Operation Fusilade

Operation Fusilade
Part of Allied pursuit in North-West Europe, World War II
Date1 September 1944
Location
Dieppe, Normandy, France
Result

Canadian victory

  • Dieppe liberated by Canadians.
Belligerents
Canada Canada
United Kingdom United Kingdom		 Nazi Germany Nazi Germany
Commanders and leaders
United Kingdom Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery
Canada Lt. Gen. Guy Simonds
Canada Maj. Gen. Bruce Matthews		 Local command
Strength
Evacuated prior to Allied arrival
Casualties and losses
None None

Operation Fusilade was the plan for a set-piece assault on the French port of Dieppe during the Second World War. In the event, the German occupiers, not having received orders to hold the town, evacuated shortly before Fusilade, which was cancelled. The 8th Reconnaissance Regiment (14th Canadian Hussars) of the 2nd Canadian Division entered the town unopposed on September 1, 1944, to a warm welcome from the French inhabitants. The planned bombing of the town was hastily cancelled. The nearby small fishing port of Le Tréport was taken on the same day by the 3rd Canadian Division. Some days later, there was a memorial ceremony at the nearby Canadian military cemetery to honour the interred men killed in the 1942 Dieppe Raid.

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