battle, landmark, interwar and Second World War

Dieppe Raid

Dieppe Raid was a battle fought on 19 August 1942 at Dieppe, in what is now France. It was part of World War II, which ran from 1939 to 1945. The recorded result: German victory.

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Dieppe's chert beach and cliff immediately following the raid on 19 August 1942. A Dingo Scout Car has been abandoned.. Jörgensen, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons.

Record

Date	19 August 1942
Place	Dieppe, France 49.933N, 1.083E
Part of	World War II (1939 to 1945)
Kind	Battle, interwar and Second World War
Result	German victory
Belligerents	Canada; United Kingdom; Free France; Poland; Czechoslovakia	Nazi Germany
Commanders	Louis Mountbatten; John Roberts; Trafford Leigh-Mallory; John Hughes-Hallett; Lord Lovat	Gerd von Rundstedt; Konrad Haase
Strength	2nd Infantry Division; 14th Armoured Regiment (Calgary Regiment); 29 Churchill tanks; Commandos; 3 Commando; 4 Commando; 10 Commando; 30 Commando; 40 Commando; United Kingdom; 237 ships and landing craft including eight destroyers; United Kingdom; 74 squadrons; Royal Canadian Air Force; 2 squadrons; about 10,500 men, including 50 U.S. Army Rangers attached to 4 Commando and 15 French Commando to 10 Commando	302nd Static Division; ≈1,500 men; Does not include Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine
Casualties and losses	Canadian Army: 907 killed; 2,460 wounded; 1,946 captured; British Army: 247 killed; United States Army: 3 killed; 5 wounded; 3 captured; Royal Navy; 1 destroyer; 33 landing craft; 550 killed and wounded; Royal Air Force; 64 Supermarine Spitfire fighters; 20 Hawker Hurricane fighters; 6 Douglas Boston bombers; 10 North American Mustang Mk 1 fighters; 62 killed 30 wounded 17 captured	Wehrmacht: 311 killed; 280 wounded; Kriegsmarine; 1 submarine chaser UJ-1404 sunk; Luftwaffe; 23 Fw 190; 25 Dornier Do 217

The recorded site, with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

Siege of Dieppe 1442, 1.4 km
Battle of Arques 1589, 6.5 km
Battle of Mortemer 1054, 39 km
Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu AD 881, 40 km
Battle of Mons-en-Vimeu 1421, 44 km

In the same war

Before: Fight at the Saints Cyril and Methodius Cathedral 18 June 1942
After: Battle of the Eastern Solomons 24 August 1942
All 212 engagements of World War II

Elsewhere in 1942

Dieppe Raid is one of 1,912 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 1,142 in present-day France.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q270517, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Dieppe Raid, revision 1385501153, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.