My father was killed on the Dieppe raid. 19th August 1942. He was in the Essex Scottish regiment. He was 23 years old. My Mother was 6 months pregnant with me. An eyewitness, who survived told my family he was blown up coming off a landing craft on Red Beach. I was at the 50th anniversary in 1992. It was wonderful, but very emotional. There was a wonderful group of veterans who befriended me and took care of me. sadly I am not well enough to travel to Dieppe for the 80th anniversary. My love and prayers go out to all those who attend. To Joseph Foster, my beloved father, I will be with you Spirit. God Bless you all.
My great grandfather also served in the Essex Scottish Regiment, 1st Bn A Company as a 19 year old. From the few stories I’ve heard, he seldom spoke of Dieppe and struggled with PTSD and alcoholism for the rest of his life. I can’t imagine living through a day as traumatic and mentally scarring as August 19, 1942. My absolute utmost respect to your father and all 907 who made the ultimate sacrifice that day. Strange to consider that your father and my great grandfather may have been acquaintances or even friends with not only one another but any of the men in this video. Thanks for sharing.
The Sacrifice of the men at Dieppe is often seen as an unmitigated waste and this video fails to point out that while the tactical aims of the raid were not reached the main aim of the operation was intelligence gathering - had it not been for the lessons learned at Dieppe it's likely that eventual invasion of Western Europe would have been a gigantic disaster instead of the incredibly sophisticated landings of D-Day - where every failing of Dieppe was countered with incredible innovation. Their sacrifice made it possible.
My father was a Sgt. in the Essex Scottish and captured at Dieppe. He was a U.S citizen, as am I. He wasn't the only boy from the U.S. to enlist in the Essex Scottish early in the war, long before the U.S joined the war. The Essex Scottish had a lot of U.S. boys in it. My dad was 25 and married to an English girl when he was captured. She was pregnant with their child when he was captured a Dieppe. His wife gave birth in Feb. 1943, a daughter, my half-sister, who still resides in Worthing, UK, right across the Channel from Dieppe. My father died in 1973 when I was 15. I went to Dieppe for the 75th anniversary in 2017.
I can't imagine what he was carrying in his head after that failed attack. Correctly dubbed the Greatest Generation. Perhaps not those who planned this FUBAR.
Did the British commanders thought having a Churchill with a 2 ponder would make a difference against bunkers, like what the hell, let alone not a single bombing raid.
My father was killed on the Dieppe Raid August 19th 1942. He was a Queen's Own Cameron Highlander from Winnipeg. He was posted to England when I was a baby.
My father was a polish "slave" laborer for the National Socialists. After the war he emigrated to the United States. He had no ill feelings for the Germans. but hated the communists.
My Da was also there and every August 19th Da would pour himself a double straight whisky, light up a Players Navy Cut Cigarette put on Vera Lynn's White Cliffs of Dover and silently reflect and remember the comrades he left on those pebbled beaches. @LikeTheBuffalo my Da drank a silent toast to your Da and the other Da's, son's and Brother's whom never left Dieppe. Here's to you Brother and those whom never left Dieppe either physically or mentally. 🥃 🇨🇦
My Dad was at Green Beach with the South Saskatchewan Regiment.. Taken prisoner and shipped on cattle car to Stalag VIII B. Later they were death marched to Stalag II D. Apparently there was no air cover at Green Beach. Dad was in that POW camp for 33 months. Slow starvation..118 lbs on returning to Canada
I was in Dieppe today, its so difficult to walk over the pebble beaches, let alone with vehicles. The beach is also surrounded by high cliffs. Its so obvious why they were slaughtered
guess then that they didn't have sense enough to send 'frogmen' in to check things out. helluva price to pay for not being sure about where you're going. they did that again during Market Garden. intel was way off.
My father, Pte. Duncan Charles McLachlan, SD 82602 landed on the Blue Beach at Puys and was immediately taken prisoner. He spent 3 years at Stalag 8B and endured the Long March, or as he called it, the Death March. He lived until 85 (1915-200). He survived.
Thanks for posting this. The raid on Dieppe was very costly. Dunkirk was very costly too. However, let's not forget that Canadian troops paid back the Germans at Juno Beach and throughout the campaigns in the Netherlands.
You mean after the Russians had already defeated the Germans and were fighting skeleton armies made-up of old inexperienced or injured soilders? Impressive
I say this as a Brit, thank you Canada you rarely get the credit you deserve for your contribution in WW2. Whether on land, at sea or in the air Canadians played their part and more in saving the world from fascism
@@maximilliancunningham6091 sadly the far right re emerges from the gutter just when you hope it has finally buggered off. Some of the US media is so right wing they should be using a fasces as their logo. So many dumb people fall for the ‘everybody who is different from you is your enemy’ bs pushed by Fox and others. 🤞Canadians continue to be a positive influence on their southerly neighbours
Thank you so so so much! It truly means alot! So often we see other nations get glorified in movies and media yet are overlooked. And we will ALWAYS be there for the UK, dnt even have to ask!
Lovely plaques and statues and memorials around Dieppe for those brave men. People from Dieppe are still so, so grateful for the ultimate sacrifice they made.
The Canadian army in WWII has been overshadowed for far too long, it's time for these men to be paid their due as far as exposure in the overall historiography of the conflict is concerned. Ortona in Italy is another battle that's relitively little known, and there the Canadians suffered worse casualties than they did on D-DAY.
Thank you for this my great grandfather fought and survived there swimming through the ocean to get to safety, they were mostly young Canadian boys that he knew and lost many friends that day.
My great uncle died at Dieppe and my father was trapped in Ortona when he was with the Royal Canadian Engineers, he was also part of a virtually unrecorded group of about 300 that was sent in to Tunisia. Like so many, he never spoke about it and I only knew through my mother. The courage of these men should never be forgotten as, even after the war, they had to continue to fight against the memories.
It's even unknown in Canada. Sad. Our armed forces personal are second to none! We aren't the Richest. We are the best trained and most highly motivated!
@@fangslaughter1198 As I read through comments, a common one was that Canadian soldiers never talked about it, they just did what they saw as their duty.
En tant que Français ,j'aimerai rendre hommage à ces valeureux soldats Britanniques, Canadiens qui sont pour la plupart venus mourir sur les plages à Dieppe.JAMAIS NOUS N'OUBLIERONS LE SACRIFICE DE CES HOMMES. MERCI MESSIEURS
I can’t say much besides the fact my grandparents were from Europe and came to Canada. They made it very clear to me that they are Canadian now. Also very appreciative of everything our men/women did...dang...my polish grandpa turned 95 this year. (My Opa’s Dutch)
My grandfather survived Dieppe. He was a Royal Navy Commando RN41. He said the main failing was because the raid was ready to go, but the weather meant no air support, so it was eventually cancelled. The Canadians went on leave in the local town and talked about how they should be in Dieppe. The Nazis heard about it reinforced the beach. Many weeks later, it was decided to raid it. And, as a result of loose lips, the Germans were waiting.
