Operation Jubilee: A Pinch Raid at Dieppe?
On 19 August 1942, a six thousand strong Allied force took part in a raid on Dieppe. The raid has gone down in history as a catastrophe. However, David O’Keefe has uncovered a mission undertaken at Dieppe to steal one of the new German Enigma machines.
Dan Snow's History Hit · History Hit
March 30, 202132m 13s
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<p>On 19 August 1942, a six thousand strong combined Allied landing force took part in a raid on Dieppe, Northern France. Sixty-seven percent of these became casualties. The raid has gone down in history as a catastrophe conceived by Lord Mountbatten. With the help of 100,000 pages of classified British military files, however, David O’Keefe has uncovered a pinch mission undertaken at Dieppe, concealed by the raid, to steal one of the new German 4-rotor Enigma code machines. In this first of two episodes from our sibling podcast <a href="https://podfollow.com/the-world-wars" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Warfare</strong></a>, David tells James about the main raid, undertaken in the majority by his fellow Canadians, and explains the evidence which supports the theory that this was a pinch raid, not just by opportunity, but by design.</p><br><p>Listen to part two of this podcast: <a href="https://pod.fo/e/bd70a" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>The Enigma of Dieppe</strong></a></p>
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