After two
stressful missions, the crew had been granted a free day. We could
now concentrate on making our tent more comfortable. Since moving
into our tent, I had slept inside a sleeping bag on an empty mattress cover
placed on an uncomfortable folding cot. The damp ground served as
our floor. We had no heat and were informed by those who had experienced
a winter season in Italy that winters can be
very cold. My tent mates and I agreed that we should first install
a floor and that we should begin by inspecting tents of our neighbors in
order to learn how to make one. We found that they had built their
floors with what they called "tufee brick", a concrete brick that was plentiful
on the air base and best of all, free. I never discovered the significance
of the word tufee but I was grateful to the Air Force for making them available
for any who might want them. An armload at a time, we carried and
stacked the bricks outside our tent where they would be available to lay
side by side and end to end on the dirt floor of our tent.
Jesse Pettey
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