The British-inspired Dieppe Raid was an epic disaster later dressed up as a victory. The losses have since been described as akin to those at the ill-fated Charge of the Light Brigade. Involved were 6,000 troops including 5,000 Canadian servicemen. 

The rest were made up of British commandos, a token force of Frenchmen, and a small force from the U.S. Ranger battalion. This assault was centered on the French port of Dieppe and carried out on August 19 1942.

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The result was a bloody massacre and humiliation for the Allied forces.  Despite this calamity, British archive papers, released in 1972, show that Lord Louis Mountbatten, Chief of Combined Operations, informed the War Cabinet that the raid had gone ‘very satisfactorily.’

The gung-ho American Press went even further by giving the impression that the Americans had spearheaded the raid on Dieppe and opened up Europe for the Allies.  

‘We Land in France’ screamed the New York Times whilst the New York World-Telegram boomed, ‘Tanks and U.S. Troops Smash to the French Coast.’ Ross Munro of the Canadian Press Agency explained, ‘I never really felt, except maybe on the Dieppe raid, that I was really cheating the public at home.’

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We can assume that they might not have been very impressed with the casualties. The most accurate summary of Dieppe was actually written by a German PK man who, visiting a nearby Luftwaffe station soon afterwards, wrote: ‘As executed the venture mocked all the rules of military logic and strategy.’

Tragically, 907 Allied troops were killed during the raid, 2,460 others wounded, and 1,874 Allied servicemen were taken prisoner. Of the 2,210 who did make it back to England, only 36 were unhurt. This was even though 200 men had not even made it to the French shore. 

During the raid allied air power suffered its biggest single-day loss of the war when 106 aircraft were downed. Without a single exception, every Allied tank crew member became a casualty. Overall, 60% of the invading force was marked as casualties. The plan had been for just 10% casualties.

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In his report, Lord Louis Mountbatten wrote that the planning had been excellent, air support faultless and naval losses extremely light. He lied claiming that of the 6,000 men involved two-thirds had returned to Britain.  German loses were 500 dead and very few prisoners of war.  

That so few German troops had been taken prisoner might have had something to do with an Allied predisposition to casually shooting prisoners. Ross Munro witnessed one such incident when Canadian troops shot eight German prisoners of war.

During the raid on Dieppe, the local population assisted the Germans in fighting off the marauding troops. The port’s German defenders were bolstered by locals braving the fighting to bring them water, food, and in some cases, ammunition. 

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Such was German appreciation of the townspeople’s actions during the raid that Adolf Hitler later approved the repatriation of French prisoners of war to the region soon afterwards.  

This was an act of generosity he had never felt previously obliged to offer.  According to Arvid Fedborg’s Behind the Steel Walls, Field Marshall Erwin Rommel, giving an interview to neutral correspondents in Berlin, described the British as ‘cowards whose methods of fighting were dishonorable.’

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