Out of nearly 5000 Canadian soldiers, the Dieppe Raid resulted in the lose of 907 soldiers, 600 wounded and another 2000 have been taken into prison. Citizens had once thought that Allies had become more stronger and advanced but that perspective has been turned. Due to an act of senselessness Canada has suffered an enormous number of deaths in the raid referred to as a “trial run”. It was said that that the raid was to test out the new equipment and and techniques by invading the French Port of Dieppe. The 2nd division had been given the task to follow through with the attack planning to have four pre-dawn attacks along the coast and after that they planned to attack Dieppe.
The outcome was a complete failure since a Canadian ship had came into contact with a German convoy which broke out into a temporary sea battle. The noise coming from the battle had alarmed German soldiers on shore so when Canadians came on shore they were immediately machine gunned.
The battle was described as gruesome one reporter had interviewed a man involved in the battle who goes by the name of Ross Munro, “I spent the grimmest 20 minutes of my life with one unit when a rain of German machine-gun fire wounded half the men n our boat and only a miracle saved us from annihilation”describing his experience. Canadians have failed at this mission as the communication between ships and troops was crude. On top of that the had arrived at the scene during the day time. Citizens question if this was a learning experience of an act of pure stupidity, and one only looks at them at disappointment. As of now citizens hope that we only advance in this war.
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