European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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We had to lower the curtain, since half of it was still hanging.
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Five of us went inside, together with two other blindfolded men,
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one of whom we doubted being a theatre employee.
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We had to use the wooden pulleys. They now use automatic ones.
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Anyway, we lowered the curtain and slowly managed to move it. However another problem emerged.
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In order not to be fined by the police for bringing such a large truck behind the theatre, one had to ask for permission.
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I told them we had to bring out some odds and ends and that we needed the truck to load everything on it.
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We were given permission and finally managed to load the curtain on the truck, although a small piece still fell out.
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Then we had to think about where to bring it.
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We opted for the area of Biasola, where Fiorello and I lived, so that we could keep an eye on it.
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Finally we hid the curtain inside Villa Levi.
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Sabotage at the airfield
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One night we stripped the machine guns from three airplanes in the airfield.
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Before we set the airplanes on fire we removed their three famous 7-7 guns, which were very powerful anti-aircraft weapons.
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They were bolted to the bearings, in order to rotate,
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but we took them down and then set the aircrafts on fire, all three of them.
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The machine guns had no tripod though. Fiorello was very good in mechanical work.
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He had worked at Bagni’s in Via Toschi, manufacturing and repairing scales, he built the tripods himself.
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Once he was stopped by a Black Brigade near the cemetery of Via Cecati while he was taking one home.
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They asked him what that thing was. He replied that he was taking that tripod to the dairy in San Bartolomeo.
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