Can’t really say with any auburn it sounds plausible. America did not take the British Admiralty’s advice on escorting convoys and blackouts along the shoreline. They lost a lot of tonage because of their arrogance. Mistakes were made.
In the article I posted the guy does skip over the prior amphibious landings by US Army troops.
Casablanca, Oran and Algiers (Operation Torch) 1942
Sicily 1943
Salerno 1943
Anzio 1944
Plus the Pacific Theater, so it weren’t like it was our first time at bat.
