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2019.034.0007 |
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NPR Newsletter - Operation Tiger: D-Day's Disastrous Rehearsal Pulled from NPR Archives Includes grayscale photographs British Historian, Giles Milton, wrote abou5t Slapton Sands, a beach in SW England. The beaches in the west of England are almost identical to the beaches at Normancy. Dwight D. Eisenhauer, in charge of the landing of LSTs to simulate a water landing on the Devon Coast. The operation was top secret including Allied Soldiers BUT A German patrol fleet was in the English Channel and picked up by radar the fleet of American vessels and launched an attack. Damage was significant. Also, a part of "Operation Tiger" included a British shelling from the beach (to simulate the real thing) BUT in a mixup of timing American soldiers came on shore within minutes 300 American troops were dead. When the operation was over close to 1,000 American troops had died (946) The Lessons of Operation Tiger - Fix the Broken System of Communication |
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Edelmannm Matthew , Pvt - Practice for D Day called "Operation Tiger" |
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War - Edelmann - "Operation Tiger" - D-Day |