On the 29th of may 1940 during combat against the germans Raoul was shot and a bullet was lodged in his right lung and he was taken to Germany as a prisoner of war. In the beginning of 1941 he was released on the grounds of ill health and returned to Payzac where his family lived. The bullet was never extracted and he would say that it was like a barometer that would tell him of any change in the weather.
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