Operation Dragoon, originally planned under the code name Anvil, was the Allied landing on the Mediterranean coast of southern France between Toulon and Cannes. American troops of the US Seventh Army under Alexander Patch, together with French forces commanded by Jean de Lattre de Tassigny and supported by airborne units and a large naval force, went ashore. The German Army Group G, weakened by transfers to Normandy, had to retreat up the Rhône valley, and Marseille and Toulon were liberated by French troops within days. The Allies advanced north quickly and joined forces with those from Normandy near Dijon in September. The operation opened major ports for supplies, but the Germans' escape left some debate over whether it should have been done differently.
Before and after
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- 5 August 1944Cowra breakout
- from 7 August 1944 to 19 September 1944Battle for Brest
- from 12 August 1944 to 21 August 1944Falaise Pocket
- from 15 August 1944 to 14 September 1944Operation Dragoon
- from 19 August 1944 to 25 August 1944Liberation of Paris
- 20 August 1944Birth of Rajiv Gandhi
- from 29 August 1944 to 28 October 1944Slovak National Uprising
- from 30 August 1944 to 7 September 1959Grande Noirceur
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