One Day in August: The Untold Story Behind Canada's Tragedy at Dieppe
Language: English
Pages: 512
ISBN: 0345807707
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
One of the most important Canadian non-fiction books we have published: the groundbreaking, thrilling, ultra-secret story behind one of WWII's most enduring mysteries, which fundamentally changes our understanding of this sorrowful event in Canada's past.
The Dieppe Raid--the darkest day in Canadian military history--has been one of the most perplexing mysteries of WWII, when almost 4,000 Canadian amphibious troops stormed the small French port town, only to be ambushed by the waiting Germans, slaughtered, wounded or captured. This catastrophe, coupled with the 7 decades-long mystery surrounding the reason for the operation, left a legacy of bitterness and recriminations and controversial charges ranging from incompetence to conspiracy. O'Keefe's detective-like research over 15 years in the Intelligence archives of 5 countries now reveals that it was a vitally secret "pinch raid," organized by British Naval Intelligence and the Joint Intelligence Committee. The mission: under cover of a raid to secretly steal the German code books that would unlock the Enigma cipher machine that held the key to the German High Command's plans. One of the key figures behind the mission, along with Mountbatten and Churchill, was Commander Ian Fleming, waiting in a ship off-shore for the code books that might have saved countless lives and shortened the war by some years.
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These questions can be found in understanding how Hughes-Hallett and his staff designed the pinch and how, with the help of the force commanders, they built up the detailed plans to accomplish this vital mission. By stitching together the outline plan and the detailed plan along with the record of the June 28 coordinating meeting and the operational orders for the Royal Marine Commando, the plan for the Dieppe Raid unfolds in dramatic form. Broken down into two battle groups, the first,.
To the success of the operation as a whole,” the plan noted, “that White and Red Beaches be in our hands with minimal delay.”24 On the Red Beach sector, given the role that the Essex Scottish, the tanks and the engineers would play in combination with Ryder’s Cutting Out Force to effect the pinch, this timing was even more pertinent. Accompanied by C Squadron from the Calgary Tanks, four companies of the Essex Scottish under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Fred Jasperson, a forty-two-year-old.
Pursuit—and the race to sink the Bismarck began. For more than a week, the Royal Navy’s Home Fleet chased the pride of Hitler’s fleet from the North Sea to the Bay of Biscay and hounded her back again towards the coast of France, using direction-finding (DF) apparatus to pick up a constant stream of radio messages from the hunted ship. The British had a real-time picture of where she was, but not of what she intended to do. The DF apparatus was at the mercy of the ionosphere, and for a whole day.
Away. In three separate episodes, evidence emerged that led Dönitz to conclude that the three-rotor Enigma used by his U-boats had sprung a leak. First, a British submarine attempted to ambush the rendezvous between three U-boats and a supply ship in the Cape Verde Islands. Then a British prisoner of war admitted that, during the sweep of the Bismarck‘s supply ships in the summer, one of the victims, the Gedania, had yielded signals documents long thought destroyed. Finally, on November 22,.
Intelligence work-ups on potential landing areas, which were used in the planning for amphibious operations.5 Ironically, it was Winston Churchill’s return to the Admiralty as First Lord on the opening day of the war that had set the wheels in motion for the creation of Godfrey’s Topographical Department. The signal sent by the Admiralty board announcing emphatically and defiantly that “Winston is back!” came as both a blessing and a curse. Not all members of the Royal Navy interpreted the.