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Terrace Review — - Wednesiay, August 26, “1987 11 |

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Local veteran recalls |
doomed sea invasion |

-cond wave, affiliated with the
Calgary, Hi anders, “I never
saw action in ieppe,”’ Blue ex-
plained. ““Wei sat in the: TLC,
which is a sort of invasion craft,
and watched our fellow soldiers
get slaughtered. There was no
time to be scared; too much was
happening. All I wanted was to
get onto ground and help my
friends.’’

Blue was one of many who sat
back with the second wave
awaiting an Opportunity to
‘break for the beach and possibly
-help the first. wave penetrate

August 19 marked the: 45th -
anniversary of the World War II
landing at. Dieppe, France, by
allied troops attempting .to
esiabiish a foothoid on con-
tinental Europe. Thousands of
soldiers, the majority of them
Canadian, made this battle their
first and sometimes final con-
tribution to the war effort - ‘by
striving against what are now
. known as hopeless odds to cap-
ture the French maritime city
from the | occupying German
troops.

_ by Philip Musselman German defenses.

vasion like Terrace resident Roy
Blue believe the battle was im-
y portant to the effort because it
opened the opportunity for a se-
cond front in the east to help
Russia against the Germans.

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“'There was a platoon of us in
the craft, about thirty men in all,
and every one of us was-anxious
to get to our destination, but the
opportunity never came,” Blue
continued.

“The first men couldn’t open
_ anything up for us; we finally:

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the evacuation, feeling cheated
because we could have helped.’’

Many Dieppe survivors. can
rementber the feeling of useless-
ness when they couldn't do
anything to help hundreds left
behind, but these men fought
bravely, while men awaiting the
call for the second wave patient-

_ly yearned to help their com- |

rades.

' Dieppe was a disaster, ‘often |

called “the day that will not.

-die’’, Out. of 6,086 men, 5,000

were Canadian troops. Nine

hundred Canadians died and.

about , 2,000 were captured,

Nearly 60 percent of the total ;

force were casualities,
Some political fi ieures consid-

er Dieppe a total disaster, while -

others term the mission as the

turning point of the war. Some:

say that the war couldn’t have. .

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