Col Douglas MacGregor Alleges US Special Forces Went into Gaza and “Were Shot to Pieces, Took Heavy Losses, I Understand”

[Doc7505]

Where did you find that information? I find it had to believe they could wait that long to notify families.

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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.
See more:

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/exercise-tiger-d-day.html

"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".

 

[Doc7505]

Regardless.. a Special forces action unsupported into Gaza would be suicidal.

Those people are not stupid or suicidal

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I doubt that our Special forces would go in alone and unsupported by Israeli Spec Force troops and air support

 

[Doc7505]

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I doubt that our Special forces would go in alone and unsupported by Israeli Spec Force troops and air support

Addition:
To your question.
Surely the KIA and WIA notifications were sent to the survivors back in the states. The notifications were sent along with the KIA and WIA notifications which began after June 6th 1944.

 

[Care4all]

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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.
See more:

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/exercise-tiger-d-day.html

"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".

Psst....it's not the 1940s.... We have instantaneous news today....the internet.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

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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.
See more:

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/exercise-tiger-d-day.html

"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".

You did not provide your source but reiterated your claim. Nothing in the link verifies your statement. Notification of families is not done in mass or via the media. Individual families being notified would have gone unnoticed. I just think it odd for you to make that claim without some verification.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Addition:
To your question.
Surely the KIA and WIA notifications were sent to the survivors back in the states. The notifications were sent along with the KIA and WIA notifications which began after June 6th 1944.

Still waiting on your source for this.

 

[marvin martian]

Bad things happen when you do stupid things.

Yup. Your votes for the people who allowed Hamas to do this was a stupid thing.

 

[candycorn]

Every conservative swears to support the military.

Yet here is this bullshit unsubstantiated report being given oxygen. If you’re a wife, son, daughter of a special forces operator and you haven’t heard from your husband or father... and you see this report.... Its just sick and disgusting that those who claim to support the military do this shit.

 

[pknopp]

Yup. Your votes for the people who allowed Hamas to do this was a stupid thing.

I don't recall voting on it.

 

[marvin martian]

I don't recall voting on it.

You did. When you pulled the lever for Biden/Harris, you must have known the DemoKKKrats' well known and well-documented anti-Semitism would lead to this. No one is that oblivious.

 

[Doc7505]

Still waiting on your source for this.

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Exercise Tiger - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

"Exercise Tiger, or Operation Tiger, was one of a series of large-scale rehearsals for the D-Day invasion of Normandy, which took place in April 1944 on Slapton Sands in Devon. Coordination and communication problems resulted in friendly fire injuries during the exercise, and an Allied convoy positioning itself for the landing was attacked by E-boats of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine, resulting in the deaths of at least 749 American servicemen.[1][2]
Because of the impending invasion of Normandy, the incident was under the strictest secrecy at the time and was only minimally reported afterwards".

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Exercise Tiger​

Exercise Tiger
"To keep the Germans from possibly learning about the impending Normandy Invasion, casualty information on Exercise TIGER was not released until after the invasion. On August 5, 1944, Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force released statistics on the casualties associated with the Normandy Invasion, which included information about the German E-Boat attack on April 28. This information was also published in the August 7 issue of The Stars and Stripes, the daily newspaper of the U. S. Armed Forces in the European Theater. The Textual Reference Branch, National Archives and Records Administration, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001, holds the originals of both these sources".

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Bribery baby biter Biden exposed those men for some reason.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

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Exercise Tiger - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

"Exercise Tiger, or Operation Tiger, was one of a series of large-scale rehearsals for the D-Day invasion of Normandy, which took place in April 1944 on Slapton Sands in Devon. Coordination and communication problems resulted in friendly fire injuries during the exercise, and an Allied convoy positioning itself for the landing was attacked by E-boats of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine, resulting in the deaths of at least 749 American servicemen.[1][2]
Because of the impending invasion of Normandy, the incident was under the strictest secrecy at the time and was only minimally reported afterwards".

