No pictures of the Calgary Tanks plaque? I still find it a disgrace that there is no actual monument, just a small plaque in a piss stained corner. Many of the boys would never have made it off the beach if it wasn't for the tanks providing fire and cover. My best buddies great grandfather was SSM of B Squadron at Dieppe.
I also have talked to numerous 14 CAR vets about the Dieppe Raid. One told me that once they realized they couldn't make it off the beach, they started to line the tanks up broadside so that the Infantry could hide behind them. Hence why most of the tanks in the Dieppe photos are lined up parallel with the sea wall. He said because the German's didn't have any anti armour weapons strong enough to K-Kill the tanks, the 14 CAR boys just kept firing until they ran out of ammo. He said they took so many mortor hits that the paint inside the tank was melting and his crew was all throwing up from the fumes.
I also have talked to numerous 14 CAR vets about the Dieppe Raid. One told me that once they realized they couldn't make it off the beach, they started to line the tanks up broadside so that the Infantry could hide behind them. Hence why most of the tanks in the Dieppe photos are lined up parallel with the sea wall. He said because the German's didn't have any anti armour weapons strong enough to K-Kill the tanks, the 14 CAR boys just kept firing until they ran out of ammo. He said they took so many mortor hits that the paint inside the tank was melting and his crew was all throwing up from the fumes.
, but none the less I hate historical revisionism. Program coming up on the History channel and the producer came up with the mind boggling revelation, object of the raid was to secure an Enigma machine. The Brits got an original machine from the Poles, during the early days of the war, as well a capturing a couple of others along the way. Lot of questions if the raid was justified or simply one of Mountbatten's whims. Now, THAT should start an argument. 
