Liberation of France
| Liberation of France | |||||||
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| Part of The Western Front of the European theatre of World War II | |||||||
Resistance leader Charles de Gaulle speaking from the balcony at Cherbourg City Hall, 20 August 1944 | |||||||
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Dwight D. Eisenhower George S. Patton Bernard Montgomery Miles Dempsey Harry Crerar Guy Simonds Charles de Gaulle Jean de Lattre de Tassigny Stanisław Maczek Kazimierz Sosnkowski |
Adolf Hitler Gerd von Rundstedt Erwin Rommel Joseph Darnand | ||||||
The Liberation of France, was the time in French history when France was liberated by the Allied powers from June 6 1944 - May 8 1945. Since 1940, France was occupied by Nazi germany after Germany won the Battle of France. On June 6 1944, allied forces from the US, the UK, and Canada landed at the beaches of Normandy in what was known as D-day. The allied forces would break out of the beachhead in august. On August 15 1944, allied forces from the US and France landed in southern France in what was known was operation dragoon. Paris would be liberated on the 25th. (6 days after resistance fighting began) When d-day and dragoon forces linked up, some German forces remained at some western naval ports and they would stay there until the end of the war.