Thousands of British, American, Canadian & Commonwealth troops died storming the coast of France, but more Allied troops died during live-fire D-Day training, than those killed storming the beaches of Normandy at 6am, on the 6th day, of the 6th month, of 1944.
Exercise Tiger was a military training operation that took place on April 22nd-30th, 1944, during the Allies preparation for the day on which they hoped to overwhelm the Nazis. During this training operation, "At least 5,440 died in live fire drills, amphibious landing exercises and flight training compared with around 4,414 at Normandy," say historian, Peter Caddick-Adams.
Due to the disaster happening so close to D-Day, Eisenhower kept the truth from people back home. The general instituted a cover-up that lasted until the 1970s, and to this day the number of casualties is as contested, as the number of Germans that were killed in Eisenhower's Death Camps.
