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To: donmeaker
A total of fifty US Army Rangers participated in the disastrous Dieppe raid. The Canadians bore the brunt of causalities in that attack, mostly all from The Princess Patricia Light Infantry Brigade.
35 posted on 11/01/2012 12:17:56 AM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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To: jmacusa

Along on the Dieppe raid was Lucian Truscott Jr., who later was involved in managing the Jefferson estate (his wife was a descendant of Thomas Jefferson).

His grandson, JKT IV was involved in inviting black descendants of the family to the reunions. I think the jury is still out on whether any of the black descendants are actually descended from Jefferson himself (rather than from Randolph Jefferson, say) but certainly LKT Jr. had a strong appreciation of the Canadians, and regretted the necessity (but held that it was a necessity) to pay in blood to learn how to conduct amphibious operations against a continent.


75 posted on 11/01/2012 10:02:00 PM PDT by donmeaker (Blunderbuss: A short weapon, ... now superceded in civilized countries by more advanced weaponry.)
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