Operation Jubilee: Canada's Devastating WWII Loss | Documentary

[@warsoftheworld1945]

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[@devoli85]

Believe it or not, I'm 38yo french and it's the first time I hear about this raid, even at school they don"t speak about this, I just learned this by reading Wikipedia. We should honor the memory of those heroes. This was suicidal mission, respect to the brave Canadians and Brits who fought there.

[@painmt651]

This was the first time Americans engaged on the Continent with the Germans. Too bad they were operating under the inept command of the British, and outdated reconnaissance. Even so, the detachment they were assigned to was mostly successful in achieving their objectives. For this reason, we learned about this in school…. at least 50 years ago when I was in school, we did.

[@fizzmoe9846]

@@painmt651 There were many reasons the Dieppe Raid failed. Reasons that echoed into the DDay landings which was under the command of the US. It is because of the lessons learned by the Allies at Dieppe that DDay was at all possible. British command was not inept. Not even close. They made mistakes but so did every other countries command. Don’t be ridiculous

[@ricomcavoy3724]

@@fizzmoe9846Americans always think they are superior in every way it’s drilled into them from an early age, and yet the average American seem to be the most ignorant and thickest of all the west😂

[@andrewbird57]

My dad was a Yank who crossed the border and enlisted in the Canadian Army after the fall of France in 1940. He was a Sgt. in the Essex Scottish, captured at Dieppe. He survived nearly three years as a POW and the brutal winter march toward the end of the war. He was liberated in late April 1945.

[@brandongonzalez8597]

You guys should do the Russo japanese war it's a great prequel to all the horrors of modern war

[@orson_carte]

'Dicky' Mountbatten considered himself unable to make mistakes. He went on after the war to supervise the division the Indian Empire into India and Pakistan, leading to millions of deaths. The man was an oaf.

[@FallenAnvilForge]

Bit of a Seizure Warning on this one. Footage is a bit bad about having flashing during this video.

[@Great_Sandwich]

Unwatchable. They tried to go for an old style silent film look, but overdid the hell out of it. I gave up after 17 minutes.

[@anotherpeasant]

Agreed

[@johnsandovaliii5312]

I'm glad I wasn't the only one that noticed. Definitely hard to watch!

[@Vegas_Des]

But did you die? These boys literally died on the shale and you’re complaining about flashes of light

[@Great_Sandwich]

@@Vegas_Des Oh, stop being a drama queen.

[@baahcusegamer4530]

This is why we train and rehearse as much as we can in the military, because both the enemy and Murphy get a vote in how the battle will go and both must be countered with all the skill and strength we can muster.

[@Great_Sandwich]

Murphy's Military Law #1: _No plan ever survives contact with the enemy._ Generally because there are a thousand guys on the other side trying very hard to make your plan fail.

[@ZacharyDarkes]

As a Canadian the Dieppe Raid was a terrible operation that shouldn't have happened, but it proved extremely valuable for D-Day and the lives that were lost saved thousands of men in the end.

[@Great_Sandwich]

Why does it matter that you're a Canadian?

[@ZacharyDarkes]

@@Great_Sandwich Why does it matter to you to the point you need to comment?

[@baahcusegamer4530]

@@Great_SandwichThe worst of the casualties were Canadians-his countrymen.

[@ZacharyDarkes]

@@Great_Sandwich Why are whining about it so much? Like why are you being so toxic?

[@Great_Sandwich]

@@ZacharyDarkes Because your comment was pointless, and silly. ("Toxic". Found the Zoomer.)

[@dewetmaartens359]

Love your channel bro, but the flashing is too much.

[@koopanique]

My grandfather participated in the Raid on Dieppe and he became blind because of the flashing

[@chibble3591]

your channel is underrated

[@warriors1218]

Best pronunciation of Saskatchewan I've heard yet

[@markchapman2585]

I remember my teacher talking about this when I was little. He said they were dead before it started.

[@dmjord412]

I can’t watch this because of the flashing

[@TallDude73]

There was another documentary that suggested Dieppe was an four-rotor Enigma machine grab. There was an Enigma machine in the harbour, and one of the goals for the commandos was to grab it. Wikipedia says this was one of the goals, but the whole operation was NOT a cover for the Enigma "pinch".

