European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

We stayed in that area for twelve days.

It rained often and we had nothing to cover ourselves with.

I had been lucky since I was assigned to go to Ligonchio with another comrade

to gather information on the Germans’ movements

and get some supplies to carry back up.

I would head up every night with bread, cheese, carrying the news, too.

Finally, after a few days, the Germans left...

First allied air-drop

We heard there was an airplane flying back and forth.

So we made a triangle with three stacks of fascines.

That was the code word, and we set in on fire.

The airplane was flying in a large circle of quite a few kilometres.

When they noticed the triangle they launched the parachute.

It was a remarkable air-drop.

Afterwards the comrades from Modena came to us saying they wanted the weapons.

We shared the guns with them, since there were 130-140 machine guns.

We were only around forty or fifty and had more than we needed.

From that day, the air-drops continued.

Without fear; trust in the partisans

Quite frankly, I didn’t feel in danger because I hadn’t been in the military.