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Prisoners at Dieppe -
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In World War II, the first Allied combined-operations raid was
carried out on 19 August, 1942. A joint British and Canadian
command, with 5,000 Canadians, 1,000 British, and 50 United States
Rangers, raided Dieppe in a miniature invasion to test amphibious
tactics and techniques. Involving the full use of combined arms and
the mass landings of infantry and armor to seize a beachhead, the
Dieppe operation was designed not to hold a beachhead, but rather
to test the ability of the newly developed LCT (landing craft,
tank) to land tanks across beaches, to see whether it was possible
to capture a port in a frontal assault, to scrutinize the
organization of air forces for overhead cover and support, and to
test the naval management of a considerable invasion fleet. Of the
6,100 troops embarked for Dieppe, about 2,500 returned, including
about 1,000 who never landed. The other 2600 troops were killed or
captured.
Dieppe |
Canadians of the 14th Regiment taken prisoner by the Germans at Dieppe |
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