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Aug 2023
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Episode 432-Blood on Blue Beach

Ray Harris Jr
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Now that the two attacking flanks had landed men, one went well, the other was a debacle, it was time to land men at Blue Beach, just east of Dieppe. And it would be here that would determine if Operation Jubilee would be a success or not. But the Germans were ready.

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