Operation Jubilee: A Pinch Raid at Dieppe?

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🗓️ 12 March 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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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, 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 back to the history hit World Wars podcast. We've got a special episode this week on Depe, Operation Jubilee.
0:06.8	It's gone down in history as a disastrous seaborne operation carried out at the whim of Lord Mount Baton. It cost over a thousand
0:14.7	Allied lives, 900 of which were Canadian troops who charged the beaches getting
0:19.9	mowed down by machine guns and grenades in the process. Up until now the veterans of Depp have never
0:25.9	understood why such a mission took place. But to find out, we have Canada's preeminent military
0:31.9	historian who has spent the last 25 years trying to
0:34.7	figure out the truth behind Diepp Professor David O'Keefe. This is a
0:39.4	fantastic episode so rich and full of history that we've split it into two episodes for you.
0:45.3	So here is part one of Professor David O'Keefe on Diap. Hi Dave, thank you so much for coming on the World Wars. How you doing today?
1:07.0	I'm doing fine, I'm doing fine. Thank you so much for having me.
1:10.0	No, no worries at all. How's your new year going? So far is so good. We're handling the pandemic like
1:16.8	champs, like London in 1940 with the Blitz. We're hunkering down and we're soldiering on.
1:21.8	Well I think we're all happy to be in 2021 and long may it improve.
1:26.0	So you're talking to us from Canada today?
1:28.0	Yes, I am. I'm from a little place called Rigo, which is in a little mountain community just outside of Montreal and Quebec and so I'm hunkered in my bunker like most people are.
1:37.5	I mean it doesn't sound like it's tropical or warm dive.
1:40.0	No, not at all as a matter of fact. It's about minus 15 today.
1:44.0	A little bit of snow on the ground, then of course this is what it's going to be like for the next 90 days.
1:49.0	Oh, wow. I mean it does sound pretty beautiful though, so you know you can't complain too much it's one
1:53.6	the most beautiful cities in the world I'm not complaining well Canada seems like the right place to be given the
1:58.4	topic that we're talking about today August 19th, the darkest day in Canadian military history.
2:06.0	What happened on this day?
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