We are getting up and running again and the next Friday TOD begins on August 23rd. The SEA should be good to go and we hope all of the problems with lag are taken care of.
So I need squad CO's to pick a side for the TOD and as always please update your roster so that when I place squads the numbers will work out evenly.
The TOD is called Operation Jubilee. Here is the write up for it.
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At dawn on 19th August 1942, six thousand and one hundred Allied soldiers, of whom roughly five thousand were Canadians, landed at the French port of Dieppe in their first major test of the defence of the German-held coastline of Europe since Dunkirk.
A combination of over-rigid planning, inadequate communication; lack of supporting firepower; and in the final hour before the raid, absolute bad luck inflicted on the Allies made the Dieppe raid one of their worst defeats in World War Two.
The codename given to the operation was ‘Jubilee’ the purpose was to destroy local defenses, capture prisoners, remove German invasion barges and hold for a limited time the town of Dieppe. It was also seen as a way of taking pressure off the Russians, a test for future invasions.
In total the RAF committed approximately 70 squadrons to Operation Jubilee equipped with Spitfires, Hurricane Mk IIcs, Boston IIIs, Blenheim IVs, Mustang Mk Is for tactical reconnaissance, Hawker Typhoons, B17Es, and assorted air-sea-rescue units.
Opposing the RAF on 19 August 1941 were JG2 and and JG26 with FW 190 A’s, Me 109s. KG2, KG45 and KG77 equipped with Do 217s, Ju 88s, and He 111s.
The RAF flew 2,955 operational sorties on 19 August 1941, losing 97 planes and 62 men. The Germans admitted to 48 aircraft lost in action, about half of what the RAF pilots claimed. The attacking force lost approximately 1,000 men killed, 600 wounded, and 1,900 captured.
Two years after the raid on Dieppe, the Canadians landed at dawn on 6th June 1944, participated in the Battle of Normandy and on 1st September 1944, the 2nd Canadian Division liberated Dieppe.
ALLIED PLANESET
- Spit V
- Hurricane IIc
- Spit IX*
- Typhoon*
- P51b*
- Boston
- B17
* limited in number
AXIS PLANESET
- Bf109F4
- Bf109G2
- Fw190A5
- Bf110C4
- Ju88
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