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Nazis Smash Ahead (Parker) – 2-3
Auchinleck is Supplanted by Alexander, Burma Chief (Daniell) – 4-5
War News Summarized – 5
Commandos Raid Nazi-Held Dieppe (Kluckhohn) – 6
Japanese Checked on Line in Kiangsi – 6
Pacific Command Lacks Full Unity (Darnton) – 7
Nazis to Move Farbenindustrie to Norway from Region Heavily Bombed by the British (Axelsson) – 8
United States Airmen Who Staged Their Own Raid Over Nazi-Occupied France (photos) – 9-10
Texts of Day’s War Communiques – 11-12
War’s Season of Crisis (Baldwin) – 12

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1942/aug42/f19aug42.htm

Canadians raid Dieppe
Wednesday, August 19, 1942 www.onwar.com

Canadian dead at Dieppe [photo at link]

In Occupied France... A major raid by mainly Canadian Forces (2nd Canadian Division, under General Roberts), with a British commando component (Nos. 3 & 4 commandos under Lord Lovat) and 50 American Rangers, is staged on the French coast, at Dieppe. Its function is to test German coastal defenses and gather intelligence. The raid goes badly and there is much controversy about it, including the cancellation and remounting of the raid, the inaccurate intelligence concerning German defensive positions and the lack of bomber support for the raid. In all there are 3600 casualties on the Allied side. 106 aircraft, one destroyer, 30 tanks and 33 landing craft are also lost. German casualties are light, 600 men and 50 tanks.

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Thanks for the ping, Homer_J_Simpson.

Canada Ping!

[Seizethecarp]

General Alexander had an amazing military career in the WWI trenches, in the Baltics fighting the Bolsheviks, in India, at Dunkirk, Burma and North Africa...so far!

“Baltische Landeswehr”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltische_Landeswehr

Baltische Landeswehr (”Baltic Land Defence”) was the name of the unified armed forces of the Couronian and Livonian nobility from 7 December 1918 to 3 July 1919.[1]

After taking command of the Baltische Landeswehr in mid-July 1919, Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Alexander (the future Field Marshal the Earl Alexander of Tunis and Governor General of Canada, 1946-1952), gradually dismissed German nationals born within the borders of Imperial Germany. The Germans released from the Baltische Landeswehr were incorporated into the Deutsche Legion in September 1919. The legion served under the West Russian Volunteer Army commanded by Colonel Prince Pavel Bermondt-Avalov. The British insisted that General von der Goltz leave Latvia, and he turned his troops over to Bermondt-Avalov's West Russian Volunteer Army. General von der Goltz later claimed in his memoirs that his major strategic goal in 1919 had been to launch a campaign in cooperation with the white Russian forces to overturn the Bolshevik regime by marching on Saint Petersburg and to install a pro-German government in Russia. The Baltische Landeswehr subsequently liberated Latgale in January 1920.