[CondorFlight]

We needed Marseilles as a port, especially since we were very late in capturing Antwerp.

So southern France proved vital to continuing operations in the West.

[LS]

Correct.

And we could defeat Germany fast, or we could occupy parts of southern Europe, but we couldn’t do both.

[Rebelbase]

One of my favorite songs.

Coast of Marseilles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c__JXd2cQE8

[InABunkerUnderSF]

Churchill was against Dragoon from the beginning - regarding it as a diversion from his remarkably successful (?) Italian campaign. There were no British troops involved and he was so certain it would fail that he came down to watch the landings personally from a vessel off shore.

Regarding Antwerp, if Montgomery had given it appropriate priority the Canadians would have cleared the Scheldt weeks earlier and with fewer casualties.