RE: Dieppe

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mikko Kurki-Suonio [SMTP:maxxon@swob.dna.fi]
> Sent: 08 April 1998 22:52
> To:	FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
> Subject:	Re: Dieppe
> 
> On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Alan E & Carmel J Brain wrote:
> 
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to recall that they were supposed
> to 
> send a British unit that had actually trained for that sort of stuff,
> but 
> somehow got replaced with the poor canucks.
> 
> > b) One reason for the raid was to cover a very secret operation to
> steal
> > some parts of a German Radar, vital for the Allied war effort. So
> vital,
> > that the sacrifice of an elite division would almost have been worth
> > it...
> 
> This doesn't compute. The allies had better radars all through the
> war. 
> After all, they invented the bloody thing. Why would they need to
> steal
> parts from a German radar? 
> 
	There was this thing called the Bruneval raid too, 
	in which British Para's landed in France to steal parts of a
radar and escaped by MTB.
	 - I feel a stargrunt Scenario coming on.