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I asked: "Do you think the Germans come passing the river together with us?"

After these events we went our way and they went their way.

We reached Monte Caio.

It was raining, and the more we walked up the more the rain turned into snow.

On Monte Caio there was a crest we couldn't cross because of the storm,

so we decided to sleep up there, behind some rocks, where the Germans couldn't see us.

The next morning we shook the snow off

and went on up until Monte Penice, near Piacenza.

If you look where Monte Penice is ...

And then we went back.

Nickname (battle name)

We chose nicknames in the Anti-Fascist detachment.

In the Cervi detachment, noone ever took our data, they didn't ask us anything,

whereas here they wanted to know name and nickname.

There were three of us, we took also one from Puianello,

he was working in the pastafactory Cuccolini.

They told us to find a nickname and Pancio said:

"I want to have the name of a fighter: Pancio!"

I told him: "Pancio was a fighter, from South America, what's his name ..."

I wanted to have a more subtle name.