European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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who was taking milk away from the farmers, sending it out to the headquarters in Busana.
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The villages were full of people, the inhabitants had asked us to go take him.
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Caretti ordered us to wrap up our shoes with some bags in order not to make noise,
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but it didn’t work because the villages were full of shepherds and they had dogs.
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The dogs heard us and started barking.
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At that point the marshal came out with a soldier to see what was going on,
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why the dogs were still barking.
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We had put some mines on the road,
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so that if we had to fight, the soldiers who came down from Nismozza would walk into the mines.
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While the marshal was walking around to see what was happening, we solved the problem: he blew up on a mine.
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We were supposed to take him alive, but we got him dead, the marshal and the soldier as well.
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Then we had to back off of course.
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First partisan action; arms, deportations, fear
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After all these actions the Germans couldn’t allow us to continue any longer.
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I guess at our headquarters they found out that there would be a mop-up.
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Paterlini came to us saying “we must find something to blow up the bridge”, so that the trucks couldn’t get through.
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We went there with Carretti and met with a guy working for Edison, the local electric company:
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they had a cave so they also had TNT, mines, gunpowder…
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We prepared the holes and then blew up a large arch of a very big bridge in Cinque Cerri.
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Then we left for the mountains. From that day I was in battle.
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