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  “Intelligence Control Station France: Evaluation of Dieppe Operation, 14 Sep 42,” 981GInt(D1), vol. 20488, box 218, RG24, LAC, 5.

  Ibid., 9.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/551, “Combined Report on The Dieppe Raid, 1942,” 90.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/330, “Combined Operations Headquarters Intelligence Section Enemy Order of Battle Information–7 August, 1942,” 1–2.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/551, “Combined Report,” 90.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/330, “Combined Operations,” 2.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/551, “Combined Report,” 90.

  “Report No. 36, Information from German War Diaries,” AHQ, DHH, DND, 3.

  “Konrad Haase,” accessed Dec. 19, 2011, www.ww2gravestone.com/general/haase-konrad.

  Jason Pipes, “302.Infanterie-Division,” Feldgrau, accessed Dec. 19, 2011, www.feldgrau.com/InfDiv.php?ID=206.

  “Report No. 36,” 5–7.

  Ibid., appended section, “Divisional Order No. 27 for Coast Protection,” 1–11.

  Ibid., 11–13.

  “Combat Report and Experience Gained During the British Attack on Dieppe 19 August 1942,” 981.023(D10), vol. 20438, box 168, RG24, LAC, 1–2.

  “Report No. 10, Information from German War Diaries,” AHQ, DHH, DND, 3.

  “Report of the Port Commandant Dieppe on the Fighting on 19 Aug 42,” 981GN(D13), vol. 20488, box 218, RG24, LAC, 1.

  “Report No. 36,” 28.

  C.P. Stacey, Six Years of War: The Army in Canada, Britain and the Pacific, vol. 1 (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1957), 354.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/330, “Interrogation of Prisoners Captured on Dieppe Raid, Martian Report No. 13, Fire Tasks and Coastal Batteries,” 3.

  “Report No. 10,” Appendix B, “Report of 302 German INF DIV (Operations Section–Ia) on the Dieppe Raid,” DHH, DND, 2–5.

  “Operation Jubilee: Intelligence Report on Dieppe Raid, 19 Aug 42, Part III—Enemy Defences and Weapons,” 215C1.98(D357), vol. 10707, box 156, RG24, LAC, 2.

  TNA:PRO WO 106/4195, “Report on Information Obtained from Ps/W Captured at Dieppe–19/20 August, 1942,” 5.

  Ibid., 7.

  “Report No. 10,” Appendix B, 2–5.

  Stacey, Six Years of War, 356–57.

  “Report No. 36,” 27.

  “German 12-cm Mortar Battalions,” Tactical and Technical Trends, no. 40 (Dec. 16, 1943), accessed Dec. 28, 2011, www.lonesentry.com/articles/ttt/german-12-cm-120-mm-mortar-battalions.html.

  “Report No. 36,” 27.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/330, “Order of the Day, C-in-C 15 Army, 10.8.42,” 1.

  TNA:PRO WO 106/4195, “Report on Information from Ps/W,” 10.

  Ibid., 23.

  Ibid., 10.

  Terence Robertson, Dieppe: The Shame and the Glory (London: Pan Books, 1965), 252.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/330, “Interrogation of Prisoners,” 2.

  11 The Die was Cast

  Royal Regiment of Canada War Diary, August 1942, RG24, LAC, 6.

  C.P. Stacey, Six Years of War: The Army in Canada, Britain and the Pacific, vol. 1 (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1957), 344.

  Sandy Antal and Kevin Shackleton, Duty Nobly Done: The Official History of the Essex and Kent Scottish Regiment (Windsor, ON: Walkerville, 2006), 394.

  Stacey, Six Years of War, 344.

  Royal Regiment War Diary, August 1942, 7.

  Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal War Diary, August 1942, RG24, LAC, n.p.

  Kingsley Brown Sr., Kingsley Brown Jr., and Brereton Greenhous, Semper Paratus: The History of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry (Wentworth Regiment), 1962–1977 (Hamilton: RHLI Historical Assoc., 1977), 191–92.

  Royal Hamilton Light Infantry War Diary, August 1942, RG24, LAC, n.p.

  Calgary Tank Regiment War Diary, August 1942, RG24, LAC, 5.

  Hugh Henry, “The Tanks of Dieppe: The History of The Calgary Regiment (Tank), 1939 to August 19, 1942,” MA thesis, University of Victoria, 1985, 73.

  “Churchills Don’t Float,” Onward I: The Informal History of the Calgary Regiment, 14th Canadian Armoured Regiment, ed. Dick Maltby and Jessie Maltby (Vancouver: 50/14 Veterans’ Assoc., 1989), 1.

  Calgary Tank War Diary, August 1942, 6.

