ALLIED TROOPS RAID DIEPPE AREA
LEADING PART PLAYED BY CANADIANS
(United Press Association —Telegraph Copyright)
(Rec. 1.15 a.m.) LONDON, August 19. Canadian, British, American and Fighting French units have landed in the Dieppe area of occupied France and heavy fighting is raging between them and the German occupation troops. Although the Allied forces have landed tanks, the British wireless has warned the French people that the action is only 4 raid and has advised them not to take any action exposing them to reprisals. A communique issued by Vice-Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten’s Combined Operations headquarters states that the troops have been landed at all the points selected. On the left flank one party was initially repulsed, but it re-formed and succeeded in landing. On the right flank the Allied forces completed their mission, destroyed a sixgun battery and were re-embarked. In the centre the attackers, who were mostly Canadians, landed tanks and heavy fighting is still going on against fierce opposition. The Commandos, who were carried and escorted to Dieppe by the Royal Navy, are receiving large-scale support from the Royal Air Force, which also is meeting with considerable resistance.
Fierce cannonading has been heard on the English side of the Channel for some hours and windows and doors have been shaking. One newspaper correspondent said he had never seen so many Royal Air Force planes go out. The German radio says the occupation troops are resisting strongly and that units of the German Navy are engaged.
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Southland Times, Issue 24827, 20 August 1942, Page 5
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247ALLIED TROOPS RAID DIEPPE AREA Southland Times, Issue 24827, 20 August 1942, Page 5
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