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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.

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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).

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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.

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



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