Sgt. Mickey and General Ike by Michael James McKeogh Richard Lockridge

Author:Michael James McKeogh, Richard Lockridge [Michael James McKeogh, Richard Lockridge]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Military, United States, Europe, General, Germany, Special Forces
ISBN: 9781787200050
Google: kpLEDAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Published: 2016-07-26T03:01:06+00:00

CHAPTER 6

ALGIERS WAS GETTING too far from things. The war was moving on. On December 18 the General and his staff flew to Naples and I went with them, and some of the office staff. And Pearlie. The next day we started a rather complete tour of southern Italy, going to Bari by way of the front and coming back. It took us several days, and then we went back to Naples and moved into a house we had found for the Boss. It was a house we never did really get settled into; about the only big event there was the night we killed a rat in the General’s bathroom, where it was sitting as if it owned the place.

I found it and went downstairs to get a stick of wood to use on the rat and told Commander Butcher about it. He said he thought a little target practice would be in order and suggested it to the General, who said that if he couldn’t shoot a German the next best thing would be to shoot a rat. So we went up and the Boss got his .32 automatic and we moved in on the rat.

The General shot at the rat and missed him, and the rat ran up a pipe and sat on the tank above the toilet that held water. The General shot again and this time he got a little of the rat, and knocked it off its perch. It fell behind the door, and the General finished it off. Then Telek came in, barking like crazy and all full, you could see, of how he had killed a rat. Telek was apt to be a little late for things like that, but he always came in barking.

We toured a big palace there—Pearlie and I and some others of the staff; the palace of Caserta they were using for offices. It was very big and full of gold, and there was a mirror fixed up so you could sit in the bathroom and look out on the street and see the people passing, if you wanted to. That part of it seemed sort of silly, but it was a big palace, all right.

And the day before Christmas, the General decided to go to Capri to inspect a rest camp for the Air Force they had there, and he took Pearlie and me along. It was a beautiful island, although there were, of course, a good many people on it—more, I suppose, than there used to be in the days you heard about; the days you heard about in the song. We were met by a lot of people—military people and a little civilian who looked for all the world like Mayor La Guardia, and who began to talk as soon as we arrived and kept on talking most of the time we were there. It wasn’t until he’d been talking for quite a while that we realized he was the mayor, welcoming the General, to the island.

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