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Operation Dragoon landings, southern France, August 15th, 1944. Operation Dragoon was the Allied invasion of southern France during World War II. The invasion was initiated via a parachute drop by the 1st Airborne Task Force, followed by an assault made up of the U.S. Seventh Army, followed a day later by a force made up primarily of the French First Army. The landing caused the German Army Group G to abandon southern France and to retreat under constant Allied attacks to the Vosges Mountains.