European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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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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The guard came to me and said: "Mirko, Mirko, the Germans are here!"
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We were sleeping in a barn and jumped up like hares.
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"Where are they?" "In Busana on the Sparavalle". "Shut up, then!"
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They were at street number 63.
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We prepared without waiting for further instructions, I'd found some posts.
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"Go there and don't shoot. No shooting, be aware! Keep hidden and don't smoke!"
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They were there already, it was just two or three o'clock.
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At six o'clock in the morning the Germans shot the warning fire as a sign of attack.
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