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SmugMug > keywords > queens own rifles > View of Dieppe beach from the German gun positions. The truth is that Stalin was threatening to sue for peace with Hitler on the verge of taking Moscow, Stalingrad, and Leningrad. Not only that but Roosevelt did not like Churchill's plan to go to North Africa first. He wanted to take on Hitler in France right away. Churchill gave Mountbatten the job of mounting a mini invasion.... AND PROVE IT COULD NOT BE DONE YET. (source Gen. Denis Whitaker in his book Dieppe Tragedy to Triumph) So the bombing of the guns by Bomber Harris was called off at the last minute, no battle ship was sent to provide fire support and the Canadians were slaughtered.
SmugMug > keywords > queens own rifles > The chalk cliffs bordering both sides of Dieppe beach. There are many small caves in which the Germans had mounted machine guns. On the top of the cliffs they had large artillery pieces.
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SmugMug > keywords > queens own rifles > The beach is mostly Chert (flint) stone. At night if you throw a stone on to the beach you get a shower of sparks.
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SmugMug > keywords > queens own rifles > From the memorial on top of Vimy Ridge, I can see the town in the distance. Twin mountains of coal mine tailings, a church steeple, and indistinct buildings, all nestled on the green clouds of surrounding trees and grassy fields - unassuming, sleepy, now peaceful. This ground is so soaked in Canadian, French, British and German blood that any flower growing here must surely blossom red. The pamphlet's description of the memorial reads " The twin white pylons, one bearing the maple leaves of Canada, the other the fleur-de-lis of France, symbolize the sacrifices of both countries. At the top are figures representing Peace and Justice, with Truth, Knowledge, Gallantry and Sympathy below them. In the centre, at the base of the pylons, a young dying soldier, the Spirit of Sacrifice, throws the torch to his comrades." A noble picture, with no trace of the mud and carnage of trench warfare. Life, so little valued, that the deaths of one of every six soldiers, and a further half of the rest being wounded, was considered an acceptable price. This was the first war of the industrial age. Mass production applied to killing.
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SmugMug > keywords > queens own rifles > Castle At Dieppe
SmugMug > keywords > queens own rifles > Dieppe France Aug19th, 1942 Further down the Normandy coast I stopped at Dieppe, a small harbour city nestled between towering chalk cliffs. It was here on August 19, 1942 five thousand Canadians and one thousand Brits launched a "raid in strength" on the town. This was partly a ill conceived attempt to satisfy Stalin's demands for attacks that would draw German resources and take the pressure off the Russian front. Mismanagement is too kind a word for the events of the day. It was a bloody disaster. The bombardment of the guns on the cliffs overlooking the beach was completely ineffectual. Many of the tanks landed on the beach by the new LCTs (Landing Craft Tank) could not climb the steep flint pebble beach which jammed and broke the sprockets of their tread drive wheels. Naval fire and fighter support was woefully inadequate. The men were trapped on the beach, sitting ducks for the overwhelming fire power of the machine guns of the shore defences and the heavy guns on the surrounding cliffs. By the end of the day, of the 3367 casualties, 907 Canadians were dead, and a further two thousand captured. "They" said many lessons were learned that made the D day invasion, two years later, a success.
View of Dieppe beach from the German gun positions. The truth is that Stalin was threatening to sue for peace with Hitler on the verge of taking Moscow, Stalingrad, and Leningrad.
Not only that but Roosevelt did not like Churchill's plan to go to North Africa first. He wanted to take on Hitler in France right away.

Churchill gave Mountbatten the job of mounting a mini invasion.... AND PROVE IT COULD NOT BE DONE YET. (source Gen. Denis Whitaker in his book Dieppe Tragedy to Triumph)

So the bombing of the guns by Bomber Harris was called off at the last minute, no battle ship was sent to provide fire support and the Canadians were slaughtered.
> View of Dieppe beach from the German gun positions. The truth is that Stalin was threatening to sue for peace with Hitler on the verge of taking Moscow, Stalingrad, and Leningrad. Not only that but Roosevelt did not like Churchill's plan to go to North Africa first. He wanted to take on Hitler in France right away. Churchill gave Mountbatten the job of mounting a mini invasion.... AND PROVE IT COULD NOT BE DONE YET. (source Gen. Denis Whitaker in his book Dieppe Tragedy to Triumph) So the bombing of the guns by Bomber Harris was called off at the last minute, no battle ship was sent to provide fire support and the Canadians were slaughtered.
View of Dieppe beach from the German gun positions. The truth is that Stalin was threatening to sue for peace with Hitler on the verge of taking Moscow, Stalingrad, and Leningrad.
Not only that but Roosevelt did not like Churchill's plan to go to North Africa first. He wanted to take on Hitler in France right away.

Churchill gave Mountbatten the job of mounting a mini invasion.... AND PROVE IT COULD NOT BE DONE YET. (source Gen. Denis Whitaker in his book Dieppe Tragedy to Triumph)

So the bombing of the guns by Bomber Harris was called off at the last minute, no battle ship was sent to provide fire support and the Canadians were slaughtered.
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