Over 5,000 of the French personnel who took part in Operation Dragoon were women, who volunteered as clerks, typists, radio operators, translators, ambulance crews, and more. Over 50 of these ...

an Operation Dragoon veteran. The first two days saw various speakers at the podium talking about several topics, from the Big Picture of WWII in Europe and the Pacific, to the First French Army ...

Seventy years ago a Franco-American force (with a few British troops thrown in) landed in southern France, starting Operation DRAGOON. The American landings began on 15 August 1944 and the French ...