In 1944 someone named the servicemen in Italy the D-Day Dodgers; as though somehow the war they were fighting was a cushy number compared to the battles in France. Outraged, one national newspaper decided to expose these loafers once and for all.
That's how reporter Perry Potter and his photographer Chalky White came to be standing on a freezing airfield in "sunny" Italy. The weather was just the first of the eye-openers the pair was going to see.
In 1944 someone named the servicemen in Italy the D-Day Dodgers; as though somehow the war they were fighting was a cushy number compared to the battles in France. Outraged, one national newspaper decided to expose these loafers once and for all.
That's how reporter Perry Potter and his photographer Chalky White came to be standing on a freezing airfield in "sunny" Italy. The weather was just the first of the eye-openers the pair was going to see.