ALLIES OPEN UP SECOND FRENCH FRONT
Côte d’Azur on the French Mediterranean • August 15, 1944 The Allied assault on German-occupied Southern France originally was to have kicked off simultaneously with the Allies’ June 6, 1944, invasion of Northwestern France (Operation Overlord)—the intent being that the Germans would think twice before sending reinforcements from Southern France to the Normandy beachheads and that, with…