European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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We fought back fiercely, even at night.
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They had made it to less than one km from the road to the Predale power plant,
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but they didn’t manage to proceed any further, not one step further.
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The local people helped us out a lot there.
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Workers built the trenches while the women cooked.
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That was really a perfect battle,
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and one morning the Germans were forced to retreat.
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In order to retreat the Germans had to cross a slope: it was easy to shoot them with the machine gun.
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So they devised a plan: using smoke-bombs, they created a smoke-screen in the whole area to try and get through.
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We kept firing the machine guns, in spite of the smoke-screen.
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But the Germans would always carry away their casualties.
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That was the last real battle in our area.
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After that there were only small attacks, to trucks and so on, but that was the last big battle.
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I remember there was also Carretti who was leading a detachment in Primaora, but it was the last battle.
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Why should we slip away?
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There were 500 of us now, and we had all we needed. There’s also an English officer with us.
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We stayed there, and in the end there was this great feeling of joy.
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It’s truly a great memory.
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Allied airdrop with food and weapon supplies
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An American colonel had crashed with his airplane and had to stay in Ligonchio for a while.
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