Naples in Southern Italy, with its open shops displaying gloves, handbags

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Naples in Southern Italy, with its open shops displaying gloves, handbags

Naples in Southern Italy, with its open shops displaying gloves, handbags, silk stockings and artificial silk underclothes, looks like fairyland to British servicemen who have spent months in the Western Desert and North Africa.
There has been a rush to buy presents to catch the Christmas mail for England and other parts of the Empire.
An RAF photographer goes shopping with two airmen of the RAF, Corporal Derek Hodgson of Swinside, Keswick, Cumberland and LAC Edward Mawcinnitt of Mexico City, known to his friends as Pedro.
Corporal Hodgson was a quarryman before the war and enlisted in the
RAF in 1939. He spent his first war Xmas at home, the seoond in Serafin in Palestine, the third at Tmimi
in Cyreraica, the fourth at Marble Arch during the advance to Tripoli.
Mawcinnitt went to Mexico City when he was 8. In 1942 he left his general merchandise business and enlisted in the RAF Regiment as a ground gunner.
Photo Shows: Hodgson (nearest camera) and Mawcinnitt almost forgot the inevitable picture postcard shop when they decided to call it a day.
December 1943

Official
Reach PLC
Mirrorpix
Naples
Campania
Italy

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1943 Allied Invasion Of Italy Armed Forces Italian Campaign Off Duty Relaxing Royal Air Force Services

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