European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Assault on the base of test pilots
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The school in Codemondo was a base for 400 airmen, as well soldiers as pilots.
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The Germans had moved their test pilots
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and the Caproni factory itself from Milan to the airfield in Reggio Emilia.
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Reggio at the time had become an aviation centre.
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The school in Codemondo was the base for this 400 Caproni airmen.
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We weren’t organized yet. We were sending people to the mountains.
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But we didn’t have many weapons, as the Allied hadn’t started airdrops yet.
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Still we devised a plan. We wanted to take the sentinel by surprise, while he stood guard.
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He was a soldier, and we did not want to harm him, only keep him silent.
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Four or five of us went inside the dormitories with their guns, telling everybody not to move:
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“Don’t move and we won’t shoot. We’re partisans, we just want the weapons”, the same old story.
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Outside four or five SAP teams helped us carry away everything, boots and the like.
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There was a lot of stuff. We also got the safe open, taking important documents
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we later handed to those knowing a little German. There was a little bit of everything there.
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Stealing 110 head of cattle
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We found out that the Germans wanted to round up the cattle in Cavriago and take them to Germany.
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SAPs, GAPs and all the partisans attacked during the night
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and took a cattle herd of one hundred and ten into the mountains with two cattlemen.
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It was great, because of the effort it took.
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