The Dieppe Raid Essay

     The Battle of the bulge took place on December sixteenth 1944. More than a million men participated in this battle including some 600,000 Germans, 500,000 Americans, and 55,000 British which made it

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At 5:00 am on August 19, the Allies landed an attack on the port of Dieppe on the northern coast of France. The Allied troops were consisted mostly of Canadian volunteers. Despite being at a significant disadvantage, 4963 Canadians volunteered to risk their lives in order to take the port and gain intelligence on German defense systems.

Hitler launched an attack on the Ardennes Forest. To counter this, the United States has to attack back. The 101st Airborne’s job was to hold and defend a road junction in Bastogne Belgium. This winter fought battle was known as the Battle of the Bulge. The 101st Airborne endured harsh winter with endless artillery strikes.

During the time period of 1942 in the Northern Coast of France on August 19th, the Soviets allies decided to attack the Germans, leaving the tragedy of the Dieppe Raid. This event occurred in 1942 because Germany was invading countries during world war 2, so the allies found it necessary to act quickly before Germany invaded other countries in Europe that rightfully belonged to the allies. The allies were not prepared to act upon, as they did not have the proper equipment. The Soviets decided that the Canadian Infantry Division should launch a Raid in Dieppe and in order to for the allies to achieve, the troops would have to cross a bridge and attack. Late at night when the allies were attempting to get into the radar station, the allies got

In 1942, The soviets advised the Canadian navy to attack the Germans. However, the allies where not prepared for an attack. The allies wanted to see how their new equipment worked and gather more knowledge. The leaders of the allies decided to send the 2nd Canadian infantry division to raid Dieppe. Dieppe was a harbour near the English Channel. This operation was a fail from the beginning. The allies plan was to surprise the men but on there way to the Dieppe they came across a group of German ships. The planning of this attack was poorly constructed and when the men where about 10 minutes from shore the Germans troops could have fired shots. The allied tanks could not move anywhere because the where barriers that blocked them off. Eventually,

The summer prior to the commencement of the Battle of the Bulge was disastrous for Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich. In August of 1944, American, British and Canadian

The Putten Raid was one of the worst raids during World War Two. The German

The Dieppe raid was a devastating failure in terms of success of objectives. Hundreds of Canadians lost their lives, landing crafts were destroyed, tanks were deserted during the evacuation, and very few objectives were met. Despite being renowned as a disastrous event, allied commanders gained invaluable knowledge for a full scale continental invasion and this knowledge was applied to the planning of D-day two years later. Behind the failure of Dieppe laid a poor plan, insufficient support from aircraft and artillery, and deplorable communication. The lessons learned and the knowledge gained from the Canadian raid at Dieppe in 1942 were essential to the success of the invasion at Normandy in 1944.

In 1942, the Soviet Union was pressuring the Allies to open a second front in Western Europe because the Nazi Germany had pushed east into the Soviet Union. However, the Allies needed to build up their military resources before under taking a full invasion. They felt that a large raid on the cost of France could force the Germans to divert more of their military resources away from the Soviet Union and also help in the planning of the full-scale invasion to come. So they selected Dieppe as the main target of the raid because it was within the range of fighter planes from Britain. The plan of the Dieppe Raid, code-named "Operation

Canada’s first contribution to the war was a division, only after heavy political pressure forced their hand. In the two years following five divisions totaled overseas. In April of 1942 the First Canadian army was established under, General A.G.L. McNaughton, a Canadian General. Canada did not see any initial involvement in the first few years, and McNaughton wished to keep it that way. He wished to use Canada’s army for a final decisive battle. However, the Canadian government and Britain had other plans, engaging Canada in a joint attack on Sicily. Although the command of the Canadian army was left in the hands of a Canadian, it was clear the decisions were not coming from Canada, but Britain. Britain still influenced much of Canada’s decision

The Battle of Hong Kong, one of the first battles in the Pacific war of World War II, was the first time Canadian forces participated in World War II. In November 1941, Canada sent 1,975 military personnel to aid in the defense of Hong Kong at the request of Britain. At the time, Hong Kong was not seen as a likely battleground so Canadian troops were only expected to participate in garrison duty; a majority of the soldiers had not received sufficient training for battle. On December 8, 1941, Japanese forces attacked Hong Kong hours after the bombing of Pearl Harbour with a force nearly 4 times the size of the Allied forces. The Japanese quickly destroyed Hong Kong’s meager air force and began taking control of the British colony.

Operation overlord was the codename for D-day, the attack on German occupied Normandy, France. The Americans, British, and Canadians were preparing to storm the beaches of Normandy with planes, ships, tanks, and landing craft with around three million troops. Most of the infantry got to shore in small boats holding 10 - 20 men. The Germans used machine guns, rockets, and cannons. The allies were continuously sprayed by the gunfire of the Germans while they made their way inland. The majority of deaths occurred when soldiers first arrived on the beaches. There was no cover or protection for the initial soldiers so they made up many of the deaths. Around 2700 Americans were confirmed dead while many more were unconfirmed casualties.

Operation Jubilee is not discussed as a raid, rather as a slaughter. On August 19th 1942 Canada experienced one of its darkest days in military history, losing many of her sons on the northern coast of France. There have been a multitude of reasons offered for the execution of the raid on Dieppe, attempting to justify the monumental defeat. Some of these reasons include; political pressure from Stalin to open up a second front in order to divert German focus away from the east, to serve as a mission to gather intelligence for the invasion of Normandy, and to test allied troops ability to capture a major port, destroy strategic objectives, and potentially facilitate the further invasion of France. Despite the 70 year uncertainty

in early 1945. British and Canadian soldiers landed with U.S troops on five different beaches, the