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Timeline of the liberation of the primary cities of France between 1943 and 1945.
Date | City | Dép. No. |
Region[note 1] | Liberating army/units | Notes | |
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1943-09-09 | Ajaccio | 2A | Corsica | (Operation Vesuvius) Liberation of Corsica | ||
1943-09-10 | Sartène | 2A | Corsica | Liberation of Corsica[1] | ||
1943-09-23 | Porto-Vecchio | 2A | Corsica | Liberation of Corsica | ||
1943-10-04 | Bastia | 2B | Corsica | French, 73rd Moroccan Goumiers of the 6th Tabor | ||
1944-06-06 | D-Day landings (Allied invasion of Europe as part of Operation Overlord) | |||||
1944-06-06 | Normandy coast | 14 | Normandy | 21st Army Group | Normandy Landings (start of Operation Overlord) | |
1944-06-06 | Ranville | 14 | Normandy | 6th Airlanding Brigade | Capture of the Caen canal and Orne river bridges | |
1944-06-07 | Bayeux | 14 | Normandy | |||
Guéret | 23 | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | ||||
1944-06-08 | Tulle | 19 | Initial liberation by Francs-tireurs followed by same day by recapture by 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich and reprisals including 99 killed in Tulle massacre | |||
1944-06-12 | Carentan | 50 | Normandy | American: 101st Airborne Division | Battle of Carentan (1944-06-06 to 13) | |
1944-06-14 | Marèges Dam | 15 19 | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Limousin | Maquis du Limousin | [3] | |
1944-07-01 | Cherbourg | 50 | Normandy | American | Battle of Cherbourg | |
1944-07-18 | Saint-Lô | 50 | Normandy | American XIX Corps | [4] Battle of Saint-Lô (July 7–19) | |
1944-06-06 – 1944-08-06 | Caen | 14 | Normandy | British, Canadian Second Army | Battle for Caen | |
1944-07-28 | Coutances | 50 | Normandy | [4] | ||
1944-07-30 | Granville | 50 | Normandy | [4] | ||
1944-07-31 | Avranches | 50 | Normandy | [4] | ||
1944-08-04 | Rennes | 35 | Brittany | [5] | ||
Châteaubriant | 44 | Pays de la Loire | American | [6] | ||
1944-08-05 | Ancenis | 44 | Pays de la Loire | [7] | ||
1944-08-04 to 6 | Vannes | 56 | Brittany | [8] | ||
1944-08-06 | Mayenne | 53 | Pays de la Loire | [9] | ||
1944-08-08 | Le Mans | 72 | Pays de la Loire | [10] | ||
Quimper | 29 | Brittany | German departure | [11] | ||
Vire | 14 | Normandy | American, 29th Infantry Division (United States) | [12] | ||
1944-08-10 | Angers | 49 | Pays de la Loire | American | [13] | |
1944-08-12 | Alençon | 61 | Normandy | French, 2nd Armored Division (France) | Falaise Pocket | |
Nantes | 44 | Pays de la Loire | American: Patton | [14] | ||
Privas | 07 | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | [15] | |||
1944-08-15 | Operation Dragoon landings in southern France | |||||
1944-08-15 | Brive-la-Gaillarde | 19 | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | Maquis du Limousin | [16] | |
1944-08-16 | Orléans | 45 | Centre-Val de Loire | American: Patton | [4] | |
Tulle | 19 | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | Maquis du Limousin |
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1944-08-17 | Ussel | 19 | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | Maquis du Limousin | retaken same day by Jesser forces[3] •Brigade Jesser [fr] | |
1944-08-17 | Saint-Malo | 35 | Brittany | Battle of Saint-Malo | [17] | |
1944-08-17 | Tarbes | 6 | Occitanie | [18][19] | ||
1944-08-17 | Cahors | 46 | Nouvelle Aquitaine | [20][21] | ||
1944-08-18 | Chartres | 28 | Centre-Val de Loire | American: 3rd US Army: Patton | [4] | |
Rambouillet | 78 | Île-de-France | American 3rd US Army: Patton | |||
Blois | 41 | Centre-Val de Loire | [22] | |||
Perpignan | 66 | Occitanie | [23] | |||
1944-08-19 | Carcassonne | 11 | Occitanie | German departure | [24] | |
Périgueux | 24 | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | German departure | Bordeaux | ||
Agen | 47 | German departure | Bordeaux | |||
Montauban | 82 | Occitanie | German departure | [25] | ||
Lourdes | 65 | Occitanie | [18] | |||
Toulouse[26] | 31 | Occitanie | German departure | Toulouse libérée [fr] (Toulouse liberated): documentary on the liberation of Toulouse. | ||
Foix | 09 | Occitanie | Spanish maquis, commanded by Marcel Bigeard | [27] | ||
Auch | 32 | Occitanie | [28] | |||
Mantes-la-Jolie | 78 | le-de-France | American: Patton | [4] | ||
Digne | 04 | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | [29] | |||
Annecy | 74 | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | La Résistance | [30] | ||
Saint-Étienne | 42 | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | German departure | [31] | ||
Le Puy-en-Velay | 43 | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | [32] | |||
