Books on the RAF at Dieppe - Operation Jubilee

[Edward]

Hello everyone

I am seeking recommendations for books on RAF operations during "Operation Jubliee" - the landings at Dieppe on August 19th, 1942

Norman Franks' history is the most prominent one out there but there must be other squadron histories and memoirs to consider as well as accounts by German and U.S. pilots.

Thanks.

The Greatest Air Battle - Dieppe, 19th August 1942
(Grub Street Publishing 1978)
(William Kimber, London, 1979)
by Norman Franks
256 pages - hardback

"When Canadian troops and British Commandos made their famous "reconnaissance in force" against the harbour town of Dieppe on 19th August 1942, they were supported and protected by a large array of Royal Air Force aircraft. Air Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory, AOC of Fighter Command's No 11 Group, was given command of the air operation and had at his disposal more squadrons than were available to ACM Hugh Dowding at any one time during the Battle of Britain two years previously. Norman Frank gives a detailed, blow-by-blow account of this day, which has become accepted as the one on which the Royal Air Force fought possibly its greatest air battle."

[Orwell1984]

“The support afforded by the air force was faultless”: The Royal Air Force and the Raid on Dieppe, 19 August 1942

2012 Article in Canadian Military History Volume 24 vol 4/

[Chris Goss]

Norman’s book is the only one I am aware of and it is very RAF-centric

[Edward]

Thanks Orwell1984.

Checking the many sources used by Ross Mahoney for his 2015 article, I do not see any other books besides Norman Franks'.

" 'The support afforded by the air force was faultless': The Royal Air Force and the Raid on Dieppe, 19 August 1942"
by Ross Mahoney
Canadian Military History volume 21 Issue 4 (2015)

https://scholars.wlu.ca/cgi/viewcont...68&context=cmh

[Chris Goss]

I have also written a few articles such as the sinking of HMS Berkeley and 10./JG 2

[Nick Beale]

Edward has highlighted a surprising gap in the coverage when there are endless books about Operational Jubilee itself (many of them trying to work out what on earth it was trying to achieve). Norman Franks' book is about 30 years old and if anyone wanted to tackle the subject now, there seems to be a lot of Luftwaffe material in the Bundesarchiv catalogue (I took a quick look while reading David O'Keefe's 'One Day in August') and of course the RAF squadron ORBs are online.

[Chris Goss]

I have been asked would I be interested but too busy at the moment even though I have carried out quite a bit of research already. There is also Yves Morieult's Croix de Lorraine sur Dieppe published in 2002

[Edward]

Originally Posted by Chris Goss

I have also written a few articles such as the sinking of HMS Berkeley and 10./JG 2

"Fighter-Bombers over Dieppe"
by Chris Goss
Britain at War (Key Military) - 27 July 2017
The Luftwaffe response to the Dieppe raid was robust, with the resolve of the defending German pilots not found wanting as Chris Goss describes.

FW 190’s First Big Battle
"Fighter-bomber pilot Lt Leopold ‘Poldi’ Wenger of 10/JG 2 and the other pilots of his unit were asleep at their billet near Caen when news of the Dieppe raid came through. Immediately, he and two other pilots were ordered to carry out an armed reconnaissance. . . . "

https://www.keymilitary.com/article/...rs-over-dieppe

"The RAF at Dieppe"
By _______________?
Britain at War (Key Military) - 27 July 2017

"By the end of that August day in 1942, the RAF and the Luftwaffe had engaged in what must be regarded as the greatest air battle of the war - if only in terms of the sorties flown and aircraft lost in combat, on both sides, in the space of just sixteen hours. However, and despite the tragic losses on the ground amongst the Canadian forces, the RAF were able to claim the day as a victory. . . ."

"When the day drew a close, and the surviving pilots and aircrew of both sides retired wearily and thankfully to their beds, the RAF had flown some 3,000 sorties and the Luftwaffe nearly 1,000. Losses on the RAF side had seen around 100 of their own aircraft destroyed, and around 50 aircraft lost on the Luftwaffe side. In total, the RAF had lost 64 pilots and aircrew killed, 17 POW, 42 wounded and 5 injured. The Luftwaffe fighter force (excluding bomber losses) had suffered 14 killed or missing and 7 wounded."

Acknowledgement
"With thanks to Chris Goss for his assistance in compiling our section on the RAF’s participation at Dieppe in these special content pages."

https://www.keymilitary.com/article/raf-dieppe

Croix de Lorraine sur Dieppe
(Aéro international éd., 2002)
by Yves Morieult
120 pages - hardback