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how to make mines, how to blow up railway tracks, how to blow up a road, or a military column.
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After we practiced a bit I think we were much better than our instructor.
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They were trained recklessly;
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they were taught the most important things and then dropped in the partisan areas.
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We started from scratch but were also trying to improve our military expertise.
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As an example, it took us one and a half hours to blow up a bridge on road 63,
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as it was made of stones.
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We changed our method and were able to do it in fifteen minutes.
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In July, when the great mop-up took place,
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there were just two or three of us sappers.
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We were scattered around because the battle started at four in the morning,
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and by the evening the whole partisan area had been occupied by the Germans.
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We were in Carpineti and we reached Costabona.
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The whole village was on fire.
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The Germans had set the village on fire as well as the crop and the wheat on the fields.
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It was really a depressing view.
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There were around thirty of us of the Bedeschi detachment, yet unhurt.
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There was also one of the detachments from Modena who had been joining forces with us at the beginning.
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We gathered in Costabona,
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determined to fight the Germans,
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