Witness History - Exercise Tiger: Disastrous D-Day rehearsal - BBC Sounds In April 1944, a German fleet sank two allied ships. Around 749 US servicemen died.

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26APR24
The #US #ExerciseTiger Foundation flew original 48-star #flag to commemorate 80th anniversary of Exercise Tiger, a 1944 rehearsal for D-Day marred by German torpedo boat attacks. The flag raising took place at the Columbia Armory.
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‘Herbert Read supervising the careful removal of parts of the screen from Slapton Church’ (1944) - the church historian is assisted by two young American soldiers: they are carefully packing the wooden screen into a straw-lined box

D-Day began many months before June 6th: here’s to the hundreds of #SouthHams villagers who had to surrender their homes & farms to the military for the ‘rehearsals’ - and the many, mostly American, young men who died off the West Country coast before even crossing the Channel #ExerciseTiger #Devon