[CaptainCrunch]

Tomorrow is the anniversary of the raid on Dieppe.


The Dieppe raid was to allow the desperate allies to gain a foothold in Europe. At the time the allies weren't strong enough for a full scale assault, instead the Dieppe raid was almost a test bed for a future land invasion of Fortress Europe. Under Lord Mountbatton the majority (5000 of the 6100 troops were Canadians). This heavy Canadian representative was caused by Canadian pressure on the British to get the Canadian's a substantial role in the war.



Operation Jubilee was a 3 beach landing with the RCR, Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, Essex Scottish Regiment, Fusiliers Mount Royal, The South Scottish Regiment of Saskatchewan and the Queens own Cameron Highlanders. The 14th Tank (Calgary would provide 58 tanks as armored support using the new Churchill tanks)


From the start the operation was a disaster, Military Intelligence had very little information on the defenses, on top of that the German's were on high alert due to French double agents warning German Intelligence.


The landing commenced at 4:50 AM on August 19th and the Canadians instantly ran into heavy opposition. What made things worse were that the Tanks were ill equip for the soft beaches and bogged down, the Tanks that pushed through were confronted by heavy tank obstacles and defenses, because of that the invading infantry had no heavy fire support.


Eventually the invading force had to retreat. Out of the 5000 Canadians, 3367 were killed, wounded, captured or unaccounted for. Lord Mountbatten justified the failed raid and massive loss of life as a necessary evil that gave the Allies valuable lessons for a future invasion.


The Germans used this as a major propaganda.



They also used the Canadian prisoners as retaliation for an order by the allies to shckle their prisoners, so all Canadian POW's were shackled as well.



Now there is the theory that Operation Jubliee was a distraction raid while the British raided into Dieppe under the Command of Ian Fleming to seize new Enigma rotors and code books, but its never been proven that a separate raid of Dieppe was planned and that the capture of any intelligence was part of the main raid.




In the end Dieppe was a major military disaster especially for Canada