Context: Dieppe Raid 1942 - Operations RUTTER/JUBILEE (8)

Pros vs Cons 2nd Front, Winnipeg Rifles Train for Dieppe, and More

News Clippings from The Winnipeg Tribune, July 27 - 30, 1942

D-Day Dieppe, 3 Weeks Away

[Photo: Editorial cartoon from The Winnipeg Tribune, July 27]

Introduction:

The pros vs cons related to a second front is much in the news. People who are pressing for support for Russia are taking to the streets in London, England. All is certainly not quiet on the western front.

As well, beyond debates about a 2nd front, one gains some perspective about the vastness of the enterprise called World War II - and much more - by reading newspapers from the 1940s.

The Winnipeg Tribune (digitized, available at the University of Manitoba) has been my newspaper of choice for some time and more news clippings, editorials, cartoons and advertisements will appear in entries on this website to fill in some background details to support and provide context for the significant articles that will follow concerning the Dieppe raid.

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Want relief from a 'Sense of frustration'? What does the doctor order?

Lots of pros and cons associated with opening a Second front:

Photographs I have located re the Dieppe raid, chiefly from the Imperial War Museum, occasionally highlight Canadian troops during training exercises, prior to the raid. I include one below to introduce and accompany a very good article by Ross Munro, Canadian Press War Correspondent, about Canadians in training:

Canadian infantrymen disembarking from a landing craft during a training

exercise before Operation JUBILEE, the raid on Dieppe, France. England,

August 1942. Photo Credit - War Times

Shortly after setting foot on Scotland's soil in January, 1942, my father and mates (RCNVR and Combined Operations) were sent to barracks at HMCS Niobe near Greenock. They were not there long, for they soon entrained to HMS Northney III, located on Hayling Island, for their first training exercises aboard landing craft.

HMCS Niobe is listed on my father's navy records and I have referred to it as a transit camp, i.e., a place to stay for a short while before getting passage to somewhere else. If my memory is correct, it was called "the loony bin" by some Canadian sailor.

Below I attach a very rare article, by Lt. E. H. Bartlett, RCNVR, that gives us more information about Niobe and what other activities took place there.

I add the following ad re watches because it includes a price for a Rolex - $69.50 - and my father was given one by his mother and girlfriend (my mother) before he shipped overseas. It was stolen while he was shaving in Halifax. It was inscribed with his name, so if you catch wind of it, let me know : )

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