{"id":31637,"date":"2012-08-19T10:49:37","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T14:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31637"},"modified":"2012-08-19T16:51:54","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T20:51:54","slug":"dieppe-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31637","title":{"rendered":"Dieppe Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dieppe-raid-august-19-1942-ww2-history-in-pictures-images-013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dieppe-raid-august-19-1942-ww2-history-in-pictures-images-013-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"dieppe-raid-august-19-1942-ww2-history-in-pictures-images-013\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-31638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dieppe-raid-august-19-1942-ww2-history-in-pictures-images-013-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dieppe-raid-august-19-1942-ww2-history-in-pictures-images-013.jpg 782w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Our Canadian buddy, Aunty Brat, at <a href=\"http:\/\/assolutatranquillita.blogspot.com\/\">Assoluta Tranquillita<\/a> reminds us that today is the 70th Anniversary of the attempted raid at Dieppe, France, mostly conducted by Canadian troops, with a mix of British commandos and American Rangers.  The raid began at 5:00 AM and commanders called for a withdrawal at 10:50 on August 19, 1942 in that relatively short time of the 6,086 men who made it ashore, 3,623 were captured, wounded or dead.<\/p>\n<p>The Royal Air Force lost 96 aircraft, the Royal Navy lost a battleship and 33 landing craft.<\/p>\n<p>The sacrifice of the troops at Dieppe taught hard-learned lessons that led to the successful invasion of Hitler&#8217;s Fortress Europe at Normandy two years later.<\/p>\n<p>But you should read the rest at Brat&#8217;s place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Canadian buddy, Aunty Brat, at Assoluta Tranquillita reminds us that today is the 70th Anniversary &hellip; <a title=\"Dieppe Anniversary\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31637\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dieppe Anniversary<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}