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How the US 7th Army Liberated Southern France | Battlezone | War Stories | Battlezone (2021x56)

: 21, 2021

On August 15th 1944, just two moths after D-Day, Operation Dragoon began. The US Navy began to fire on the beaches of the Cote D’Azur, with the US 7th Army quickly landing on the 15 mile wide beachhead. Their aim; to control the south of France and push the Germans back to the Rhone valley, taking back the country once and for all.