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Rosanna Giungi (b. 1933) describes how Pippo disrupted daily life in wartime, especially affecting those close to the Modena-Brennero and Modena-Verona railway lines. She reminisces about the sight of Germany-bound trains packed with people…

Maria Malagni (b. 1921) remembers her difficult childhood and chequered schooling history. She recalls wartime episodes: the death of her fiancé, an airman shot down over Brindisi; fascists seizing supplies; the capture of two partisans that her…

Corrado Marenco (b. 1940) describes various wartime anecdotes: a makeshift shelter dug in his garden where he and other children had fun despite the danger of 'Pippo'; how his father had to hide inside the bell tower of a church to escape from German…

Laura Perego (b. 1919) tells how her village, on the outskirts of Milan, went through the war almost unscathed, despite being close to an ammunition dump and other potential targets. She remembers a mysterious, badly dressed man who lived in a nearby…

Marta Papotti (b. 1937) remembers the bombings of Turin and how she and her family dashed to the shelter in the basement. She recalls the sense of community and describes people reciting the rosary or just chatting. She describes how her father, the…

Gianfranco Nardi (b. 1933) recalls the first bombing of Cesenatico in 1944, a night action carried out by 'Pippo'. He explains how the aircraft missed the train station and hit the nearby town centre; he maintains that the pilot was drunk. He…

Giovanni Poletto and Fortunata Ferrara lived in Sesto San Giovanni, Milan but hailed from Veneto. Giovanni, a motorist from Padua with aviation knowledge, remembers seeing low flying Pippo with distinctive engine sounds, at night after the armistice.…

Talnudge 'Red' Simpson, a corporal serving 416th Fighter Squadron, trained in Madison, Wisconsin as a radio operator. After attending radar school, he trained on the Anson in Algeria and later performed patrol operations in Grottaglie, Italy. He…

- 4:31 Francesco Fabiasco recalls an aircraft, Pippo, dropping bombs, ‘explosive pens’, supplies and weapons on night flights, but did not witness it personally.

4:31 to 6:32 Giovanna Dalla Pietra remembers aircraft, Pippo, flying during daylight…

Multiple testimonies with Pippo eyewitnesses in Northern Italy.

- 02:21 Dorothy Francesca, born 1940, recalls night flights by an American aircraft called Pippo and retell a children’s nursery rhyme about it.

02:26 - 08:35 Maria Onzata, born…