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Cravey, John Thomas, Lt Col USAF(Ret).
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Contact Info
Home Town Birmingham & Montgomery, Alabama
Last Address Montgomery, Alabama
Date of Passing Feb 07, 1995
Location of Interment Greenwood Cemetery - Montgomery, Alabama
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WWII - European Theater of Operations/Southern France Campaign (1944)
From Month/Year
August / 1944
To Month/Year
September / 1944
Description (Southern France Campaign 15 August to 14 September 1944) While the Germans were retreating in Italy in the summer of 1944, the Allies diverted some of their strength in the theater to the invasion of Southern France. After preliminary bombardment, a combined seaborne-airborne force landed on the French Riviera on 15 August. Marseilles having been taken, Sevmth Army advanced up the Rhone Valley and by mid-September was in touch with Allied forces that had entered France from the north.