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Seventy-five years after the Dieppe Raid, the Canadian War Museum says it will be looking back at Canada’s bloodiest day of the Second World War with a new special display. Dieppe features the stories of individuals who took part in the brief but devastating assault in northern France, which resulted in nearly 70 percent of the Canadian force there being killed, wounded, or taken prisoner, the war museum noted in a news release Thursday.

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On the morning of August 19, 1942, almost 5,000 Canadian soldiers — along with some 1,000 British and 50 American troops — landed on the French coast at and around the port city of Dieppe. Stony beaches and other obstacles hindered the soldiers’ advance, making them easy targets for German defenders. Canada’s losses were heavy: 907 soldiers dead and 1,154 wounded. Nearly 2,000 Canadians, including many of the wounded, were taken prisoner. Most spent the rest of the war in German camps.