August 25, a lieutenant requests from the F.F.I a volunteer to control the French tanks through German defenses by the surest path. The tanks could pass neither by Vauban, neither by the data base Tellène, nor by the street of the Roucas-White; these streets were cut by anti-tank defenses. This man saw only two possible passages, street of the Strings then street Vauvenargues, or the boulevard Gazzino (Andre Aune). It thus went up, behind the turret of the tank Jeanne-d'Arc, where to seat the lieutenant had taken who controlled the armoured section. They left by the street Extremely-Our-Lady, data base of the Rope manufacture, street of Endoume and street of the Strings. There, the tanks could not go further, because they could not pass under the bridge. They decided to make half-turn and to pass by the data base Gazzino. But German had realized of their presence and had installed an anti-tank gun in top of the staircases of the data base Gazzino, on the small place Sancta Maria. The tank Jeanne-d'Arc demolishes it by a blow with the goal. The tanks thus assembled the boulevard, then the *Gazzino cross-piece and then the rise of the Oratory. The tanks of 36 tons had problems to borrow the very sloping and tortuous lanes.
