Thank you so very much for this, Erin. We of course never learned in high school history classes about the real purpose behind the Dieppe raid. We did learn about the bravery of our Canadian troops that day.
David O'Keefe and other historians have been able to build the secret elements of the mission due to documents being declassified in the last decade. It is fascinating and quite 'new history' if you can call it that. Thanks.
Great to see the bravery of Canadians at Dieppe remembered and commemorated. But the 'secret mission' is no better than the nonsensical 'preparation for D-Day' justification at rationalizing the appalling losses from a foolish and ill-conceived mission. Ian Fleming may have trying to play his future James Bond but as a realistic and sensible spy op this was ridiculous: 1,000 Canadian casualties for a fantasy mission that accomplished nothing? Lord Mountbatten had Canadian blood on his hands and no Enigma machine to show for it. A grave disproportion between the likelihood of achieving the objective and the human cost .
The new pinch element of the raid is another reason this ill-fated mission may have been planned, but the point is more about the need to commemorate service and sacrifice in victory and in defeat.
Fair enough. But the recent account by Patrick Bishop (Operation Jubilee: Dieppe 1942:the Folly and the Sacrifice) underlines the folly of the I’ll-conceived and badly planned mission and gives due credit to the disproportionate sacrifice borne by Canadians.
Thank you so very much for this, Erin. We of course never learned in high school history classes about the real purpose behind the Dieppe raid. We did learn about the bravery of our Canadian troops that day.
David O'Keefe and other historians have been able to build the secret elements of the mission due to documents being declassified in the last decade. It is fascinating and quite 'new history' if you can call it that. Thanks.
Great to see the bravery of Canadians at Dieppe remembered and commemorated. But the 'secret mission' is no better than the nonsensical 'preparation for D-Day' justification at rationalizing the appalling losses from a foolish and ill-conceived mission. Ian Fleming may have trying to play his future James Bond but as a realistic and sensible spy op this was ridiculous: 1,000 Canadian casualties for a fantasy mission that accomplished nothing? Lord Mountbatten had Canadian blood on his hands and no Enigma machine to show for it. A grave disproportion between the likelihood of achieving the objective and the human cost .
The new pinch element of the raid is another reason this ill-fated mission may have been planned, but the point is more about the need to commemorate service and sacrifice in victory and in defeat.
What a read! Can't wait to listen to it.
Thank you again!
Fair enough. But the recent account by Patrick Bishop (Operation Jubilee: Dieppe 1942:the Folly and the Sacrifice) underlines the folly of the I’ll-conceived and badly planned mission and gives due credit to the disproportionate sacrifice borne by Canadians.