At dawn of August 19th 1942, six thousand and one hundred Allied soldiers, of whom roughly five thousand were Canadians, landed at the French port of Dieppe in their first major test of the defense of the German-held coastline. A combination of inadequate communication, lack of supporting firepower; and in the final hour before the raid, absolute bad luck on the Allies made the Dieppe raid one of their worst defeats in World War Two.
The Allies hoped to capture the port for 12 hours, then take German prisoners and information about German defenses. When the raid took place there were 6,103 troops landed on the beech and 4,963 of them were Canadians. The troops landed in random positions and than all of them just attacked. There were not many excellent or dependable strategies or anything planned into the raid so it did not work that well. If all of the other countries in the allies contributed more troops there might have been a different outcome but Canada had most of the troops and also the most deaths. The main reason for most of the Canadian troops in the raid was that when World War II began in 1939, Canada joined the Allies in battling the Germans. Many Canadian soldiers were sent to Br
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The Allies learnt a costly lesson by losing nearly half of their troops, it taught commanders that the idea of attacking a fortified port now seemed mad, and the importance for massive fire support became clear. But instead of advancing quickly while the enemy was taking cover from the sea attack they waited in the shelter of the sea wall wasting time. making for White beach and was proceeding along the beach to meet them when they were heavily attacked by bombs from German aircraft while still some way off. The situation was made much worse by barbed wire defenses on the sea wall, which were again much more than expected and were not easily overcome. delivered a cannon fire attack and set a smoke screen over the eastern part of the headland. The planning that was used in the raid was some of the worst in WWII history. It went wrong in every conceivable way. When they finally did advance, the Germans had recovered and released a heavy fire.
The Dieppe raid was almost a suicide. New information continues to be uncovered and the study of the planners and operators continues even today. The German guns could not be detected until they were shot. When the allies had their main attack they did it right in the middle of the day when all of the enemies were awake and on guard for an attack, when they could of planned it so the main attack was at night and they allies could have had an advantage at the start. We will never know for sure how such a terrible thing could have happened.
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