Dieppe Raid

The aftermath of the Dieppe Raid in August 1942, in which the Allied forces attacked the German-held seaport on the French coast. However, the Germans were well prepared for the attack, and with thousands of their troops killed or captured, the Allies were forced to withdraw.

In World War II, a disastrous Allied attack August 1942 on the German-held seaport on the English Channel about 305 km/190 mi northwest of Paris. The limited-objective raid was partly designed to obtain practical experience of amphibious landing techniques and German defences, but mostly to placate the Soviet leader Stalin, who was agitating for a second front in Europe. The raid was a dismal failure which cost the Allies heavily in casualties and strained relations between Canada and Britain for some time, although a number of valuable lessons about landing on hostile beaches were learned and applied in the D-Day landings 1944.