European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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We were in Carpineti and we reached Costabona.
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The whole village was on fire.
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The Germans had set the village on fire as well as the crop and the wheat on the fields.
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It was really a depressing view.
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There were around thirty of us of the Bedeschi detachment, yet unhurt.
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There was also one of the detachments from Modena who had been joining forces with us at the beginning.
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We gathered in Costabona,
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determined to fight the Germans,
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who had occupied the whole area. (I was looking at the map the other day).
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It was difficult for us to get moving during the night.
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“Let’s stay here, we’ll carry out our resistance tomorrow”.
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We also had a mortar,
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but before we could do anything we had to blow up the Secchiello Bridge.
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I went down on one side to be safe and then made it under the bridge.
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The Germans were already on the Secchiello bridge.
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It was also quite a hard bridge to blow up.
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I took advantage of the confusion, went under the bridge and set the mines.
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The bridge was made of iron, but there was a rock, quiet high.
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I lit the fuse and jumped off. It was a question of seconds.
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However the Germans heard some noise when I lit the fuse.They shot some rockets.
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