Dieppe 1942 - Slaughter on the Shingle

[dexter]

Find out how and why the Dieppe Raid was launched in 1942 and why is went so disastrously wrong.

 

[khansaheeb]

They were just pawns sacrificed in the game.

 

[PradoTLC]

seriously if they didnt invade USSR it doubt full Allies would have ever won.

 

[zartosht]

seriously if they didnt invade USSR it doubt full Allies would have ever won.

the French supposedly had the strongest army in Europe. there is a famous phone call where the French commander is telling the English "its over". and the shocked English ask how, you have the "best army in Europe" with the French replying again "its over"

The germans absolutely steamrolled any western/allied army they faced. Even in the closing days of the war, when the german army was a shell of its former self with half strenghth divisions without fuel or supply. they still gave the fresh americans bloody noses left and right all the way to the bitter end.

American shermans were getting knocked out at least on as 5 to 1 ratio. even though they had absolute air dominance at that point since the Luftwaffe barely had any functional airfields or fuel left to fight with.

Grueling street to street fighting in -30 C Russian winter hell, with stretched supply lines, and endless partisan attacks is what broke the german army. No allied army would have been able to defeat them.. any landings would have either been slaughtered Dieppe style, or driven back into the sea via a counter-attack.

the soviet union, and Stalin's no-nonsense fight to the last gasp of air/drop of blood was the only thing that saved the western allies

 

[PradoTLC]

the French supposedly had the strongest army in Europe. there is a famous phone call where the French commander is telling the English "its over". and the shocked English ask how, you have the "best army in Europe" with the French replying again "its over"

The germans absolutely steamrolled any western/allied army they faced. Even in the closing days of the war, when the german army was a shell of its former self with half strenghth divisions without fuel or supply. they still gave the fresh americans bloody noses left and right all the way to the bitter end.

American shermans were getting knocked out at least on as 5 to 1 ratio. even though they had absolute air dominance at that point since the Luftwaffe barely had any functional airfields or fuel left to fight with.

Grueling street to street fighting in -30 C Russian winter hell, with stretched supply lines, and endless partisan attacks is what broke the german army. No allied army would have been able to defeat them.. any landings would have either been slaughtered Dieppe style, or driven back into the sea via a counter-attack.

the soviet union, and Stalin's no-nonsense fight to the last gasp of air/drop of blood was the only thing that saved the western allies

yup... it was Rasputin... that screwed Nazis...