ALLIED HEROISM AT DIEPPE
Use Of Tanks Causes Surprise (Rec. 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, August 23. A German eye-witness of the Dieppe raid, speaking over the Paris radio, expressed surprise that the Allied forces used tanks. “The beach fortifications were powerful and there was not a single road from the beach to the town accessible to the tanks, but some British tanks attempted the seemingly impossible,” he said. “These tanks advanced a little, but finding the position hopeless, they turned back and ran into the full blast of the German anti-tank guns.” The eye-witness added that the raiders fought with amazing stubbornness and stuck to their posts until their last cartridge was spent or until they drew their last breath. John Gordon, writing in The Sunday Express, said: “Dieppe proved that no wall Hitler has built round Europe will keep us out when, we decide to go in. Dieppe was probably the strongest point of all the coastal defences. Dieppe brought Hitler’s fighters up in the
clouds with the result that we destroyed about one-third of the German air strength in the west. If we could force a week or a fortnight of air fighting on such a scale as Dieppe we might deal the Luftwaffe its death blow and the moment Germany loses her air strength she is done, wherever her land forces are. Slowly, but with inevitable certainty, those who have been forecasting the supreme domination of air-power are seeing their vision become a fact. Hitler can never again see equality with the Royal Air Force, far less hold overwhelming superiority. The Luftwaffe can no longer face two campaigns at once. It cannot bomb Britain and support the army in Russia at the same time.” CANADIAN CASUALTIES (Rec. 12.20 am.) OTTAWA, August 24. The Government has released the fifth Army casualty list since the Battle of Dieppe, bringing the total casualties to 418, including 79 killed, 313 wounded and 26 missing. Further lists are expected twice a day until all the Dieppe casualties are reported.
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Southland Times, Issue 24831, 25 August 1942, Page 5
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