Banggearo;
As Maple01 said I was probably confused. I apologise for the paragraph and have deleted it, as you have quoted it, others are still able to see my mistake.
The details of the incident to which I was referring are as follows and came from Op Ladbroke - 9/10 July 1943 (Sicily).
Three hundred other British Airborne troops had perished in the sea of Sicily. Gen John Hackett explains:
"The operation was a disaster. US Troop Carrier Command tug pilots, flying C-47s with no crew protection and no self-sealing tanks, with virtually no military experience, were panic-stricken at their first encounter with flak and cast off their Horsa gliders over the sea at night, facing high wind, too far out for most to make landfall. Over three hundred British Airborne soldiers drowned.."
Who are you to throw accusations around about anyone who fought in WW2
no-one, but maybe Gen John Hackett is!
'Perhaps' I remembered it incorrectly, mind you I had a few bottles of wine that night with the old GPR boys recalling the tale.!