Modena. “Mulini Nuovi” area. Inside the newly constructed underground shelter, Ciro, a native of Modena, scans the sky through a crack and in a notebook records the number of formations of 24 B-17s each he sees in the sky, coming from the south and heading north. By the end of the day, he must have counted thousands of them. They took off from the USAF base in Foggia and are headed for Nazi targets in Eastern Europe.
