See also: 1943 in France, 1944 in France and 1945 in France.
See main article: Liberation of France.
Timeline of the liberation of the primary cities of France between 1943 and 1945.
< | --Format AAAA-MM-JJ--> | City | Dép. No. | Region[1] | class=unsortable | Liberating army/units | class=unsortable | Notes |
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align=center | 1943-09-09 | 2A | Corsica | (Operation Vesuvius) Liberation of Corsica | ||||
align=center | 1943-09-10 | 2A | Corsica | Liberation of Corsica[2] | ||||
align=center | 1943-09-23 | 2A | Corsica | Liberation of Corsica | ||||
align=center | 1943-10-04 | 2B | Corsica | Liberation of Corsica[3] | ||||
align=center | 1944-06-06 | D-Day landings (Allied invasion of Europe as part of Operation Overlord) | ||||||
align=center | 1944-06-06 | Normandy coast | 14 | Normandy | Normandy Landings (start of Operation Overlord) | |||
align=center | 1944-06-06 | Ranville | 14 | Normandy | Capture of the Caen canal and Orne river bridges | |||
1944-06-07 | 14 | Normandy | ||||||
23 | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |||||||
align=center | 1944-06-08 | 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 | |||||
align=center | 1944-06-12 | 50 | Normandy | American: 101st Airborne Division | Battle of Carentan (1944-06-06 to 13) | |||
align=center | 1944-06-14 | Marèges Dam | 15 19 | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Limousin | ||||
align=center | 1944-07-01 | 50 | Normandy | American | Battle of Cherbourg | |||
align=center | 1944-07-18 | 50 | Normandy | American XIX Corps | Battle of Saint-Lô (July 7–19) | |||
align=center data-sort-value="1944-06-06" | 1944-06-06 –1944-08-06 | 14 | Normandy | Battle for Caen | ||||
align=center | 1944-07-28 | 50 | Normandy | |||||
align=center | 1944-07-30 | 50 | Normandy | |||||
align=center | 1944-07-31 | 50 | Normandy | |||||
1944-08-04 | 35 | Brittany | [4] | |||||
44 | Pays de la Loire | American | [5] | |||||
align=center | 1944-08-05 | 44 | Pays de la Loire | [6] | ||||
align=center data-sort-value="1944-08-04" | 1944-08-04 to 6 | 56 | Brittany | [7] | ||||
align=center | 1944-08-06 | 53 | Pays de la Loire | [8] | ||||
1944-08-08 | 72 | Pays de la Loire | [9] | |||||
29 | Brittany | German departure | [10] | |||||
14 | Normandy | American, 29th Infantry Division (United States) | [11] | |||||
align=center | 1944-08-10 | 49 | Pays de la Loire | American | [12] | |||
1944-08-12 | 61 | Normandy | Falaise Pocket | |||||
44 | Pays de la Loire | American: Patton | [13] | |||||
07 | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | [14] | ||||||
1944-08-15 | Operation Dragoon landings in southern France | |||||||
align=center | 1944-08-15 | 19 | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | [15] | ||||
1944-08-16 | 45 | Centre-Val de Loire | American: Patton | |||||
19 | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |||||||
align=center | 1944-08-17 | Ussel | 19 | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | Maquis du Limousin | retaken same day by Jesser forces • | ||
align=center | 1944-08-17 | 35 | Brittany | |||||
align=center | 1944-08-17 | 6 | Occitanie | |||||
align=center | 1944-08-17 | 46 | Nouvelle Aquitaine | [16] | ||||
1944-08-18 | 28 | Centre-Val de Loire | American: 3rd US Army: Patton | |||||
78 | Île-de-France | American 3rd US Army: Patton | ||||||
41 | Centre-Val de Loire | [17] | ||||||
66 | Occitanie | [18] | ||||||
1944-08-19 | 11 | Occitanie | German departure | [19] | ||||
24 | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | German departure | Bordeaux | |||||
47 | German departure | Bordeaux | ||||||
82 | Occitanie | German departure | [20] | |||||
65 | Occitanie | |||||||
Toulouse[21] | 31 | Occitanie | German departure | (Toulouse liberated): documentary on the liberation of Toulouse. | ||||
09 | Occitanie | [22] | ||||||
32 | Occitanie | [23] | ||||||
78 | le-de-France | American: Patton | ||||||
04 | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | |||||||
74 | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | La Résistance | [24] | |||||
42 | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | German departure | [25] | |||||
43 | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | [26] | ||||||
1944-08-20 | 64 | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | [27] | |||||
81 | Occitanie | [28] | ||||||
