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They were both aiming their gun at each other, until the German walked back without shooting.

If he had, they both would have died.

Then what happened?

The battle had started 15-20 minutes before and our commander Miro was hurt badly.

Barbolini too, who was the commander of those from Modena.

After that Eros took charge.

But one of the machine guns we had, the French St.Etienne, had the wrong ammunition.

It didn’t fire one shot.

The other one, a Breda, worked properly,

but had been placed in an open spot, since we had to do everything in a hurry.

After the first shot was fired, a German with a rifle and binoculars

shot him in the middle of the head and killed him.

So that machine gun was useless.

We were badly equipped, while they were really highly armed.

Around 10:30 or 11, I was in the highest position in Cerrè Sologno,

right in front of the spot where today you can find the monument of our fallen.

I was with Viktor, a Russian who had a machine gun

that had been taken from a fascist by the women in Montecavolo.

That was the only machine gun we had.

Then there was also one of my comrades from Cella. It was four of us there.