Dieppe Raid Failure

The Dieppe Raid had several factors which led to its failure and cost many soldiers' lives including numerous Canadians. Many mistakes were made throughout the raid, which allowed the allies to gain knowledge of things to not do in the future. One of the main factors of the Dieppe disaster was that the whole raid was not fully nor properly planned. An event which was badly planned was the departure to Dieppe. The ships were to leave before dawn, where it is dark and the enemy would not be able to see them, but they had left the shore later due to a delay. This created a loss in the effect of a surprise attack for the reason that it was now daylight causing the ships to easily be spotted from afar although, they still continued with the raid. Additionally, the entire idea of …show more content…
This resulted in a huge mass of troops to be trapped and for them to become vulnerable targets. Likewise, since tanks were not designed to travel over the rocky beach, more soldiers became stationary and defenseless. Troops on the ships should have been sent to help and provide back-up for those who were helpless. Furthermore, the accident of spotting an unanticipated German convoy and participating in a momentous battle lacked the concept of communication. Since this incident created a great deal of noise which would have been heard by some of the Germans and taken away the chance of having a surprise attack, the ship who was in battle should have notified the reason for delay to other ships, how plenty of noise was generated and why they shouldn't have proceeded with the raid. An additional factor that caused the disaster was that no one was fully prepared to perfectly execute the Dieppe Raid. To begin with, the Allies had not felt ready for a full invasion. Although a raid is smaller than an invasion, it still requires the same amount of effort and