[FReepaholic]

I find it hard to believe that soldiers would continue shooting after seeing that they were killing their own.

>>...US serviceman Harold McAulley, who tells of dragging dead soldiers off the sands and later helping to bury corpses - the faces black with oil and burning ...<<

Consistent with an explosion on a ship.

[luvbach1]

I find it hard to believe that soldiers would continue shooting after seeing that they were killing their own.

Perhaps they thought the soldiers had been directed to "play dead."

[Righty1]

In that time period men on all sides did what they were told and our moron officers kept ordering them to fire.