dieppe

I'm surprised the article didn't mention but Dieppe was also in a crossword a few days before the Dieppe raid.

Also Dieppe was not used for U-boats so where they did get this idea they find an enigma machine?

The fiascoes of the Dieppe raid and Dunkirk made it clear this was necessary.

The fiascoes of Dieppe and Dunkirk did not really make it clear.

Remarkably a similar event had occurred before Dieppe in 1942.

The Dieppe and Dunkirk failures had clearly established this.

I have never understood why Canadians always seem to reference 1812 and never mention Dieppe when they talk about Hosers on the warpath.

Last summer the History Channel aired a silly documentary on the Dieppe raid which claimed the raid was an elaborate cover for Flemming and his commando group to pinch a U-boat code machine.

This may seem like overkill, but the Dieppe raid disaster convinced the Allies that invasion without heavy logistics backup would be very risky and could lead to huge armies being stranded and lost.

The Brits tried a raid at Dieppe in August [8], it didn't work out that well, with an Allied casualty rate of more than 60% (out of an admittedly small contingent of 6000 men).

As my wife put it: this kid could organize the assault on Dieppe, how can she not cross an alley?

There had been an abortive landing at Dieppe, which if anything had bolstered German confidence that their western front was secure.

The day before the failed raid took place, the word 'Dieppe' appeared as an answer once again in the Daily Telegraph crossword.