RAID ON DIEPPE 1942

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RAID ON DIEPPE 1942

Post by aukepalmhof » Wed May 17, 2017 3:26 am

This Canadian stamp shows us the Raid on Dieppe with in the background a landing craft . Wikipedia has the following on this landing craft. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landing_C ... ult#Dieppe

A notably unsuccessful amphibious operation by Allied forces against the German-occupied French seaport of Dieppe during World War II, 1939-45. This raid across the English Channel, known as Operation Jubilee, was planned by the British Combined Operations Headquarters. It was launched on the night of August 18-19, 1942. Partly designed to allay American concerns about British willingness to open a second front in Europe, it also was intended to give the Allied troops involved vital battle experience and to test amphibious landing techniques.
The landing force consisted of 5000 men of the Second Canadian Division accompanied by 1000 men of No 3 and No 4 Commando of the British army supported by several tanks. The invasion fleet included 179 landing craft and 73 naval ships.
Eight separate landings were planned with the aim of destroying German coastal batteries in the Dieppe area. Only one landing on the western flank, which took place shortly before dawn succeeded. Elsewhere, the Germans were well prepared and the landing craft came under heavy fire, with most troops pinned down on the beaches. Fighting continued for some hours after a decision to withdrawn was made at 09.00 am. Allied losses were heavy with some 4000 men killed, wounded or captured. The Royal Navy lost 34 ships including a destroyer, the HMS BERKELEY, which had to be torpedoed to prevent it from falling in German hands. Although the Allies fared very badly at Dieppe, the raid provided lessons on the future conduct of amphibious operations that were to prove invaluable in planning the “Normandy” landings in 1944. The experience at Dieppe proved that the premature launch of a major invasion of Western Europe would end in disaster. Much more on this raid is given by: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieppe_Raid

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Source: Copied from An Encyclopedia of Naval History by Anthony Bruce and William Cogar.
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