Dieppe : Canada's darkest day of World War II
On the night of August 19, 1942, a force of five thousand Canadians launched an attack on the Nazi-held French port of Dieppe. When the disastrous raid was done,and the Allies were forced to retreat, nearly a thousand Canadian troops lay dead. Almost two thousand were taken prisoner. Some called it "the bloodiest nine hours in Canadian military history". For years, defenders of the raid claimed that the Allies learned valuable lessons from Dieppe...
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