Operation Jubilee: Disaster at Dieppe
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Was There a Military Purpose to the Oostend Raid?
In the ostend raid, there's the broga raid of weld wall wine. Theres are very particular thit they want to try and stop ou boats entering the channel north sea. Was there a specific purpose to this raid, in the spirit of that earlier raid? So in that sense, there was so much ofa military purpose to the raid. In fact, it's quite hard to find any military significance in it at all in terms of actually inflicting damage on the germans. And from another perspective, if you're blowing up the gas works or the electricity works or something, you're hurting the local population. You'r allies, supposedly, as much as, probably
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