The Operation Which Saved the D-Day Landing-Operation Jubilee
Operation Jubilee on the beaches of Dieppe was a colossal loss for the Allied forces. But the lessons learned helped them to better plan the D-Day landing
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5 min readJun 12, 2020
It is the northern beach of France, Allied forces, landed near the town of Dieppe.
Under a hail of heavy gunfire, the allied troops inched towards their targets. The losses were heavy on the allied side. On that day, half of the forces that tried to land in the beaches perished. It was not the D-Day landing. It is the Dieppe landing on 19th August 1942, a prelude to D-Day landing in Normandy.
The need for the raid:
Operation Barbarossa, German offensive against USSR, entered a stalemate, especially at Stalingrad.
Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin insisted Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D-New York), open a new front in the west. The new war front will lessen the pressure in the eastern front.
