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From The Last Stand photobook. Sainte-Marguerite-sur-Mer, Upper Normandy, France. 2012 On 19 August 1942, on the beach of Sainte-Marguerite-sur-Mer, a group from No 4 Commando landed with a mission to assault and destroy the German Hess battery above Varengeville, which...

Marc Wilson

@marcwilson.co.uk

... could fire on the beach of Dieppe. They were successful, but the Dieppe raid ended in disaster for the Canadian and British troops. After the raid, the German coastal defences were strengthened. The monolith on the shingle beach was part of a blockhouse that originally stood on the cliff.

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