Timeline of the liberation of France

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Timeline of the liberation of the primary cities of France between 1943 and 1945.

DateCityDép.
No.		 Region [note 1] Liberating army/unitsNotes
1943-09-09 Ajaccio 2ACorsica(Operation Vesuvius) Liberation of Corsica
1943-09-10 Sartène 2ACorsica Liberation of Corsica [1]
1943-09-23 Porto-Vecchio 2ACorsica Liberation of Corsica
1943-10-04 Bastia 2BCorsicaFrench, 73rd Moroccan Goumiers of the 6th Tabor

Liberation of Corsica [2]

1944-06-06 D-Day landings (Allied invasion of Europe as part of Operation Overlord)
1944-06-06Normandy coast14Normandy 21st Army Group Normandy Landings (start of Operation Overlord)
1944-06-06Ranville14Normandy 6th Airlanding Brigade Capture of the Caen canal and Orne river bridges
1944-06-07 Bayeux 14Normandy
Guéret 23Nouvelle-Aquitaine
1944-06-08 Tulle 19Initial 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 50NormandyAmerican: 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 50NormandyAmerican Battle of Cherbourg
1944-07-18 Saint-Lô 50NormandyAmerican XIX Corps [4] Battle of Saint-Lô (July 7–19)
1944-06-06 –
1944-08-06		 Caen 14NormandyBritish, Canadian Second Army Battle for Caen
1944-07-28 Coutances 50Normandy [4]
1944-07-30 Granville 50Normandy [4]
1944-07-31 Avranches 50Normandy [4]
1944-08-04 Rennes 35Brittany [5]
Châteaubriant 44Pays de la LoireAmerican [6]
1944-08-05 Ancenis 44Pays de la Loire [7]
1944-08-04 to 6 Vannes 56Brittany [8]
1944-08-06 Mayenne 53Pays de la Loire [9]
1944-08-08 Le Mans 72Pays de la Loire [10]
Quimper 29BrittanyGerman departure [11]
Vire 14NormandyAmerican, 29th Infantry Division (United States) [12]
1944-08-10 Angers 49Pays de la LoireAmerican [13]
1944-08-12 Alençon 61NormandyFrench, 2nd Armored Division (France) Falaise Pocket
Nantes 44Pays de la LoireAmerican: Patton [14]
Privas 07Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes [15]
1944-08-15 Operation Dragoon landings in southern France
1944-08-15 Brive-la-Gaillarde 19Nouvelle-Aquitaine Maquis du Limousin [16]
1944-08-16 Orléans 45Centre-Val de LoireAmerican: Patton [4]
Tulle 19Nouvelle-Aquitaine Maquis du Limousin
1944-08-17 Ussel 19Nouvelle-AquitaineMaquis du Limousinretaken same day by Jesser forces [3] •Brigade Jesser  [ fr ]
1944-08-17 Saint-Malo 35Brittany Battle of Saint-Malo [17]
1944-08-17 Tarbes 6Occitanie [18] [19]
1944-08-17 Cahors 46Nouvelle Aquitaine [20] [21]
1944-08-18 Chartres 28Centre-Val de LoireAmerican: 3rd US Army: Patton [4]
Rambouillet 78Île-de-FranceAmerican 3rd US Army: Patton
Blois 41Centre-Val de Loire [22]
Perpignan 66Occitanie [23]
1944-08-19 Carcassonne 11OccitanieGerman departure [24]
Périgueux 24Nouvelle-AquitaineGerman departure Bordeaux
Agen 47German departure Bordeaux
Montauban 82OccitanieGerman departure [25]
Lourdes 65Occitanie [18]
Toulouse [26] 31OccitanieGerman departure Toulouse libérée  [ fr ] (Toulouse liberated): documentary on the liberation of Toulouse.
Foix 09OccitanieSpanish maquis, commanded by Marcel Bigeard [27]
Auch 32Occitanie [28]
Mantes-la-Jolie 78le-de-FranceAmerican: Patton [4]
Digne 04Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur [29]
Annecy 74Auvergne-Rhône-AlpesLa Résistance [30]
Saint-Étienne 42Auvergne-Rhône-AlpesGerman departure [31]
Le Puy-en-Velay 43Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes [32]
1944-08-20 Pau 64Nouvelle-Aquitaine [33]
Albi 81Occitanie [34]
1944-08-21 Sens 89Bourgogne-Franche-ComtéAmerican: General Patton [4]
Castres
Mazamet 		81OccitanieRésistance du Tarn [35]
Château-Landon 77Île-de-FranceAmerican: Patton [36]
Limoges 87Nouvelle-AquitaineMaquis of colonel Georges Guingouin [37]
Mende 48Occitanie [38]
Roanne 42Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes [39]
Ussel 19Nouvelle-AquitaineDeparture of the Jesser brigade; maquis du Limousin takes over [3]
1944-08-22 Corrèze 19Nouvelle-Aquitaine maquis du Limousin [3]
Millau 12OccitanieGerman departure [40]
Grenoble 38Auvergne-Rhône-Alpessee Grenoble's Saint-Bartholomew [29]
Gap 05Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur [29]
Toulon 83Provence-Alpes-Côte d'AzurAmerican: 7th Army VI Corps (United States) and French Army B
Chambéry 73Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes [41]
Nemours, Fontainebleau, Fontaine-le-Port 77Île-de-FranceAmerican [36]
1944-08-23 Gap 05Provence-Alpes-Côte d'AzurLimousin maquis [42] [29]
1944-08-23 to 28 Marseille 13Provence-Alpes-Côte d'AzurFrench: Joseph de Goislard de Monsabert Battle of Marseille
1944-08-24 Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire 58Bourgogne-Franche-ComtéGerman departure [43]
