The DIEPPE Raid EXPLAINED with animated maps.
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- Operation Jubilee or the Dieppe Raid (19 August 1942) was an Allied amphibious attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe in northern France, during the Second World War. Over 6,050 infantry, predominantly Canadian, supported by a regiment of tanks, were put ashore from a naval force operating under protection of Royal Air Force (RAF) fighters.
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The port was to be captured and held for a short period, to test the feasibility of a landing and to gather intelligence. German coastal defenses, port structures and important buildings were to be demolished. The raid was intended to boost Allied morale, demonstrate the commitment of the United Kingdom to re-open the Western Front and support the Soviet Union, fighting on the Eastern Front.
Aerial and naval support was insufficient to enable the ground forces to achieve their objectives; the tanks were trapped on the beach and the infantry was largely prevented from entering the town by obstacles and German fire. After less than six hours, mounting casualties forced a retreat. The operation was a fiasco in which only one landing force achieved its objective and some intelligence including electronic intelligence was gathered.
Within ten hours, 3,623 of the 6,086 men who landed had been killed, wounded or became prisoners of war. The Luftwaffe made a maximum effort against the landing as the RAF had expected, but the RAF lost 106 aircraft (at least 32 to anti-aircraft fire or accidents) against 48 German losses. The Royal Navy lost 33 landing craft and a destroyer.
Both sides learned important lessons regarding coastal assaults. The Allies learned lessons that influenced the success of the D-Day landings. Artificial harbours were declared crucial, tanks were adapted specifically for beaches, a new integrated tactical air force strengthened ground support, and capturing a major port at the outset was no longer seen as a priority. Churchill and Mountbatten both claimed that these lessons had outweighed the cost. The Germans also believed that Dieppe was a learning experience and made a considerable effort to improve the way they defended the occupied coastlines of Europe.
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This is a really good video. Well done and thanks
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Good concise explanation, especially when listened to at double speed.
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I was put down as a test to see what it would be like to directly attack an occupied French port , it was no Norway, great idea by meddler Mountbatten unreal!
You mean fiddler Mountbatten.
Half arsed, with inadequate support and a vague plan for what would happen if it actually worked…
What could possibly go wrong?
Debate continues to this day wherever the lessons learned at Dieppe were necessary or fully incorporated into future amphibious assaults. The British had strongly opposed the American desire that the first major assault against the Reich be in France. Churchill, recalling his own debacle in the Dardanelles during WWI, did not want a repeat of that fiasco. Wiser heads prevailed and North Africa became the first major Allied offensive. So knowing this, why did Churchill allow Operation Jubilee to commence?
At least you are crediting wikipedia.
I can't listen to a computer voice. I'm 66 years old, born in 1957. Fifteen years before my birth my father was a young sergeant in a Canadian regiment who had been stationed in southern England for two years. He was actually a Yank - born during WWI to an American serving in the British army and his English wife - but mostly raised in the USA. My father had enlisted in the US army at the outbreak of WWII in Sept 1939. But frustrated by the inaction of the US to help Britain and the deplorable state of the US Army at the time, he had "deserted" and went to Canada so he could get into the fighting - enlisting the Essex Scottish at Windsor, Ontario in July 1940. While stationed in England he had married an English woman, like his father before him. She was pregnant with his child on Aug 19 1942 when his regiment was sent on the Dieppe Raid. He witnessed the slaughter of his men on the beach, was captured and endured nearly three years of brutal captivity in Germany. His English wife (not my mother) gave birth to their child while he was a POW. There were actually a fair number of US boys serving in the Essex Scottish who were killed or captured at Dieppe.
Thank you for sharing your story, much appreciated!
A horrible unnecessary slaughter
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