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4 unusual facts about Lucian Truscott


Lucian Truscott

A planned benefit of Dragoon was the usefulness of the port of Marseille.

When the Seventh Army was deactivated in March 1946, Truscott's Third Army took over the Western Military District (the U.S.-occupied parts of Baden, Württemberg and Hesse-Darmstadt).

The rapid retreat of the German Nineteenth Army resulted in swift gains for the Allied forces and the Dragoon force met up with southern thrusts from Operation Overlord in mid-September, near Dijon.

Truscott was born in Chatfield, Texas, to an English father and Irish mother, and joined the Army in 1917.



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