I thought it was Operation Dragoon, and that Anvil was it's former name, perhaps your's is the correct one, I know one was the original name.

And it did serve something of a purpose, perhaps only for propoganda, but that force did eventually link up with the Normandy force near Strasbourg. They kept the underbelly of the Normandy force safe, had any German forces been shifted there, and had the Normandy landings bogged down in the bocages then those Dragoon/Anvil forces could have played a major role in starting an encirclemt of the Germans.

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