The entire "Dragoon" landing campaign was planned to be organized and implemented by the US 7th Army. The 7th Army was led by Alexander? Under the command of Lieutenant General Patch, it is organized into seven infantry divisions, five armored divisions, one motorized division, and one airborne division of the United States, Britain, and France, with a total of more than 1,000 tanks, more than 4,700 combat aircraft, more than 850 ships, and a large number of transport vessels. The target of the battle was the German 19th Army stationed in southern France, with a total of 8 infantry divisions, 1 tank division, more than 120 tanks, more than 200 aircraft, and more than 30 ships.

The Germans had a great shortage of personnel and equipment, their combat effectiveness was not strong, and many of the main forces had already withdrawn, and the Allies had an absolute advantage in terms of overall strength. In particular, on the front line of the landing ground chosen by the Allies, about 90 kilometers from Saint-Rafal to the port of Toulon, the German 19th Army deployed only five battalions, and the coastal defense was very weak. The "dragoon" landing plan stipulated that the Allied landing force would seize a landing ground west of Cannes with a frontage width of 90 kilometers and a depth of 25 kilometers, capture Toulon and Marseille, and then develop an offensive to the north.

When considering the battle plan, the commanders and staff officers of the 7th Army estimated that due to the weakness of the frontal German coastal defenses, after the landing campaign began, the German coastal troops might retreat in depth and resist layer by layer; The German forces deep in France could also use the convenient roads and railways to support the coastal defense forces with rapid mobile forces.

Although the German forces in southern France were already weaker due to the transfer of some of them to Normandy, they launched a fierce counterattack against the wide Allied landing grounds. Or quite possibly. How can we effectively stop the retreat of the German coastal defense forces, and at the same time stop the counterattack of the German inland troops on the landing site? This is indeed a problem that is very nerve-wracking for staff officers.

The problem would have been much simpler if a force had been able to capture the road and rail transport hubs in the depths of the landing field in advance. Such a difficult task, of course, is best accomplished by the Airborne Forces. Thus, the "Dragoon" airborne contingent came into being.

The staff officers had planned a division-sized airborne operation, but several Allied paratroopers and glider units in the Mediterranean were scattered at the time, and in the Normandy area, the three main Allied airborne divisions had suffered a devastating blow and were still being rebuilt.

The commander of the 7th Army, General Pacch, struggled to bring together the scattered airborne forces. On 7 July, the Airborne Division (tentatively formed as an airborne contingent) was formally formed for use in the "Dragoon" landing campaign. The division commander was led by the US Army Roth? Major General Frederick served.

The airborne task force was a mixed group of American, British, and French troops from all directions. There were even Japanese-Americans. It included two companies of the 509th Paratrooper Regiment, the 517th Regiment, the 1st Battalion of the 551st Regiment, the 550th Glider Infantry Regiment and the 463rd Artillery Regiment. There was also the 2nd Brigade of the British Separate Paratroopers, the 1st Regiment of the French Paratroopers, two 75-mm artillery battalions and 1 anti-tank artillery battery; The airborne contingent is complemented by more than 400 transport aircraft and more than 500 gliders. All of the above belong to Roth? Major General Frederick commanded directly.

Allied naval support was provided. The French battleship "Lorraine", the British battleship "Lamiy" and the American battleships "Texas", "Nevada" and "Arkansas" and more than 50 cruisers and destroyers supported the landing operation. Seven Allied escort aircraft carriers, as well as land-based fighters based in Corsica, will provide air cover.

On the first day of the operation, more than 94,000 soldiers and 11,000 vehicles landed. At that time, quite a few German troops had already retreated. Several battalions of German troops on the beachhead resisted only a little and ran quickly, which made the Allied "Dragoon Operation" extremely smooth.

The landing was quickly victorious, and within 24 hours it had penetrated 20 miles inland, triggering a major uprising of Resistance fighters in Paris. Paris was also lost in a very short time, and Li Mo had already retreated into the Ardennes Forest with 20,000 German troops defending Paris. The General Headquarters of the Western Front was established at the fortress of Liège.

Located at the confluence of the Meuse and Urte rivers, bordering the Dutch border to the north and the Ardennes Forest to the south, the Liège Fortress was the choke point for the German army to attack France through Belgium. There are 12 forts built around the fortress, the circumference of the annular fort group is more than 50 kilometers, the forts are separated by 3~6 kilometers, 400 guns of various kinds are deployed, and each fort is built with a thickness of 2.5~3 meters of reinforced concrete permanent fortifications. The Fortress of the Sun was a very famous large fortress during the First World War, on a par with the fortress of Namur

Immediately after the landing, the Allied forces were reorganized into the U.S. 6th Army, the U.S. 7th Army, the French B Corps (later renamed the "French 1st Corps"), the 1st and 2nd Armies, and the 51st Logistics Medical Corps.

The two Allied armies began a pincer offensive and went straight to Paris, France, which was already an empty city, defended by not a single German soldier, and some were only French resistance fighters, who had taken over Paris on August 19.

The Allies recovered the French capital without firing a single shot, and in order to promote and boost morale, Eisenhower immediately held a grand ceremony to enter the city, and the enthusiasm of the French people reached its peak, and the streets poured into the streets to warmly welcome the Allied troops who had liberated them.

But a very unfortunate thing befell some French women, that is, all the French women who had had affairs with German officers, were arrested.

In the eyes of France and the Allies, the German fascists had been defeated and France had been liberated. While celebrating the victory, people did not forget the humiliation of the country. So after driving out the Germans, they vented their revenge on the women who had lost their integrity: they shaved their heads, stripped their underwear, smeared their bodies with tar, performed Nazi salutes, and then were paraded naked in the streets.

Châtelei is a small town in France, during the German fascist occupation, a young French girl, Penny, and the German**, and gave birth to a child, after the German army withdrew from Paris, the Allied France was restored, and people celebrated the victory without forgetting the hatred of the shameful loss of the country.

Penny did not escape this fate, they were caught by the French army, who had previously shamefully fled to England, and now appeared as liberators, who forgot that Penny was their sister and insulted her to the fullest, stripped her of her hair, stripped her naked, punched and kicked her, and the most shameful thing for Penny was these shameful escapees, these deserters, who had left all the old and weak French women and children, and escorted Penny naked to the streets.

All right! That's all French men for romantic gentlemen, bullshit!!

French men are so pathetic,

When the enemy came in, they either chose to surrender or scrambled to flee to England,

When the enemy left, he came back to bully his fellow sisters.

The troops have all surrendered, the men have run out, and the president has gone abroad

The women left behind don't know how pitiful they are, and these romantic French women are just trying to survive the war. A lot of people just want to survive and don't do anything actually treasonous, what's wrong with that!

…… (To be continued......)