Podcasts History The WW2 Podcast 79 - The Forgotten Dead: Exercise Tiger

79 - The Forgotten Dead: Exercise Tiger

Published: Nov. 15, 2018, 5:30 a.m.

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\\u2018On a dark night in 1944, a beautiful stretch of the Devon coast became the scene of desperate horror. Tales began to leak out of night-time explosions and seaborne activity. This was practice for Exercise Tiger, the main rehearsal for the Utah Beach landings\\u2026\\u2019

This is very much an episode in two halves, I start by looking at the disastrous Exercise Tigerwhich took place in April 1944, at Lyme Bay and Slapton Sands in Devon. Then move on to talk about a Sherman tank!

I\\u2019m joined by Dean Small.

Dean\\u2019s father Ken did much to rediscover those event in April 1944, and create a memorial to those who lost their lives. He wrote the book The Forgotten Dead: The true story of Exercise Tiger, the disastrous rehearsal for D-Day

You can find out more about the exercise on Dean\'s website Exercise Tiger Memorial.

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