Eighty years ago today (Aug. 19), during the Second World War, the Allied forces launched an amphibious attack on the Germans, who had taken over the port of Dieppe in France. Tragically, the raid was a failure due to insufficient air and naval support, tanks trapped on sandy shores and deadly German forces. Of the 6,086 Allied soldiers who made it to the beach, more than half were either killed, injured or taken prisoner. Dieppe did, however, lead to invaluable lessons that contributed to the success of the D-Day landings in the future and some leaders, such as Winston Churchill, even believed that these learnings outweighed the cost of the Dieppe failure.
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