In message , ArtKramr
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Subject: #1 Piston Fighter was British
From: David Lentz
In all fairness, Dieppe was a raid. It not intended to take and
hold territory, but rather only as a test of the German's
defenses. Dieppe did establish that any Allied invasion of
Europe would mean coming across the beach and not by capturing
and using a sea port.

It was a terrible blow to Biritsh morale.

It also was the reason we were so insistent that D-Day absolutely could
not be in 1942 (imagine Dieppe repeated on a multi-divisional,
multinational scale) and that it was better to accept delay and go with
the best available strength in 1944, than make a brave speculative
effort in 1943.

Meantime, various people fought the Germans every way they could.

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When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
W S Churchill

Paul J. Adam