Provence, August 15, 1944: Dragoon, the Other Invasion of FranceThe preparation of the Provence landing in August 1944 was so precise that, against all odds, everything went exactly as scheduled. Therefore, this book emphasizes on the military planning involving all the units and equipments used. The second part of the book deals with the landing operations themselves and the first three days of fighting in Provence, by US troops, up to the arrival of the French 1st Army. The second largest US landing operation in France has never received such a detailed coverage, both in preparation and in execution. An hour-by-hour account of the fighting by US troops. More than 60 color profiles of aircraft and landing crafts and ships. |
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AFHQ Air Force Airborne airfields Ajaccio Allied American Anvil Armée arrived artillery assault zone assigned attack August August 15 Bataillon battalion battery beachhead boats bombs British Cavalaire coast coastal Colonel Combat commander Commandos d'Afrique convoy Corps Corsica cruiser defense destroyers Dragoon Draguignan Drammont DUKWs ECPAD enemy Engineer equipment fighters fire France Fréjus French German glider Group guns Hyères Infantry Division Insignia invasion Italy July landing craft Landing Ship Lattre LCVP Le Luc Le Muy Lieutenant Marseilles Mediterranean meters mission Naples National Archives naval Navy Operation Dragoon parachute paratroopers planes platoon Poilu port Private collection Provence radar Ramatuelle reconnaissance Red Beach Regiment Rhône road Saint-Raphaël Saint-Tropez Sainte-Maxime Salerno sector Serial Seventh Army SFCP shore shoulder patch Sicily soldiers Squadron staff tanks Task Force tirailleurs took Toulon troops Truscott units unloaded vehicles VI Corps wave