49 The sound of her voice was unmistakable. Ed Bennett instantly recognized that voice even though he had never seen her face and decades had passed since her gentle sweet words gave so much needed comfort on that terrible day – August 19,1942 – the Day Ed Bennett first came to Dieppe. Almost forty years later, Ed was back along with a large contingent of Canadian veterans to commemorate and remember the Raid – Operation Jubilee. Almost 5000 Canadians of the 2nd Division set out to land at Dieppe, Puys, and Pourville – 907 were killed and just over 2500 were either wounded, taken prisoner or both in a matter of hours. Ed Bennett belonged to these last two categories. Bennett survived the day but was severely wounded and would spend almost three years of captivity as a POW. It wasn’t supposed to happen that way. In those final pre-dawn moments of August 19, Lieutenant Bennett, in command of No. 10 Troop’s three Churchill tanks in the CalgaryTank Regiment’s “B” THE VOICE OFANANGEL By John Goheen Bennett’s Churchill Tank, Bellicose knocked on on the beach. August 19, 1942 80 Operation Jubilee years
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