Dieppe Uncovered (fwd)

I don't know if anybody had watched this last night, but it repeats
TODAY ( Monday ) at 1pm ( UK ) on "Yesterday"....:


Dieppe Uncovered
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Sunday 19th August 2012 at 21.00hrs on 'Yesterday'

REPEAT : Monday 20 August 2012 at 13.00hrs on 'Yesterday'
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In 1942, Allied forces mounted a disastrous attack on the French port of 
Dieppe. Now the truth behind the ill-fated raid and the role played by 
author Ian Fleming is revealed. 

On 19th August 1942 Allied forces attacked the French port of Dieppe. The 
disastrous mission resulted in the deaths of nearly 1,000 men and 2,000 
men taken prisoner.

For 70 years many have asked what happened and why the mission was such a 
failure. To mark the 70th anniversary of the event, Yesterday is finally 
able to reveal the truth behind one of the biggest secrets of World War 
II.

Dieppe Uncovered brings back to life the raid thanks to dramatic 
reconstructions and talks to those who really know the truth.

Fifteen years ago Professor David O'Keefe, an expert on ULTRA - the highly 
secretive and classified intelligence the Allies gathered during the war - 
was searching through formerly secret ULTRA files. He found out something 
extraordinary. The previously unknown 30th Assault Unit was behind the 
raids, and the man leading the group was none other than Sir Ian Fleming, 
the man who would later go on to become a celebrated novelist.

Could the man who created James Bond been behind one of the blackest days 
of World War II ?


http://uktv.co.uk/yesterday/item/aid/653281


MikeM12275 wrote on 20 Aug 2012 at 09:26 AM
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Interesting programme, but I wonder if the objectives for the raid were 
quite as those suggested . Surely the reason for all the secrecy regarding 
the breaking of the Enigma code-and its subsequent success as far as the 
Allies were concerned-was that the Germans did not realise we had cracked 
it? And was why all Allied operations which were subsequently carried out 
as a result of the intelligence gleaned via Enigma had to be done in such 
a way as to give our enemies no hint that we had prior knowledge which 
could only have been learned via a compromised Enigma system. Although the 
Dieppe raid may have secured a four-rotor Enigma, and therefore 
short-circuited Beltchley's on-going attempts to solve the code for that 
specific machine,it would have been pointless in the long-term since the 
Germans would have been fully aware that we had obtained the 4-rotor 
model, and developed another variation which would have set back the 
cracking of Enigma even further ? Even if they were unsure that we had 
obtained the device, any destruction of the Dieppe HQ would have left them 
with no alternative but to assume the worst.

So surely the failure of the elite squad to snatch the machine & code 
books was probably a better outcome in the long run .

Which begs the question, with so many brains hatching this scheme, why did 
no-one at the time realise that a successful snatch raid would ultimately 
backfire in this way ? Or was there another secret which they needed to 
seize which was so important that the blowing of the current efforts to 
solve Enigma was considered a sacrifice worth making ? Or is this yet 
another Enigma.....?

Mike 


Thu, Aug 9 : It turns out Ian Fleming, the man behind James Bond, helped 
devise the Battle of Dieppe of 1942, a raid that left 900 Canadians dead. 
Christina Stevens reports.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGR9qN8oxcQ


Postmedia News
August 19, 2012

Decoding the mystery of Dieppe
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Deadly assault on Nazi-occupied beach was cover for a larger mission, 
documentary says
 
By Doug Schmidt

The horror of Canada's darkest day of the Second World War still remains a 
vivid picture in Howard Large's mind, 70 years after he crawled in terror 
over the still-warm bodies of comrades and across the bloodied stones of a 
machine gun-raked beach at Dieppe.../snip/

http://www.timescolonist.com/news/Decoding+mystery+Dieppe/7113047/story.html

http://thechronicleherald.ca/artslife/128001-tv-doc-sheds-new-light-on-dieppe-70-years-later

http://arts.nationalpost.com/2012/08/16/with-dieppe-uncovered-and-nerve-centre-its-all-in-the-human-details/