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  The report of caporal Maurice Antoine is much telling about the short but sharp battle: … When the platoon leader tank begins its turn, a shot unhinges the hatch and explodes in the hull. Caporal René Leyre (radio operator) and chasseur Henri Pelladez are both KIA. Lieutenant Dechery is compelled to lie down on their corpses to steer the tank and bring it back to the rally point. Sous-lieutenant Oudet is KIA by a blast when he is about to be evacuated after his tank began to burn and the death of his radio operator, chasseur René Pecquart. The struggle goes on with the fit tanks. The German tanks go back to the west under the powerful stroke of the French 47mm guns. They disappear, enabling the II/5e RICMS (régiment d'infanterie coloniale mixte sénégalais - includes one or more Senegalese battalion beside the European ones) to escape. At Souain, lieutenant Hildesheimer, commanding the strong point, kept fighting up to his death, not far from the church, alongside 3 officers and about 30 Senegalese tirailleurs. The 4th platoon (3 tanks) of lieutenant Larger, that had still all its tanks, remains in support near the village. The others, at the rallying point, keep on firing. This goes on until the enemy is no more active. The French artillery fires then a dense barrage on the village and its surroundings. Capitaine Blanc visits on foot the 4th platoon. This is when the German tanks, that moved South-East around Souain, come into sight. The 4th platoon engaged then immediately and disable several. The other German tanks retreat quickly. Once all is calm, the capitaine orders the 3 tanks of the platoon to rejoin the battalion at the rallying point. The bodies of sous-lieutenant Paul Oudet, caporal René Leyre, chasseur René Pecquard and chasseur Henri Pelladez are laid down near the American WWI cimetery because they cannot be brought with us. The corps of sous-lieutenant René Murracciole is left inside his tank. Facing them, 15 German tanks remain knocked out and some German soldiers are lying still in the gathering dusk on the battlefield. Last, on orders from capitaine Blanc, the 8 still completely operational tanks, each overloaded with soldiers of the 67e BCC and Senegalese troops from the 5e RICMS, pass through the woods and head to Perthes-les-Hurlus 1,500 meters East of our former positions, just when the German artillery begins to hammer them with a powerful barrage." Judging by the reports of battalion commander Valleteau and his officers, the Renaut D1 tanks, despite being obsolete and fighting against more numerous enemies, fought well against the German tanks and anti-tank guns, their radio sets often turning to the German channel broadcasting in clear ! Thus the 67e BCC managed to fulfil its sacrificial mission without failure as the losses attest. From the 45 D1 tanks engaged on 12 June, all are finally lost, abandoned or scuttled on 3 July 1940.