THE DIEPPE RAID

19 AUGUST 1942 11 AUGUST 1942 The siege of Malta is relieved by the arrival of the convoy “Pedestal” in Valetta harbour. 12 AUGUST 1942 Churchill arrives in Moscow for a conference with Stalin. 16 AUGUST 1942 German army captures oil town of Maikop in the Caucasus region. 17 AUGUST 1942 US Marines known as “Carlson’s Raiders” successfully attack Makin Island, killing all Japanese forces there. 23 AUGUST 1942 Paulus’s 6th Army reaches the Volga river to the north of Stalingrad. When Lord Louis Mountbatten became Chief of Combined Operations in March 1942, he inherited plans for small-scale raids on German-held coastlines to test their defences and secure intelligence. Working together with the headquarters of the Home Army, Mountbatten and the Commanding Officer, South Eastern Command, Lieutenant General Bernard Montgomery,…

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