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Entry Text:	HUGHES-HALLETT, John ‘Jock’. From Dieppe to D-Day: The Memoirs of Vice-Admiral John ‘Jock’ Hughes-Hallett, CB, DSO. 256p., illus. Barnsley, Frontline, 2023. ISBN: 9781399045575. Hughes-Hallett was Deputy Director of the Local Defence Division at the Admiralty in 1940 and 1941, before becoming Naval Adviser at Combined Operations HQ. Along with the head of Combined Operations, Lord Louis Mountbatten, he orchestrated Commando raids from Norway to Normandy. He became Commodore commanding the Channel Assault Force (known as ‘J’ Force) and Naval Chief of Staff (X) from 1942 to 1943 but is perhaps best known for being the Naval Commander of the Dieppe Raid. The concept of Mulberry Harbours was his. It was in the planning for D-Day that his experience came to the fore. Hughes-Hallett retired from the Royal Navy with the rank of Vice Admiral, taking up a new career as MP for Croydon East and then Croydon North East. A long overdue record published for the first time.	Autobiography Combined Operations: The Early Years The Dieppe Raid D-Day: The Planning

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HUGHES-HALLETT, John ‘Jock’. From Dieppe to D-Day: The Memoirs of Vice-Admiral John ‘Jock’ Hughes-Hallett, CB, DSO. 256p., illus. Barnsley, Frontline, 2023. ISBN: 9781399045575.

Hughes-Hallett was Deputy Director of the Local Defence Division at the Admiralty in 1940 and 1941, before becoming Naval Adviser at Combined Operations HQ. Along with the head of Combined Operations, Lord Louis Mountbatten, he orchestrated Commando raids from Norway to Normandy. He became Commodore commanding the Channel Assault Force (known as ‘J’ Force) and Naval Chief of Staff (X) from 1942 to 1943 but is perhaps best known for being the Naval Commander of the Dieppe Raid. The concept of Mulberry Harbours was his. It was in the planning for D-Day that his experience came to the fore. Hughes-Hallett retired from the Royal Navy with the rank of Vice Admiral, taking up a new career as MP for Croydon East and then Croydon North East. A long overdue record published for the first time.