European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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We had a hard time because a plane came to shoot at us,
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so we got stuck in the ditch like frogs, surrounded by nettles.
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Hard moments.
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I told my fellows that were 70-80 meters away and said:
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"Shoot there, you shoot and we will walk under the shooting line!"
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It was an operation for covering people we wanted to rescue.
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They weren't experts, they shot like idiots with the machine guns, they shot a lot,
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whereas they were supposed to fire two or three shots and then alternate them
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in order to keep the enemy under pressure while we were passing underneath.
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Instead, we turned up running with the bullets from machine guns in our back.. These moments ...
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The enemies were experts in war, whereas our guys were there but didn't know anything.
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For instance, there was "Jack", a friend of mine, who died some time ago,
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whose machine gun got stuck one time. So I told one partisan colleague:
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"Drop the hand grenade!" and he dropped it without the safety catch, like a stone.
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Throwing a hand grenade is not such an easy thing, you must count, you have to ...
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You have to be prepared to drop a hand grenade,
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you throw it and then you have to get cover, you need protection,
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you can't just throw it like that because it goes up like this.
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And then you have to estimate the distance, the force you use,
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you have to throw it at least twenty or ten meters away, otherwise you get hurt yourself, too.
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