I had an uncle who was in this battle and taken prisoner. So horrible! No wonder he did not like to talk about it upon his return after the war. I was too young to understand at the time but today, of course, I gather he suffered from PTSD like all the rest of them.
We owe our freedom to those brave hearts who fought so courageously to protect us, many who laid down their lives, were injured or captured. We will never forget them.
Valuable lessons were learned during that disastrous raid, one was to bring your own mobile harbors(The Mulberry's) it would be fatal to take a heavily fortified harbor held by the enemy.
I first went to Dieppe on August 19, 1969. I accompanied my father there three more times and took my son there in 2014. My father was a veteran of the Italian campaign as well as of the fighting in France, Belgium and the Netherlands. I too served in the infantry. Each time I went I was angry. Why? 1) Dieppe was so obviously easily defended with his ground overlooking the entire landing site. 2) The beach was clearly unsuitable for tracked vehicles. 3) The British planners knew it well - they used to holiday there before the war. 4) The raid served no tactical or strategic purpose.
I know buddy , but. I believe Winston Churchill wanted to take some pressure off the Soviet Union. People were hollering for a second front to distract Germany from overrunning the Soviets. 2. Churchill wanted to prove to President Roosevelt and the US Army that the Allies were not ready to invade Western Europe. Memories of the Great War and the battle of the Somme slaughtered thousands of troops. Churchill knew the Allies weren't ready to successfully invade France. The Canadians were sacraficial lambs led to the slaughter.In a way the raid taught the Allies valuable lessons for invading against an experienced enemy. Overwhelm them with force , take control of the air and use mobilty to get off the beach and press forward. Yes , their sacrifce wasn't in vain because two years later the Allies were able to invade Western Europe with the lessons learned at Dieppe.
There’s been info that suggests Dieppe raid was a cover for the real mission of getting intelligence related to the German “enigma” system... History Channel did a show on the new info
See Chapter 41 in "A Man Called Intrepid" There were several other secret objectives that the raid provided cover for. Enigma was only 1 of three. French intelligence chiefs were rescued, and german radar capabilities were unmasked. British experts stole key technical components and destroyed the rest. The successes were hidden from the Germans and public reports. All the learnings helped setup D-Day to be a success. No one died in vain.
"Oh, and... uh... Roberts!" "Sir!" "Never go hunting in the jungle with Dickie Mountbatten. Never!... Good day!" (Monty to Roberts in Canadian mini tv-series "Dieppe" 1993) God bless you guys
Disaster at Dieppe forever be remembered as the day of Infamy and regret to the Canadians who fought and bravely died there! Salute to all of them! Lest we forget! K
For anyone who's interested, read David O'Keefe's book, One Day in August, published in 2013. It presents information declassified in the 1990s and puts a whole new perspective on the raid. Spoiler alert: Enigma was involved and Ian Fleming, yes that Ian Fleming, a lynch-pin in British Naval Intelligence, was on board one of the ships offshore, supervising an operation within an operation.
POLISH HERO SAVED 85 CANADIANS AT DIEPPE "...With guns blazing, he led rescue with his destroyer ORP SLAZAK..." SUMMARY OF THE ARTICLE by Stephen Huebl - Toronto Star, Feb. 1, 2004 A skilled and accomplished seaman, Nalecz-Tyminski worked his way up the ranks during his life on the seas, commanding numerous warships on dramatic, danger-filled missions."Nobody did more than he did to get the Canadians out," said Joe Ryan, a veteran of the Royal Regiment of Canada who fought at Dieppe, France. Ryan, 84, said he can still remember watching Nalecz-Tyminski as he manoeuvred his destroyer, the ORP SLAZAK, precariously close to shore to rescue the trapped Canadian soldiers at Dieppe. He later learned Nalecz-Tyminski disobeyed Royal Navy orders to stay back from shore. Today, 62 years after the famous 1942 raid, Ryan can still vividly describe the destroyer heading straight towards the beach, firing all of its guns at the enemy, before turning abruptly, churning up mud and rocks from beneath the water. "He was a very humble person," Ryan said. The SLAZAK was the only destroyer to come so close to shore, he said. "He didn't want to be a hero, but he certainly was in Dieppe." (...) Nalecz-Tyminski, who died in December 2003 at the age of 98, was honoured by the Polish navy in May 2004, when he was buried in the Polish naval cemetery in Gdynia, Poland. (...) After leaving Poland in 1939 Nalecz-Tyminski, was fighting for the Allies. He served alongside the Royal Navy as a member of the Polish Flotilla, which was based in Great Britain. In 1940 he became executive officer of the destroyer ORP BLYSKAWICA, which took part in the Norwegian Campaign and the evacuation of Dunkirk. From 1942 to 1944 he commanded the SLAZAK through dangerous and risky sea operations, including Dieppe, Sicily, Salerno and Normandy on D-Day. During the raid on Dieppe, Nalecz-Tyminski lost four of his crew members, but the SLAZAK avenged her own by bringing down five enemy planes. For his role in rescuing 85 Canadians mostly members of the Royal Regiment of Canada from the roiling waters off Dieppe, Nalecz-Tyminski was awarded Britain's Distinguished Service Cross. In 1945, Nalecz-Tyminski was promoted to commander 1st class and was put in command of the light cruiser ORP CONRAD, the Polish navy's largest ship. The CONRAD was assigned to a group of ships that sailed to the ports of Oslo, Copenhagen and Wilhelmshaven with mail and packages for the residents and refugees. "He was an excellent seaman," said 83-year-old Stanislaw Brodzki, who served under Nalecz-Tyminski on the CONRAD. "He had a way with the officers in every rank. He was very well liked by everybody." "He was a good-natured person," he said. "He was quite a distinguished guy who did a lot, not only for the Polish navy, but for Canada. He's not only a Polish hero, but a Canadian hero as well." Nalecz-Tyminski was reunited with his wife and daughter after the war in Germany, after they had been smuggled out of Poland. They went to Scotland then then to Pakistan, where Nalecz-Tyminski served as a captain in Pakistan's navy from 1951 to 1958. (...) Then the family settled in the Bahamas, where, for the next 20 years, Nalecz-Tyminski was port director and president of the Freeport Harbour Company on Grand BahamaIsland. In 1979 he retired and moved to Toronto with his wife, Jadwiga, who now lives in Mississauga. He helped form the Toronto branch of the Polish Naval Association and became an honorary member of the Royal Regiment of Canada for his heroism at Dieppe. (...) Aldona Rideau, 64-year daughter described her father as someone who was very healthy and athletic right to the end. "He believed in healthy living. He didn't drink, except for the odd one socially, and he didn't smoke," she said, adding that up to the age of 95 he would get up in the morning and do his exercises. In his youth, Nalecz-Tyminski was involved in boxing, pentathlon, yachting and fencing. Rideau said he was an avid fencer and had hoped to compete in the Olympics. In 1938 he won the Polish Forces Championships in fencing, and was well on his way to being able to compete in the 1940 Olympics, later cancelled because of the war. "The Olympics just left my reach," he told a Freeport magazine in 1977. Rideau said her father was active with the Polish Naval Association in his later years, helping to raise to money for the construction of the PolishNavyMuseum, which will open this year in Gdynia, Poland. As a frequent guest of the Royal Regiment of Canada, she said, Nalecz-Tyminski often gave speeches recounting his many years at sea. "He was very much a historian," Rideau said. "He had a great love of history." In May, 2000, Nalecz-Tyminski came to visit Poland where he was recognized for his war services and was made an honorary rear admiral by Poland's President A. Kwasniewski at a ceremony in Warsaw.
