A family walks the shore of Pourville, France, Monday, August 20, 2007. The attack on Pourville was one of the four simultaneous attacks to precede the main attack during the Dieppe raid. A group of veterans are in France to mark the 65th anniversary of the Dieppe Raid. (CP PHOTO/Paul Chiasson) CANADA
OTTAWA—Legend has that when Canadian troops stormed ashore under a hail of German gunfire at the French port of Dieppe in August 1942, one of the hundreds who eventually died in the attack was carrying an old flag.
Exactly how that red and white flag ended up at the Nazi−held French port—and even whether it was definitively there—remains a mystery.
