Disaster at Dieppe!

August 19 is the annual anniversary of the 1942 Dieppe Raid, an operation optimistically and officially known as Operation Jubilee.

Approximately 6,000 troops were roped into the attack: they included 5,000 Canadians, 1,000 British, 50 American Rangers and 24 French light infantry. The 50 Americans would be the first American troops to see combat in Europe in World War II and three of them would be the first to die there. Between poor planning and Murphy's Law, the Canadians sustained an astounding casualty rate approaching 65%. It was a rate far, far worse than the 10% suffered by the US Marines at Tarawa in late 1943 or the 15% that would be sustained by the Americans on Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944.



In August, 2008, author Narayan Sengupta traveled to Calgary, Alberta where he met and interviewed veteran tanker Sgt. Elly Raskin, a soft-spoken 89 year old veteran of the Calgary Tank Regiment that got shredded to bits at Dieppe. One thing led to another, and Sengupta spent 10 months doing a tremendous amount of research with Raskin and others to piece together the story of the botched invasion of Dieppe. The result is a wonderful page turner which includes fresh research, several four nice new maps and photos from the Library and Archives of Canada and information about what happened to each tank that landed at Dieppe that day. It also features 10 new photos from Sgt. Raskin's collection and from Captain Colin M. Stevens showing Dieppe today.

"I am in complete awe of the research and detail of your observations...wonderfully narrated !!!! Doug Williams, Atlanta"

Tags: Dieppe, Operation Jubilee, Canadian, invasion, assault, raid, August, 1942

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