"I pointed out that 10 men of the South Saskatchewan Regiment had been detailed to ensure I complied with the instructions," Jack wrote. Dieppe was selected and Nissenthall volunteered for the raid, even though the German Freya radar system was heavily protected and the mission was thought difficult, if not impossible.Īt an Air Ministry meeting in Whitehall a senior intelligence officer gave him a last chance to change his mind, stressing the "no capture" clause. In 1942, the Allies came up with a feasibility plan to liberate Europe by amphibious invasion, testing the German defences and their own capabilities by seizing a French Channel port. To track bombing raids from occupied Norway, Nissenthall worked at a radar base in Rosehearty, north of Aberdeen, and later on England's south coast. Though I would never have admitted it, I felt in my heart that we could not win this war." The stacked formations of bombers at times seem to swarm like locusts and fill the sky. Jack recalled in his memoir: "It seemed the Luftwaffe could do as it pleased, burning and bombing wherever it chose. They were dark times as the Battle of Britain raged over south-east England. In February 1940, he joined the RAF as a radio mechanic and began training radar operators. At 16 he joined EMI, working on sound production and assembling and installing television sets. As a boy he was handy with a screwdriver, making crystal radio sets for friends and neighbours from the age of nine. His father Aaron, a tailor, and his mother, Annie, lived in Bow, east London. Jack was born in October 1919 into a loving Jewish family.
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Prince Charles and his late father, Prince Philip, knew of Jack Nissenthall's role in Operation Jubilee and went out of their way to thank him for his service. His bravery under fire was extraordinary." Many people think my father deserved the Victoria Cross for what he did.
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"When I read his account and the very touching letters he wrote to my mother Dally, I knew I had to tell his story properly for the first time. Linda explains: "My father was very secretive about what he did during the war and it wasn't until I was 13 that I learned he'd gone to Dieppe and nearly been killed. If I'd been told, he would most certainly have been decorated on the spot." "Another failure of the machine below me was that nobody told me afterwards Nissenthall had returned safely. "Never at any time have I heard of sending out people with instructions to kill one of their own men," he wrote later.