Forgotten 2nd D-Day 1944: Operation Dragoon (WW2 Documentary)

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  @realtimehistory · 3 years ago · pinned

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  @internettroll7604 · 3 years ago

  A guy I worked with father was a part of the invasion at Omaha. &nbsp;He is known as the man who slept though d-day. His craft hit a mine and he was thrown through the air onto a hedgehog where another body cushioned his fall. For 48 hours he was unconscious as the battle raged on around him. &nbsp;Somehow he did not receive any further damage. &nbsp;He woke up after the battle to a medic tending to him.

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  @KrisFrederick2001 · 3 years ago

  &quot;Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops,&quot; Eisenhower wrote. &quot;My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone.&quot; <br><br>-Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander. This was his other speech. D-Day was never a guarantee

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  @RemzofFrance · 3 years ago

  In memoriam : my grandfather, at the time captain who landed in Cavalaire with the 9th Colonial Infantry Division, made essentially of West African and Central African soldiers. He told me about the fight for Toulon, where he took prisoners that were indeed glad to surrender to professional soldiers and not theh Resistance, who had suffered the tortures and humiliation of occupation. There in Toulon he found also... my mother, whom he took with him to avoid her starvation. They crossed the Rhine together, Mom being adopted by the regiment, but that&apos;s another story.

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  @Leo0991 · 3 years ago

  My Grandfather was a medic during Dragoon and he told me dad [after 25-30 years] that he lost his two best buds in that fight. The three of them were together apparently and the german machine gun chattered and pop pop, one bullet got one friend and the other bullet got the other. He was never the same after that.

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  @justme_gb · 3 years ago

  I&apos;m always impressed by Jesse&apos;s ability to properly pronounce any language.

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  @mileslong9675 · 3 years ago

  My dad was there. (R.I.P.) He was a radioman in the Merchant Marine. His ship lowered cargo nets over the side, and French troops climbed down and into landing craft. Because of his high school French language classes, he was also used as interpreter. He said the French troops were eager to go. Little is known about the Merchant Marine involvement in the war.

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  @cidermancider3418 · 3 years ago

  About Polish volunteers in German army. They were forced to join Wehrmacht, as recognized by Germans as second-grade Germans. They come from Wielkopolska, Silesia and Pomerania regions.

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  @DonMeaker · 2 years ago (edited)

  The most successful landing, with nearly the entire German Army Group being cut off. &nbsp;At that time General Truscott was the most experienced amphibious landing commander, having had roles at Dieppe, deputy to Patton at Oran, 3rd Infantry division in Sicily, and 3rd Infantry division commander and 6th Corps Commander at Anzio. He later commanded 5th Army, 3rd Army and 15th Army Group.

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  @hlynnkeith9334 · 3 years ago

  My uncle was a medic in Operation Dragoon. Before Dragoon, he had seen action at Anzio. Wounded by mortar at the Battle of the Rhine.

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  @stevenhall2408 · 3 years ago

  My great uncle Robert Foreman participated in Dragoon as a member of the 1st Special Service Force. It was said he jumped in with the 1st Airborne Task Force, since he was an in theater replacement he had not gone thru jump school so he earned his jump wings with a combat star for 1 jump! He told me stories he didn&apos;t even tell his own sons because I had been a paratrooper, it really was an honor to know him.

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  @miltonpasley3398 · 3 years ago (edited)

  My dad&apos;s unit was pulled out of Italy for Dragoon (B Company, 1 Bn, 517th PIR which with the addition of a BN of Parachute Field Artillery and a Company of Parachute Engineers jumped as the 517th PRCT) &nbsp;which was under the 1st Airborne Taskforce for Dragoon. &nbsp; You talked about the Airborne being scattered, only 1st, 2nd BN along with Regimental HQ and the Artillery, Engineers landed anywhere near the DZ, With 3rd BN under LTC Melvin Zais (latter General) landing in Monte Carlo, Monaco. &nbsp;I grew up going to the Regiments conventions, and hearing stories of Dragoon from the veterans of the 517th PIR.

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