bstulic posted:

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Never heard of it before

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Koneg posted:

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No surprise really.

You know we've been to the Moon too, right?

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bstulic posted:

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Edit: of course, fact that noone in USA knew nothing about D_Day disaster

up until few years ago means nothing to ignorant fool

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Koneg posted:

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Uh - whut? The details were released less than 30 days after the invasion?

I know you yugoweenies are behind the times but I never realized you were that far behind.

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bstulic posted:

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"This tragedy became one of WW2's best kept secrets until it was revealed to the world almost over 40 years later."


Which part is hardest for you?

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Koneg posted:

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Oh I don't know... I suppose the press release Eisenhower himself released in August '44 and the article that appeared in Stars & Stripes in July '44 kind flies in the face of the idea that it was kept a secret

They kept it secret only until the invasion, after that everything about it was released to the public.

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bstulic posted:

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Stupid relatives to those 1000 dead, they continued to hope they are war prisoners and will come back

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http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq20-1.htm


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. Over the years, details on the training exercises and the resulting losses have appeared in such published sources as Samuel Eliot Morison's The Invasion of France and Germany, 1944-1945 (1957), volume XI of his 15-volume History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, and Roland Rupenthal's Logistical Support of the Armies (1953) and Gordon Harrison's Cross-Channel Attack, which are both part of the multi-volume series United States Army in World War


Thus, since August 1944, information about the training exercise also commonly called Operation TIGER has been available to the public. The naval records relating to Operation TIGER, which are declassified, were transferred to the Modern Military Records Branch, Naitonal Archives and Records Admiistration, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001. Before transfer, the Operational Archives Branch had placed all the naval action reports from this exercise on microfilm reel, NRS-601. To order a duplicate film for the cost indicated on the fee schedule, please complete the duplication order form and send it with a check or money order made payable to the Department of the Navy, to the Operational Archives Branch, Naval Historical Center, 805 Kidder Breese SE, Washington Navy Yard, DC 20374-5060.

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