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Darkness Comes Early (Part 2 of 3)

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Darkness Comes Early (Part 2 of 3)

Now I’m mad, I’m upset, I have absolutely no clues where I am and where I am going see, and I’m leading thirty-seven, thirty-five men down a place where I don’t know. So, we arrive closer to our route, if you look over the map of the Dittaino Valley, in the Canadian in Italy map, you will see that there’s a curve there. And we arrived there, Bernatia has got a carrier, a carrier detachment as an advance reconnaissance group watching his own perimeter and there it, and I don’t know them. When I’m intercepted, I don’t know whether they are enemy or whether they are Vandoos. If Bernatia in his briefing told me that he had somebody down the road, or down the gap, then I would have anticipated it but my mind was so upset getting this mission on, in the dark, on a dark area, with no preparation whatsoever, you know, if I had gone in the afternoon and saw the ground, I would have had a better idea where I was going. So I was going blind, that’s why the platoon was large, because if it was larger, you should be able to, to save a few, you see.

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