Allied Liberation of France WW2 Campaign Strategy vintage Maps Operation Dragoon

Description

Allied Liberation of France WW2 Campaign Strategy vintage Maps Operation Dragoon
Description
Omaha Beach WWII D-Day Deployment Campaign Strategy and Movements Map Chart
Provenance
Authorized Map print removed from an Atlas (1959) printed for Military Cadets at West Point
Published Date
1959
Map Titles
THE WAR IN WESTERN EUROPE:
CAPTURE OF CHERBOURG OPERATIONS, 13-30 June 1944
THE WAR IN WESTERN EUROPE:
Expanding the Beachhead Operatons, 1-24 July 1944
THE WAR IN WESTERN EUROPE:
Allied Gains in Europe 6 June - 15 December 1944
THE WAR IN WESTERN EUROPE:
The St. Lo Breakthrough Operations,  25-31 July 1944
THE WAR IN WESTERN EUROPE:
The Breakout Operations, 1-13 August 1944
THE WAR IN WESTERN EUROPE:
The Exploitation Operations, 14-25 August 1944
THE WAR IN WESTERN  Europe:
Pursuit to the West Wall Operations,  26 August - 14 September 1944
THE WAR IN WESTERN EUROPE:
Campaign in Southern France Operations,  15-28 August 1944
THE WAR IN WESTERN EUROPE:
General Situation,  15 September 1944 21
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Army Group Operations (15 September – 15 December 1944)
THE WAR IN WESTERN EUROPE:
6th and 12th Army Group Operations.  a) 15 September – 7  November 1944  b)8 November – 15 December  1944
Authenticity and  Condition
These are guaranteed genuine vintage maps!
Maps were printed on large sheets of heavy stock paper. There are no folds, creases, marks or stains, and the paper is clean, and not brittle. Important Note: there is some age toning of the Maps as might be expected with something of this nature. Suitable for framing.
NOT a modern copy or reproduction!
These maps will increase in value over time. Please ask all questions before making your purchase.
Size
Page Size for all Maps: 10” x 13”.
INFO
Allied Liberation of France
Supreme Commander: Maj. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ground Force Commander: General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
General Bradley, Collins, Gerow, Dempsey, Bucknall, Crocker
German Forces
Adolf Hitler
General Rommel, Rundstedt, Dollmann, Himmler, Balck, Oberbefehlshaber, Blaskowitz
Remarks
From Wikipedia:
On 15 August the Allies launched Operation Dragoon – the invasion of Southern France between Toulon and Cannes. The US Seventh Army and the French First Army, making up the US 6th Army Group, rapidly consolidated this beachhead and liberated southern France in two weeks; they then moved north up the Rhone valley. Their advance only slowed down as they encountered regrouped and entrenched German troops in the Vosges Mountains.
The Germans in France were now faced by three powerful Allied army groups: in the north the British 21st Army Group commanded by Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery, in the center the American 12th Army Group, commanded by General Omar Bradley and to the south the US 6th Army Group commanded by Lieutenant General Jacob L. Devers. By mid-September, the 6th Army Group, advancing from the south, came into contact with Bradley's formations advancing from the west and overall control of Devers' force passed from AFHQ in the Mediterranean so that all three army groups came under Eisenhower's central command at SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Forces).
Under the onslaught in both the north and south of France, the German Army fell back. On 19 August, the French Resistance (FFI) organised a general uprising and the liberation of Paris took place on 25 August when general Dietrich von Choltitz accepted the French ultimatum and surrendered to general Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, commander of the Free French 2nd Armored Division, ignoring orders from Hitler that Paris should be held to the last and destroyed.
The liberation of northern France and the Benelux countries was of special significance for the inhabitants of London and the southeast of England, because it denied the Germans launch sites for their mobile V-1 and V-2 Vergeltungswaffen (reprisal weapons).
Unfortunately for the Allies, the Germans took special care to thoroughly wreck all port facilities before they could be captured.   As the Allies advanced across France, their supply lines stretched to breaking point. The Red Bull Express, the Allied trucking effort, was simply unable to transport enough supplies from the port facilities in Normandy all the way to the front line, which by September, was close to the German border.
Major German units in the French southwest that had not been committed in Normandy withdrew, either eastwards towards Alsace (sometimes directly across the US 6th Army's advance) or into the ports with the intention of denying them to the Allies. These latter groups were not thought worth much effort and were left "to rot", with the exception of Bordeaux, which was liberated in May 1945 by French forces under General Edgard de Larminat (Operation Venerable).
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