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| Operation Dragoon |
Operation Dragoon
Operation Dragoon was the Allied invasion of southern France that took place on August 15th 1944.
The landing took place between Toulon and Cannes, with the initial assault force consisting of 3 American divisions and 1 Free French armoured division. Additionally, American, British and French commando and airborne formations participated in the invasion. Furthermore, the invasion forced was supported by French, British and American battleships, 7 Allied escort carriers, and over 50 cruisers and destroyers.
Over ninety-four thousand Allied troops, and eleven thousand vehicles, were land on the first day of the invasion. German resistance was relatively weak, as many German forces had been moved to northern France to fight the Allied forces which had previously landed in Normandy. After the landing, the Germans rapidly retreated, and the principal obstacle to the Allied advance was lack of supplies, especially vehicle fuel, rather than German opposition. Nevertheless, the Operation Dragoon force met up with the Allied forces advancing from Normandy in mid-September in the vicinty of Dijon.
| World War II |
| Operation Barbarossa 1941 German Invasion of Russia |
| Operation Citadel 1943 The Battle of Kursk |
| Operation Dragoon 1944 Invasion of southern France |
| Operation Varsity 1945 Crossing the Rhine |
| Invasions That Never Were |
| Operation Sealion 1940 German invasion of England |
| Operation Olympic 1945 US invasion of southern Japan |
| Operation Coronet 1946 US invasion of northern Japan |
| Special Forces |
| Operation Entebbe 1976 Entebbe Airport Rescue |
| Operation Nimrod 1980 Iranian Embassy Siege |
| British Cold War Operations |
| Operation Musketeer 1956 Suez Crisis |
| Operation Corporate 1982 Falklands War |
| Operation Black Buck 1982 Vulcan raids on Port Stanley |
| Operation Granby 1990-91 Persian Gulf |
| British Post Cold War |
| Operation Herrick 2002- Afghanistan |