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Operation Jubilee or the Dieppe Raid (19 August 1942) was a disastrous Allied amphibious attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe in northern France, during the Second World War. Over 6,050 infantry , predominantly Canadian, supported by a regiment of tanks, were put ashore from a naval force operating under the protection of Royal Air ...
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Dieppe Mountain is named for the World War II Dieppe Raid that involved Canadian troops which took place on 19 August 1942. [ 2 ] The mountain is part of the Battle of Britain Range , in which the names of peaks commemorate the allied leaders in World War II , places where the leaders met, and battles in which Canadian troops served.
English: The Royal Navy during the Second World War- the Dieppe Raid, August 1942 HMS BERKELEY settling down in the water after being bombed during the Combined Operations daylight raid on Dieppe. One of the destroyers boats is still alongside, empty but still attached to its davits. BERKELEY was torpedoed shortly afterwards by British forces.
Dieppe 1942 is a Canadian television documentary film, directed by Terence Macartney-Filgate and broadcast on CBC Television in 1979. [1] An examination of Canada's role in the Dieppe Raid of World War II, the film was written by Timothy Findley and William Whitehead. The three-hour film was broadcast in two 90-minute parts on November 11 and ...
The South Saskatchewan Regiment was an infantry regiment of the Canadian Forces formed in 1936 by the amalgamation of The Weyburn Regiment and The Saskatchewan Border Regiment. It was reduced to nil strength and placed on the Supplementary Order of Battle (i.e., virtually disbanded) in 1968. They participated in the 1942 Dieppe Raid.
Dieppe is a two-part Canadian television miniseries that aired on CBC Television in 1993. It was based on the book Unauthorized Action: Mountbatten and the Dieppe Raid by Brian Loring Villa. Plot
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