European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Leaving Valestra, as we were on the road that goes from Casina to Albinea, you could still see the long line behind.
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There were so many people: the English, the paratroopers, the Gufi Neri, all the partisans from the Central Headquarters.
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We stayed there the whole day and then the following night, at around midnight, they went down for the attack.
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Soon you could hear shots, as well as the sound of bagpipes,
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since the English were used to going to battle playing bagpipes.
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I can’t recall how many women we were, myself and another skinny girl from Villa Minozzo,
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but later Kiss told us that our task for the next day would be to search for any wounded, since anyone wounded had to be retrieved.
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The following day, as soon as it was light enough, we were asking ourselves what we had to do.
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Nobody was around and no partisans had returned. They must have dispersed in all directions.
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We wondered if there were any wounded men or not.
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We looked around the house, and there was an English soldier with a bullet in his knee who was hiding in a wagon.
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He was waiting for the dark in order to move or for somebody to go look for him.
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They put him and Gordon, who were wounded, in the house of a blacksmith, a sort of shop, and began taking them away at night.
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They finally got them to Palanzano, in the province of Parma, from where they were taken to Florence by helicopter.
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Then we had found this man in the house of a family nearby, hidden in a wagon.
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He had been put there by some partisans, who had left him there.
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We told the family we were looking for wounded men, and they told us they had one.
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In the evening they offered to take us to Casola, on the road from Casina to Albinea.
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There was a ditch there, where the crest of the mountain ended.
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You could go down the ditch, then back up to Valestra, but it was a very long way.
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