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August 21, 1944, Pertuis, Département Vaucluse, Southern France. Thunderbirds of the 157th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division (US 7th Army), rest in Pertuis around the fountain of the Place Jean Jaurès after a six day trek trying to keep up with the retreating Germans.
Pertuis was the first city of the Vaucluse Area to be released by the Americans on August 20, 1944.The heavy casualties incurred during the grueling Italian campaign placed a strain on the American democratic political machine and displeased American generals. At the objection of British counterparts, American Lieutenant General Jacob Dever’s 6th Army Group (consisted of Lieutenant General Alexander Patch’s US 7th Army, General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny’s French 1st Army, and the 1st Allied Airborne Task Force) shifted its attention to southern France in Operation Dragoon (originally named Operation Anvil). The American planners wanted Dever’s 887-ship and 2,000-aircraft landing operation to compliment the Normandy campaign, which the slow-moving Italian campaign was not able to do.
General Bernard Montgomery wrote Dwight Eisenhower on 21 Feb 1944 “I recommend very strongly that we now throw the whole weight of our opinion into the scales against Anvil.” This recommendation was consistent to the general objection to this campaign shown by the British.
Eisenhower overruled the British objections and decided to carry out the operation.
This incident was yet another signal that the United States was not only coming to age as a dominant world power, but she was taking over Britain’s place as the more influential member of the alliance.On 15 Aug 1944, the landing troops sailed from Corsica and surprised the German and Vichy French defenders at the French Riviera. Within the first two days thousands of men and vehicles were transported ashore, and the port cities of Toulon and Marseille were under Allied control by the end of the month.
Main German defenders in the southern France region were of General Johannes Blaskowitz’s Army Group G, which was consisted of General Kurt von der Chevallerie’s 1st Army and General Friedrich Wiese’s 19th Army. Army Group G’s ranks were thinned as elements were sent to northern France to counter the Normandy invasion, which provided lighter resistance for the Allies than originally expected. In a month’s time, the thinned German defenses fell apart in southern France, effectively dissolving the Vichy-French government. The successful Allied operations in southern France also inspired a revolt by resistance fighters in Paris.
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