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We had blown up the bridge so they couldn’t get through with armoured vehicles.
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If it had been a question of energy, we could have succeeded, but we could do nothing against heavy artillery, ourselves having none.
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At night we moved and slowly reached the saw-mill over Civago and stayed there the whole day. We got there before dawn.
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The following night we walked through the Passone, next to the Cusna,
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and made it to the area of the Cesare Battisti refuge, which had already been completely burnt down.
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We stayed in that area for twelve days.
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It rained often and we had nothing to cover ourselves with.
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I had been lucky since I was assigned to go to Ligonchio with another comrade
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to gather information on the Germans’ movements
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and get some supplies to carry back up.
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I would head up every night with bread, cheese, carrying the news, too.
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Finally, after a few days, the Germans left...
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First allied air-drop
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We heard there was an airplane flying back and forth.
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So we made a triangle with three stacks of fascines.
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That was the code word, and we set in on fire.
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The airplane was flying in a large circle of quite a few kilometres.
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When they noticed the triangle they launched the parachute.
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It was a remarkable air-drop.
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Afterwards the comrades from Modena came to us saying they wanted the weapons.
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