DRAGUIGNAN, France— The serene grounds of the Rhone American Cemetery served as the backdrop for a moving ceremony commemorating the 80th anniversary of Operation Dragoon, the pivotal Allied invasion ...

SAINT-RAPHAËL, France (CN) — Under light rainfall and gray skies, French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday praised the critical role soldiers from Africa, the Antilles and Oceania played in the ...

MACEDON, N.Y. — Local musicians from the Towpath Volunteers Fife and Drum Corps are participating in the 80th anniversary of Operation Dragoon in France. Operation Dragoon was supposed to happen at ...

U.S. troops who fought and died during the Allied landings in southern France during World War II received an 80th anniversary tribute at a ceremony Friday in the town of Draguignan. Several hundred ...

Part of the invasion fleet of Operation Dragoon, the invasion of Southern France, off the Mediterranean coast in 1944. (US Department of Defense / Wikimedia Commons) HYERES, France (CN) — On Thursday, ...

SAINT-RAPHAEL, France (AP) — France commemorated the 80th anniversary of the Allied invasion of the French Riviera in World War II to push back the Nazis, with events Thursday that especially honored ...

During Operation Dragoon in August 1944, USS Endicott and a small Allied flotilla launched a bold diversion off the French Mediterranean coast. What began as a feint quickly escalated into a close ...

Operation Dragoon was the Allied invasion of Southern France, originally planned to coincide with Operation Overlord in Normandy but delayed until August 1944 due to resource shortages. Despite facing ...

INDIANAPOLIS — The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced it had accounted for U.S. Army Pvt. Charles W. Smalley, 19, of Waterloo, Indiana, killed during World War II. In the Summer of 1944, ...