Manitoba veterans are reflecting on more one deadliest days in Canadian history.
Saturday August 19 1942 marks the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Dieppe in the Second World War.
That day on a stony beach in France, more than 900 men died and close to 2,000 were taken prisoner in one day.
Winnipeg veteran Jim McCarron, 80 lived through the Second World War.
McCarron said Canadian soldiers had poor intelligence and arrived in Dieppe unprepared.
"The Canadians were pretty much green or wet behind the ears when they went in,” said McCarron. “A fortified habour is extremely hard to take.
95-year-old veteran Leonard Van Roon was in training at the time.
"They did not mention the number of casualties,” said Van Roon. “All that came out later. We were not really informed."
Van Roon later stormed the beaches of Normandy on DDay in 1944.
Van Roon said Dieppe was a lesson for the Canadian military
Failure helped make DDay two years later a success, said Van Roon.
"They knew you couldn't go in with limited numbers. It had to be massive numbers. It had to be overkill, because the coast was so well defended."
On DDay Van Roon carried a radio on his back to ensure Canadian troops fired in the right direction.
He said in this battle the Canadians made it deep into enemy territory, and his fellow soldiers went on to Belgium, Holland and Germany where there was victory.
Some of the items he brought back from Europe are on display at the Charleswood Museum, which he still helps run.