1944-08-20 | Pau | 64 | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | [33] | ||
Albi | 81 | Occitanie | [34] | |||
1944-08-21 | Sens | 89 | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | American: General Patton | [4] | |
Castres Mazamet | 81 | Occitanie | Résistance du Tarn | [35] | ||
Château-Landon | 77 | Île-de-France | American: Patton | [36] | ||
Limoges | 87 | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | Maquis of colonel Georges Guingouin | [37] | ||
Mende | 48 | Occitanie | [38] | |||
Roanne | 42 | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | [39] | |||
Ussel | 19 | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | Departure of the Jesser brigade; maquis du Limousin takes over | [3] | ||
1944-08-22 | Corrèze | 19 | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | maquis du Limousin | [3] | |
Millau | 12 | Occitanie | German departure | [40] | ||
Grenoble | 38 | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | see Grenoble's Saint-Bartholomew[29] | |||
Gap | 05 | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | [29] | |||
Toulon | 83 | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | American: 7th Army VI Corps (United States) and French Army B | |||
Chambéry | 73 | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | [41] | |||
Nemours, Fontainebleau, Fontaine-le-Port | 77 | Île-de-France | American | [36] | ||
1944-08-23 | Gap | 05 | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | Limousin maquis[42][29] |
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1944-08-23 to 28 | Marseille | 13 | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | French: Joseph de Goislard de Monsabert | Battle of Marseille | |
1944-08-24 | Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire | 58 | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | German departure | [43] | |
Dax | 40 | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | [18] | |||
Saint-Flour | 15 | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | [44] | |||
77 | Île-de-France | American | [45][36] | |||
1944-08-24 to 25 | Paris | 75 | Île-de-France | French: 2nd DB, US 4th Infantry Division | ;[4] German departure; see also Liberation of Paris | |
1944-08-25 | 78 | Centre-Val-de-Loire | French: 2nd DB | |||
Vernon | 27 | Normandy | [46] | |||
Guéret | 23 | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | Final liberation of Guéret by the Maquis du Limousin | liberation of Guéret [fr], Maquis du Limousin | ||
77 | Île-de-France | American | [36] | |||
Avignon | 84 | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | [47] | |||
1944-08-25 to 26 | Troyes | 10 | Grand Est | American | [4][48] | |
1944-08-26 | 77 | Île-de-France | American | [36] | ||
1944-08-26 | Vichy | 03 | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | German departure | ||
1944-08-27 | Clermont-Ferrand | 63 | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | [49] | ||
77 | Île-de-France | American: Patton | [36] | |||
1944-08-28 | Les Sables-d'Olonne | 85 | Pays de la Loire | German departure | ||
51 | Grand Est | American | ||||
Nice | 06 | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | [50] See also Liberation of Nice [fr] | |||
77 | Île-de-France | American | [36] | |||
Bordeaux | 33 | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | German departure | [51] | ||
1944-08-29 | Niort | 79 | [52] | |||
1944-08-30 | Rouen | 76 | Normandy | Canadian | [53] | |
1944-08-30 | Beauvais | 60 | Hauts-de-France | British | [54] | |
1944-08-30 | Laon | 02 | Hauts-de-France | [55] | ||
1944-08-30 | Uzès | 30 | Occitanie | [47] | ||
1944-08-21 to 30 | Montélimar | 26 | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | [29] | ||
1944-08-30 | Reims | 51 | Grand Est | [56] | ||
1944-08-30 | Saint-Dizier | 52 | Grand Est | American: general Patton | [57][58] | |
1944-08-31 | Amiens | 80 | Hauts-de-France | British 2nd Army: general Dempsey | [59] | |
1944-08-31 | Charleville-Mézières | 08 | Grand Est | [60][61] | ||
1944-08-31 | Verdun | 55 | Grand Est | |||
1944-09-01 | Cézembre | 35 | Brittany | Liberation of Saint-Malo | ||
1944-09-01 | Tours | 37 | Centre-Val-de-Loire | Maillé massacre | [62] | |
1944-09-01 | Angoulême | 16 | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |||
1944-09-01 | Le Pouzin | 07 | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | History of Pouzin in the Second World War [fr] | ||
1944-09-01 | Dieppe | 76 | Normandy | Canadian, Fusiliers Mont-Royal, Royal Regiment of Canada | See also: Dieppe Raid (Operation Jubilee, 19 August 1942) | |
1944-09-02 | Loches | 37 | Centre-Val de Loire | [63][64] | ||
1944-09-02 | Valenciennes | 59 | Hauts-de-France | American | [59] | |
1944-09-02 | Montpellier | 34 | Occitanie | French: général de Lattre | [47] | |