  “Part of Appx ‘C’ to Detailed Mil Plan Op ‘Jubilee’ Dieppe 19 Aug 42 re: Allotment of Personnel, Eqpt & stores,” 225C1.013(D5), vol. 10795, box 213, RG24, LAC, 19–28.

  Calgary Tank War Diary, 6.

  TNA:PRO ADM 199/107, “Operation ‘Jubilee,’ Detailed Narrative—Enclosure No. 3 to the Naval Force Commander’s No. NPJ.0221/92 of 30th August, 1942,” 1.

  John Hughes-Hallett, unpublished memoir, MG30 E463, LAC, 174–77.

  Terence Robertson, Dieppe: The Shame and the Glory (London: Pan Books, 1965), 231–33.

  TNA: PRO DEFE 2/551, “Combined Report on the Dieppe Raid,” 10.

  Hughes-Hallett memoir, 77.

  “The History of the Third Canadian Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment (3LAA),” accessed Dec. 16, 2011, www.ww2f.com/wwii-general/25386-history-third-canadian-light-anti -aircraft-regiment-3laa.html.

  Ronald Atkin, Dieppe 1942: The Jubilee Disaster (London: Macmillan, 1980), 67.

  A.J. Kerry and W.A. McDill, History of the Corps of Royal Engineers, vol. 2 (Ottawa: Military Engineers Assoc., 1966), 101.

  “Report on Combined Operations by Lt. Col. L.F. Barnes, CRE, 2 CDN DIV,” 232C2.(D2), vol. 10870, box 250, RG24, LAC, 1–7.

  “2nd Canadian Infantry Division Tp Carrying Exercise: Ford I—Appx ‘B’ to Director’s Notes for Control Movements Involved,” 232C2.(D52), vol. 10873, box 252, RG24, LAC, 2.

  Norman H. Ross, interview by Chris Main, July 20 and Aug. 16, 1979, UVICSC.

  Atkin, 62.

  “Part of Appx ‘C’ to Detailed Mil Plan,” 29.

  Atkin, 62.

  Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders War Diary, August 1942, Appendix 9, RG24, LAC, 1.

  Atkin, 63.

  Lord Lovat, March Past: A Memoir (New York: Holmes & Meier, 1979), 244–45.

  South Saskatchewan Regiment War Diary, August 1942, Appendix 7, RG24, LAC, 2.

  John Edmondson, interview by Chris Bell, June 6, Aug. 4 and 12, 1982, UVICSC.

  “Part of Appx ‘C’ to Detailed Mil Plan,” 2–3.

  Edmondson interview.

  South Saskatchewan War Diary, Appendix 9, 2.

  Ibid., 2.

  “Part of Appx ‘C’ to Detailed Mil Plan,” 2.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/551, “Combined Report on the Dieppe Raid, 1942, Appendix L to Annex 2–Intelligence Plan,” 2.

  James Leasor, Green Beach (London: William Heinemann, 1975), 47–98.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/551, “Combined Report,” 3.

  Essex Scottish War Diary, August 1942, Appendix VII, RG24, LAC, 1.

  “Part of Appx ‘C’ to Detailed Mil Plan,” 3.

  Essex Scottish War Diary, RG24, LAC, 4.

  Ibid., Appendix VI, 1.

  Denis Whitaker and Shelagh Whitaker, Dieppe: Tragedy to Triumph; A Firsthand and Revealing Critical Account of the Most Controversial Battle of World War II (Whitby, ON: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1992), 228–29.

  Atkin, 64.

  Les Fusiliers War Diary, n.p.

  Atkin, 64.

  Royal Regiment War Diary, 7.

  Robertson, 241.

  Atkin, 67.

  “In Memory of Private Emile Phillipe Williams,” Veterans Affairs Canada, accessed Dec. 31, 2011, www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/collections/virtualmem/Detail/2929447.

  “Report No. 101, General Outline and Flank Attacks,” CMHQ, DHH, DND, 9.

  Ross Munro, Gauntlet to Overlord (Toronto: Macmillan, 1945), 309–10.

  Hughes-Hallett memoir, 177.

  Atkins, 69.


  12 The Most Remarkable Thing

  Quentin Reynolds, Dress Rehearsal: The Story of Dieppe (Garden City, NY: Blue Ribbon Books, 1943), 91–92.

  C.P. Stacey, Six Years of War: The Army in Canada, Britain and the Pacific, vol. 1 (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1957), 345.

  Reynolds, 97.

  TNA:PRO ADM 199/107, “Operation ‘Jubilee,’ Detailed Narrative—Enclosure No. 3 to the Naval Force Commander’s No. NPJ.0221/92 of 30th August, 1942,” 1.

  Terence Robertson, Dieppe: The Shame and the Glory (London: Pan Books, 1965), 251–52.

  Reynolds, 105–06.

  John Hughes-Hallett, unpublished memoir, MG30 E463, LAC, 178.

