USS Texas and Operation Dragoon
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Often overlooked, Operation Dragoon played an important role in the liberation of France, and was supported in part by the guns of the USS Texas, which had just supported the Normandy landings two months prior, and which would face unique challenges in what has been called France’s second D-Day.
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