Does this pass the smell test?
I don't think so. Consider that many unclassified documents exist and are available. The exercise itself had secrecy surrounding it because it was after all preparation for D-Day, but by 1950 all was known and documents released.
Plus not only were our men shot but two LST's were sunk. Wouldn't they also have known immediately that they were firing live rounds? I think that this is a witch hunt for the Pentagon even all these years later.
The FReeper Foxhole Revisits Operation Tiger - Slapton Sands - May 8th, 2004
Thanks Cholerajoe.
Hard to tell, sounds like more US Military bashing. Were there "friendly fire" incidents? Sure. But I find it really hard to believe that troops were all issued real ammo and not one person caught it. Especially on the MGs, they're linked ammo and blanks are easy to tell from live rounds. Even if they had live, someone should have caught on before the casualties got that high in a training excercise. Besides it'd really be hard to cover something like this up for this long.