Funny thing I was just disccusing this debacle yesterday. The images of the Churchill tanks stuck on the beach and being picked off one by one from the German from pre-ranged Anti-Tank guns has a lasting effect, and was used as a great propoganda tool by the Nazi war machine.
The action was not totally in vane however, as the Allies gleened a great deal of tactical knowlegde that would be used again on June 6th 1944, again in France but on the beaches of Normandy, and this time with very different results. A great scarifice indeed Dieppe was, but it did serve a purpose, however terrible the costs.
Let us not forget, their valiant souls, I will be making my annual trip to the local Cenotaph for my two minutes of silence on Armistice Day.
