European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

He crossed the front lines and got to Florence.

There was communication from Ligonchio then, from Lama Golese to Florence; there were English officers with radios,

it was just like talking with a telephone today.

So he did this air-drop, on a Sunday morning, there were airplanes all over

and they dropped all sorts of things, even gasoline tanks looking like missiles.

They even dropped two small Lambrettas,

a light gun, a whole lot of stuff, things to eat.

Quite a few parachutes fell on the other side of the river and were taken by the Germans.

Later the Germans tried to go take some on our side too,

and that’s when a partisan died, poor man, his name was Nello Vergai, he was a sailor from Caprile.

He was shot and he took cover wounded,

but he hid so well that we didn’t find him.

The woodmen found him two or three months later,

and you could see that he had bled to death. He had covered himself with leaves… It was a terrible tragedy.

Killing people; spies; arresting a German soldier

Well, did I kill somebody…

We did shoot, but then knowing if we killed them for sure is another story.

That night, three Germans were shot dead.

They were buried in the colony of Busana.

I can tell you that if I had killed a man while he was looking at me,