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Operation Jubilee or the Dieppe Raid (19 August 1942) was a disastrous Allied amphibious attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe in northern France, during the Second World War.
Set to go at the end of July 1942, a German air raid happened to pass directly over the loaded flotilla. This led the British, concerned that the Germans would anticipate the raid, to cancel Operation Rutter. However, planners soon revived the mission under a new name: Operation Jubilee.
30 Μαρ 2011 · On 19 August 1942, a disastrous seaborne raid was launched by Allied forces on the German-occupied French port of Dieppe. Why was such a raid ever undertaken?
25 Αυγ 2013 · During the Second World War, on 19 August 1942, the Allies launched a major raid on the French coastal port of Dieppe. Operation Jubilee was the first Canadian Army engagement in the European theatre of the war, designed to test the Allies' ability to launch amphibious assaults against Adolf Hitler's "Fortress Europe."
17 Φεβ 2011 · Just under 5,000 Canadians were joined by 1,075 British and they landed at Dieppe on 19 August 1942. The force left from five different British ports divided into 13 groups. The men had...
25 Μαΐ 2024 · In the early hours of August 19, 1942, the Allied forces set in motion the largest amphibious raid of the war up to that point. The assault began with commando units attacking coastal batteries and other key targets to create a diversion for the main attack.
The Dieppe Raid during the Second World War was one of the darkest chapters in our country’s military history but it was also marked by great courage and helped lead to important lessons being learned.
