Is this true? Observer reports ff incident for D-day practice

“Make it look real, boys. Put your heart into it…”;)

Flood.™

Yes it’s true. It’s also widely known and old news.

“Officially, all the deaths in the D-Day training exercises have been attributed to a surprise attack on an Allied convoy, codenamed T-4, by German E-boats the following day, when more than 700 men died off the Dorset coast. “

Is the story I know. But:

“they were cut down by bullets fired by comrades playing the role of German defenders, who had for some reason been given live ammunition. “

sounds like crap to me. Any idiot knows the difference between a blank and a ball round. Utter nonsense. Incompetence or zeal perhaps I could believe, but that? Get real.

Why shouldn’t it be true?
How difficult would it be to ‘hide’ the deaths of several hundred men by that point in the war? A couple of hundred in the E-boat attack, a few dozen in a bombing raid or two, some to disease, then ‘lose’ the rest on exercises until they were officially declared missing/presumed dead in Normandy.
Simple.

Flood.™