On December 5, 1946, the 4th Company of the 501st Battalion of the Rimini (3rd Mountain) Brigade, under Captain Sotirios Liarakos, was ordered to move from the village of Ampelonas Larisis to the village of Rodia, which is 7 km from Ampelonas and 20 from Larissa. The company had just 74 men, half it