Operation Dragoon was the Allied invasion of occupied Southern France during World War II. Troops from France’s African and Carribean colonial garrisons took part, and thousands of them died. Their contrubution has been largely ignored, until now.
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“France commemorates its ‘forgotten’ African veterans,” Christina Okello, RFI
“African leaders join Macron at commemoration of WWII landings in Provence,” France 24
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