Oral History Interview with Wendell Wilkins, August 31, 2012 Page: 42

                                
EM: They'll run the cost up too much. They'll figure out they
can charge a dime.
WW: Yep, they did. There was one -- are we about through?
EM: Any time, any time you're ready to quit.
WW: I can make a short story of this.
EM: That's all right. There's no rush.
WW: Little humor to this one.
EM: All right. We can do that.
WW: When I first got overseas, we didn't know the score on
different things. And I was in Caserta. And, the guys in
our crew says, we don't have anything to do with the rest
of the day. Why don't we go to town, just down here?
Caserta was not more than eight, ten blocks from us. Okay,
we'll go to town. We'll go get a pass and go. The guy
says, "Oh, baloney. You don't need a pass here. You can
just go." Okay. I'm nalve, I guess. Anyway, we went into
town, hit a bar and had a couple of drinks. Then we were
out walking around looking to see the town. And, a couple
MPs came up to us and says...

EM: Where's your pass?
WW: Those jackets you've got on, B-10 jackets. They were a
nice jacket. They had a fur collar, fur cuffs. Anyway, he
says, "But they're unzipped. You've got to zip up." They
says, "But it won't matter now because we're going to take

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