  “Dieppe Raid—1942” file, “Op ‘Jubilee’ 19 Aug 43 Combined Plan, Capt. H. Hallett, Maj-Gen JH Roberts, Air Marshal TL Leigh-Mallory, Appendix ‘A’ to JNO1—List of Ships, Groups, and Superior Officers,” 225C1.013(D6), vol. 10796, box 213, RG24, LAC, 1–4.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/334, “Narrative by Lt. W.K. Rogers, R.M. O.C.R.M. Detachment in L.C.F.(L) 6, 28 Dieppe Raid,” 1.

  “Report No. 101, General Outline and Flank Attacks,” CMHQ, DHH, DND, 8.

  Hughes-Hallett memoir, 178.

  Ross Munro, Gauntlet to Overlord (Toronto: Macmillan, 1945), 319–20.

  TNA:PRO ADM 199/107, “Operation ‘Jubilee,’ Detailed Narrative,” 1.

  Munro, 321.

  TNA:PRO ADM 199/107, “Operation ‘Jubilee,’ Detailed Narrative,” 1.

  Ibid., 2.

  “Report No. 101,” 9.

  Reynolds, 129.

  TNA:PRO ADM 199/107, “Operation ‘Jubilee,’ Detailed Narrative,” 2–3.

  Munro, 322.

  Reynolds, 138–39.

  John P. Campbell, Dieppe Revisited: Documentary Investigation (Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1993), 169.

  “UJ-1411 (Treff III) (+1944),” Wreck Site, accessed Jan. 3, 2012, www.wrecksite.eu /wreck.aspx?133368.

  Campbell, 169.

  Stacey, Six Years of War, 358.

  Brereton Greenhous, “Operation Flodden: The Sea Fight Off Berneval and the Suppression of the Goebbels Battery, 19 August 1942,” Canadian Military Journal, vol. 4, no. 4 (Autumn 2003), 49–50.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/334, “Preliminary Report on Activities of Group 5 During Operation Jubilee by Commander D.B. Wyburd,” 1.

  Greenhous, “Operation Flodden,” 49.

  Angus Konstam, British Motor Gun Boat, 1939–45 (Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2010), 42.

  Greenhous, “Operation Flodden,” 49.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/334, “Preliminary Report by Wyburd,” 1.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/335, Appendix V, “Personal Account of Sub-Lieutenant D.J. Lewis, RCNVR ” 5–6.

  Combined Operations: The Official Story of the Commandos (New York: Macmillan, 1943), 118.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/334, “Preliminary Report by Wyburd,” 1.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/239, “Jubilee (Operation Flodden) Official Account Lieutenant Colonel J.F. Durnford-Slater,” 1.

  Greenhous, “Operation Flodden,” 52.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/334, “Preliminary Report by Wyburd,” 1.

  Ronald Atkin, Dieppe 1942: The Jubilee Disaster (London: Macmillan, 1980), 77.

  Peter Young, Storm from the Sea (London: Greenhill Books, 2002), 62–63.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/239, “Official Account Durnford-Slater,” 1.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/335, “Personal Account of Lewis,” 6.

  Young, 63.

  Reynolds, 139.

  “Dieppe, 1942” file, “Lecture Notes, Combined Services Raid on Dieppe, 19 Aug 42 by Brig. CC Mann, GS, I Cdn Corps,” 222C1.011(D1), vol. 10772, box 201, RG24, LAC, 7.

  Greenhous, “Operation Flodden,” 53.

  “Report No. 10, Operation ‘Jubilee’: Information from German War Diaries,” Appendix A, AHQ, DHH, DND, 2.

  “Report of the Port Commandant Dieppe on the Fighting on 19 Aug 42,” 981GN(D13), vol. 20488, box 218, RG24, LAC, 1.

  “Report No. 10,” Appendix B, 6.

  Reynolds, 139.

  Greenhous, “Operation Flodden,” 51–52.

  Hughes-Hallett memoir, 186–87.

  13 Good Luck to All of You

  “Personal Accounts Dieppe—Narrative of Experiences at Dieppe, 19 Aug 42 by Lt.-Col. R.R. Labatt, OC, RHLI,” 592.011(D3), DHH, DND, 1–3.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/239, “Jubilee (Operation Flodden) Report by Major P. Young,” 1.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/335, Appendix V, “Personal Account of Sub-Lieutenant D.J. Lewis, RCNVR,” 2.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/239, “Report by Young,” 1.

  Ibid., 2.

  Ronald Atkin, Dieppe 1942: The Jubilee Disaster (London: Macmillan, 1980), 82–84.

  Ibid., 82–83.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/551, “Combined Report on the Dieppe Raid,” 13.

