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OPERATION ANVIL

Operation Anvil (later known as Operation Dragoon) was the codename of the Allied invasion of southern France on August the 15th 1944 during the Second World War. The landing was originally discussed as a preliminary to Operation Overlord, but the British opposed the plan and Operation Anvil became a follow-up mounted by four American and three Free French divisions. The American Seventh Army and the French First Army landed in a combined sea and airborne assault between Toulon and Cannes, and met little resistance and quickly linked up with General Patton's forces in Dijon.
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