1944-08-21 | 89 | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | American: General Patton | |||||
81 | Occitanie | Résistance du Tarn | ||||||
77 | Île-de-France | American: Patton | ||||||
87 | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | [29] | ||||||
48 | Occitanie | [30] | ||||||
42 | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | [31] | ||||||
19 | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | Departure of the Jesser brigade; maquis du Limousin takes over | ||||||
1944-08-22 | 19 | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | ||||||
12 | Occitanie | German departure | [32] | |||||
38 | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | see Grenoble's Saint-Bartholomew | ||||||
05 | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | |||||||
83 | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | American: 7th Army VI Corps (United States) and French Army B | ||||||
73 | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | [33] | ||||||
data-sort-value="Fontainebleau" | 77 | Île-de-France | American | |||||
align=center | 1944-08-23 | 05 | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | Limousin maquis[34] | ||||
align=center | 1944-08-23 to 28 | 13 | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | Battle of Marseille | ||||
1944-08-24 | 58 | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | German departure | [35] | ||||
40 | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |||||||
15 | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | [36] | ||||||
data-sort-value="Melun" | 77 | Île-de-France | American | [37] | ||||
align=center | 1944-08-24 to 25 | 75 | Île-de-France | French: 2nd DB, US 4th Infantry Division |
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1944-08-25 | data-sort-value="Saint-Cyr" | 78 | Centre-Val-de-Loire | French: 2nd DB | ||||
27 | Normandy | [38] | ||||||
23 | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |||||||
data-sort-value="Montereau" | 77 | Île-de-France | American | |||||
84 | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | |||||||
align=center | 1944-08-25 to 26 | 10 | Grand Est | American | ||||
align=center | 1944-08-26 | data-sort-value="Chaumes" | 77 | Île-de-France | American | |||
align=center | 1944-08-26 | 03 | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | German departure | ||||
1944-08-27 | 63 | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | [39] | |||||
data-sort-value="Beton-Bazoches" | 77 | Île-de-France | American: Patton | |||||
1944-08-28 | 85 | Pays de la Loire | German departure | |||||
data-sort-value="Épernay" | 51 | Grand Est | American | |||||
06 | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | [40] See also | ||||||
data-sort-value="Annet-sur-Marne" | 77 | Île-de-France | American | |||||
33 | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | German departure | [41] | |||||
align=center | 1944-08-29 | 79 | [42] | |||||
align=center | 1944-08-30 | 76 | Normandy | Canadian | [43] | |||
align=center | 1944-08-30 | 60 | Hauts-de-France | British | [44] | |||
align=center | 1944-08-30 | 02 | Hauts-de-France | [45] | ||||
align=center | 1944-08-30 | 30 | Occitanie | |||||
align=center | 1944-08-21 to 30 | 26 | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | |||||
align=center | 1944-08-30 | 51 | Grand Est | [46] | ||||
align=center | 1944-08-30 | 52 | Grand Est | American: general Patton | [47] [48] | |||
align=center | 1944-08-31 | 80 | Hauts-de-France | British 2nd Army: general Dempsey | ||||
align=center | 1944-08-31 | 08 | Grand Est | [49] [50] | ||||
align=center | 1944-08-31 | 55 | Grand Est | |||||
align=center | 1944-09-01 | 35 | Brittany | Liberation of Saint-Malo | ||||
align=center | 1944-09-01 | 37 | Centre-Val-de-Loire | [51] | ||||
align=center | 1944-09-01 | 16 | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |||||
align=center | 1944-09-01 | 07 | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | |||||
align=center | 1944-09-01 | 76 | Normandy | Canadian, Fusiliers Mont-Royal, Royal Regiment of Canada | See also: Dieppe Raid (Operation Jubilee, 19 August 1942) | |||
align=center | 1944-09-02 | [52] [53] | ||||||
align=center | 1944-09-02 | 59 | Hauts-de-France | American | ||||
align=center | 1944-09-02 | 34 | Occitanie | French: général de Lattre | ||||
align=center | 1944-09-03 | 62 | Hauts-de-France | |||||
align=center | 1944-09-03 | 59 | Hauts-de-France | British Second Army | ||||
