35 it must be remembered that 1075 British, fifty US Rangers, and fifteen French were involved in the raid. 247 Royal Marine Commandos and British Army commandos were killed. As well, seventy-five Royal Navy sailors were killed and another 475 wounded. The RAF fought its single largest daytime air battle of the war that day and lost 106 aircraft with sixty-seven airmen reported as killed in action including ten Canadians.2 The need to account for the high cost has sparked much debate over the years. Even days after the Raid, the need for a scapegoat had begun; the need to assign responsibility for the high cost over the last eighty years seems to motivate much of this energy. This pursuit has coloured how historians, generations of the public, and even veterans who were there, have considered Dieppe in the years since. Dieppe, perhaps more than any day in Canadian military history, has generated more discussion and controversy and prompted gener-
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