Operation Jubilee: Disaster at Dieppe
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Desasters - The Great Cost of Life
Six thousand odd canadians who took part, nearly a thousand didn't come back. Lord mountbatton was the head of combined operations. He argued that we had to launch a big cross channel raid on a port in order to find out how you did it. And so it's a learning process. It's a very painful learning process. You learn by your mistakes, and then you don't make the same mistakes when you launch the one. But they are glaringly obvious to anyone who knows anything about the basics of military operations.
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