Yesterday's Big Story - Allied Commandoes raid Dieppe
Yesterday's Big Story - Allied Commandoes raid Dieppe
August 19, 1942 - Allied Commandoes raid Dieppe on the French Coast and write a brilliant chapter in military daring and courage. Most of the 7,000-man force is made up of Canadians who make a hit-and-run raid to prove to the Germans that their defenses along the coast are far from invulnerable. Valuable lessons were learned in the strike that was used 22 months later when D Day arrived. Soldiers loading planes with bombs. MS - Pilots getting in their planes. MCUS - Planes taking off from the runways of an air field. MCUS - Canadian soldiers in a transport boat. MS - Battle ships and planes flying in he air. MS - A battleship leaving a huge smoke screen. Looking up - Plans dropping bombs, hopefully on submarines. POV - Off a deck of a ship bomb is dropped into the ocean making a big splash. MS - On deck of a battleship bombs being loaded into big guns. MS - Capture of German military prisoners. CUS - British and Canadian soldiers some of them wounded. Captured German film. = Close up of the word Dieppe, German sign - Belemse de passer / Betrchem Perbelen. MS - Men walking around with arms up in the air. CUS - A wooden box with the word Calgary on it. CUS - Another wooden box with the word Beefy on it. MS - A empty transport boat just rocking back and fourth in the ocean. MCUS - Two military helmets, one German and one British. washed up on the shore line.