  Brereton Greenhous, “Operation Flodden: The Sea Fight Off Berneval and the Suppression of the Goebbels Battery,” 19 August 1942,” Canadian Military Journal, vol. 4, no. 4 (Autumn 2003), 54–55.

  Combined Operations: The Official Story of the Commandos (New York: Macmillan, 1943), 118.

  Greenhous, “Operation Flodden,” 54.

  Terence Robertson, Dieppe: The Shame and the Glory (London: Pan Books, 1965), 269.

  “Report No. 10, Information from German War Diaries,” Appendix B, AHQ, DHH, DND, 7.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/239, “Report by Young,” 2–3.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/335, “Personal Account of Lewis,” 2.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/239, “Report by Young,” 2–3.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/335, “Personal Account of Lewis,” 2.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/239, “Report by Young,” 2–3.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/335, “Personal Account of Lewis,” 2.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/239, “Report by Young,” 3.

  “Report No. 10,” Appendix B, 8.

  Jim DeFelice, Rangers at Dieppe: The First Combat Action of U.S. Army Rangers in World War II (New York: Berkley Caliber, 2008), 142–44.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/335, “Personal Account of Lewis,” 1.

  Atkin, 89–91.

  Greenhous, “Operation Flodden,” 54.

  “Soldats Alliés tués combat, disparu, décédes de leurs blessures ou morts en captivité, ayant participé à l’opération sur Berneval le 19 août 1942,” memorial plaque, Berneval, France.

  Greenhous, “Operation Flodden,” 55.

  14 Smash and Grab

  Lord Lovat, March Past: A Memoir (New York: Holmes & Meier, 1979), 247.

  Atkin, 95–96.

  Lovat, March Past, 248.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/328, “Story from Corporal Frank Koons—1st Rangers, of the State of Iowa,” 1.

  Lovat, March Past, 248.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/328, “Story from Koons,” 1.

  Lovat, March Past, 248.

  Terence Robertson, Dieppe: The Shame and the Glory (London: Pan Books, 1965), 275.

  Lovat, March Past, 248.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/337, “Jubilee: Operation Cauldron, Report on Orange Beach 2 Landing by Lt. Col. The Lord Lovat,” 1.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/328, “Additions to Lord Lovat’s Official Report on Operation ‘Jubilee,’ ” 1.

  “Finney, William,” Fdn. for Information on the Second World War, accessed Jan. 2012, www.ww2awards.com/person/44280.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/328, “Additions to Lovat’s Report,” 1.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/337, “Jubilee: Operation Cauldron,” 1.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/328, “Additions to Lovat’s Report,” 1.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/337, “Report on Orange Beach One Landing by Major D. Mills-Roberts,” 1.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/328, “Story from Koons,” 1.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/337, “Report on Orange Beach One,” 1. />
  Lovat, March Past, 250.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/337, “Report on Orange Beach One,” 3.

  Ibid., 1–2.

  Combined Operations: The Official Story of the Commandos (New York: Macmillan, 1943), 121.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/328, “Story from Koons,” 2.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/337, “Report on Orange Beach One,” 2.

  Lovat, March Past, 253.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/337, “Jubilee: Operation Cauldron,” 2.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/328, “Additions to Lovat’s Report,” 2.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/337, “Jubilee: Operation Cauldron,” 2.

  “Additions to Lord Lovat’s Official Report,” 2.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/337, “Jubilee: Operation Cauldron,” 2.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/337, “Report on Orange Beach One,” 2.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/337, “Jubilee: Operation Cauldron,” 2.

  Lovat, March Past, 260.

  “Colonel Pat Porteous, VC,” The Telegraph, UK, accessed Jan. 2012, www.telegraph .co.uk/news/obituaries/1369771/Colonel-Pat-Porteous-VC.html.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/337, “Jubilee: Operation Cauldron,” 2.

  Lovat, March Past, 260.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/337, “Jubilee: Operation Cauldron,” 2.

  Combined Operations: The Commandos, 123.

  Lovat, March Past, 255.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/328, “Story from Koons,” 2–3.

  Atkin, 109–10.

  “Report No. 101, Operation ‘Jubilee’: General Outline and Flank Attacks,” CMHQ, DHH, DND, 21.

  C.P. Stacey, Six Years of War: The Army in Canada, Britain and the Pacific, vol. 1 (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1957), 363.

  “Report No. 101,” 21.

  Lovat, March Past, 263–64.

  15 The Real Thing

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/233, “Report by the Air Commander on the Combined Operation Against Dieppe—August 19th, 1942, Appendix D,” 21.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/551, “Combined Report on the Dieppe Raid, 1942,” 29–30.

  TNA:PRO DEFE 2/233, “Report by the Air Commander, 4.

  Terence Robertson, Dieppe: The Shame and the Glory (London: Pan Books, 1965), 285.