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Exercise Tiger​

Exercise Tiger
"To keep the Germans from possibly learning about the impending Normandy Invasion, casualty information on Exercise TIGER was not released until after the invasion. On August 5, 1944, Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force released statistics on the casualties associated with the Normandy Invasion, which included information about the German E-Boat attack on April 28. This information was also published in the August 7 issue of The Stars and Stripes, the daily newspaper of the U. S. Armed Forces in the European Theater. The Textual Reference Branch, National Archives and Records Administration, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001, holds the originals of both these sources".

That STILL doesn't say that the families were not notified. I am sorry you cannot seem to understand. What they are referring to here is that the exercise casualty figures were withheld. Statistics are NOT notifications. Why not notify the families of the death of their sailors and soldiers individually? They could not know of any others. The final statistics I can understand not being released until after D-Day occurred. That makes sense.

You may in fact be correct, but you have failed to document that individual families were not notified from April until August. The families were notified immediately after D-Day casualties.

 

[odanny]

That STILL doesn't say that the families were not notified. I am sorry you cannot seem to understand.

Actually, it is you who cannot understand, I'm not attacking you, just saying it's known for a fact that families were NOT notified of these deaths directly after Exercise Tiger, the reason was because they did not want word to reach Germany of the preparations for D-Day.

The casualty statistics from Tiger were not released by Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) until August 1944, along with the casualties of the actual D-Day landings. This report stated that there were 442 army dead and 197 navy, for a total of 639.[28] (However, Moon had reported on 30 April that there were 749 dead.)

In total, 749 servicemen (551 United States Army and 198 United States Navy) were killed during Exercise Tiger.[2][19] Many servicemen drowned or died of hypothermia in the cold sea while waiting to be rescued. Many had not been shown how to put on their lifebelt correctly, and placed it around their waist, the only available spot because of their large backpacks. In some cases this meant that when they jumped into the water, the weight of their combat packs flipped them upside down, dragging their heads under water and drowning them.[20] Dale Rodman, who travelled on LST-507, commented: "The worst memory I have is setting off in the lifeboat away from the sinking ship and watching bodies float by".[5] The 248 bodies that were recovered were sent to Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey on 29 April.[21] The unit with the most casualties was the 1st Special Engineer Brigade.[22]

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Actually, it is you who cannot understand, I'm not attacking you, just saying it's known for a fact that families were NOT notified of these deaths directly after Exercise Tiger, the reason was because they did not want word to reach Germany of the preparations for D-Day.

The casualty statistics from Tiger were not released by Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) until August 1944, along with the casualties of the actual D-Day landings. This report stated that there were 442 army dead and 197 navy, for a total of 639.[28] (However, Moon had reported on 30 April that there were 749 dead.)

In total, 749 servicemen (551 United States Army and 198 United States Navy) were killed during Exercise Tiger.[2][19] Many servicemen drowned or died of hypothermia in the cold sea while waiting to be rescued. Many had not been shown how to put on their lifebelt correctly, and placed it around their waist, the only available spot because of their large backpacks. In some cases this meant that when they jumped into the water, the weight of their combat packs flipped them upside down, dragging their heads under water and drowning them.[20] Dale Rodman, who travelled on LST-507, commented: "The worst memory I have is setting off in the lifeboat away from the sinking ship and watching bodies float by".[5] The 248 bodies that were recovered were sent to Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey on 29 April.[21] The unit with the most casualties was the 1st Special Engineer Brigade.[22]

If what you said was true, why did they wait until August when D-Day was 2 months earlier?

That makes no sense as they notified families of those killed on D-Day immediately. Why wait?

 

[odanny]

That makes no sense as they notified families of those killed on D-Day immediately.

I doubt that, the earliest would have been mid to late July.

 

[Tunafish]

What threat was America under that could justify the deaths of US soldiers?

 

[DigitalDrifter]

I'll wait for confirmation on this. At this moment I'm not buying it.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Bad things happen when you do stupid things.

Like voting for Biden... so right

 

[pknopp]

Like voting for Biden... so right

Or Trump or Obama or Bush or........