Dax 40Nouvelle-Aquitaine [18]
Saint-Flour 15Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes [44]
77Île-de-FranceAmerican [45] [36]
1944-08-24 to 25 Paris 75Île-de-FranceFrench: 2nd DB, US 4th Infantry Division; [4] German departure; see also Liberation of Paris
1944-08-2578Centre-Val-de-LoireFrench: 2nd DB
Vernon 27Normandy [46]
Guéret 23Nouvelle-AquitaineFinal liberation of Guéret by the Maquis du Limousin liberation of Guéret  [ fr ], Maquis du Limousin
77Île-de-FranceAmerican [36]
Avignon 84Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur [47]
1944-08-25 to 26 Troyes 10Grand EstAmerican [4] [48]
1944-08-2677Île-de-FranceAmerican [36]
1944-08-26 Vichy 03Auvergne-Rhône-AlpesGerman departure
1944-08-27 Clermont-Ferrand 63Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes [49]
77Île-de-FranceAmerican: Patton [36]
1944-08-28 Les Sables-d'Olonne 85Pays de la LoireGerman departure
51Grand EstAmerican
Nice 06Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur [50] See also Liberation of Nice  [ fr ]
77Île-de-FranceAmerican [36]
Bordeaux 33Nouvelle-AquitaineGerman departure [51]
1944-08-29 Niort 79 [52]
1944-08-30 Rouen 76NormandyCanadian [53]
1944-08-30 Beauvais 60Hauts-de-FranceBritish [54]
1944-08-30 Laon 02Hauts-de-France [55]
1944-08-30 Uzès 30Occitanie [47]
1944-08-21 to 30 Montélimar 26Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes [29]
1944-08-30 Reims 51Grand Est [56]
1944-08-30 Saint-Dizier 52Grand EstAmerican: general Patton [57] [58]
1944-08-31 Amiens 80Hauts-de-FranceBritish 2nd Army: general Dempsey [59]
1944-08-31 Charleville-Mézières 08Grand Est [60] [61]
1944-08-31 Verdun 55Grand Est
1944-09-01 Cézembre 35Brittany Liberation of Saint-Malo
1944-09-01 Tours 37Centre-Val-de-Loire Maillé massacre [62]
1944-09-01 Angoulême 16Nouvelle-Aquitaine
1944-09-01 Le Pouzin 07Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes History of Pouzin in the Second World War  [ fr ]
1944-09-01 Dieppe 76NormandyCanadian, Fusiliers Mont-Royal, Royal Regiment of CanadaSee also: Dieppe Raid (Operation Jubilee, 19 August 1942)
1944-09-02 Loches 37 Centre-Val de Loire [63] [64]
1944-09-02 Valenciennes 59Hauts-de-FranceAmerican [59]
1944-09-02 Montpellier 34OccitanieFrench: général de Lattre [47]
1944-09-03 Arras 62Hauts-de-FranceBritish Second Army [59]
1944-09-03 Lille 59Hauts-de-FranceBritish Second Army [59]
1944-09-03 Lyon 69Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes [4] see also 1st Army (France)
1944-09-04 Montreuil 62Hauts-de-FranceCanadian: General Crerar [59]
1944-09-04 Bourg-en-Bresse 01Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes [65]
1944-09-04 Mâcon 71Bourgogne-Franche-Comté [66]
1944-09-04 Vierzon 18Centre-Val de Loire [67]
1944-09-05 Saint-Omer 62Hauts-de-FrancePolish [59]
1944-09-05 Poitiers 86Nouvelle-Aquitaine
1944-09-05 Chalon-sur-Saône 71Bourgogne-Franche-Comté [69]
1944-09-06 Moulins 03Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes [70]
1944-09-07 Besançon 25Bourgogne-Franche-Comté [29]
1944-09-07 Briançon 05Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
1944-09-09 Dole 39Bourgogne-Franche-Comté [71]
1944-09-09 Nevers 58Bourgogne-Franche-Comté [72]
1944-09-09 Autun 71Bourgogne-Franche-Comté [72]
1944-09-10 Issoudun 36Centre-Val de Loire Surrender of the Elster column  [ fr ] à la sous-préfecture; [73] [74] See also Elster column  [ fr ]
1944-09-11 Dijon 21Bourgogne-Franche-Comté [72]
1944-09-12 Le Havre 76Normandy I Corps Operation Astonia
1944-09-12 Andelot-Blancheville 52Grand EstAmerican [48]
1944-09-12 Nod-sur-Seine 21Bourgogne-Franche-ComtéJunction 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 70Bourgogne-Franche-Comté [76]
1944-09-13 Chaumont 52Grand EstGermans evacuated in the night of September 12 to September 13. 2nd Armored Division (France) entered the town [48]
1944-09-16 Beaugency 45Centre-Val de Loire; [77] see also Surrender of the Elster column  [ fr ]
1944-08-08 –
1944-09-18		 Brest 29Bretagne Battle for Brest (7 August – 19 September 1944)
1944-09-19 Boulogne-sur-Mer 62Hauts-de-France
1944-09-19 Nancy 54Grand Est Battle of Nancy (1944)
1944-09-24 Épinal 88Grand Est* [78]
1944-09-30 Calais 62Hauts-de-France First Canadian Army Operation Undergo
1944-11-20 Belfort 90Bourgogne-Franche-Comté [79]
1944-11-21 Mulhouse 68Grand EstIre DB of general Jean Touzet du Vigier.
1944-11-22 Metz 57Grand EstUS Third Army [80] Battle of Metz
1944-11-23 Strasbourg 67Grand EstFrench, 2e DB History of Strasbourg
1944-11-27 Villé 67Grand EstAmerican Villé
1944-12-0457Grand Est US Third Army Carling [ citation needed ], Guebenhouse [81]

