In August 1944, he landed with allied forces on the beaches around Saint-Tropez, France, as part of Operation Dragoon which launched a 25-mile front onto the German invasion forces in Provence.
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Jean René Baroux (1922 in Casablanca, Morocco – 1992 in Nanaimo, British Columbia) was a veteran of the World War II and a writer very much engaged in the evolution of the French language.
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