Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A asali an ba mamayar sunan lambar "Operation Anvil", amma an canza shi zuwa "Operation Dragoon" kafin saukowa. A watan Maris na shekarar 1944, an ba Manjo Janar Alexander Patch, gogaggen kwararren kwamandan, umurnin ya jagoranci rundunar Sojoji ta Bakwai, wanda ya koma Naples, Italiya, a watan Yuli na gaba. A ranar 15 ga Agusta 1944, sassan Sojoji na Bakwai sun kai hari ga rairayin bakin teku na kudancin Faransa a yankin St. Tropez da St. Raphael. (An inganta Patch zuwa Laftanar Janar kwana uku bayan haka.) Ranar 15 ga watan Satumba, an sanya na bakwai a karkashin kulawar rukuni na rukuni na shida, a karkashin Lieutenant General Jacob L. Devers. Ƙungiyar Sojoji ta 6 ta haɗa da Sojojin Farko na Faransanci. A cikin wata daya, Rundunar Soji ta Bakwai, wadda ta yi amfani da sassan Amurka guda uku, da sassan Faransa guda biyar da 1st Airborne Task Force, sun ci gaba da nisan mil 400 kuma sun shiga cikin sojojin Allied da ke kudu daga Normandy
Ka yi haƙuri. A cikin tsari, Sojoji na Bakwai sun 'yantar da Marseilles, Lyon, Toulon da kuma kudancin Faransa.