European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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The ones I was working with weren't trained.
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Once, they were on guard duty and an accidental burst of fire occurred.
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They fled, leaving me alone.
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So I told myself I had to form a group of sappers under my command.
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I went to put forward my idea at the headquarters of the 26th Brigade, and I told Luigi:
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“Listen, I want to set up a team of sappers, I can train them”.
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We would have been under direct orders of the Brigade.
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The headquarters agreed, so I trained this group.
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We were able to take care of three or four actions at a time in a group of 12 men.
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At the same time we reduced the risk, unfortunately some of us got killed at times.
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If I was killed there would have been nobody left.
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We did the course and it was successful.
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Building up of „Fiamme Verdi“ brigades
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From the day of the first air-drop to the end of July
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we increased from around fifty to more than a thousand men.
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There just wasn’t enough time to organize ourselves.
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For example they set up a detachment and position it in an area, without knowing who these partisans were. That was a problem.
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They decided to set up a unit called “Fiamme Verdi” (green flames),
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and went around asking for people to join them. They asked me, too, since I was a catholic.
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I didn’t go since I liked being with the “Garibaldini”.
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