🗣️ “This is the D-Day really, that you’ve never heard of” Military historian, Dr Peter Caddick-Adams looks back Operation Dragoon, 80 years on since the Allied invasion of Provence | Forces News

American historian Samuel Eliot Morison once said: "If Tinian in the Pacific was the perfect amphibious operation on a small scale, Operation Dragoon was the nearly faultless one on a large scale." Operation Dragoon, initially known as Anvil, was a successful Allied operation that occurred in southern France in August 1944. It was initially going to be executed simultaneously with the landings of Normandy in June 1944, but logistical problems ensured it was not possible. Unlike other operations

20K views · 207 reactions | 殺 Le 15 août 1944, en Provence, un second front est ouvert après le débarquement du 6 juin 1944 en Normandie. C’est l’opération « Dragoon ». Au total, 350 000 soldats alliés dont 230 000 français de l’armée B du général De Lattre de Tassigny participent à l’offensive. 80 ans après, la France se souvient et honore la mémoire de ces héros.  Retour en vidéo sur un moment clé de la Libération. | Ministère des Armées | Facebook