The Sacrifice of the men at Dieppe is often seen as an unmitigated waste and this video fails to point out that while the tactical aims of the raid were not reached the main aim of the operation was intelligence gathering - had it not been for the lessons learned at Dieppe it's likely that eventual invasion of Western Europe would have been a gigantic disaster instead of the incredibly sophisticated landings of D-Day - where every failing of Dieppe was countered with incredible innovation. Their sacrifice made it possible.
I would recommend watching a french tv show called the long long holiday, it was an animated limited run series about some french children, won't reveal too much, but it reveals what I believe is quite an accurate reason for why canadians don't receive much credit. The first allied soldiers seen after the nazi occupation are british men, but they don't speak much and it seems that they only partially understood each other (I was watching a dub of it) by cognates and such. When allied troops arrive properly, the kids see soldiers in the town and assume they are american, asking them this. Now, these soldiers had already been speaking to the kids for a bit, obviously in French since they understood. So I knew immediately who they were, since britain is bad with languages and americans don't speak any language, so it made me chuckle. The soldiers reply that they are canadian, which the viewer may find obvious due to the bilingual nature of canada, but it shows the french populace assumes that their saviours are american, not wanting to give the british any credit and not knowing about other nations involved because the americans had a good PR department.
Sounds like military intelligence failed the troops there. Those poor guys were set up for failure. RIP those unfortunate soldiers. Also, RIP Alex Trebek.
A friend of my father's was taken prisoner and did survive. Someone added his headstone info on Find A Grave by a person that didn't know him. I made sure his info was added to his memorial on there. As it was VERY important.
Geez Leweze! All I knew was a from a book, name and writer unknown now. Bout an LCT, which was supposedly offshore, came back, and was refurbished as a Beach Protection Craft BPC13.
Meh, if the Germans discovered an enigma missing then they would know their codes were being cracked so.. not likely. The brits went to great lengths to conceal their knowledge of enigma
@@aneily Not if they assumed it was destroyed when the HQ was demolished in the confusion, which evidently was the plan. The Black Watch was supposed to get to the Hotel Moderne, steal the codes and cipher machine then blow up the building.
My Dad was shot on the beach and I do have the pic of him on a stretcher on the beach to prove it No one has ever asked me for it. He then went on to 3 different camps. Which I am still trying to find info on Luckily he came home with his brothers and I came along 15 yrs later. Sadly we lost him 16 yrs ago due to Alzheimer's
My Dad was at Green Beach. Was taken prisoner ..spent 33 months in a POW camp @ Stalag 2D. Poor planning by Lord Louis Mountbatten et al. Didn't they know not to send troops to attack a heavily fortified cliff-coastline!!? Of course Stalin was putting heavy pressure on the Allies to open a western front. The allies agreed to do so expecting Russia to join the Allies against the Axis powers. What cost!!!! All those lives literally sacrificed on the altar of Lord Louis's ego!!!.
Apparently Dieppe Raid Was Concived and planned After W Churchill's 1st meeting with Starlin on What the british would be doing in there plans against the German forces.. Churchill would Say Air raids across Germany and taken on Rommel in north Africa, etc.. Planning of the Dieppe raid would full to Two high ranking Officer's, One being L Mountbatten. The ill-fated raid was never fully Supported or Cleared by the War Cabinet and So with Mountbatten's Connections with the royal family he would be always have the full backing in the Aftermouth of the Dieppe failure from Winston Churchill..
The dieppe attack under British & Canadian troop special forces developed to put some knowledge to the allies of the German defences & then to reorganized the divisions & all the resources in a huge scale it was a marvelous test of attack on enemy important position of course the attack failed with many casualties but but the lessons were very useful of the difficulties that took place & to be used & carried out later on a large scale in Normandy .
The Canadians were able to triumphantly return to Dieppe in the summer of '44. This little film didn't cover the other 2 beaches attacked that day. There was success on them. Radar station burgled, field gun shut down for the invasion. The air war was very significant.... Not covered here. Other intelligence was learned on the Dieppe beaches..... Again, not covered here... Also a terrible POW event began here..... Again, Not covered Here... If you're interested in a more complete story. There's a lot more to know.
Our American education system, media, and social culture have no place for this. I only knew of this from reading a lot of history on my own. (The stage was set when my dad made me read Mein Kampf because me second grade teacher said the Nazi's did some good stuff too.)
Defeats don't get published much or glorified. It doesn't sell. For example, I have yet to see a movie regarding the U-boat activity savaging the US coast from New York to Florida in 1942 either. Perhaps because the US Admiral was too full of himself to believe that Germany could do this and because he steadfastly refused to use the convoy system that the Canadians/Brits were using. legionmagazine.com/en/2011/02/an-american-blunder-navy-part-43/
@@mikekomb Mein Kampf - apparently Hitler quoted several passages directly from Henry Ford. He had his own newspaper as well as his auto empire, so as Editor-in-chief could spout as much nonsense as he liked including his anti-Semitic beliefs. Some of those newspaper editorials wound up with Hitler. In the '20s, eugenics was quite popular around North America and some socialists even cheered on Hitler and his ideas to promote the Aryan race until the war started.
Canada is overshadowed because they were mistaken either for the British or the Americans or ignored. Tbh we barely learn about our own involvement in D day (I am a Brit), we talk about Utah and Omaha.
@@JollyOldCanuck Because we are America's **** now. We act like we are solely guilty for the Atlantic slave trade and act like Hinduism was crushed by British tyranny (which as a Hindu who knows some Indian history, it isn't, Mughal invaders did) while ignoring actual crimes that Britain committed, like the Mau Mau Uprising or electing WC as prime minister. That is the problem with how history is taught I am afraid.
Now you know how we (Canadians) feel about pretty much EVERYTHING ever produced about WW2 - totally ignored! We were the third largest invading nation at D Day and barely get mentioned in 'the Longest Day'. The chief 'tunnel rat' in the Great Escape was Canadian and, of the 50 executed afterward, Canadians made up the second largest group (after the Brits). Not one mention in the movie... but lots of Yanks who never even were involved in the caper are featured. The clearance of the Scheldt in Holland, the critical op to open Antwerp for use as a resupply port, was mainly a Canadian op. 1st Cdn Div landed at Sicily. We maintained a corps in theatre throughout the Italian campaign. Our bomber crews suffered a 50% casualty rate. Our pilots fought in the Battle of Britain. Our 2 bns in Hong Kong held out the longest... Our merchant mariners paid a heavy toll running the lifeline convoys to the UK (but Tom Hanks has no plans to portray us in any film...) That said, to be fair, there were 1,000 Brit commandos at Dieppe as well as 100 yank rangers.
