I won a Bantam paperback on an eBay auction not too long ago called "The Gallery." Although a work of fiction, it portrays accurately the main drag in Naples during the war where GI's would pick up women, get drunk, and go AWOL from the MPs. It's a pretty desperate book and there are a whole lot of not-so-great human beings in it.
Here's the cover, it pretty much explains it all.
And here is a real photo of GI's in Naples around the same time.
Happy to be there, serving their country, protecting mom's apple pie and the pretty gal next door! Yessir, red-blooded american boys as innocent as the day is long...
