Home Easy 517-PRCT Operations in La Roquette, Southern-France (August 27-28, 1944) US airborne on the ground in Southern France

US airborne on the ground in Southern France

Fox Company troopers progressing between La Motte and Trans en Provence, August 15, 1944
Operation Dragoon (pictured in Toulon) took place a matter of weeks after the crucial Normandy Landings – and led to the liberation of southern France and wide-scale Nazi retreat