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but to be against the fascists and the Germans

meant to be against the bad people that had wanted the war.

When we did the Liberation it was a big relief for us

because this was what we had wanted. But what did they want?

They just wanted people to be killed, we've seen it many times.

For example, when they did their killings at the Bettola, or in Cerrè Sologno,

they did terrible retaliation acts.

But we had the experience in carrying out an attack

and in fact we did the action at the Sparavalle and not in Cervarezza,

so that the people would remain unharmed,

we didn't want to cause casualties among the population.

The first airdrop and the Sparavalle battle

They did the first drop at Lama Golese and there we were expecting it.

But the English made a mistake,

they were supposed to do their drop in Modena but did so at our place instead:

they'd set up a triangle with fires, the plane turned around and around and eventually did their dropthere.

They dropped four Bren machine guns and 130 other machine guns.

In our group were about fourty people, so we had far enough weapons.

Later on a local guy came and took all the surplus weapons and brought them away.

"Frigio" wrote right things about this episode, that the arms ...