Puttelange-aux-Lacs [83]

1944-12-06 Sarreguemines 57Grand EstAmerican [84]
1945-02-02 Colmar 68Grand EstFrench and American Colmar Pocket
1945-02-04 Turckheim 68Grand Est Colmar Pocket
1945-03-14 Forbach 57Grand EstFrench and American [85]
1945-03-16 Bitche 57Grand EstAmerican Liberation of Bitche  [ fr ]
Haguenau 67Grand Estaméricaine [86]
1945-03-19 Wissembourg 67Grand EstAmerican: General Alexander Patch [87]
Lauterbourg 67Grand EstFrench [88]
1945-04-18 Royan 17Nouvelle-Aquitaine [89]
1945-04-24 Saorge 06Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur [90]
1945-04-30 Oléron 17Nouvelle-Aquitaine [91]
1945-05-08 End of World War II in Europe (Germany surrenders; Victory in Europe Day)
1945-05-08 La Rochelle 17Nouvelle-Aquitaine History of La Rochelle
1945-05-09 Dunkirk 59Hauts-de-Franceisolated by Siege of Dunkirk (1944–45)
1945-05-09 Île de Ré 17Nouvelle-Aquitaine

[92]

1945-05-1056Bretagne Lorient pocket  [ fr ]
1945-05-1144Pays de la LoireBypassed and isolated as Saint-Nazaire pocket

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