<- Hard dé e: 0.018128156661987 sec -> This is another D-Day. On 15 August 1944, 10 weeks after “Overlord” in Normandy, took place the “Dragoon” operation, the landing in Provence nearly half a million soldiers, including more than half of the French “army B “.
A key operation for France
“Force B”, which landed in Provence in 1944 under the orders of General de Lattre de Tassigny was indeed essentially the “Army of Africa”, created in 1830 during the conquest Algeria and that integra gradually indigenous soldiers. In August 1944, about 450,000 men who landed, 250,000 were French of the “Army B”, half of Senegalese soldiers and Algerian and Moroccan Tabors of goumiers, Blackfoot, porpoises in the Pacific and Caribbean.
On the evening of August 15, 100,000 men landed a thousand perished, lost nothing in common with the dreadful record registered on the Normandy beaches. In general, however, the “Dragoon” operation as a whole is “much faster than expected success,” says the historian Jean-Marie Guillon. It allows the release of Toulon on August 27 and Marseille tomorrow. Totally successful militarily, “Operation Dragoon” is also essential politically because it involves a large stake in the battles of French troops, while it was only symbolic June 6
19 African countries represented
Seventy years later, alongside the President and Prime Minister Manuel Valls, take particular place on the nuclear aircraft carrier counterparts Tunisia Moncef Marzouki, Paul Biya of Cameroon, Blaise Compaore of Burkina Faso and Gabon’s Ali Bongo – a total of 12 African heads of state and Prince Albert of Monaco– and representatives of 15 other countries. “In this Aug. 15, 2014, France is honored to receive it again in Provence who helped her out of more than 1,800 days of war,” says François Hollande in the presentation ceremonies broadcast by the Elysee Palace.
In the morning, the first memorial ceremony –strictement nationale– Mont Faron, inaugurated in 1964 by General de Gaulle in the hills above Toulon, should allow the French President to honor soldiers allies, the Free French Forces, and civil resistance “Along with so many friendly countries, they are also the French themselves, and particularly strong, which helped win the release of their ground “President tip.
Between these two sequences, Francois Hollande find Manuel Valls for a” working meeting “and lunch at the Fort of.
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Spectacular Fleet Review Friday
Despite the presence of these foreign heads of state, and unlike the commemorations of D-Day June 6 –marquées by a handful of very political hand between The Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Petro Porochenko– the appointment Provencal will essentially memorial. Launched on Thursday by commemorations chaired by the Secretary of State for Veterans Kader Arif, the celebrations will culminate at the end of the day Friday with a spectacular naval review of twenty ships, including several foreign vessels, and a flypast before a state dinner on board the Charles de Gaulle.
In all, hundreds of thousands of people –dont about 200 former French foreign fighters and invited to commémorations– should have attended Thursday on Saturday in the Var one of the ceremonies held to mark the 70th anniversary of the “other” landing.
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