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Posted: 6/7/2014 9:18:03 PM EDT
Hi,
we were near Nice city, the french riviera for vacation the 5 june 2014 to the COL DE BRAUS...some km after an old village L' ESCARENE. Some photos, where were the Gi's during the Second World War. 
I found this link from a guy, a writer/historian who talk about this : The book presents an overview of the airborne aspect of Operation Dragoon, then becomes an extremely detailled account of the Liberation of the towns and villages of the French Riviera, in the Cannes and Nice region, from August 15th to September 7th 1944. There is also a chapter dedicated to the German occupation, with many unpublished photos, and a chapter about the French resistance, with information that can rarely be found in English language. The book is mostly an oral history, constructed from hundreds of interviews I performed personaly with Allied, German and French veterans, French resistance members and local civilians. All the oral accounts are meticulously crosschecked with period documents such as official military reports, diaries, photos, letters, cemetery registers, exhumation reports, battlefield archaeology, etc. These documents are also quoted or reproduced in the book. The units most heavily represented in the book are the 1st Special Service Force, 509th PIB, 517th PRCT, 551st PIB, and the German Reserve Division 148. Other units are also represented in certain specific chapters, the 141st IR, the 40th Engineer Regiment, the 887th Airborne Engineer Company, the French Groupe Naval d'Assaut de Corse, the German Infanterie Division 34, etc. LINK : http://www.wehrmacht-awards.com/forums/showthread.php?t=739337 |
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Posted: 7/2/2014 12:02:25 AM EDT
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Neat pics. Thanks for posting them.
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Posted: 7/2/2014 12:06:07 AM EDT
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The grenade is a real deal MKII fragmentation grenade. The striker and spring might be rusted out and then again it might not. Please don't fuck with it and call the French demineurs (EOD).
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Posted: 7/2/2014 4:26:03 AM EDT
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The EOD removed the grenade there a few days.
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Posted: 8/21/2014 7:36:41 AM EDT
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Posted: 10/16/2014 1:50:16 AM EDT
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Operation Dragoon is sometimes forgetten with the overshadowing of Overlord.
It was a huge enterprise, including the airborne assault. 
Southern France, US Army campaigns of World War II The Big Picture- Command Decision, the invasion of Southern France |
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Posted: 10/17/2014 11:39:33 AM EDT
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