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August 8, 2020 T
Secret Revelaed: More U.S. Soldiers Were Killed In This Training Exercise Than In The D-Day Invasion
And the Army hid the evidence.
by Warfare History Network
Here's What You Need To Remember: Soldiers who ventured out of line or formation ran a terrible risk under such close fire with live ammunition. It was only by adhering to clear timetables and strict discipline from unit leaders that a maneuver of this kind could be carried out successfully.
In the early 1970s, a former British Royal Air Force policeman–turned-hairdresser, Ken Small, visited South Devon on England’s Channel coast. While snow lies thick on the heights of Dartmoor in winter, one can walk about here on the coast in shirtsleeves; it is that warm. And Ken Small from Britain’s rugged chilly north thought he might settle here and enjoy that warmth.
Things turned out vastly different for the bespectacled ex-policeman. For on his first visit to the Slapton Sands area of South Devon, where a quarter of a century before U.S. troops had practiced for the Normandy landings, he met a local fisherman and diver who set him off in a completely different direction which would dominate his life for the next 30 years. The fisherman told him that one of the American tanks used in these 1944 exercises had sunk when it had left its landing craft and now lay intact on the seabed a couple of hundred yards offshore. The hairdresser was intrigued immediately. Within 24 hours he had made his decision. Somehow he would raise that tank and set it up on the shore at Slapton Sands as a permanent memorial to all the U.S. servicemen who had lost their lives liberating Normandy just across the English Channel.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/secret-revelaed-more-us-soldiers-were-killed-training-exercise-d-day-invasion-166528
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The E boat attack was known to have taken 700+ US lives, the 'friendly fire' incident has always been a mystery but, if it happened, was was rumored to have killed 450 US personnel. This comes no where close to the number killed on the US beaches during D Day.
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More on all this here: http://www.exercisetigermemorial.co.uk/ (http://www.exercisetigermemorial.co.uk/)