Allied Invasion of Southern France

The German Army Group G's efforts to balance strategic factors to achieve the specified goals, to protect German fighting COG from the double threat of FFI and anticipate allied amphibious attacks Criticize. Commander of the German Army Group G, General Blaskovitz, faced a challenging task of balancing operational factors to achieve the organization's assigned goals. German leader Adolf Hitler and his German army senior commander OKW have the final status of German rule in Europe.

Dragon rode on 15 August 1944 when the Allies invaded Southern France as part of the Second World War. The intrusion took place between Toulon and Cannes. At the planning stage, this operation was called anvil to complement the hammer action, the codename of Normandy invasion. After that, both plans were renamed, the latter became monarchy, the former became a dragon cavalry behavior, it was said to be the name chosen by Winston Churchill, he opposed the plan and was accepted by it He insisted that

French cross-channel invasion US officials, General Army General George Marshall, have long strove to invade France as soon as possible as a way to win the war in the shortest possible time. They supported GYMNAST, the British transboundary invasion defense program at the end of 1942, and ROUNDUP, which is expected to invade France in April 1943. The Allies attacked the French Dieppe (Operation JUBILEE), but on August 19, 1942 Americans admitted that the invasion into the English Channel will last several months or years. At the same time, Prime Minister Winston L. Churchill and British planners tried to be more interested in the United States in a more opportunistic way, including the Mediterranean theater Americans desperately departed.

By the end of 1942, with the success of the Allied forces at the battle of North Africa, the military planner's idea turned into the next target. British planners thought Britain did not invade France until 1944 and Prime Minister Winston Churchill wanted to attack the "soft ribs" of Europe using North African allies. The Allies have two goals. The first option is in Sicily; dominating the island will open a transportation from the Mediterranean to the Allies and will allow invasion of the Continent of Europe through Italy. The second option is to enter the Greek and Balkans to prevent the German army between British and American invaders and the Soviet Union. At the Casablanca meeting in January 1943, the Allied forces planners agreed to choose Sicily (code name Husky) and decided not to invade by July that year.