Operation Jubilee: Disaster at Dieppe
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Did It Be Worth It?
I think it's important to remember that if you've taken part in something like this and survived it, you need to give it some meaning. There were some lessons i think learnt. One is obviously the need to have a very, very heavy bombardment before the troops go in. And there were special ships designed that were able to get quite close in shore and deliver quite a lot of fire power to german positions along the landing beaches. But i don't think that somethin that you needed to launch a massive, very costly raid to learn. It was an incredible display of heroism by the canadian troops but once again, we were sort of used as cannon foter by british
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