Disaster at Dieppe, France, 19th August 1942 by David Pentland. SCN24 610 Sqn is terminally damaged

610 Sqn is terminally damaged by an Me109 over Dunkirk on 29th May 1940

A Cavalry Skirmish by Theodore Gericault (B) Open edition print

to his father

a Buffalo mine protected vehicle

Disaster at Dieppe, France, 19th August 1942 by David Pentland. SCN24 610 Sqn is terminally damagedDHM1195. Disaster at Dieppe, France, 19th August 1942 by David Pentland. Under pressure from Stalin to open a second front in Europe, Operation Jubilee was designed ostensibly as a reconnaissance in force on the French coast, to show the feasibility of taking and holding a major defended port for a day, in this case Dieppe. The plan devised by Lord Louis Mountbatten failed due to inadequate naval and air support, carrying out the landing in daylight