Doc7505
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~~~~~~Where did you find that information? I find it had to believe they could wait that long to notify families.
The E-boat attack on the Operation Tiger dress rehearsal in Devon UK occurred in the latter part of April '44.
As History has told us, D-Day was scheduled for the first week of June.
By announcing more than 800 soldiers killed would have tipped off the Germans of where the impending invasion would take place.
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"While the casualties suffered during the first part of Exercise Tiger were high, those suffered as a result of the E-boat attack were even greater. While exact estimates are unknown, due to the overall secrecy surrounding the rehearsal’s failures, most of the figures released following the Second World War put the total at over 700. The most widely-accepted number is 749, made up of 551 US Army and 198 US Navy personnel".
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