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Exercise Tiger
Exercise Tiger was the code name for an eight-day practice run for D-Day, on April 28, 1944, at a beach in Slapton (Slapton Sands), South Devon. Things turned tragic in the early morning. The American troops were about to practice for a landing, when nine Cherbourg-based German E-boats launched a surprise attack, killing 749 military personnel. Just six weeks before the 'big show', the mock operation involved 30,000 men and 300 ships. The 749 killed included 551 Army and 198 Navy personnel, all of them Americans.
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History
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Aftermath - information kept secret
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See Also
External links
- Exercise Tiger at The Naval Historical Center
- Exercise Tiger UK Memorial Site
- Exercise Tiger U.S. Memorial Site
- Slapton Village Tiger Page
- An extensive research about the event
- History of Exercise Tiger from the West Virginia State Archives
- Biographies of West Virginians Killed During Exercise Tiger
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