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Operation Jubilee: A Pinch Raid at Dieppe?
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Length:
31 minutes
Released:
Mar 12, 2021
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Podcast episode
Description
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, 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.©INTERFOTO / Alamy Stock Photo See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Released:
Mar 12, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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