The Little Known Allied DISASTER and Cover Up
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- This video is dedicated to all the lives lost during Exercise Tiger.
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My uncle, Captain Salvatore LaIacona died during this exercise. He was on LST 531. This video provided a lot of detailed information that we hadn't found anywhere else. Thank you!
Wow, thank you to him for his service and sacrifice. He is truly a hero who will not be forgotten soon! Appreciate you watching and have a great weekend :)
Lot of wrongs went down on this day. And LST 289 took hell of lot of damage; surprised it even stayed afloat.
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a very dramatic event. and one I have read about several times. Thank you for a clear and precise video
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I had read some about this disaster before but that did not go into as much detail on the many missteps that had to align to bring it about. It was very interesting to learn more about why it happened. Thanks for putting that together.
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it's the little things that count.
I was only peripherally aware of these events.
thank you for filling in gaps in my knowledge about this disaster.
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@@HiddenHistoryYT you also!
Very well done. I stumbled across a book back in the late 1970’s titled Barbara by Wayne Robinson. The cover had a Sherman tank on it and I found myself reading about the DD-Sherman tank variant. The book is a fictional account of the invasion at Omaha but the author includes many accounts based on actual events. He also mentioned the disaster at Slapton Sands but the allied losses were all attributed to a storm instead of enemy action. At that time when he was writing the book, the incident was still classified. It was quite some time before I found out about the real cause. The book was also released under the title Hell has no Heroes. Pretty interesting read and not too long ago, WW2TV did an episode about the DD-Sherman’s at Omaha with Steven Zaloga that is well worth watching.
Btw, Rear Admiral Don P. Moon committed suicide a couple months after the Normandy invasion.
Greatly appreciate it, and fantastic info you shared here! Ya I remember watching Deep Sea Discoveries (I think was the name?) where they looked for the Sherman’s used on D-Day that sunk. Has made me be interested in that ever since. Thanks for watching and have a great week :)
@@HiddenHistoryYT I doubt anyone has done a video on the emotional and career trauma suffered by Admirals and Captains of warships that lost hundreds due to a bad decision or just bad luck. Men like Kimmel of Pearl Harbor infamy, and McVay of the USS Indianapolis….
@@damndirtyrandy7721 Very interesting, I’ll see if I can get enough material for a video like that. And absolutely disgusting how McVay was treated!
@@HiddenHistoryYT There’s also Captain Howard Bode who was in command of the USS Chicago during the Battle of Savo Island. There were numerous mistakes made by many that night but Captain Bode would be singled out and was obviously being made a scapegoat of while higher ranked officers responsible for the majority of the bad decisions got off. He ended up killing himself not long after finding out he would be censured.
I came across a book a few years ago titled The Bode Testament that takes the position that Captain Bode botched his suicide and survived. He than decides to attempt to clear his name. The amount of research the author put in to this book is pretty amazing and he definitely makes a good case that higher ranking officers were more at fault than Captain Bode. I think an episode about this particular incident would be great. The author of the book is Sandy Shanks. I’m not sure if he’s still alive but if so, it would be great to get additional information from him.
My cousin Joseph Mancuso, US Army, was on LST507. 😢. Never recovered his body from the ship. Thank you for the video. Covered up for too many years! 😢
I recall reading about Slapton Sands in Bradley's "A Soldier's Story."
I will have to check that out! Thanks for watching and have a great week :)
Another great video! I was wondering if you considered doing a video on General James Gavin if you haven't already? I think a video about his career with airborne and especially leading the 82nd would be great if you did. Especially for your fans also really interested in the paratrooper aspect side of the war. Thanks for your time and the videos!!
I will definitely look into that, thanks for the suggestion! Appreciate you watching and have a great weekend :)
S-130 is being restored by the Wheatcroft foundation. I first heard about Operation Tiger 40 years ago. I think it was pretty unknown at that time.
The information about this disaster was kept secret until the 1970's, they kept a lid on it. Disgraceful event.
@@davidpowell6098 yes that's what I thought, I remember an article in a Sunday newspaper about it in the 70's. Seems odd now it's almost common knowledge!
I didn’t know about this until around 2014.
As part of the result of this mess they had to send divers down to find classified documents at people carried onboard the sunken ships
Great info, thanks for sharing John! Have a great weekend :)
“Night Of The Fox” is based on this blunder of a mess.
Great photographs. We learn by our mistakes. And these helped us to be more ready for D-Day. Question: What make of tank is at 1:57? My guess it is British.
Oh, so you took part in Operation Overlord ? If so, you should be able to identify a 3" GMC M-10 in clear US markings.