@@BenWeeks-ca True. Precision bombing wasn't that precise in the 40s. That said, my rant isn't about casualties so much as it's about the complete lack of acknowledgement of Canada's contribution to the war. It's as if movie-makers figure, "they dress like Brits and talk like yanks... so... we'll just devote our efforts elsewhere." 175 Free French Commandos landed at Sword Beach and they get a devoted 30 solid minutes in The Longest Day. Canada lands a division and gets no screen attention at all.
@@lib556 Yes as Canada seems to be a smaller player in the big picture. We also are highly regarded in Holland where Canadian troops were the first to liberate it. There is some Canadian made content, but the quality tends to not be as high as US and British. There were films about Dieppe, Paschendale and a TV drama about Camp X. Part of the issue is the US film market is largest so most investment goes there. We could really see films about other lesser known units like the Seikh's and Gurkas. Even the australians are under represented.
Bravest of the brave, tough as boots , good at making the most of a situation, loyal to King and Country, strong in physique. The Germans knicked their boots after surrender!
Stop spreading British propaganda. It doesn’t take a military genius to know that an unsupported amphibious assault against an entrenched enemy is a suicide mission. The British already knew this from the disaster that was Gallipoli.
My uncle Thomas (Tommy ) Sartain from (-Stepney ) London England , was captured on beaches in 1942...a long with the Canadians and spent 2 -1/2 yrs as a prisoner in Austria...dose any one still alive know about his circumstances... ? English Mik.
Hog Wash Hi, yes but when l use to talk to him ,not much operational details out of him, photos of his time in captivity, he us to say he and all prisoners were treated with respect and courtesy , he even became a trustee that lived with an Austrian family on there farm , and had an Austrian girl friend , as he said he wonderful time there, when he was liberated , he was arrested and the rest by the red caps, taken all the way up to North Germany , in Bielefeld, was given a general field Court martial which he only just survived only to, spent next 18 months in British military prison in UK, all because he didn't try to escape,saying that the Germany people were wonderful to him....in prison he had a Daily Dose beatings, EVERY day , and called him the deserter, he told me all his training and experience as commando on that landings ment fuck all to those British military guards....even when he tried to look for job after 1947 was blacklisted as a dishonorably discharged as a deserter. He ,ended up as a toilet attendant working for the London Borough of Greenwich, ..he said , l was 1,550 miles from channel ports, in occupied Europe, how was l going to get back England... , what was your uncle name . RIP LADS. ENGLISH MIK
@@michaelpalmer937 That's a story and a half Mick. I guess trying to survive was seen as fraternizing with the enemy or something. A bit harsh to say the least. Top marks for bagging off with a local too, in the finest traditions of the Corps. I'm sure 99% of the POW's didn't try to escape for the same reasons. Survival mode must just kick in at some stage anyway. That's really sad mate. Fucking war, eh? My uncle's name was Jimmy Chadwick. From the north-east.
This was also the debut of US forces in Europe's war since 50 Army Rangers took part where they also suffered heavy losses due to stiff German defenses leading for some being taken prisoner.
Read up on David O'keefe's investigation. It was a raid that was partially planned by none other than Ian Fleming (James Bond novels) and Louis Mountbatten. The raid was a cover for stealing the Enigma machine and codes at the German HQ (which they failed at doing).
The Brits didn’t have much better luck at Dunkirk. The first real successful invasion by the Brits won’t occur until June 6, 1944. At least now we know why Mountbatten wasn’t put in charge of D Day. Germans 2 BRITS 0
My father was killed in the Dieppe Raid and so never got to march in any ensuing parades. But his companions who survived did and marched for their dead compatriots and marched with pride for them and were heroes as well!
My father was killed on the Dieppe raid. 19th August 1942. He was in the Essex Scottish regiment. He was 23 years old. My Mother was 6 months pregnant with me. An eyewitness, who survived told
my family he was blown up coming off a landing craft on Red Beach. I was at the 50th anniversary in 1992. It was wonderful, but very emotional. There was a wonderful group of veterans who befriended me and took care of me. sadly I am not well enough to travel to Dieppe for the 80th anniversary. My love and prayers go out to all those who attend. To Joseph Foster, my beloved father, I will be with you Spirit. God Bless you all.
My great grandfather also served in the Essex Scottish Regiment, 1st Bn A Company as a 19 year old. From the few stories I’ve heard, he seldom spoke of Dieppe and struggled with PTSD and alcoholism for the rest of his life. I can’t imagine living through a day as traumatic and mentally scarring as August 19, 1942. My absolute utmost respect to your father and all 907 who made the ultimate sacrifice that day.
Strange to consider that your father and my great grandfather may have been acquaintances or even friends with not only one another but any of the men in this video. Thanks for sharing.
Your father was a traitor.
The Sacrifice of the men at Dieppe is often seen as an unmitigated waste and this video fails to point out that while the tactical aims of the raid were not reached the main aim of the operation was intelligence gathering - had it not been for the lessons learned at Dieppe it's likely that eventual invasion of Western Europe would have been a gigantic disaster instead of the incredibly sophisticated landings of D-Day - where every failing of Dieppe was countered with incredible innovation.
Their sacrifice made it possible.
@@kanyefuck7018 D-Day was to save western Europe from Stalin.
My father was a Sgt. in the Essex Scottish and captured at Dieppe. He was a U.S citizen, as am I. He wasn't the only boy from the U.S. to enlist in the Essex Scottish early in the war, long before the U.S joined the war. The Essex Scottish had a lot of U.S. boys in it. My dad was 25 and married to an English girl when he was captured. She was pregnant with their child when he was captured a Dieppe. His wife gave birth in Feb. 1943, a daughter, my half-sister, who still resides in Worthing, UK, right across the Channel from Dieppe. My father died in 1973 when I was 15. I went to Dieppe for the 75th anniversary in 2017.
My great grandfather fought in dieppe. He was 19. He was one of lucky ones who returned to Canada. He never spoke about it.
My grandfather didn't talk about it either.
This was for documents that Fleming collected the papers were vital See oea history papers
I can't imagine what he was carrying in his head after that failed attack. Correctly dubbed the Greatest Generation. Perhaps not those who planned this FUBAR.
@Bloxygamer yt Sad. So many young lives lost there and for such a botched plan.
Did the British commanders thought having a Churchill with a 2 ponder would make a difference against bunkers, like what the hell, let alone not a single bombing raid.
My father was killed on the Dieppe Raid August 19th 1942. He was a Queen's Own Cameron Highlander from Winnipeg. He was posted to England when I was a baby.
Thanks to people like him we are free today. He would have known that. Honourable man.
My father was a polish "slave" laborer for the National Socialists. After the war he emigrated to the United States. He had no ill feelings for the Germans. but hated the communists.
Somewhere among those 907 is my Great Uncle. May he find rest.
My Da was also there and every August 19th Da would pour himself a double straight whisky, light up a Players Navy Cut Cigarette put on Vera Lynn's White Cliffs of Dover and silently reflect and remember the comrades he left on those pebbled beaches. @LikeTheBuffalo my Da drank a silent toast to your Da and the other Da's, son's and Brother's whom never left Dieppe. Here's to you Brother and those whom never left Dieppe either physically or mentally. 🥃 🇨🇦
My Dad was at Green Beach with the South Saskatchewan Regiment..
