European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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they had a cave so they also had TNT, mines, gunpowder…
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We prepared the holes and then blew up a large arch of a very big bridge in Cinque Cerri.
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Then we left for the mountains. From that day I was in battle.
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We went to the headquarters in Lama Golese, on the Cusna mountain.
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Pasquale Marconi was there, a teacher from Castelnovo Monti, who was a Christian Democrat, a catholic anyway.
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Then there were Eros, Miro, a Jewish doctor who was from Jugoslavia.
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We spent a few days there.
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It was a sort of recruitment, but we didn’t have enough weapons;
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we were waiting for Allied air drops that didn’t take place,
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so they sent four of us back to Ligonchio.
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We went to Ligonchio and there really was a crowd of partisans there.
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Unfortunately, not all of them were armed.
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More partisans came, who wanted to fight, to enrol.
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More than weapons dropped from the sky or taken during attacks to the German garrisons.
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I was luckier than others, since I was given an English machine gun, a Sten gun, which was quite short.
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You could disassemble it in three pieces and hide it, and put it together quickly.
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And I also had a 9 mm Beretta and four hand grenades.
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I stayed there with the First Battalion
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and we used to go on road 63, where German garrisons were all over the place.
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Not long after, around July, there was a great mop-up.
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