You mean you hope they didn't eat him. No, Wojtek was billeted a private and traveled with us all the way to Italy, carrying munitions. It was '42.

[ he half squints, trying to organize the time. the chronology is based on when he'd last seen nicky. ] '44 when we landed at Monte Cassino. Wojtek was a corporal by then.

[ he wipes the blade off on his pants, careful to keep any blood from drying on it. ]

We were all over. Italy, France, North Africa. Japan after...

[ after. ]