Operation Dragoon

August 15 – September 14, 1944 · Operation Dragoon

Result Allied victory

Allied landings in southern France in August 1944, mainly by US and Free French forces. The landings freed Marseille and Toulon and opened ports to supply the Allied armies in France.

On the map Contemporaries

Allies

Axis

United States

France

French West Africa

United Kingdom

Canada

French protectorate of Tunisia

French protectorate in Morocco

Germany

Jean de Lattre de Tassigny military commander

Jacob L. Devers military commander

Alexander M. Patch military commander

Henry Kent Hewitt military commander

Johannes Blaskowitz military commander Friedrich Wiese military commander

Strength and losses

Casualties: c. 25,574

United States Casualties 15,574 · Killed 7,301

France Casualties 10,000

Units

6th Army Group Seventh United States Army VI Corps (United States) 1st Army (France) French Forces of the Interior 1st Free French Division 36th Infantry Division (United States) 3rd Algerian Infantry Division 45th Infantry Division (United States) US 3rd Division 442nd Infantry Regiment 7th Infantry Regiment (United States) Glider Pilot Regiment 612th Tank Destroyer Battalion Mediterranean Allied Air Forces

19th Army (Wehrmacht) Army Group G 189th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 242nd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 244th Infantry Division 338th Infantry Division