Dieppe was a very gruesome battle for Canada as they suffered many traumatic casualties. The Raid on Dieppe was Canada’s darkest days of World War Two in August 1942. In 1942 World War Two was not going well for the allies, the Britain’s were stuck on the island while the Germans were bombing them trying to destroy all of their factories and citizens. The Russians were failing in fighting the Germans so in order to regain control, the allies had to relieve pressure on them or they were going to come to an agreement with the Germans. This made the allies more prominent in the battle and that is why the Raid on Dieppe occurred. Dieppe was thought to be a very good place for battle to find out information about the Germans, this would have worked but the Canadians made many mistakes. The total number of deaths that Canadians endured was 907, 2,460 more were wounded and 1,946 were taken prisoner. Why did the Canadians fail at Dieppe? They failed because of their lack of planning and strategies, poor communication, and terrible leaders and Generals. One of the most apparent reasons as to why the raid on Dieppe failed was because of the horrible planning and strategies that were used. One might say that the raid was a failure from the beginning because certain precautions were not taken into consideration. Although the troops were trained for the raid, during their second run through of the battle on June 23, some troops landed 15 minutes late. Having not learned from these mistakes, when the actual raid occurred the Royal Regiment at blue beach was late. The attack plan was supposed to be a surprise raid under the cover of darkness, but they arrived just as dawn was breaking. This assisted in the battles failure. The raid on Dieppe could have been to train the soldiers for bigger battles but General Forbes from west of Toronto after the raid said, ”I feel that from the day planning began, it was intended to be a failure, perhaps not