European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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We figured out that the Germans
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had put a lot of ammunition under some trees.
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They even had the Italian sub-machine gun ammunition we had been looking for everywhere.
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We had the weapons but no ammunition. There were also machine guns, a bazooka and other weapons.
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We never caused any retaliation by the Germans, who would burn down civilian houses.
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We opened the trunks with a screwdriver, took out the ammunition and weigh it
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and filled the trunk with a load of earth. In the end the Germans took off with trunks full of earth.
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Assault on the base of test pilots
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The school in Codemondo was a base for 400 airmen, as well soldiers as pilots.
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The Germans had moved their test pilots
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and the Caproni factory itself from Milan to the airfield in Reggio Emilia.
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Reggio at the time had become an aviation centre.
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The school in Codemondo was the base for this 400 Caproni airmen.
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We weren’t organized yet. We were sending people to the mountains.
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But we didn’t have many weapons, as the Allied hadn’t started airdrops yet.
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Still we devised a plan. We wanted to take the sentinel by surprise, while he stood guard.
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He was a soldier, and we did not want to harm him, only keep him silent.
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Four or five of us went inside the dormitories with their guns, telling everybody not to move:
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“Don’t move and we won’t shoot. We’re partisans, we just want the weapons”, the same old story.
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Outside four or five SAP teams helped us carry away everything, boots and the like.
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