Jakov Rojnić

„I remember, I think on two occasions, we were trying to get to, and the Germans also, the pilots who parachuted. One time, I got the assignment, with another fighet, to find those pilots and pick up the paracutes. Because those parachutes could be used for...We entered the village of Bateli where we found the pilots but the villagers have already taken, a family has already taken the parachutes. I think there were more of that family, I've been told several times... The I said to them, I was very strickt, that I am going to kill them if they don't give them to me..that could have happened. I said. „You must give it to me, or else...“ Tehy had a lot of children and it was useful to them but still they gave us the parachutes and we barely managed to bring the to the command. I think it was the next night when we escorted the pilots, I believe there were four of them, to Šubi in Kaval near Peruški. There was an English station, a radio station or some kind of headquarters. This is were their submarines or ships arrived to pick them up. So we escorted the pilots there. What happened to them, I don't know. One time we were also there, when German ships arrived so a battle occured between those ships...German ship was sunk, and the English were probably saved, the pilots were taken away.“

„Until Italian capitulation there were no strong or large organizations..only one case when an action was taken and some telephone poles were sawn of and they received jail time, I don't know how many...but there were no pressures. But when Italy capitulated, then it was something unspeakable. Joy, happiness. Old and young exited their homes, started to joy and honoring..Then the movement started. „Let's go and liberate Barban, let's liberate Savičenta, let's liberate everything, everything..Unarmed mass was coming..we had no weapons..It was unseen. I was working in a bauxite research, with those ('), those were two or three meters long sticks, we drilled the ground and trying to find..I remember when we heard about the capitulation, all those tools were thrown away and we ran away to our homes, we didn't ask for our salary or anything, we just wanted to fight, to engage etc. Very quickly the carabinieri were disarmed, who where in Barban, and the people took the power. Older people quickly formed the authorities so they could function normally. Then, I think, there were very little, or almost nobody from the outside, from Croatia who might establish an organization. The people themselves established their own organization as best as they could and knew.“