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Operation Jubilee - The Raid on Dieppe August 19,1942

By: High Flying Dice Games

Type: Ziplock

Product Line: World War II War Games w/Mounted Counters

MSRP old price: $40.00


Product Info

Title
Operation Jubilee - The Raid on Dieppe August 19,1942
Category
Publish Year
2020
Dimensions
8.5x11.5x.25"
NKG Part #
2147842946
Type
Ziplock

Description

In May it was decided to conduct a raid on the channel port of Dieppe. Vice-Admiral Lord Louis Mountbattan, commander of the British Combined Operations Center, was changed with planning the raid. It was hoped the raid could cause serious damage to the German’s defenses, demonstrate to the Soviets that the Allies were earnest in their desire to quickly take the war to the Germans on the European continent, as well as demonstrating the feasibility of large scale amphibious operations. The RAF was counting on the Luftwaffe also rising up to aggressively defend the skies above Dieppe in battle the RAF leadership was confident they could win. It was also hoped that intelligence agents, that would land with the 5,000 Canadian and 1,000 British assault troops (along with 50 US Rangers), could perform “pinch” operations to capture German code books, samples of their new radar technology, and perhaps an Enigma code machine (this aspect of the raid was overseen by Ian Fleming the future author of the James Bong novels). An earlier raid to be launched in July, dubbed Operation Rutter, was cancelled but the raid was resurrected in the first week of August and called Operation Jubilee.