I Think I've Made the Right Choice, Mark Clark

"It's just really not a nice part of Italy at all," he says. "They were fighting in the beachhead in sort of little slip trenches, which were not at all deep." His father was ordered back to base after he'd been occupying a forward position for a long time. He felt 'for the rest of his life that had he stayed, he could have saved them' But they thought he would die, but he awoke and saw Mount Vesuvius erupting.