“...*more people were killed in the rehearsal for the landing at Utah beach than were killed in the actual landing at Utah beach... Eisenhower had ordered live fire to be used in the rehearsal, because he had wanted to simulate real-world conditions. But there was a terrible mixup of timings, which meant that as the American soldiers came onto the shore, the British were still shelling the beach... Americans came under devastating friendly fire from the British."* [Eisenhower’s D-Day rehearsal killed 946 Americans. The number wounded or disabled with this “exercise” isn’t mentioned. No apologies were offered. It was a bigger death toll than the actual D-Day invasion, yet is rarely mentioned.]
“...the Allies launched a massive dress rehearsal for the invasion of Normandy — the famous D-Day landings that would happen five weeks later. But that rehearsal turned into one of the war's biggest fiascos.
It took place on Slapton Sands, a beach in southwestern England...
The rehearsal was given the code name Operation Tiger [under] Allied commander Dwight D. Eisenhower.
"He wanted to put them out in the rough waters of the channels, have them shaken around, [exposed to] seasickness, everything else that soldiers are prone to,... there was going to be shellfire and gunfire so the men would land in real battlefield conditions."
“...*more people were killed in the rehearsal for the landing at Utah beach than were killed in the actual landing at Utah beach... Eisenhower had ordered live fire to be used in the rehearsal, because he had wanted to simulate real-world conditions. But there was a terrible mixup of timings, which meant that as the American soldiers came onto the shore, the British were still shelling the beach... Americans came under devastating friendly fire from the British."* [Eisenhower’s D-Day rehearsal killed 946 Americans. The number wounded or disabled with this “exercise” isn’t mentioned. No apologies were offered. It was a bigger death toll than the actual D-Day invasion, yet is rarely mentioned.]
“...the Allies launched a massive dress rehearsal for the invasion of Normandy — the famous D-Day landings that would happen five weeks later. But that rehearsal turned into one of the war's biggest fiascos.
It took place on Slapton Sands, a beach in southwestern England...
The rehearsal was given the code name Operation Tiger [under] Allied commander Dwight D. Eisenhower.
"He wanted to put them out in the rough waters of the channels, have them shaken around, [exposed to] seasickness, everything else that soldiers are prone to,... there was going to be shellfire and gunfire so the men would land in real battlefield conditions."
https://www.npr.org/2012/04/28/151590212/operation-tiger-d-days-disastrous-rehearsal
https://www.historyextra.com/period/second-world-war/d-day-why-the-training-was-deadlier-than-the-assault/
D-Day hits me in the gut. My Uncle was KIA in his 20's in WW2 in Normandy, France.