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

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Get Nebula with 40% off annual subscription with our link: https://go.nebula.tv/realtimehistory Watch 16 Days in Berlin: https://nebula.tv/videos/16-days-in-berlin-01-prologue-the-beginning-of-the-end The summer of 1944 saw the Allies land in France not once but twice. Two months after Operation Overlord, the Allies also landed in Southern France during Operation Dragoon. It was "the perfect landing" and opened up the important ports of Marseille and Toulon for Allied logistics. » SUPPORT US https://patreon.com/realtimehistory https://nebula.tv/realtimehistory » THANK YOU TO OUR CO-PRODUCERS Konstantin Bredyuk, Lisa Anderson, Brad Durbin, Jeremy K Jones, Murray Godfrey, John Ozment, Stephen Parker, Mavrides, Kristina Colburn, Stefan Jackowski, Cardboard, William Kincade, William Wallace, Daniel L Garza, Chris Daley, Malcolm Swan, Christoph Wolf, Simen Røste, Jim F Barlow, Taylor Allen, Adam Smith, James Giliberto, Albert B. Knapp MD, Tobias Wildenblanck, Richard L Benkin, Marco Kuhnert, Matt Barnes, Ramon Rijkhoek, Jan, Scott Deederly, gsporie, Kekoa, Bruce G. Hearns, Hans Broberg, Fogeltje » SOURCES Brooks Tomblin, Barbara, With Utmost Spirit: Allied Naval Operations in the Mediterranean 1942-1945, (Lexington, KY : University Press of Kentucky, 2022) Clarke, Jeffrey J & Smith, Robert Ross, Riviera to the Rhine: The European Theater of Operations, (Washington D.C. : Center of Military History, United States Army, 1993) Cross, Robin, Operation Dragoon: The Allied Liberation of the South of France: 1944, (New York, NY : Pegasus Books, 2019) Funk, Arthur Layton, Hidden Ally: the French Resistance, Special Operations, and the Landings in Southern France, 1944, (New York, NY : Greenwood Press, 1992) Quigley, Michael T, “Operation Dragoon: The Race Up the Rhone”, US Army School for Advanced Military Studies Fort Leavenworth United States, (2016) »CREDITS Presented by: Jesse Alexander Written by: Mark Newton Director: Toni Steller & Florian Wittig Director of Photography: Toni Steller Sound: Above Zero Editing: Toni Steller Motion Design: Toni Steller, Philipp Appelt Mixing, Mastering & Sound Design: http://above-zero.com Research by: Mark Newton Fact checking: Florian Wittig Channel Design: Simon Buckmaster Contains licensed material by getty images Maps: MapTiler/OpenStreetMap Contributors & GEOlayers3 All rights reserved - Real Time History GmbH 2023