1944-09-03 | Arras | 62 | Hauts-de-France | British Second Army | [59] | |
1944-09-03 | Lille | 59 | Hauts-de-France | British Second Army | [59] | |
1944-09-03 | Lyon | 69 | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | [4] see also 1st Army (France) | ||
1944-09-04 | Montreuil | 62 | Hauts-de-France | Canadian: General Crerar | [59] | |
1944-09-04 | Bourg-en-Bresse | 01 | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | [65] | ||
1944-09-04 | Mâcon | 71 | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | [66] | ||
1944-09-04 | Vierzon | 18 | Centre-Val de Loire | [67] | ||
1944-09-05 | Saint-Omer | 62 | Hauts-de-France | Polish | [59] | |
1944-09-05 | Poitiers | 86 | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |||
1944-09-05 | Chalon-sur-Saône | 71 | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | [69] | ||
1944-09-06 | Moulins | 03 | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | [70] | ||
1944-09-07 | Besançon | 25 | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | [29] | ||
1944-09-07 | Briançon | 05 | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | |||
1944-09-09 | Dole | 39 | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | [71] | ||
1944-09-09 | Nevers | 58 | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | [72] | ||
1944-09-09 | Autun | 71 | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | [72] | ||
1944-09-10 | Issoudun | 36 | Centre-Val de Loire | Surrender of the Elster column [fr] à la sous-préfecture | ;[73][74] See also Elster column [fr] | |
1944-09-11 | Dijon | 21 | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | [72] | ||
1944-09-12 | Le Havre | 76 | Normandy | I Corps | Operation Astonia | |
1944-09-12 | Andelot-Blancheville | 52 | Grand Est | American | [48] | |
1944-09-12 | Nod-sur-Seine | 21 | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | Junction of the armored forces of the 2nd Armored Division (France) of General Leclerc with that of the 1st Armored Division (France) under General de Lattre de Tassigny | [75][4] | |
1944-09-12 | Vesoul | 70 | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | [76] | ||
1944-09-13 | Chaumont | 52 | Grand Est | Germans evacuated in the night of September 12 to September 13. 2nd Armored Division (France) entered the town | [48] | |
1944-09-16 | Beaugency | 45 | Centre-Val de Loire | ;[77] see also Surrender of the Elster column [fr] | ||
1944-08-08 – 1944-09-18 | Brest | 29 | Bretagne | Battle for Brest (7 August – 19 September 1944) | ||
1944-09-19 | Boulogne-sur-Mer | 62 | Hauts-de-France | |||
1944-09-19 | Nancy | 54 | Grand Est | Battle of Nancy (1944) | ||
1944-09-24 | Épinal | 88 | Grand Est | *[78]
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1944-09-30 | Calais | 62 | Hauts-de-France | First Canadian Army | Operation Undergo | |
1944-11-20 | Belfort | 90 | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | [79] | ||
1944-11-21 | Mulhouse | 68 | Grand Est | Ire DB of general Jean Touzet du Vigier. | ||
1944-11-22 | Metz | 57 | Grand Est | US Third Army | [80] Battle of Metz | |
1944-11-23 | Strasbourg | 67 | Grand Est | French, 2e DB | History of Strasbourg | |
1944-11-27 | Villé | 67 | Grand Est | American | Villé | |
1944-12-04 | 57 | Grand Est | US Third Army | Carling[citation needed], Guebenhouse[81] | ||
1944-12-06 | Sarreguemines | 57 | Grand Est | American | [84] | |
1945-02-02 | Colmar | 68 | Grand Est | French and American | Colmar Pocket | |
1945-02-04 | Turckheim | 68 | Grand Est | Colmar Pocket | ||
1945-03-14 | Forbach | 57 | Grand Est | French and American | [85] | |
1945-03-16 | Bitche | 57 | Grand Est | American | Liberation of Bitche [fr] | |
Haguenau | 67 | Grand Est | américaine | [86] | ||
1945-03-19 | Wissembourg | 67 | Grand Est | American: General Alexander Patch | [87] | |
Lauterbourg | 67 | Grand Est | French | [88] | ||
1945-04-18 | Royan | 17 | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | [89] | ||
1945-04-24 | Saorge | 06 | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | [90] | ||
1945-04-30 | Oléron | 17 | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | [91] | ||
1945-05-08 | End of World War II in Europe (Germany surrenders; Victory in Europe Day) | |||||
1945-05-08 | La Rochelle | 17 | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | History of La Rochelle | ||
1945-05-09 | Dunkirk | 59 | Hauts-de-France | isolated by Siege of Dunkirk (1944–45) | ||
1945-05-09 | Île de Ré | 17 | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |||
1945-05-10 |
| 56 | Bretagne | Lorient pocket [fr] | ||
1945-05-11 | 44 | Pays de la Loire | Bypassed and isolated as Saint-Nazaire pocket |
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