How 252 British Commandos Bayonet-Charged a German Base and Killed 150 to Save an Allied Fleet

#Dieppe #Commandos #WW2History At ten minutes to five in the morning, on the nineteenth of August 1942, two groups of men step onto the coast of occupied France, six miles apart. One group is about to walk into the worst day in Canadian military history — on the shingle in front of Dieppe more than three thousand men will be killed, wounded, or marched into captivity, and the sea will fill with burning boats. The other group is two hundred and fifty-two British commandos, wading ashore in the dark under a cliff, in silence. They have one job. On top of that cliff, behind wire and mines and machine guns, sits a German battery of six big guns that can reach every landing ship off Dieppe. This documentary tells the true story of Operation Cauldron, the flank attack carried out by No. 4 Commando under Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Lovat at Varengeville-sur-Mer — the one thing that went right at Dieppe. Their orders gave them sixty-five minutes from landing to reach the guns. They went in with bayonets, and by breakfast the battery and most of the two hundred and fifty Germans defending it had ceased to exist. Discover how a two-pronged assault worked: Major Derek Mills-Roberts pinning the battery from the front while Lord Lovat led the flanking force in behind the guns; how Captain Pat Porteous won the Victoria Cross leading a leaderless troop onto the position at the point of the bayonet; and why the commandos came home from the disaster of Dieppe with a French farmwoman's basket of eggs. 🔥 In this video: The Guns Above the Beach: six 150mm coastal guns that could have turned Dieppe into a massacre at sea. Sixty-Five Minutes: the hard deadline to land, cross the ground, and silence the battery. Two Pincers: Mills-Roberts fixing the guns from the front while Lovat's force swung in behind them. Porteous's Victoria Cross: the wounded officer who took over a leaderless troop and led the final charge. The Basket of Eggs: how the only men on that coast who had earned it came home. Sources of Where I get my facts: Fraser, S. (Lord Lovat) (1978) *March Past: A Memoir*. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London. Fowler, W. (2002) *The Commandos at Dieppe: Rehearsal for D-Day*. HarperCollins, London. Neillands, R. (2005) *The Dieppe Raid: The Story of the Disastrous 1942 Expedition*. Aurum Press, London. Saunders, H. St G. (1949) *The Green Beret: The Story of the Commandos*. Michael Joseph, London. The National Archives (UK), DEFE 2 series — Combined Operations Headquarters Records. Disclaimer: This video is a historical documentary intended for educational purposes. #Dieppe #Commandos #WW2History #LordLovat #No4Commando #Varengeville #PatPorteous #WW2 #WorldWarII #OperationJubilee #MilitaryHistory #SecondWorldWar #GreenBeret