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whereas they were supposed to fire two or three shots and then alternate them
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in order to keep the enemy under pressure while we were passing underneath.
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Instead, we turned up running with the bullets from machine guns in our back.. These moments ...
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The enemies were experts in war, whereas our guys were there but didn't know anything.
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For instance, there was "Jack", a friend of mine, who died some time ago,
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whose machine gun got stuck one time. So I told one partisan colleague:
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"Drop the hand grenade!" and he dropped it without the safety catch, like a stone.
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Throwing a hand grenade is not such an easy thing, you must count, you have to ...
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You have to be prepared to drop a hand grenade,
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you throw it and then you have to get cover, you need protection,
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you can't just throw it like that because it goes up like this.
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And then you have to estimate the distance, the force you use,
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you have to throw it at least twenty or ten meters away, otherwise you get hurt yourself, too.
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When I was a soldier I taught the guys from 1921 and '22 the war tactics,
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how to shoot, how to be a sniper, how to throw hand grenades, because they were no experts.
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Once you pull the catch you have to throw the hand grenade, otherwise you get blown up together with it.
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The enemies were well prepared, the Germans were warlords, they were trememdous.
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I remember one episode up here.
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We had a shooting one night,
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we were near Busana, in Cinquecerri.
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