thats interesting about the enigma plan, the official history keeps mentioning the capture of a german HQ as essential PLUS the capture of german barges in dieppe.
The raid also drew the luftwaffe into a massive battle, a key aim that Churchill mentions repeatedly at this time as the only way to help the Soviets.
The plan was never to stay on the mainland for more than 6 hours - it was to establish a perimeter around the town and destroy or take back as much as possible.
Certainly the 'things we learnt for D-Day' was used as an excuse, the worst part was at the time an American journalist spread the lie that the Canadians insisted on attacking the place frontally and that Canadian generalship was 'bankrupt' - a load of tosh of course
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