What would've been the effects on WWII had Op JUBILEE not been undertaken on Lord Mountbatten's orders in Aug 1942 ? Would the same lessons learned OTL during the heavy losses sustained at Dieppe, such as the inadvisability of attempting to take a fortified port by storm, the essential need for specialised naval support craft and armoured vehicles, and precise combined arms co-operation, have been taken into account in the preparation for OVERLORD ? In other words, could the valuable but costly lessons learned from Dieppe, and translated into decisive Allied strategies such as the development of new landing and fire support craft, and the specialised 'funny' tanks of Gen Percy Hobart's 79th Armd Div, the organisation and implementation of a massive deception plan (FORTITUDE), and the establishment of alternative logistical measures, like PLUTO and the MULBERRIES, to taking a fortified port, still have somehow been acquired and put into practice by 1944 ? Or would such lessons for successful amphibious ops have had to be learned elsewhere, and if they hadn't, that plans for the invasion of France would've been substantially undermined ?
Also, what would've been the status of the 2nd Canadian Div without Dieppe ? OTL the Canucks were just rearing to go into action after being stationed in the UK for 2 yrs without seeing any action, and were so bored and disillusioned with inactivity that the Canadian army had probably the highest AWOL and drunk and disorderly record: 1 great joke made by Lord Haw-Haw in response to Canada's morale problem went along the lines of- how the Allies could win the war: give every Canadian a bottle of whisky and a motorbike, tell them Berlin was out of bounds, then they'd all be there within 48 hrs. Had the Canucks not been sent to assault Dieppe and suffer the crippling casualties that they did, how else could the 2nd Can Div have been used at that point of the war ?
Also, what would've been the status of the 2nd Canadian Div without Dieppe ? OTL the Canucks were just rearing to go into action after being stationed in the UK for 2 yrs without seeing any action, and were so bored and disillusioned with inactivity that the Canadian army had probably the highest AWOL and drunk and disorderly record: 1 great joke made by Lord Haw-Haw in response to Canada's morale problem went along the lines of- how the Allies could win the war: give every Canadian a bottle of whisky and a motorbike, tell them Berlin was out of bounds, then they'd all be there within 48 hrs. Had the Canucks not been sent to assault Dieppe and suffer the crippling casualties that they did, how else could the 2nd Can Div have been used at that point of the war ?