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Exercise Tiger: The Forgotten Sacrifice of the Silent Few

Exercise Tiger: The Forgotten Sacrifice of the Silent Few

Lawrence, Wendy

Hardcover

British HistoryMilitary StrategyWorld War II

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ISBN10: 1781551103
ISBN13: 9781781551103
Publisher: Fonthill Media
Published: Mar 19 2015
Pages: 160
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Exercise Tiger: A series of practice operations off the South Devon coast which took place in the spring of 1944 in preparation for the forthcoming D-Day landings. Shrouded in mystery, one of these exercises ended in disaster for over 600 young American servicemen, as their movements were discovered by a patrol of German e-boats, which attacked, leaving two LSTs sunk and one badly damaged. The secret nature of these exercises, some claimed, led to a military cover-up and many families were not immediately informed of the nature of the deaths of their loved-ones. Over the months that followed, D-Day came and went, the war ended and there seemed little point in raking over this sorry affair. For all except those who lived through it, Exercise Tiger became a forgotten chapter in the annals of the Second World War. Using archive documents and images, this book recounts the history and personal accounts behind this tragic event, as well as examining the many subsequent conspiracy theories and exploring the evidence behind them.

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