FYI, I was being facetious with the remark about Monte.Andy H wrote:Mauser K98k wrote:
If I'm then my apologies but I thought that Op Jubilee was after various guises a Earl of Mountbatten project rather than Monty.The Canadians were used as "cannon fodder" at Dieppe. It was a half-baked plan that was doomed to failure from the start.
I wonder if "Monte" would have put a little more thought into "Operation Jubilee" had it been British soldiers hitting the beach?
Also for all his faults I doubt for one minute that Monty would say "Right send the Canadians to die rather than however", you belittle a man about which you know very little.
Andy H
He was reassigned just before the Operation, so he neatly avoided any blame in the fiasco. Mountbatten and Canadian General J H Roberts were made the scapegoats.
I'm not that impressed with Monte, in fact I think he was overrated. But in his defense, he realized the plan was a turkey and recommended it be abandoned.
Len