Taken prisoner and shipped on cattle car to Stalag VIII B. Later they were death marched to Stalag II D.
Apparently there was no air cover at Green Beach.
Dad was in that POW camp for 33 months.
Slow starvation..118 lbs on returning to Canada
I was in Dieppe today, its so difficult to walk over the pebble beaches, let alone with vehicles. The beach is also surrounded by high cliffs. Its so obvious why they were slaughtered
guess then that they didn't have sense enough to send 'frogmen' in to check things out. helluva price to pay for not being sure about where you're going. they did that again during Market Garden. intel was way off.
My father, Pte. Duncan Charles McLachlan, SD 82602 landed on the Blue Beach at Puys and was immediately taken prisoner. He spent 3 years at Stalag 8B and endured the Long March, or as he called it, the Death March. He lived until 85 (1915-200). He survived.
Very proud of him all his friends are gone but he is with them now or soon God bless
Plus 1 uncle air force 1 grandpa army 1uncle army medical 1 uncle killed in Belgium
The Canadian prisoners endured so much 😢.
This is why I love my Canadian neighbors.
Amen to that.
Roger that
Thanks for posting this. The raid on Dieppe was very costly. Dunkirk was very costly too. However, let's not forget that Canadian troops paid back the Germans at Juno Beach and throughout the campaigns in the Netherlands.
You mean after the Russians had already defeated the Germans and were fighting skeleton armies made-up of old inexperienced or injured soilders? Impressive
I say this as a Brit, thank you Canada you rarely get the credit you deserve for your contribution in WW2.
Whether on land, at sea or in the air Canadians played their part and more in saving the world from fascism
Unfortunately we are looking at the re-emergence of Neo-Nazis directly to our south.
@@maximilliancunningham6091 sadly the far right re emerges from the gutter just when you hope it has finally buggered off.
Some of the US media is so right wing they should be using a fasces as their logo.
So many dumb people fall for the ‘everybody who is different from you is your enemy’ bs pushed by Fox and others.
🤞Canadians continue to be a positive influence on their southerly neighbours
Thank you so very much!...cheers from Canada; i love the UK...xo
Thank you so so so much! It truly means alot!
So often we see other nations get glorified in movies and media yet are overlooked.
And we will ALWAYS be there for the UK, dnt even have to ask!
The Longest Day is one of my favourites movies, although it made no mention of Canada's role on D-day.@@CountryLifestyle2023
What a cool bonus to hear Alex Trebek. RIP
Lovely plaques and statues and memorials around Dieppe for those brave men.
People from Dieppe are still so, so grateful for the ultimate sacrifice they made.
I guess Lord Mountbatten with his hundred different dress uniforms was well dressed at least. The Canadians deserved a real soldier as commander.
I was in Dieppe last year, even now with the cliffs on both sides and the pebble beach, you can see how difficult it was.
The Canadian army in WWII has been overshadowed for far too long, it's time for these men to be paid their due as far as exposure in the overall historiography of the conflict is concerned. Ortona in Italy is another battle that's relitively little known, and there the Canadians suffered worse casualties than they did on D-DAY.
Thank you for this my great grandfather fought and survived there swimming through the ocean to get to safety, they were mostly young Canadian boys that he knew and lost many friends that day.
My great uncle died at Dieppe and my father was trapped in Ortona when he was with the Royal Canadian Engineers, he was also part of a virtually unrecorded group of about 300 that was sent in to Tunisia. Like so many, he never spoke about it and I only knew through my mother. The courage of these men should never be forgotten as, even after the war, they had to continue to fight against the memories.
It's even unknown in Canada.
Sad. Our armed forces personal are second to none!
We aren't the Richest.
We are the best trained and most highly motivated!
@@randyarmstrong1198
Thank you.
I salute your ancestors.
UBIQUE!
PRO PATRIA!
@@fangslaughter1198 As I read through comments, a common one was that Canadian soldiers never talked about it, they just did what they saw as their duty.
76 years ago today, may they never be forgotten.
Whose iron cross is that?
The bravery of the Canadians even earned the respect from the German soldiers at Dieppe
En tant que Français ,j'aimerai rendre hommage à ces valeureux soldats Britanniques, Canadiens qui sont pour la plupart venus mourir sur les plages à Dieppe.JAMAIS NOUS N'OUBLIERONS LE SACRIFICE DE CES HOMMES.
MERCI MESSIEURS
I can’t say much besides the fact my grandparents were from Europe and came to Canada. They made it very clear to me that they are Canadian now. Also very appreciative of everything our men/women did...dang...my polish grandpa turned 95 this year. (My Opa’s Dutch)
My grandfather survived Dieppe. He was a Royal Navy Commando RN41. He said the main failing was because the raid was ready to go, but the weather meant no air support, so it was eventually cancelled. The Canadians went on leave in the local town and talked about how they should be in Dieppe. The Nazis heard about it reinforced the beach. Many weeks later, it was decided to raid it. And, as a result of loose lips, the Germans were waiting.
I had an uncle who was in this battle and taken prisoner. So horrible! No wonder he did not like to talk about it upon his return after the war. I was too young to understand at the time but today, of course, I gather he suffered from PTSD like all the rest of them.
Do you think every soldier suffered from PTSD? How could the allies have won the war with so many PTSD in their ranks 🤫
Many Canadian-french died in this battle.
My grandfather was one of them...
We owe our freedom to those brave hearts who fought so courageously to protect us, many who laid down their lives, were injured or captured. We will never forget them.
Valuable lessons were learned during that disastrous raid, one was to bring your own mobile harbors(The Mulberry's) it would be fatal to take a heavily fortified harbor held by the enemy.
My great uncle died on blue beach, I have dawned his middle name for his bravery on the raid. Rest in peace.
Thank you to All the Veterans that landed at Dieppe 🙏 🇨🇦
I first went to Dieppe on August 19, 1969. I accompanied my father there three more times and took my son there in 2014. My father was a veteran of the Italian campaign as well as of the fighting in France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
I too served in the infantry.
Each time I went I was angry. Why?
1) Dieppe was so obviously easily defended with his ground overlooking the entire landing site.
2) The beach was clearly unsuitable for tracked vehicles.
3) The British planners knew it well - they used to holiday there before the war.
4) The raid served no tactical or strategic purpose.
I know buddy , but. I believe Winston Churchill wanted to take some pressure off the Soviet Union. People were hollering for a second front to distract Germany from overrunning the Soviets. 2. Churchill wanted to prove to President Roosevelt and the US Army that the Allies were not ready to invade Western Europe. Memories of the Great War and the battle of the Somme slaughtered thousands of troops. Churchill knew the Allies weren't ready to successfully invade France. The Canadians were sacraficial lambs led to the slaughter.In a way the raid taught the Allies valuable lessons for invading against an experienced enemy. Overwhelm them with force , take control of the air and use mobilty to get off the beach and press forward. Yes , their sacrifce wasn't in vain because two years later the Allies were able to invade Western Europe with the lessons learned at Dieppe.
