August 15, 1944, operation Dragon. Two months after Normandy, a second Allied army landed in Provence. In less than a month, Marseille and Toulon were liberated, before advancing north and joining the troops of the operation. SuzerainUnlike the first amphibious assault on the Atlantic coast, in the Mediterranean, French troops, under the command of General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, played a central role and constituted the largest contingent.
A contribution that France was able to make to the allied army thanks to the soldiers from its colonies and protectorates, whose presence represented between 50% and 80% of the 250,000 men of Army B by Lattre de Tassigny. However, these troops have become invisible in history and in the official accounts of the time, particularly in the case of those from sub-Saharan Africa.