Operation Fusilade was the plan for a set-piece assault on the French port of Dieppe during the Second World War.
In the event, the German occupiers, not having received orders to hold the town, evacuated shortly before Fusilade, which was cancelled.
[1] The nearby small fishing port of Le Tréport was taken on the same day by the 3rd Canadian Division.
[2] Some days later, there was a memorial ceremony at the nearby Canadian military cemetery to honour the interred men killed in the 1942 Dieppe Raid.
[3] The Germans had only partly demolished the port facilities, and bridges and the first ships unloaded on 6 September.