There’s been info that suggests Dieppe raid was a cover for the real mission of getting intelligence related to the German “enigma” system... History Channel did a show on the new info
See Chapter 41 in "A Man Called Intrepid" There were several other secret objectives that the raid provided cover for. Enigma was only 1 of three. French intelligence chiefs were rescued, and german radar capabilities were unmasked. British experts stole key technical components and destroyed the rest. The successes were hidden from the Germans and public reports. All the learnings helped setup D-Day to be a success. No one died in vain.
"Oh, and... uh... Roberts!"
"Sir!"
"Never go hunting in the jungle with Dickie Mountbatten. Never!... Good day!"
(Monty to Roberts in Canadian mini tv-series "Dieppe" 1993)
God bless you guys
If Mountbatten had dared to set foot in Canada soon after WW2, he would have been torn to pieces.
Disaster at Dieppe forever be remembered as the day of Infamy and regret to the Canadians who fought and bravely died there! Salute to all of them! Lest we forget! K
For anyone who's interested, read David O'Keefe's book, One Day in August, published in 2013. It presents information declassified in the 1990s and puts a whole new perspective on the raid. Spoiler alert: Enigma was involved and Ian Fleming, yes that Ian Fleming, a lynch-pin in British Naval Intelligence, was on board one of the ships offshore, supervising an operation within an operation.
POLISH HERO SAVED 85 CANADIANS AT DIEPPE
"...With guns blazing, he led rescue with his destroyer ORP SLAZAK..."
SUMMARY OF THE ARTICLE by Stephen Huebl - Toronto Star, Feb. 1, 2004
A skilled and accomplished seaman, Nalecz-Tyminski worked his way up the ranks during his life on the seas, commanding numerous warships on dramatic, danger-filled missions."Nobody did more than he did to get the Canadians out," said Joe Ryan, a veteran of the Royal Regiment of Canada who fought at Dieppe, France. Ryan, 84, said he can still remember watching Nalecz-Tyminski as he manoeuvred his destroyer, the ORP SLAZAK, precariously close to shore to rescue the trapped Canadian soldiers at Dieppe. He later learned Nalecz-Tyminski disobeyed Royal Navy orders to stay back from shore.
Today, 62 years after the famous 1942 raid, Ryan can still vividly describe the destroyer heading straight towards the beach, firing all of its guns at the enemy, before turning abruptly, churning up mud and rocks from beneath the water. "He was a very humble person," Ryan said. The SLAZAK was the only destroyer to come so close to shore, he said. "He didn't want to be a hero, but he certainly was in Dieppe."
(...) Nalecz-Tyminski, who died in December 2003 at the age of 98, was honoured by the Polish navy in May 2004, when he was buried in the Polish naval cemetery in Gdynia, Poland.
(...) After leaving Poland in 1939 Nalecz-Tyminski, was fighting for the Allies. He served alongside the Royal Navy as a member of the Polish Flotilla, which was based in Great Britain. In 1940 he became executive officer of the destroyer ORP BLYSKAWICA, which took part in the Norwegian Campaign and the evacuation of Dunkirk.
From 1942 to 1944 he commanded the SLAZAK through dangerous and risky sea operations, including Dieppe, Sicily, Salerno and Normandy on D-Day. During the raid on Dieppe, Nalecz-Tyminski lost four of his crew members, but the SLAZAK avenged her own by bringing down five enemy planes. For his role in rescuing 85 Canadians mostly members of the Royal Regiment of Canada from the roiling waters off Dieppe, Nalecz-Tyminski was awarded Britain's Distinguished Service Cross.
In 1945, Nalecz-Tyminski was promoted to commander 1st class and was put in command of the light cruiser ORP CONRAD, the Polish navy's largest ship. The CONRAD was assigned to a group of ships that sailed to the ports of Oslo, Copenhagen and Wilhelmshaven with mail and packages for the residents and refugees. "He was an excellent seaman," said 83-year-old Stanislaw Brodzki, who served under Nalecz-Tyminski on the CONRAD. "He had a way with the officers in every rank. He was very well liked by everybody."
"He was a good-natured person," he said. "He was quite a distinguished guy who did a lot, not only for the Polish navy, but for Canada. He's not only a Polish hero, but a Canadian hero as well." Nalecz-Tyminski was reunited with his wife and daughter after the war in Germany, after they had been smuggled out of Poland. They went to Scotland then then to Pakistan, where Nalecz-Tyminski served as a captain in Pakistan's navy from 1951 to 1958.
(...) Then the family settled in the Bahamas, where, for the next 20 years, Nalecz-Tyminski was port director and president of the Freeport
Harbour Company on Grand BahamaIsland. In 1979 he retired and moved to Toronto with his wife, Jadwiga, who now lives in Mississauga. He helped form the Toronto branch of the Polish Naval Association and became an honorary member of the Royal Regiment of Canada for his heroism at Dieppe.
(...) Aldona Rideau, 64-year daughter described her father as someone who was very healthy and athletic right to the end. "He believed in healthy living. He didn't drink, except for the odd one socially, and he didn't smoke," she said, adding that up to the age of 95 he would get up in the morning and do his exercises. In his youth, Nalecz-Tyminski was involved in boxing, pentathlon, yachting and fencing. Rideau said he was an avid fencer and had hoped to compete in the Olympics. In 1938 he won the Polish Forces Championships in fencing, and was well on his way to being able to compete in the 1940 Olympics, later cancelled because of the war. "The Olympics just left my reach," he told a Freeport magazine in 1977.
Rideau said her father was active with the Polish Naval Association in his later years, helping to raise to money for the construction of the PolishNavyMuseum, which will open this year in Gdynia, Poland. As a frequent guest of the Royal Regiment of Canada, she said, Nalecz-Tyminski often gave speeches recounting his many years at sea. "He was very much a historian," Rideau said. "He had a great love of history." In May, 2000, Nalecz-Tyminski came to visit Poland where he was recognized for his war services and was made an honorary rear admiral by Poland's President A. Kwasniewski at a ceremony in Warsaw.
78 years since this happened. RIP to our brave neighbors up north for giving their lives in this idiotic operation.
this was not an idiotic operation, there are always variable which cannot be known.
The Sacrifice of the men at Dieppe is often seen as an unmitigated waste and this video fails to point out that while the tactical aims of the raid were not reached the main aim of the operation was intelligence gathering - had it not been for the lessons learned at Dieppe it's likely that eventual invasion of Western Europe would have been a gigantic disaster instead of the incredibly sophisticated landings of D-Day - where every failing of Dieppe was countered with incredible innovation.
Their sacrifice made it possible.
@@theeverythingchannel9786 They did not have adequate naval and air support, which is an absolute must for an amphibious operation.
