Assuming hero status as a killer of 17 German soldiers, 13-year-old Jose Perrachine lends himself to the celebration the Carpentras liberation. Perrachine is credited with a brave attack on a German tank with a machine pistol that destroyed its crew. From Carpentras, VI Corps focused on Montelimar up Highway 7. As hours and days passed, the German 19th Army continued to scramble by any means possible to Lyon.

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