European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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In order to retreat the Germans had to cross a slope: it was easy to shoot them with the machine gun.
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So they devised a plan: using smoke-bombs, they created a smoke-screen in the whole area to try and get through.
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We kept firing the machine guns, in spite of the smoke-screen.
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But the Germans would always carry away their casualties.
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That was the last real battle in our area.
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After that there were only small attacks, to trucks and so on, but that was the last big battle.
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I remember there was also Carretti who was leading a detachment in Primaora, but it was the last battle.
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Why should we slip away?
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There were 500 of us now, and we had all we needed. There’s also an English officer with us.
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We stayed there, and in the end there was this great feeling of joy.
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It’s truly a great memory.
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Allied airdrop with food and weapon supplies
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An American colonel had crashed with his airplane and had to stay in Ligonchio for a while.
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There was little to eat, and he was fed even less than the others.
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So he told our captain: “If I manage to get to Florence I’ll organize an air-drop and drop you a lot of good food”.
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He kept his word.
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He crossed the front lines and got to Florence.
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There was communication from Ligonchio then, from Lama Golese to Florence; there were English officers with radios,
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it was just like talking with a telephone today.
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So he did this air-drop, on a Sunday morning, there were airplanes all over
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