Thread Exercise Tiger, Slapton Sands, 28 April 1944

Discussion in 'All Anniversaries' started by Racing Teapots, Feb 21, 2004.

  1. Harry Ree

    Harry Ree Very Senior Member

  2. Steve Mac

    Steve Mac Very Senior Member

    Some photographs I took at the Operation Tiger Memorial at Slapton Sands on 17 September 2018. The last of the four is a Roll of Honour. I have been here a couple of times previously and would have liked to have had a good look around this time, but unfortunately the main road along the front was closed.

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    Plus, an American Battle Monuments Commission memorial placed in the park in central Dartmouth (2017).

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  3. Tricky Dicky

    Tricky Dicky Don'tre member

    Beach art memorial to D-Day disaster

    Hundreds of US servicemen who died in a World War Two disaster while rehearsing the D-Day landings are being remembered in an art installation.
    Bootprints of 749 troops have been laid out on Slapton Sands, Devon, to mark the 75th anniversary of Exercise Tiger.
    The men died when convoys training for the Normandy Landings were attacked by German E-Boats off the Devon coast.

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  4. AG HART

    AG HART Member

    The first commemoration since the Covid pandemic has taken place. In April 2022 a small service took place, organised by the Plymouth Branch, Royal Tank Regiment Association. We remembered the US servicemen who died when their LST's suffered attacks by German E boats in Lyme Day during a rehearsal for the D-Day assault on Utah Beach. More US servicemen died (over 700) in this incident than died on Utah beach on D-day itself.
     

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