The twelth historical plaque can be found at number 33 in Via Antonio Gramsci, in Nettuno, two buildings after the staircase of the Belvedere terrace. This villa has the entrance gate on the street and windows and balconies overlooking the ocean. The villa became the headquarters of the British was correspondents, photographers and camera men of the British Army Film & Photo Unit. The most prominent of the guests on this this villa was Captain Alan D. Whicker, the British journalist presenter and broadcaster. Whicker, cameramen and photographers, all slept on the lower floors, then, because of the many rats around, they moved upstairs. Anyhow they could not avoid being followed by the rats. One night Whicker tryed to kill one with a pistol shot; he woke up and saw that there was a huge rat under his feet, staring at him. He took the pistol he had on his bedside table and shot him. The rat escasped by jumping out the window, reached the terrace and ended up on the beach. Whicker and officers had almost everything they needed, including Scotch whiskey, and they often invited both English and American nurses for an afternoon tea or coffee; in the evening, however, they organized dance parties, with record player. The photo shows the villa occupied by the British Amry Film & Photo Unit (on the right hand side). The other villa was occupied by the Fifth Army’s Public Relations Section, for both American and British war correspondents
