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Operation Dragoon

Great Britain · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1944

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill2 July 1944

Warfare / World War, 2nd

Churchill asks Eisenhower to cancel Dragoon in order to break the deadllock at Caen

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill17 August 1944

Warfare / World War, 2nd

130,000 men and 18,000 vehicles had landed

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill28 August 1944

Warfare / World War, 2nd

Toulon and Marseille are liberated during Operation Dragoon

Names involved

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Provenance

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