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Originally Posted by Alex Smart
Hi ,
Maybe not the right place , but does anyone know where these Invasion Barges were heading for . Were they on a training exercise , what became of the troops aboard. OR was this the start of the real invasion ?
I have read that many German troops were brought ashore or washed ashore and that many Hostpitals were full of German troops that were very badly burned.
Did the Invasion actually start on the 11th ?
Alex
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All along the French coast, every time the RAF came in this period and attacked at sea, they were rumors of heavy german losses and many burned men in hospitals. So far I have never seen a proof of any of these cases being more than a rumor.
Also it was usual for people living in French town bombed by the RAF to believe that the target was a precise building used by German officers and that most of them were killed by the raid. In night raids the targets were ports, stations or factories but never hotels in the middle of a town. And the real German casualties (if any) were far lower than rumors.
I don't know any German report about this attack but the report of the 16 Armee for 12 Sep shows:
"In the night 11./12. bomb attacks on Dünkirchen (10 Stormboats, damaged, 20 small flame-throwers destroyed), Nieuport, Ostende, Zeebrügge, Vlissingen. Small fires in Ostende, 2 dead, harbour-commander injured."
But this is probably the result of Bomber Command attacks.