European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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on the road going through Fivizzano and the Cerreto pass and towards Castelnovo Monti.
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They were sending new troops to the front, by that time they had been there two or three months.
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So we received this order to lay mines, but there weren’t any bridges left!
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There was only this small thing we used to call the “fognone” (big sewer).
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By that time we had a lot of TNT since they dropped it from the airplanes.
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We walked up there. There was a wonderful moon this night, a very calm night, like in springtime.
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They had a machine gun nest not too far away,
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we put two groups there, one on each side of the bridge, in order to work untroubled.
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And we did work untroubled, placing 45 kg of TNT, sort of like chewing gum you know?
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After that we set the fuse and set it on fire.
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We walked down a bit because rocks would be falling down
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and well I went back to see after the war was over,
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and not only did we blow up the arch, but also 2-3 meters of road on both sides, because 45 kg are a lot.
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When they arrived they had to do a horse-shoe, that’s why it was important to stop them.
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Stopping them from getting to the front 24 hours earlier during the attack,
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and forcing them to dig the mountain, build a horse-shoe in order to be able to get through:
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