A D-Day rehearsal turned into a real nightmare.
On 28 April 1944, German E-boats attacked American landing ships during Exercise Tiger off the coast of Devon, England. Two LSTs sank, and hundreds of American soldiers and sailors lost their lives.
The disaster exposed failures in communications and survival training just weeks before the Normandy invasion. Initially kept secret to protect D-Day preparations, it remains one of WWII’s lesser-known tragedies.
This is their story—and a reminder of the human cost behind the preparations for D-Day.
⚠️ This video is a dramatized historical retelling. Visuals are reconstructions, not original wartime footage. Some details have been simplified.
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