number of lost aircraft reported in the news will creep upward as more information becomes available. On the other hand, I'll bet there will be no official correction to the amount of damage sustained by the oil fields. The public will be allowed to keep the impression that it was a crushing blow to the Axis petroleum supply. Hanson W. Baldwin takes that position in his August 5 analysis of the mission.
Private: [Looking at his plate of spaghetti] This stuff is orange. Spaghetti ain't supposed to be orange.
Frank Perconte: This ain't spaghetti. This is Army noodles with ketchup.
Bill Guarnere: You don't gotta eat it.
Frank Perconte: Come on, Gonorrhea, as a fellow Italian you should know that calling this crap spaghetti is a mortal sin.