Operation Jubilee: Disaster at Dieppe

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🗓️ 9 October 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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In August 1942 the Allies launched a daring raid across the Channel to capture the port town of Dieppe and hold it for 24 hours. It ended in disaster and death with nearly two-thirds of the attackers killed, wounded or captured. In the aftermath, commanders were quick to try and justify the carnage claiming that the raid was necessary to learn lessons in advance of future large scale amphibious operations in Europe and to show the Soviets that the Western Allies were serious about opening a second front. But, as you'll hear in this podcast, this was a calamity that was all too predictable. Dan is joined by Patrick Bishop, author of Operation Jubilee - Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and the Sacrifice, to explore what went wrong during the ill-fated mission, whether any lessons were learned and the hard truth about the myths that surround Operation Jubilee.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, welcome to Dan Snow's history.
0:03.1	On the 18th of August 1942, a flotilla of ships and boats moved across the flat waters
0:08.8	of the channel towards the coast of occupied France.
0:11.7	They're there to seize the German helport of Diepp, try and hold it for 24 hours, in a
0:17.2	mission with slightly unclear aims, but probably above all to show the Soviets that the West
0:22.9	Nile's were serious about getting a second front opened and doing a necessary information
0:28.5	gathering to support a full-scale invasion of Western Europe.
0:33.0	But as you may know, the operation turned out to be a massacre, a military disaster, nearly
0:39.6	two-thirds of those who attacked ended up dead, wounded or captured.
0:45.6	It is a great pleasure, it's a privilege in fact, to interview the best-selling author Patrick
0:51.9	Bishop on the podcast today to get his account of this doomed endeavor and to us some pretty
0:57.6	painful truths about this operation and how it's been mythologised ever since.
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