Operation Dragoon

When

15 Aug 1944 – 14 Sep 1944

Kind

Military operation

Coordinates

43.23° N, 6.66° E

Description

Allied invasion of southern France on 15 August 1944

1944 Allied invasion of Southern France

Operation Dragoon, known as Débarquement de Provence in French, was the code name for the landing operation of the Allied invasion of Provence on 15 August 1944. Although initially designed to be executed in conjunction with Operation Overlord, the June 1944 Allied landing in Normandy, insufficient resources led to the cancellation of the second landing.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “WWII: Operation Dragoon lands Allies in southern France”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “In Südfrankreich gehen im Rahmen der Operation Dragoon amerikanische und französische Verbände zwischen Toulon und Cannes an Land, sie können ohne größeren…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “débarquement de Provence”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “ドラグーン作戦”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page