The Catania Paper Bag Caper — Thomas M. McDade

Bill Dean, a sailor on the USS Ramply DD-810 strikes up a friendship with an oddball shipmate working in the scullery. Through the streets of Catania, Sicily, mysteries unravel and tangle for both men. This is not your typical drunken liberty port gob tale but there are of course, women, beautiful and unique and always Mt. Etna, observing. See also my Navy Poems on Smashwords, A Ditty Bag of Navy Poems and Miss Inspiration and other Sailor Poems. There's also a short story titled Independence.