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Veterans recall The Other D-Day at Dragoon tribute
Paris remembers Operation Dragoon as allies from the United States Britain and Africa honor veterans at Draguignan and Marseille. Fifty years after the southern invasion veterans like Abdelhadi Ben Rahalat receive the Legion of Honor as ceremonies mark Africa’s role in freeing France.
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Paris
France
United States
Britain
Africa
Mediterranean
Hitler
Normandy
Cannes
Toulon
French Riviera
Atlantic Wall
Patrick Donnell Heagerty
St. Tropez
Heagerty
Manlius
N.Y
Rhone American
Draguignan
Morocco
Algeria
Charles de Gaulle
Abdelhadi Ben Rahalat
Ben Rahalat
Marseille
Jacques Chirac
Chirac
Senegal
Abdoulaye Wade
Dakar
West Africa
6Th Regiment of Riflemen
Winston Churchill
de Gaulle
Europe
la Motte
Provence
Benin
Burkina Faso
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
Djibouti
Madagascar
Mali
Mauritius
Niger
Togo
Tunisia
Congo
Gabon
Guinea
Ivory Coast