[@andrewbird57]

It was a cover operation to pinch an enigma. The historian who uncovered this is David O'Keefe. My dad was captured at Dieppe. It took me awhile to come around to O'Keefe's analysis, but I believe he is correct.

[@greggweber9967]

Lessons were learned.

[@painmt651]

Mountbatten, and not Roberts should have had the responsibility laid at his feet. It was the planning and not the execution that doomed the operation.

[@kerrywil1]

the flashing images are terrible

[@JohnDoucet-v7g]

Would have been better if a known popular Canadian Historian told this story...cause 2 thirds into it i was falling asleep because to much info was missing and incorrect.

[@sazvatore1414]

A lot more to this story has come about in the last decade or two concerning the real reason this raid was launched.Seems they were after code books for enigma so military historian David O'Keefe's research suggests...Ian Fleming was involved in Operation Jubilee along with Operation Mincemeat :)

[@jesperlundthomsen1366]

Is was in fact an intelligence operation - to get hold on enigma machines and codebooks and more!

[@777jaris]

Question for anyone… Were there any notable Nazi leaders or higher ups that Allied Forces thought were respectable? I know of but can’t recall anyone else.

[@conceptalfa]

This operation was quiet a catastrofic debacle from beginning to the end, what a screw up!!!

[@brucesnyder690]

Gee, those second rate German troops weren't too bad.

[@0ldb1ll]

What is with the flickering ?? THIS FOOTAGE NEEDS A HEALTH WARNING

[@karkovice10]

There is a city near where I live that shares its name with that French town! 😁

[@RPMZ11]

So call it....Dieppe New Brunswick.

[@Zagg777]

The Allies in their war against aggression and tyranny. Not like that Ally good old Uncle Joe Stalin.

[@ZacharyDarkes]

The enemy of my enemy is my friend. The allied knew what Stalin was but they needed him.

[@paulwoodman5131]

This raid was planned ,executed, It could not succeed, to succeed Would force the allies to proceed with an invasion. The raid had some success. The guns shut down. They did deliver tanks to the beach. I'd read the radar station was burglized of some parts, but not what they really wanted. 50 rangers wear set out US rangers their first deployment as rangers. They went with British commando. Only 10 actually got ashore. The casualty rate of this raid is even worse when you consider the troops that did not go ashore. This film said 10,000 deployed of that about 5000 went ashore. About 2 thousand prisoners, not quite 1000 dead 80% of the rest wounded. Failed to mention the prisoner of war issue that started here with the Canadians and the Germans. Some goofball Canadian general went ashore with the plans on them. It mentioned binding German POWs for the capture. Germany obviously took offense to this and bound all Canadian prisoners after that in chains approximately 2 years. So , awful treatment because a general foolishly carried raid plans on the beach and was captured. . Canadians were also binding Germans for a time.

[@tremainetreerat5176]

I understand you were trying to frame it as though the Dieppe Raid produced some manner of instantly appreciable Allied intelligence victory--but do you really think that the cut telephone lines weren't replaced by the German signals outfit manning the radar installation within two hours, tops? Or that the crew (as they were specially trained to operate top-secret, vital intelligence-collecting technology and, once collected, to forward that intel to the appropriate entity) weren't expressly forbidden to communicate their secret radar data by any less-than absolutely secure means, such as radio? If nothing else, then in light of the fact that the British had already demonstrated how keen they were for German radar intel with two previous commando raids on similar Atlantic Wall installations in France already that year??

[@nigellawson8610]

The idea that Dieppe provided valuable lessons for the invasion of Normandy is so much self-serving rubbish. It was just an excuse to rationalise Mountbatten's incompetence.In order to examine what could go wrong in an amphibious operation, all the senior Allied commanders had to do is look at what transpired at Gallipoli in World War One. Churchill would have possessed intimate knowledge of the abortive nature of that particular operation having been one of its principle planners. In short, the Dieppe raid represents a prime example of Allied bungling and mendacity.

[@akiblue]

The footage is giving me a seizure

[@TheDavidlloydjones]

"Stalin's screaming his bloody lungs out. Can't we do anything to shut him up for a while?" "OK, let's just toss him a bunch of Canadians. They're cheap and easy, give 'em a bunch of medals, they won't complain."

[@RPMZ11]

It was the Canadian Prime Minister that insisted.

[@davidbirt4643]

What about Australia