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70th Anniversary of the Dieppe Raid

Submitted by Jason McDonald on May 29, 2012 - 8:51pm

Mike Colton, the Secretary of the Allied Special Forces Association, writes in with this message:

On the 18/19th August 1942 Canadian Forces and those of the United kingdom, France and America launched an audacious raid across the English Channel into occupied France.

The raid on Dieppe was a failure, but the sacrifice of Allied lives and the trauma of those wounded and captured should not be forgotten. Lessons learnt helped pave the way for a successful D-Day landing on the 6th June 1944.

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Dieppe August 19, 1942

Submitted by Jason McDonald on July 26, 2011 - 3:32pm

The crushing defeats the Allies suffered since 1939 were beginning to take their toll on Allied morale. Even though the Battle of Britain had staved off German victory, little success had happened since then.

Most of occupied Europe had been under Nazi domination for at least two years. While there was no immediate threat of the Allies losing the war, the Allied command, especially the British, wanted to win a battle in order to raise morale at home and abroad.

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Canada in World War II

Submitted by Jason McDonald on July 26, 2011 - 11:10am

Britain had slowly, and begrudgingly, rearmed in the 1930s only after Hitler had appeared has a clear threat. Her dominions pledged their assistance to England and her allies, but not all declared war on September 3, 1939. Canada waited until September 9th to convene her Parliament, and declared war on September 10.

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