Operation Jubilee: A Pinch Raid at Dieppe?
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🗓️ 30 March 2021
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Summary
On 19 August 1942, a six thousand strong combined Allied landing force took part in a raid on Dieppe, Northern France. Sixty-seven percent of these became casualties. The raid has gone down in history as a catastrophe conceived by Lord Mountbatten. With the help of 100,000 pages of classified British military files, however, David O’Keefe has uncovered a pinch mission undertaken at Dieppe, concealed by the raid, to steal one of the new German 4-rotor Enigma code machines. In this first of two episodes from our sibling podcast Warfare, David tells James about the main raid, undertaken in the majority by his fellow Canadians, and explains the evidence which supports the theory that this was a pinch raid, not just by opportunity, but by design.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, welcome to Dance Notes History. It gives me great pleasure to announce this |
| 0:04.5 | is an episode of our sibling podcast. Now called Warfare. We've extended it out. No longer |
| 0:10.8 | to just deal with the first and second world wars. We've extended this to become a modern |
| 0:15.2 | early modern military history podcast. We're going to reach back all the way to the middle |
| 0:19.2 | of the 18th century. Seven years warish and onwards. I mean, if the sum war of Jenkins |
| 0:23.6 | is here, war of our student succession and that will probably put it in. We're not too |
| 0:27.3 | dogmatic about these things. So this is the new Warfare podcast with Dr. James Rogers, |
| 0:32.5 | of course. Now this episode is all about D. M. On the 19th of August 1942, a raid took place |
| 0:40.4 | against the German occupied French port of D. M. It was a bloodbath. My family of Canadians |
| 0:45.6 | and this is remembered in Canada as one of the darkest days of the Second World War. Canadian |
| 0:50.8 | troops bore the brunt of fighting, which saw thousands killed or captured on the beaches. |
| 0:55.6 | The effectiveness of German defence was such that it encouraged the Allies, it encouraged |
| 1:01.0 | Churchill to stop thinking about attacking a port when the eventual invasion of Europe |
| 1:06.8 | arrived in 1944. Instead, to attack a beach, where defences would be thinner and bring |
| 1:13.4 | their own port with them for resupply. Hence the plan to attack the beaches of Normandy |
| 1:18.0 | and take the mulberry harbours with them. These gigantic harbours toad across the channel |
| 1:22.8 | and built within just a couple of days. Anyway, this episode features David Okieh. He's |
| 1:29.7 | uncovered a secret mission within the DEAP planning to pinch enigma-related material. The |
| 1:35.7 | top secret German encryption machine that the Allies were so desperate to break into. |
| 1:40.5 | This is an extraordinary story, so enjoy this episode of the Warfare podcast all about |
| 1:45.3 | the enigma of DEAP. If you want to listen to this or any of our other podcasts without |
| 1:49.8 | ads, if you want to watch some of the hundreds of hours of documentaries that we've got |
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