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Bomber Command on the 5 August 1944 visited the Blaye oil storage facilities in
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South Western France.The town of Blaye is situated on the right bank of the Gironde
estuary near Bordeaux. The aim was to disrupt fuel supplies to the German troops in
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this area in preparation for the Allied landings which took place on the 15 August on
the south coast of France. This Allied landing was known as Operation Dragoon.