European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Generally he’d bring handguns.
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If there were only two handguns, I’d carry them alone. I had a big breast
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and they would fit perfectly right in the middle…
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I’d strap them to my waist and by bicycle I would get to Cerezzola,
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to Currada, where I met Marco (Sergio Beretti’s battle name).
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Sometimes I brought ammunition, other times salt, etc.
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One day Maria Montanari’s cousin, who worked at the Reggiane plant,
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had managed to bring out an airplane radio-transmitter.
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It was big, and it was at my house.
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It wasn’t a normal radio-transmitter.
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It had a button you had to press, and during the war it was the one the armies had.
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So we had to bring it to the mountains.
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Maria and I agreed on the following plan. I’d go to the mountains by train.
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I’d get the Reggio-Ciano train at the station, put my bicycle on the coach and get on.
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Maria was supposed to look at where I was sitting, and come inside.
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We’d pretend we didn’t know each other.
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She would put the package in front of me, at the end of the compartment, and leave.
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They often checked the suitcases.
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We figured that if they found the package, nobody could have told whose it was.
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Everything went alright until San Polo, where the train was surrounded. The fascist police started searching.