NPR ... "When the whole affair was over, close to a thousand American troops were dead.
" 'It's a staggering figure," Milton says. "All the more staggering when you realize that more people were killed in the rehearsal for the landing at Utah Beach than were killed in the actual landing at Utah Beach." Utah Beach was one of the beaches in Normandy that Allied troops charged on D-Day." ...
April, 1944; 'Slapton Sands: The Cover-up That Never Was' ... "For anybody who took even a short time to investigate, there clearly had been no cover-up other than the brief veil of secrecy raised to avoid compromise of D-Day. Yet, in at least one case -- WJLA-TV in Washington -- the news staff pursued its accusations of cover-up even after being informed by the Army's Public Affairs Office well before the first program aired about the various publications including the official histories that had told of the tragedy.
"Yet why, a long 43 years after the event, the sudden spate of news stories and accusations?
That had its beginnings in 1968 when a former British policeman, Kenneth Small, moved to a village just off Slapton Sands and bought and operated a small guest house. Recovering from a nervous breakdown, Mr. Small took long walks along the beach and began to find relics of war: unexpended cartridges, buttons and fragments" ...
Exercise Tiger Remembrance Service at Sea
Exercise Tiger was underway off the South Devon Coast ENGLAND on Friday 28th April 1944,The practice was in preparation of D-Day and being conducted in complete ...
Sonar cameras capture first high-res images of two American ships sunk in Operation Tiger D-Day attack that claimed 749 lives lying in pieces at bottom of English Channel
Video; LST 531 & Exercise Tiger practice for D Day (part 2) "The stern section of the LST, all done on the same dive. Also included are the remains of the DUKW scattered across the seabed."
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