Question: Operation Dragoon preceded the Allied Lorraine Campaign in Northern France in August 1944, after failing to be executed in conjunction with which famous Allied military operation in Normandy?
Context: Task Force 88 (TF88) was the escort carrier force, commanded by Rear-Admiral T H Troubridge, that supported Operation Dragoon, the allied invasion of southern France.  It was activated in August 1944, and dispersed on 29 August when the carrier force departed to operate in the Aegean. The British 2nd Parachute Brigade was part of the Operation Rugby airborne landings in August 1944.  The operation was carried out by an ad hoc airborne formation called the 1st Airborne Task Force.  Operation Rugby was itself part of the Operation Dragoon invasion of Southern France by the American 7th Army.  The airborne task force landed in the River Argens valley with the objective of preventing German reinforcements from reaching the landing beaches.  The landings were mainly an American operation and the brigade was the only British Army formation involved. Lorraine Campaign is a term used by U.S. Army historians to describe operations of the U.S. Third Army in Lorraine during World War II from September 1 through December 18, 1944.  Official U.S. Army campaign names for this period and location are "Northern France" and "Rhineland".  The term was popularized by the publication of a volume of the same name by the U.S. Army in 1950.  As written by the volume's author: The Battle of La Ciotat was a naval engagement in August 1944 during World War II as part of Operation Dragoon.  Allied forces, engaged at the main landings in Vichy France, ordered a small flotilla of American and British warships to make a feint against the port city of La Ciotat as a diversion.  The Allies hoped to draw German forces away from the main landing zones at Cavalaire-sur-Mer, Saint-Tropez and Saint Raphaël.  During the operation, two German warships attacked the Allied flotilla. Operation Dragoon (initially Operation Anvil) was the code name for the Allied invasion of Southern France on 15August 1944.  The operation was initially planned to be executed in conjunction with Operation Overlord, the Allied landing in the Normandy, but the lack of available resources led to a cancellation of the second landing.  By July 1944 the landing was reconsidered, as the clogged-up ports in Normandy did not have the capacity to adequately supply the Allied forces.  Concurrently, the French High Command pushed for a revival of the operation that would include large numbers of French troops.  As a result, the operation was finally approved in July to be executed in August. Operation Cycle is the name of the evacuation of Allied troops from Le Havre, in the Pays de Caux of Upper Normandy from 10–13 June 1940, towards the end of the Battle of France, during the Second World War.  The operation was preceded by the better known rescue of 338,226 British and French soldiers from Dunkirk in Operation Dynamo (26 May – 4 June).  On 20 May, the Germans had captured Abbeville at the mouth of the Somme and cut off the main Allied armies in the north.  South of the river, the Allies improvised defences and made local counter-attacks, to dislodge the Germans from bridgeheads on the south bank and re-capture river crossings for an advance northwards to regain contact with the armies in northern France and Flanders. The Battle of Marseille refers to the combat and other actions from August 21–28, 1944 which led to the liberation of Marseille by French forces in World War II.  The groundwork was laid by the Allied invasion of southern France in Operation Dragoon on 15 August 1944 by the United States Seventh Army, with major support from the French First Army. The 1st Airborne Task Force was a short-lived Allied airborne unit that was active during World War II created for Operation "Dragoon"–the invasion of Southern France.  Formed in July 1944, under the command of Major General Robert T. Frederick, it took part in the "Dragoon" landings on 15 August 1944, securing the area north-west of the landing beaches, before moving towards the French-Italian border as part of the United States Seventh Army.  The unit was disbanded in November 1944. Operation Ferdinand was a military deception employed by the Allies during the Second World War.  It formed part of Operation Bodyguard, a major strategic deception intended to misdirect and confuse German high command about Allied invasion plans during 1944.  Ferdinand consisted of strategic and tactical deceptions intended to draw attention away from the Operation Dragoon landing areas in southern France by threatening an invasion of Genoa in Italy.  Planned by Eugene Sweeney in June and July 1944 and operated until early September, it has been described as "quite the most successful of 'A' Force's strategic deceptions".  It helped the Allies achieve complete tactical surprise in their landings and pinned down German troops in the Genoa region until late July. The Battle of Port Cros was a battle of World War II fought off the French Riviera in the Mediterranean Sea on the island of Port-Cros.  The battle began when a United States Navy warship encountered two German warships in August 1944 while supporting the Allied Operation Dragoon.  It was one of the few surface engagements fought between the United States Navy and the German "Kriegsmarine".  Later that day, the combined American and Canadian Devil's Brigade was dropped on the main island and captured the German-held positions.
Answer: Operation Overlord