When Sgt. David Hart of the Royal Canadian Corps Second Divisional Signals was told he was going on another exercise on Aug. 18, 1942, he was not impressed. He had been in Britain for two years ...

Seventy years ago on Sunday, thousands of Canadians fought in the deadly battle of Dieppe. Their blood turned the ocean red, their bodies washed up on beaches of the occupied French port city. Many ...

Canada is one of many overlooked Allied countries that helped turn the tide of World War II from the autumn of 1942 onwards. Although the Canadian-led Dieppe Raid of that year ultimately failed, the ...

Did lessons learnt in the disastrous Dieppe Raid of 1942 secure the success of the Normandy landings? Julian Thompson questions how useful the tactical blunders and senseless slaughter were in ...

Seventy years after the disastrous Canadian attack on Nazi-occupied Dieppe, it remains unclear why the raid was so badly conceived. You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in ...

A memorial commemorates soldiers from southwestern Ontario who died at the Battle of Dieppe on Aug. 19, 1942, in France. ((Mike Beale)) A new memorial in Windsor, Ont., will commemorate Canadian ...

The war had been over for 13 years when a group of former comrades, now scattered around the country, opened the morning post to find a letter from their old chief. Louis Mountbatten, Admiral of the ...

The disastrous Dieppe raid during World War Two was designed as a decoy by James Bond writer Ian Fleming so German refugee commandos could secretly pinch the Nazis' new Enigma coding machine, a new ...

This operation, originally codenamed Operation Rutter but later called Jubilee, was undertaken to test German defences of the port in Dieppe. Britain had enjoyed success against the Germans with the ...