He had been living with two splinters in his right leg since the Second World War, a memory of a Pippo bomber plane, those who flew close by and dropped bombs or machine-gunned, preferably at night.
Lina Martelli, 98 years old, originally from Gabbiana di Castellucchio, in the Mantua area, in recent days underwent emergency vascular surgery at the Poma hospital in Mantua and was then admitted to Nephrology and Dialysis for a post-traumatic hematoma: due to the findings, an arteriolamuscular artery had ruptured .
During the operation the metal parts were removed and we proceeded with haemostasis and tissue reconstruction.
Once discharged, the lady returned to Green Park, a residence for the elderly where she lives and told her story, made known by the ASST (i.e. the hospital company) of Mantua.
"That day, Pippo, the bombing plane, passed by. It wanted to hit a pickup truck but instead it hit my family squarely.
I was with mum, dad, grandparents and four brothers. They were all injured."
It was 1944. Lina, who suffered the most serious injuries, was 15 years old.
In the hospital they did what they could: "They tried to remove the bullets from me, but they couldn't."
At the end of the war, the marriage and the move to Rivalta sul Mincio: "My husband, Attilio, is no longer here. Today he would be more than a hundred years old. We had no children, but I have many grandchildren. I am better now. For the rest , it will be what God wills."
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