A delegation from Dieppe, New Brunswick is in France this week to take part in ceremonies commemorating the 80th anniversary of the 1942 Dieppe Raid, a tragic military operation that killed more than ...

On Saturday, when Canadians pause for a moment and remember the ghastly slaughter that occurred in 1942 on the beaches of Dieppe – the single bloodiest day for Canada’s military in the Second World ...

When the survivors of Operation Jubilee struggled to describe the disaster that engulfed them they reached back into history. The beaches of Dieppe, littered with the twisted, smoking wreckage of ...

In the summer of 1942, the war was raging in places around the world. Malta was fighting for its survival, the situation in North Africa was in doubt as Germans and British fought back and forth ...

Under the direction of Lord Louis Mountbatten, a major Allied raid was launched on Dieppe, France, on Aug. 19, 1942. The force of 5,000 Canadians (including the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry), 1,000 ...

AUGUST 19, 1942: The disastrous Dieppe Raid – the biggest Allied attack on Nazi-occupied Europe prior to D-Day – ended in a bloodbath and swift withdrawal on this day in 1942. Out of the 6,000 mostly ...

Within weeks of Operation Jubilee, the disastrous raid on the Channel port of Dieppe in August 1942, one senior general compared it to the notorious 1917 battle of Passchendaele. The shocked survivors ...

The great majority of Canadian soldiers who took part in the ill-fated Dieppe Raid in France 62 years ago were based in a camp on nearby Witley Common. The sky was glorious to see at Boulogne as the ...

Sister Agnes Marie Valois — who was known as the “Angel of Dieppe” for her heroics in giving medical care to Canadian soldiers wounded on the French beach during the August 1942 raid — died Thursday ...