Coast of Normandy Georges Leygues' returned to Dakar based anti-blockade-runner patrols.

She then supported Allied landings in Normandy in June 1944 and southern France in August.

A French naval tradition says that beyond five months of campaigning, the war flag of a ship gets longer by one metre for each month spent off France; the war flag of the Georges Leygues is said to have been 60 metres when she entered Toulon on 13 September 1944.