European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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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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The Goering attacked, we fought back for a day and a half, two days.
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Then there was a disbandment,
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because it’s really hard to resist against an attack
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from a German division with armoured vehicles, artillery, small airplanes, special forces.
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Maybe it wasn’t even right to fight back as we did,
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since guerrilla means attacking and withdrawing, coming back and so on.
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That time however it was decided to fight back jointly. We suffered many casualties in the end.
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Then the Germans took away more than a thousand men:
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