37 ations of historians to seek, and sometimes claim, to have “the definitive answer” for why the Raid was mounted. There is no question that the day was a disaster despite the incredible heroism and effort by those sailors, soldiers, and airmen involved in the landings at Dieppe, Puys, Pourville, and the flanking Commando operations. The plan was complex with a multitude of objectives and sub objectives. Planners relied too heavily on precise timings and the element of surprise with success at each stage of the operation contingent on the success of preceding phases. Failure at any phase of the operation had domino effect of disaster for what came next. Nobody plans for failure, and Dieppe failed not for any single reason but for a collusion of many reasons. I have guided manyCanadians to Dieppe over the last quarter century, most seeing it for the first time. As they encounter those imposing thirty-meter headlands and consider the stony Red Beach on Left, White Beach on right. Dieppe main beach looking east.
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