Thursday 18 April 2013
Dieppe Raid
In my opinion the Dieppe Raid was not a success. The Dieppe raid began as a failure as they landed on the eastern flank things immediately went badly, the raid "was one of the darkest chapters in Canada's history"(veterans affairs Canada, note). One of the most important parts of success in a raid is a surprise and being unexpected, but for Canada it was delayed and there was lack of surprise making their attack expected. From the beginning they had poor communication skills from the shore which effected the advanced planning, it ended up that because of all the problems they had 907 soldiers were killed, 586 were wounded and 1874 were kept as prisoners. The massive numbers prove that the raid was not a success because so many men died or were taken captive and we never even won. Only few soldiers even made it to the town showing that the raid was a failure because the mission was to take over the town. Lastly when they were forced to stop the raid and surrender they failed their mission and lost many men doing it.
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I agree that the Raid wasn't AS successful as planned but we did reach some of our objectives and learnt from our mistakes. So could you say it was successful, since it helped us win D-day?
ReplyDeleteI agree that they learned from their mistakes and yes this raid helped later because they knew what not to do, but the raid itself was not a success, the after effects may have been
ReplyDeleteI agree that even thought the actual raid itself wasn't a success it did really help with our later battles from our mistakes that we all made and learned from
ReplyDeleteCarley, your post was very thorough and I like how you responded to Riley's question. I can't help but think the argument that the raid helped us in the future is just a way to rewrite an event with a positive spin.
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