align=center | 1944-09-03 | 69 | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | see also 1st Army (France) | ||||
align=center | 1944-09-04 | 62 | Hauts-de-France | Canadian: General Crerar | ||||
align=center | 1944-09-04 | 01 | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | [54] | ||||
align=center | 1944-09-04 | 71 | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | [55] | ||||
align=center | 1944-09-04 | 18 | Centre-Val de Loire | [56] | ||||
align=center | 1944-09-05 | 62 | Hauts-de-France | Polish | ||||
align=center | 1944-09-05 | 86 | Nouvelle-Aquitaine |
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align=center | 1944-09-05 | 71 | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | [58] | ||||
align=center | 1944-09-06 | 03 | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | [59] | ||||
align=center | 1944-09-07 | 25 | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | |||||
align=center | 1944-09-07 | 05 | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | |||||
align=center | 1944-09-09 | 39 | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | [60] | ||||
align=center | 1944-09-09 | 58 | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | |||||
align=center | 1944-09-09 | 71 | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | |||||
align=center | 1944-09-10 | 36 | Centre-Val de Loire | à la sous-préfecture | ||||
align=center | 1944-09-11 | 21 | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | |||||
align=center | 1944-09-12 | 76 | Normandy | Operation Astonia | ||||
align=center | 1944-09-12 | 52 | Grand Est | American | ||||
align=center | 1944-09-12 | 21 | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | [63] | ||||
align=center | 1944-09-12 | 70 | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | [64] | ||||
align=center | 1944-09-13 | 52 | Grand Est | Germans evacuated in the night of September 12 to September 13. 2nd Armored Division (France) entered the town | ||||
align=center | 1944-09-16 | 45 | Centre-Val de Loire |
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align=center | 1944-08-08 –1944-09-18 | 29 | Bretagne | Battle for Brest (7 August – 19 September 1944) | ||||
align=center | 1944-09-19 | 62 | Hauts-de-France | |||||
align=center | 1944-09-19 | 54 | Grand Est | Battle of Nancy (1944) | ||||
align=center | 1944-09-24 | 88 | Grand Est |
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align=center | 1944-09-30 | 62 | Hauts-de-France | Operation Undergo | ||||
align=center | 1944-11-20 | 90 | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | [67] | ||||
align=center | 1944-11-21 | 68 | Grand Est | Ire DB of general Jean Touzet du Vigier. | ||||
align=center | 1944-11-22 | 57 | Grand Est | US Third Army | [68] Battle of Metz | |||
align=center | 1944-11-23 | 67 | Grand Est | French, 2e DB | History of Strasbourg | |||
align=center | 1944-11-27 | 67 | Grand Est | American | Villé | |||
align=center | 1944-12-04 | data-sort-value="Carling" | 57 | Grand Est | Carling, Guebenhouse[69] | |||
align=center | 1944-12-06 | 57 | Grand Est | American | [72] | |||
align=center | 1945-02-02 | 68 | Grand Est | French and American | Colmar Pocket | |||
align=center | 1945-02-04 | 68 | Grand Est | Colmar Pocket | ||||
align=center | 1945-03-14 | 57 | Grand Est | French and American | [73] | |||
1945-03-16 | 57 | Grand Est | American | |||||
67 | Grand Est | américaine | [74] | |||||
1945-03-19 | 67 | Grand Est | [75] | |||||
67 | Grand Est | French | [76] | |||||
align=center | 1945-04-18 | 17 | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | [77] | ||||
align=center | 1945-04-24 | 06 | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | [78] | 8 | 1944 - 2 mai 1945) », 2005, | ||
align=center | 1945-04-30 | 17 | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | [79] | ||||
align=center | 1945-05-08 | End of World War II in Europe (Germany surrenders; Victory in Europe Day) | ||||||
align=center | 1945-05-08 | 17 | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |||||
align=center | 1945-05-09 | 59 | Hauts-de-France | isolated by Siege of Dunkirk (1944–45) | ||||
align=center | 1945-05-09 | 17 | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | [80] | ||||
align=center | 1945-05-10 | data-sort-value="Belle-Île-en-Mer" | 56 | Bretagne | ||||
align=center | 1945-05-11 | data-sort-value="Bouvron" | 44 | Pays de la Loire |