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 "... When he returned to Seyne, Cammaerts found that another Jedburgh team had arrived: NOVOCAINE, comprising two Americans and a Frenchman. The Frenchman was Lieutenant Jean Yves Pronost (nom-de-guerre Lelanne), while the Americans included the radio operator, Sgt. W. Thompson, and Lieutenant Charles Gennerich. Cammaerts gave them the same instructions that he had already given the CONFESSIONAL (Pelletier-Purvis-Roper) mission: proceed to Guillestre, get in touch with Gilbert Galetti in the Queyras, and move on to a Maquis post at Vallouise from where they could carry out guerrilla actions along the roads to Briançon and the Montgenèvre pass. The two teams shortly moved out by gazogene trucks that Cammaerts arranged for, and they reached their destination by August 13. Thereafter, they cooperated with Capt. Jean Frison, the Sector commander, who with his deputies Capt. Lucien Nortier and Capt. François Ambrosi, had over 150 hardy maquisards under his command. Many were mountaineers, wearing the floppy berets of the celebrated chasseurs alpins, and some of the paratroopers, well trained as they may have been, could not always keep pace with them. ..."
Laurent Laloup le jeudi 27 septembre 2018 Contribution au livre ouvert de Jean Yves Pronost | |
