After the Allies landed in Normandy, in order to invade Germany as soon as possible, they launched the "Dragoon Operation." At the same time, the three paratrooper divisions that were almost wiped out in the Normandy area were also fully supplemented. In order to avenge the former shame, the Allied Commander-in-Chief had another bold plan. Aren't the Germans retreating to Belgium and the Ardennes forests frantically? Then I will first land from southern France and directly enter Belgium, and use paratroopers to seize the main bridges on the Rhine. In this way, all German troops retreating to Belgium and the Ardennes forests will be dumplings by the Allied forces.

Eisenhower estimated that the German troops in these two regions were about 500 to 700,000, but in fact? Here are one million German troops transferred from the Soviet front, about 700,000 transferred from other regions of the EU, and about 500,000 retreated from France. In other words, Li Mo had already assembled 2.3 million elite German troops in the Arden Forest.

One hundred German reserve troops were arranged on the Maginot defense line. In southern Italy, there were twenty-three German divisions who were originally stationed, twenty-five reinforcements from the EU, and ten dissatisfied divisions retreated from the Normandy area. Li Mo arranged 68 elite German divisions in northern Italy, including eight armored divisions, and the replenishment of the Italian SS 200,000, with a total force of 1.2 million.

Germany was already bordering Italy, and the Allies failed to bomb the German railway system in the early stage. Before the Allies began to log in, Li Mo ordered some tanks produced by Germany and the EU this month to give priority to supplementing the German troops in northern Italy, because the German troops here were Li Mo's left hook. It would definitely not work without sufficient armor.

By August 6, all German troops in northern Italy had been replenished, and they were still intensifying training to make final preparations for the next strategic decisive battle. However, the Allies were confused about all this. As the supreme commander of the Allied Forces, Eisenhower just felt that the situation of the German army was very strange.

What made Eisenhower most doubted was that many elite German troops disappeared out of thin air. No matter how their spies searched, they could not find the whereabouts of these elite German troops. The war has been going on until now, and Eisenhower could not help but stop fighting. More than two million Allied troops successfully landed in France. More than 10,000 aircraft and more than 10,000 tanks, such powerful power made Eisenhower believe that in the face of absolute power, all conspiracies are slags.

Is it true as Eisenhower thought? Absolute power depends on the time. Two months ago, the Allies were indeed absolute power for Germany in France, but two months later, it can be said that the difference is almost the same. The German army has surpassed the Allies in terms of military strength, but in terms of the number of tanks and aircraft, you should know that the combat ratio between the German and the Allies is almost 1;2.

In other words, the Allied forces need more than twice the strength to defeat the Germans. The bloody battle in Caen is the best proof.

This operation was originally intended to be carried out simultaneously with the Battle of Normandy, with the attack site being the French Riviera. However, due to the lack of sufficient landing ships, Eisenhower had to postpone it for more than two months. The attack date was scheduled for August 15, 1941.

During the planning phase, the operation was codenamed "Operation Anvil" as a supplement to Operation Sledgehammer, which was the code name for the invasion of Normandy at that time. The two plans were subsequently renamed, the latter becoming Operation Overlord, and the former was renamed Operation Dragoon.

A fabricated story that claims the name was proposed by Winston Churchill, who was opposed to the plan and claimed that it had been "used to harm" to accept it. However, in fact, the code name for the operation came from a city called Delaginian near the invading area.

Churchill believed that Operation Dragoon wasted resources and devoted it to the Balkans that invaded the oil-producing areas and then could advance to other Eastern European countries. In addition to further restricting Germany from obtaining much-needed oil, it could also allow Western countries to better position and guard against the Soviet Red Army in peacetime after World War II by liberating the areas occupied by the German army.

The original plan was conceived of a unit of the Free French and American forces to capture Toulon and later Marseille, with subsequent revisions including Saint-Tropez. However, there was a conflict with the British and Japanese personnel, who opposed the landing, and believed that the troops and equipment should be sent to the Middle East, while the American personnel favored the attack. This was part of a larger British and American strategic division.

After the Norman landing in June 1941, it was obvious that the Allies had to obtain more port facilities along the French coast. General Eisenhower, the Allies' supreme commander on the European battlefield, was willing to be located in the Marseille port in southern France as the goal of this strategy, but before he was satisfied with the results of the Norman landing, he still had no conclusion on the "Dragoon Operation".

Because of two incidents, Libra tended to favor "Operation Dragoon": Rome finally fell in early June, and combined with the successful Operation Cobra, it made a breakthrough from the Normandy pocket. At the end of July, the date of "Operation Dragoon" was set to August 15, 1941. The final approval was given in a short period of time.

The 6th Army of the United States, also known as the Southern Army and the Dragoon Force, was commanded by Lieutenant General Jacob Laux Devs, formed on Corsica and actively engaged in the merger of French and American troops from August 1, 1941 to plan the Dragoon Operations that were planning an invasion in southern France.

At first, the army was subordinate to the Supreme Command of the Allied Expeditionary Force (Alliance Headquarters), commanded by Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, who was also the supreme commander of the Mediterranean War Zone. One month after the invasion, command was transferred to the Supreme Command of the Allied Expeditionary Force, which was led by US General Dwight, and was also the supreme commander of the Allied Forces on the Western Front. The 88th Special Mixed Fleet also actively carried out in August to support the landing operation.

The action plan of the "Dragon Crew" airborne contingent was implemented in the offensive campaign in southern France.

At that time, the Normandy Landing Plan code-named the "Overlord" campaign plan was determined as the main attack plan, while the southern French landing Plan code-named the "Dragoon" campaign plan was determined as the auxiliary attack plan for the Normandy Landing Plan. The purpose of implementing the "Dragoon" campaign plan was to support the landing troops in Normandy, first eliminate the German troops in southern France, and capture the largest seaport of France, the Marseille Port, which not only provides logistics supply to the Allies on the European battlefield, but also attack from south to north, forming a north-south attack on the German troops in France.

According to the decision of the Tehran Conference, the Normandy Landing and the southern French landing should have been carried out simultaneously. Later, due to the large scale of the Normandy Landing Plan, to ensure its implementation, a large number of sea and air transport must be prepared. If an army-level landing campaign was launched in southern France at the same time, it would be difficult to raise so many ships and aircraft. Therefore, the "Dragonist" landing plan was postponed to be implemented two months after the Normandy Landing Campaign, that is, in August 1941. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!

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