Briancon Pierre, a WWII survivor and Roynac, France local, visits with staff ride participants at a privately owned WWII Memorabilia Museum as Operation Anvil-Dragoon was discussed May 30, 2018. Anvil-Dragoon was the campaign to take Southern France August 15, 1944. Junior and senior leaders from the Joint Multinational Readiness Center, Hohenfels, Germany, participated in a battle staff ride, which retraced the actual landing spots and troop movements in Southern France, May 27 – 31.

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