Wine Under Trench
"While the Germans were carding out their enforced withdrawal in Italy, they frequently lived "off the land," said a Duncdin officer who recently returned on furlough. "As we were entering the country evacuated by the Germans, Ave often observed. members of the local population digging up from the ground stores of household cutlery, crockery and silverware which had been hidden from the Germans." At one place a New Zealand gunner dug a slit trench for himself under the lea of a haystack, where he slept before moving to the forward area. When he returned ten days later three Italian peasants came along and began digging the trench to a depth of six feet from which they produced a 44-gallon keg of very good Italian wine.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 65, 18 April 1944, Page 6
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128Wine Under Trench Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 65, 18 April 1944, Page 6
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