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Exercise Tiger memorial Utah Beach

In memory of the 946 American servicemen who died in the night of 27 April 1944 off the coast of Slapton Sands (G.B.) during "Exercise Tiger" the rehearsals for the D-Day landing on Utah-Beach...

In memory of the 946 American servicemen
who died in the night of 27 April 1944 off
the coast of Slapton Sands (G.B.) during
"Exercise Tiger" the rehearsals for
the D-Day landing on Utah-Beach

'Because of the impending invasion of Normandy, the incident was under the strictest secrecy at the time'

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