Indigènes — France
Operation Dragoon, August 1944 — the same North African soldiers land on the French Riviera, fighting north through Provence toward Alsace through a country they are never fully allowed to call their own.
Operation Dragoon landed the French Army B and US VI Corps on the Côte d'Azur on 15 August 1944. North African troops formed the backbone of French Army B. After liberation, non-European soldiers were deliberately demobilised before metropolitan French soldiers — a policy of 'blanchiment' (whitening) the victorious army. The pension disparity between colonial and French veterans was not corrected until 2010.