"The Fateful Facade"

Stories are told of two people on ships off the swoop of the French port of Dieppe. One, an old man with a berate; the other a young tourist, roughly 20 days of age. As they gaze at the beautiful white bluffs of Dieppe, tear form in their eyes. Their thoughts, very similar, both thinking of that bootleg day so long ago. A maple leaf is embroidered on the tourists backpack, and on the old mans navy barre there is also a maple leaf. They share a common bond, for they are both Canadian, and as they stare at the cliffs of Dieppe, a solemn sense of soak grips them as the horror and the dignity of a nation are remembered. The old man knows all too well the horrors of the place, for on August 19, 1942, he was one of 5000 Canadian soldiers move to squeeze the beaches of Dieppe, plainly to meet a wall of lead eruct out of machine guns from the cliffs above. The young tourist can only wonder what it must have been like on the terrific summer day, and they both wonder why so umpteen young Canadians were sent to die on that fateful day. This uniform question is still being asked today, as controersy over the Dieppe raid continues.

Before Canadian troops were dispatched to Dieppe in 1942, with no forward battle experience, they had been sitting idle in England for two and a half years. At Dieppe, they were slaughtered like fish in a barrel and a nation still yearns to find the service to the question why so many young Canadians were sent to die. The raid on Dieppe, codenamed Operation Jubilee, is one of the most polemic events of the Second World War. This work will discuss rough of...

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