'The Killing Fields of Provence'

How the Allies used different Special Operation teams to support their invasion of the south of France

One of the three-man Jedburgh teams dropped into occupied France in advance of Operation Dragoon, along with members of the French resistance.

Most of the south of France avoided the worst of the war while it fell under the French Vichy regime. Full occupation by the Nazis did not come until the end of 1942, although substantial parts of the region had b…