Dieppe Raid Research Paper

The Dieppe raid is a major event in Canadian history that caused many fatalities, it took place on August 19,1942 in the French port of Dieppe. The Canadian Army were a great part of this event, one of the reasons being because at the time they hadn’t had enough involvement in the war, they had been training for two years since the start of the war and they were hungry for real combat, they were also publicly being pressured since they had minimum involvement in the war. The raid was a planned attack by the Allies on German occupied territory. The main point of this raid towards the germans was to test Hitler's Coastal defences, liberate part of the continent and most importantly it would give the allies experience in carrying out an assault. The raid itself was both a success and a failure, many fatalities occurred, but positive outcomes came from them which affected future events.

In order for the raid to be successful, the element of surprise was crucial, since Dieppe was heavily fortified by the Germans. Unfortunately during the day of

The raid was studied carefully after the fatalities that had occurred in order to improve tactics for future attacks. One of them being the location, attacking from the sea was certainly unwise this would later influence landing choices for future attacks. Similarly the allies also concluded that they needed to improve their communication skills between personnel on and offshore. All this adjustments influenced the future attacks but most importantly the attack on D-day. Since all these adjustments were made the future attack on Normandy (D-Day) concluded in a great victory against the Germans. Because of the Victory on D-day it is important to understand that without the disastrous Raid on Dieppe none of these lessons would have been learned and applied , and D-day would've never been a