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Old 06-05-15, 09:52 PM
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Default Tanks at Dieppe. Canadian Churchills?

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I'm moving on some pix of the Dieppe raid. As I was looking at them with a view ti describing I saw that the name on a destroyed churchhill is called Calgary?
Where these Canadian Churchill tanks?
The photos are German and very interesting?
Just wondered out of interest
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Old 06-05-15, 10:00 PM
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Hello Jon, Yes the Calgary Regiment (Tank) were equiped with Churchills at Dieppe. Some very interesting images were taken by the Germans after the raid.
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Old 06-05-15, 10:12 PM
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The photos clearly show some tanks well off of the beach. I was always led to believe none got off the shores.
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Some of the tanks got off the beach and well inland, but afterward returned to the beach to provide cover for the infantry trapped there.
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