Thomas Brass my great grandfather fought this battle🎉❤ first nations warrior
I would recommend watching a french tv show called the long long holiday, it was an animated limited run series about some french children, won't reveal too much, but it reveals what I believe is quite an accurate reason for why canadians don't receive much credit. The first allied soldiers seen after the nazi occupation are british men, but they don't speak much and it seems that they only partially understood each other (I was watching a dub of it) by cognates and such. When allied troops arrive properly, the kids see soldiers in the town and assume they are american, asking them this. Now, these soldiers had already been speaking to the kids for a bit, obviously in French since they understood. So I knew immediately who they were, since britain is bad with languages and americans don't speak any language, so it made me chuckle. The soldiers reply that they are canadian, which the viewer may find obvious due to the bilingual nature of canada, but it shows the french populace assumes that their saviours are american, not wanting to give the british any credit and not knowing about other nations involved because the americans had a good PR department.
I'm waiting on the daily double to chime in. Such a classic voice.
Sounds like military intelligence failed the troops there. Those poor guys were set up for failure. RIP those unfortunate soldiers. Also, RIP Alex Trebek.
A friend of my father's was taken prisoner and did survive. Someone added his headstone info on Find A Grave by a person that didn't know him. I made sure his info was added to his memorial on there. As it was VERY important.
My Father Henry Grant fought in Dieppe. If you were at Dieppe you did not dissipated in ‘D-Day’
Grandfather was part of the Dieppe raid. Never met him he died 8 years before I was born. RIP
Geez Leweze! All I knew was a from a book, name and writer unknown now. Bout an LCT, which was supposedly offshore, came back, and was refurbished as a Beach Protection Craft BPC13.
RIP Alex Trebek
Canada paid a heavy price in World War 2. God bless those that fought.
We are not perfect. But Canada is the best country in the world to live.
Ugh, not. There's too much craziness and hatred there.
Why all this noise in the background? Difficult to hear the announcements
Churchill made a habit using Commonwealth troops for his "Experiments" like Gallipoli and Dieppe
Some may call this blunder heroic, me thinks: meat grinder. Those poor guys.
Hang in there Alex
He’s gone man....😢
R.I.P. Alex Trebek
My great grandfather Alcedor survived Dieppe. He was EOD.
New research suggests it was actually a raid on german naval hq to try and capture enigma. Dieppe uncovered.
Meh, if the Germans discovered an enigma missing then they would know their codes were being cracked so.. not likely.
The brits went to great lengths to conceal their knowledge of enigma
@@aneily well the allies went to great lengths to capture them. This was orchestrated by Ian flemming.
@@aneily Not if they assumed it was destroyed when the HQ was demolished in the confusion, which evidently was the plan. The Black Watch was supposed to get to the Hotel Moderne, steal the codes and cipher machine then blow up the building.
My Dad was shot on the beach and I do have the pic of him on a stretcher on the beach to prove it No one has ever asked me for it. He then went on to 3 different camps. Which I am still trying to find info on Luckily he came home with his brothers and I came along 15 yrs later. Sadly we lost him 16 yrs ago due to Alzheimer's
My Dad was at Green Beach. Was taken prisoner ..spent 33 months in a POW camp @ Stalag 2D.
Poor planning by Lord Louis Mountbatten et al.
Didn't they know not to send troops to attack a heavily fortified cliff-coastline!!?
Of course Stalin was putting heavy pressure on the Allies to open a western front. The allies agreed to do so expecting Russia to join the Allies against the Axis powers. What cost!!!! All those lives literally sacrificed on the altar of Lord Louis's ego!!!.
Apparently Dieppe Raid Was Concived and planned After W Churchill's 1st meeting with Starlin on What the british would be doing in there plans against the German forces.. Churchill would Say Air raids across Germany and taken on Rommel in north Africa, etc.. Planning of the Dieppe raid would full to Two high ranking Officer's, One being L Mountbatten. The ill-fated raid was never fully Supported or Cleared by the War Cabinet and So with Mountbatten's Connections with the royal family he would be always have the full backing in the Aftermouth of the Dieppe failure from Winston Churchill..
god bless and keep .
The dieppe attack under British & Canadian troop special forces developed to put some knowledge to the allies of the German defences & then to reorganized the divisions & all the resources in a huge scale it was a marvelous test of attack on enemy important position of course the attack failed with many casualties but but the lessons were very useful of the difficulties that took place & to be used & carried out later on a large scale in Normandy .
reason number 43 why war is one of the dumbest endeavors known to mankind
Brave colonies, served their master in two world wars. I wonder if they would do the same today.
Hell yeah
more people should know about this
The Canadians were able to triumphantly return to Dieppe in the summer of '44. This little film didn't cover the other 2 beaches attacked that day. There was success on them. Radar station burgled, field gun shut down for the invasion. The air war was very significant.... Not covered here. Other intelligence was learned on the Dieppe beaches..... Again, not covered here... Also a terrible POW event began here..... Again, Not covered Here... If you're interested in a more complete story. There's a lot more to know.
So glad the good side won this battle.
Why do they never teach this in the United States or at least depict it in media. This was just as brutal as d day if not more
Our American education system, media, and social culture have no place for this. I only knew of this from reading a lot of history on my own. (The stage was set when my dad made me read Mein Kampf because me second grade teacher said the Nazi's did some good stuff too.)
Cucktimus Prime yeah but I never even knew about it until I saw this video. That’s crazy to me
because it shows the shambles of the allied war effort prior to 1944.
Defeats don't get published much or glorified. It doesn't sell. For example, I have yet to see a movie regarding the U-boat activity savaging the US coast from New York to Florida in 1942 either. Perhaps because the US Admiral was too full of himself to believe that Germany could do this and because he steadfastly refused to use the convoy system that the Canadians/Brits were using. legionmagazine.com/en/2011/02/an-american-blunder-navy-part-43/
@@mikekomb Mein Kampf - apparently Hitler quoted several passages directly from Henry Ford. He had his own newspaper as well as his auto empire, so as Editor-in-chief could spout as much nonsense as he liked including his anti-Semitic beliefs. Some of those newspaper editorials wound up with Hitler. In the '20s, eugenics was quite popular around North America and some socialists even cheered on Hitler and his ideas to promote the Aryan race until the war started.
Dieppe was a mistake.
Waste of lives, officers didn't planned well.
Their mistake, the soldiers indeed were outstanding.
Canada is overshadowed because they were mistaken either for the British or the Americans or ignored. Tbh we barely learn about our own involvement in D day (I am a Brit), we talk about Utah and Omaha.
Really? My grade 10 Canadian History teacher focused on Juno Beach rather than Utah or Omaha.
@@JollyOldCanuck You just revealed why they did so.
@@tk-6967 I know, I'm just confused as to why your British history class didn't focus on Sword and Gold Beaches.
@@JollyOldCanuck Because we are America's **** now. We act like we are solely guilty for the Atlantic slave trade and act like Hinduism was crushed by British tyranny (which as a Hindu who knows some Indian history, it isn't, Mughal invaders did) while ignoring actual crimes that Britain committed, like the Mau Mau Uprising or electing WC as prime minister. That is the problem with how history is taught I am afraid.
A tragic part of a European Fratricide that should never have happened.
Hey! Not a SINGLE word of Commandos succesfully attacking the flanks of the flushing? Why?
