Sometimes, you can only fleece one sheep.
Not for any particular reason, but simply because this sheep is easy to fleece and doesn't even make a fuss.
So, later on, you need to fleece a few more times.
Once again, on Christmas Day, Pierre arrived in Italy.
In Taranto, there were still other assets worth acquiring. As one of the few industrial hubs in the south, it was also the most important naval base for the Italian Navy. Because of this, there were not only munitions factories but also shipyards.
However, Pierre was a bit late—the shipyard had already been bought by Onassis's agents. That future Greek shipping magnate—the one who later married the imaginative young widow.
Although he was too late for the shipyard, he wasn't too late for the munitions factory. But after learning about its current state, Pierre immediately gave up—the Allied bombings had practically leveled the entire plant, and most of the equipment was now scrap metal.