If not, stop saying "we", because you weren't part of the team. "We" weren't born yet, were "we" ?
K I’m no tank expert but was also very curious and did a search. I do believe it’s a US M-10 tank destroyer.
@@ottovonbismarck2443 very good commentary. These „we“ keyboard heroes really piss me off
@@theonlymadmac4771 WE, Sir, should have a beer (or twelve) ! 🙂
I can't stand these "we-guys" either. They probably never served but want to be part of it. That's like the French pretending they won the war. Pricks ...
This channel is like my hidden gem. You should have way more subscribers. Like very well done videos. I just watched a few and all good stuff. I believe I remember hearing something about this one.
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Reason for disaster was General bravado.wanting to prove how clever they were...not giving a toss about allied lives
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1,. some boats/life boats were hung on rusted davits so they could not be launched. 2,. there was a big mess up on radio frequency- both rn+usn. 3,. over 1,200 bodies were were buried on the hill above the beaches, the ground has been off limits to this day in three communal pits unmarked.
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Its amazing at this late stage April 1944 with total Allied air superiority the Luftwaffe could still mount succesful reconnaissance flights. what happened to the British radar system.
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Wow, I can see why they don't want to put this on the front page of all history books.
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And the rest of bad news.......then they re-write the history! Peace be unto you.
A very interesting video. A couple of minor points. Although the landings were at Slapton Sands the convoy was attacked near Portland Bill where most of the bodies came ashore. Also some of the DVD Shermans, the swimming tanks, were launched too far from the beach and sank. The tank shown as a memorial was one of them. Also I believe Admiral Moon was involved in landings in Italy and, again, changed H-Hour at the last minute causing blue on blue losses - I have read that he committed suicide as a result. I went to Slapton Sands some years ago with a walking group and gave a short talk about the disaster while were by the tank. The beach now is beautiful but for those of us interested in military history does have some very sad memories.
Fantastic info! Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)
I'm fairly impressed by the AI generated images. You had much better luck than I did trying to get legit looking ww2 images to generate. What model did you use?
Thanks! I use midjourney for most of my thumbnails. Takes a lot of generations/regenerating and slightly tweaking the prompt. It is like you said really difficult to get accurate looking images. Like this one for instance I don’t like that much but was the best I got after like 75+ tries. Stable Diffusion is another option but I kind of like midjourney’s art style better for thumbnails. Appreciate you watching :)
While I understand the need for training, holding that exercise right there under the enemy's nose, was a huge mistake They were effectively telegraphing their punch to their foe.
Not really. The enemy knew an invasion was coming and from the previous invasions in the Mediterranean they had a pretty good idea what the allies were capable of. What they didn't know about was some important differences such as the specialized AFV's that had been developed specifically for the Normandy invasion like the amphibious DD-Sherman tanks. These were deployed at Slapton Sands but too close to shore to be observed by the enemy. They came as a complete surprise on June 6th although with pretty mixed results. More importantly the allies had come up with the brilliant deception operations called Fortitude and Bodyguard that thoroughly suckered the enemy into believing that the main invasion would happen at Calais but be proceeded by a diversionary invasion elsewhere which is what they viewed the Normandy invasion to be. A big part of the reason they fell for this subterfuge was the fact they knew a large invasion would need massive amounts of supply to keep it going. They knew the only way to bring in that much supplies was to capture a port city and since there was none in the lower Normandy area, they didn't believe this was the main invasion. What they never imagined in their wildest dreams was that the allies made two portable harbor complexes that they would tow across the channel and place at Omaha and Gold beaches.
Now to give you some idea the lengths the allies went to in order to keep the enemy in the dark, here's some examples of what they did:
-> All the enemy spies in England had been identified, captured and turned into double agents. It might be debatable that they couldn't know for sure they were 100% successful with this but they did take more steps just in case.
-> One of those steps was to evacuate all the citizens in a certain amount of area around Slapton Sands to insure no possible enemy spies could observe the practice landings. The evacuations were completed by Dec 23/43. As you can imagine, not a pleasant way to spend preparing for Christmas when you are given pretty short notice that you need to leave for reasons related to the war.
-> Another step they took in regards to the mulberry harbors was to sink them so that spies or enemy reconnaissance couldn't view them and possibly figure out what their purpose were. Apparently refloating some of these structures turned out to be more problematic than expected but eventually they were all raised and made it across the channel.
So effectively, what the allies did was telegraph pretty blatantly a feint that the enemy completely fell for while being oblivious to the knockout punch they never saw coming.
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LST large slow target....
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Very interesting historical documentary.
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Good video
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Very interesting.
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For editing? Premiere Pro
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