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Cliffs of Dieppe


WWGroucho

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Imagine landing on a beach like this and the enemy knows you are coming! This is a picture of the cliffs of Dieppe over the port town of the same name. 
 

The Battle of Dieppe, Operation Jubilee, was “a commando raid” en masse. It was not meant to hold ground.  It’s goal was to see the results of attacking a port head-on. The lesson learned was don’t. The Germans were victorious, calling in aircraft from as far away as Belgium.
 

The raid also has many side stories... for example, there was an attempt to steal an enigma code machine and many lessons learned for D-Day. The overall commander was Lord Mountbatten who knew casualties might be high. Mountbatten went on to command the British theatre in the Pacific and negotiate the independence of India and Pakistan. He became a political target and was assassinated by the IRA in the 1970s during the bad times in Northern Ireland.   
 

German Field Marshall Rundsted said the allies would learn from the Dieppe debacle. For example,  they learned they needed to have complete control of the air and sea lanes through the English Channel. They discovered what individual beaches in France could support armoured vehicles, the absolute need for complete surprise and the use of diversion. They gleaned the great difficulty in capturing a port intact,  the necessity of intensive shore bombardment, not to over-stack units in one location, the need for intercepting enemy communications, and having in-depth knowledge of enemy shore batteries, radar installations and unit makeup, etc. 

Operation Jubilee was one of the first operations for the US Army Rangers. 

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