Shot down

I got shot down in, just off the coast of Naples, Italy in, in 1943, August the 12th, 1943. And the Germans come out and picked me up, and they, they took me into Naples, Italy. If you ever heard the expression, "see Naples and die", Die is a suburb of Naples, by the way. And they took me into Naples, and I was there overnight. And then they took us up, they even took us up to Rome there, and we arrived in Rome on Saturday night, and there was two or three of us and three or four guards. There was, well, there was more of them, maybe four of five of us, and there wasn't many of us there. And they even, we got, we got up in Rome, and then they took us down under this big bridge there, in Rome, and we slept un- under this bridge at night, and the next morning it was Sunday, and the guy says, "Well, let's go up and see the Pope." So they took us up, and the Pope come out on the balcony and waved at everybody. So, I got to see the Pope, he was a hundred miles away, so I couldn't even tell you what he looked like.