In World war II, Operation Dove (Allies, 1944) was the glider-borne assault conducted as part of the invasion of southern France (Operation Dragoon) on 15 August1944. Over three hundred gliders carried three thousand soldiers and critical equipment to reinforce paratroopers who had already landed.
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