Now you know how we (Canadians) feel about pretty much EVERYTHING ever produced about WW2 - totally ignored! We were the third largest invading nation at D Day and barely get mentioned in 'the Longest Day'. The chief 'tunnel rat' in the Great Escape was Canadian and, of the 50 executed afterward, Canadians made up the second largest group (after the Brits). Not one mention in the movie... but lots of Yanks who never even were involved in the caper are featured. The clearance of the Scheldt in Holland, the critical op to open Antwerp for use as a resupply port, was mainly a Canadian op. 1st Cdn Div landed at Sicily. We maintained a corps in theatre throughout the Italian campaign. Our bomber crews suffered a 50% casualty rate. Our pilots fought in the Battle of Britain. Our 2 bns in Hong Kong held out the longest... Our merchant mariners paid a heavy toll running the lifeline convoys to the UK (but Tom Hanks has no plans to portray us in any film...)
That said, to be fair, there were 1,000 Brit commandos at Dieppe as well as 100 yank rangers.
@@lib556 A lot of Canada's losses were blue on blue bombing incidents after d-day unfortunately.
@@BenWeeks-ca True. Precision bombing wasn't that precise in the 40s. That said, my rant isn't about casualties so much as it's about the complete lack of acknowledgement of Canada's contribution to the war. It's as if movie-makers figure, "they dress like Brits and talk like yanks... so... we'll just devote our efforts elsewhere."
175 Free French Commandos landed at Sword Beach and they get a devoted 30 solid minutes in The Longest Day. Canada lands a division and gets no screen attention at all.
@@lib556 Yes as Canada seems to be a smaller player in the big picture. We also are highly regarded in Holland where Canadian troops were the first to liberate it.
There is some Canadian made content, but the quality tends to not be as high as US and British. There were films about Dieppe, Paschendale and a TV drama about Camp X. Part of the issue is the US film market is largest so most investment goes there.
We could really see films about other lesser known units like the Seikh's and Gurkas. Even the australians are under represented.
CANADA FUCK YEAH
Great grandfather fought here. He still has the bottle of Alcohol he swiped from the Casino atop the ridge.
RIP Alex
Respect.
2:11 dude that looks....
Bravest of the brave, tough as boots , good at making the most of a situation, loyal to King and Country, strong in physique. The Germans knicked their boots after surrender!
It was a rehearsal for D-Day. They didn't expect it to succeed
That is a gross oversimplification.
How a general looked at the plan for this raid and said yep, that's a go, defies belief.
It was a prototype raid for D-Day, Canadian troops were used as Guinean pigs.
The poor Canadians hammered-the disposition and forceful response of the German forces, makes one wonder, did they have advanced notice?
Dieppe's failure paved the road of success to Normandy
and was the reason so many of us never had the privilege of knowing their father or having a home and family.
Stop spreading British propaganda. It doesn’t take a military genius to know that an unsupported amphibious assault against an entrenched enemy is a suicide mission.
The British already knew this from the disaster that was Gallipoli.
A lot of the attack elements were also removed from the raid, eg. the low level bombing mission to soften defences.
On Prince Edward Island, a Veteran told me in the Holiday Islander bar that he was there; one could discern that he was not full of crap.
Christ..
rip
My Grand father fought here
The RAF couldn't drop smoke to screen the troops?
That part of WW2 which is not much talked about
This was the first D-Day
They fought bravely and sacrifice everything for nothing 😢
Dang, Alex
2:18 BLUE BEACH
2:33 GREEN BEACH
2:43 RED AND WHITE BEACH
My uncle Thomas (Tommy ) Sartain from (-Stepney ) London England , was captured on beaches in 1942...a long with the Canadians and spent 2 -1/2 yrs as a prisoner in Austria...dose any one still alive know about his circumstances... ?
English Mik.
Mik, probably a Royal Marine like my uncle. They probably even knew each other as they were a small hand picked group. See my post at/near the top.
Hog Wash
Hi, yes but when l use to talk to him ,not much operational details out of him, photos of his time in captivity, he us to say he and all prisoners were treated with respect and courtesy , he even became a trustee that lived with an Austrian family on there farm , and had an Austrian girl friend , as he said he wonderful time there, when he was liberated , he was arrested and the rest by the red caps, taken all the way up to North Germany , in Bielefeld, was given a general field Court martial which he only just survived only to, spent next 18 months in British military prison in UK, all because he didn't try to escape,saying that the Germany people were wonderful to him....in prison he had a Daily Dose beatings, EVERY day , and called him the deserter, he told me all his training and experience as commando on that landings ment fuck all to those British military guards....even when he tried to look for job after 1947 was blacklisted as a dishonorably discharged as a deserter. He ,ended up as a toilet attendant working for the London Borough of Greenwich, ..he said , l was 1,550 miles from channel ports, in occupied Europe, how was l going to get back England...
, what was your uncle name .
RIP LADS.
ENGLISH MIK
@@michaelpalmer937 That's a story and a half Mick. I guess trying to survive was seen as fraternizing with the enemy or something. A bit harsh to say the least. Top marks for bagging off with a local too, in the finest traditions of the Corps. I'm sure 99% of the POW's didn't try to escape for the same reasons. Survival mode must just kick in at some stage anyway. That's really sad mate. Fucking war, eh?
My uncle's name was Jimmy Chadwick. From the north-east.
No offense, but 6 minutes is not enough to tell the story of this tragic event.
Its great for a student with adhd who needs to learn about this subject and cant watch a long video on it
THE CANADIAN RAID IN FRANCE DISCOUNTS. MANY DEAD! SAD
2:37 If the German pointing his stick grenade at others it's mean the enemy will have a bad time.
Did call anyone escape?
This was also the debut of US forces in Europe's war since 50 Army Rangers took part where they also suffered heavy losses due to stiff German defenses leading for some being taken prisoner.
I didn't know US was involved - interesting. I knew British were.
I never understood the reason for this disaster.
Read up on David O'keefe's investigation. It was a raid that was partially planned by none other than Ian Fleming (James Bond novels) and Louis Mountbatten. The raid was a cover for stealing the Enigma machine and codes at the German HQ (which they failed at doing).
4:55 MY HOMETOWN RESERVE UNIT THE ESSEX & KENT SCOTTISH KNOWN AS THE (ESSEX SCOTTISH) BACK AT THAT TIME BEFORE THE REGIMENTS AMALGAMATED
The Brits didn’t have much better luck at Dunkirk. The first real successful invasion by the Brits won’t occur until June 6, 1944. At least now we know why Mountbatten wasn’t put in charge of D Day. Germans 2 BRITS 0
Nuts to think that 3x the amount of Canadians died during this raid then at Juno beach…
FMR!
Bad documentary. Watch the one by Mark Felton. Not much longer, but so much better.
Sacrifice 10k men for a means to an end? Sounds pretty shitty. Churchill has another Gallipoli
Heroes never march in parades.
My father was killed in the Dieppe Raid and so never got to march in any ensuing parades. But his companions who survived did and marched for their dead compatriots and marched with pride for them and were heroes as well!
..the sister of market garden
Proud of my German ancestry