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so we decided to sleep up there, behind some rocks, where the Germans couldn't see us.

The next morning we shook the snow off

and went on up until Monte Penice, near Piacenza.

If you look where Monte Penice is ...

And then we went back.

Nickname (battle name)

We chose nicknames in the Anti-Fascist detachment.

In the Cervi detachment, noone ever took our data, they didn't ask us anything,

whereas here they wanted to know name and nickname.

There were three of us, we took also one from Puianello,

he was working in the pastafactory Cuccolini.

They told us to find a nickname and Pancio said:

"I want to have the name of a fighter: Pancio!"

I told him: "Pancio was a fighter, from South America, what's his name ..."

I wanted to have a more subtle name.

So the other one said: "I want to be called Viper".

"Why viper?" "Because it's scary".

So I chose Volpe (fox). A fox runs fast and if there's danger it runs and saves itself.

That's the story of the nickname Volpe.

Another reason was that I thought that there must have been only few people called Volpe.