The other D-Day: France commemorates ‘forgotten invasion’

They call it “the other D-Day”. On Friday, 10 weeks after commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Normandy landings with world leaders, French President François Hollande paid tribute to those who fought to liberate France from Nazi occupation in the lesser-known Allied invasion of Provence on 15 August 1944. Continue reading…

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