{"id":7564,"date":"2024-08-19T15:48:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T15:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=7564"},"modified":"2024-08-19T15:48:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T15:48:10","slug":"dieppe-raid-19-august-1942","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=7564","title":{"rendered":"DIEPPE RAID, 19 AUGUST, 1942"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today is the anniversary of the Canadian military raid on the French coastal town of Dieppe. Within hours, nearly 1000 soldiers were dead, wounded or missing in action. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some old legacy photos from a visit I made some 40 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Rue-19-Aout-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"709\" src=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Rue-19-Aout--1024x709.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Rue-19-Aout--1024x709.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Rue-19-Aout--300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Rue-19-Aout--768x532.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Rue-19-Aout--1536x1063.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Rue-19-Aout--2048x1418.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Renamed Dieppe Street<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/church-fortification--scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"693\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/church-fortification--693x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/church-fortification--693x1024.jpg 693w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/church-fortification--203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/church-fortification--768x1135.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/church-fortification--1039x1536.jpg 1039w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/church-fortification--1385x2048.jpg 1385w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/church-fortification--scaled.jpg 1732w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 693px) 100vw, 693px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>German observation post <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Dieppe-Military-Cemetery--scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"652\" src=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Dieppe-Military-Cemetery--1024x652.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Dieppe-Military-Cemetery--1024x652.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Dieppe-Military-Cemetery--300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Dieppe-Military-Cemetery--768x489.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Dieppe-Military-Cemetery--1536x978.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Dieppe-Military-Cemetery--2048x1304.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Canadian military cemetery, Dieppe<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the anniversary of the Canadian military raid on the French coastal town of Dieppe. Within hours, nearly 1000 soldiers were dead, wounded or missing in action. Some old legacy photos from a visit I made some 40 years &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=7564\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,20,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","category-military","category-touring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7568,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7564\/revisions\/7568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}