Kammala wannan magana: An ba da sunan mamayewa a asali "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 guda, Rundunar Soji ta Bakwai, wadda ta yi amfani da ƙungiyoyi uku na Amurka, ƙungiyoyi biyar na Faransa da kuma 1st Airborne Task Force, sun ci gaba da mil mil 400 kuma sun shiga tare da sojojin Allied
suna zuwa kudu daga Normandy. A cikin tsari, Sojoji na Bakwai sun 'yantar da Marseilles, Lyon, Toulon da kuma kudancin Faransa.