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Dr Harry Bennett from the University of Plymouth discusses the operation Exercise Tiger tragedy of 28 April 1944.
As has become well known since the 1980s, on the night of 28 April German motor torpedo-boats attacked a convoy of American tank landing ships in Lyme Bay during a practice invasion exercise (Exercise Tiger) for the landings on Utah Beach.
Two vessels of convoy T4 were sunk and a third badly damaged. The official death toll was put at 749 US Navy soldiers and US Army sailors.
It took four decades for the tragedy of Exercise Tiger to emerge, but what happened in the aftermath of the attack, as a second convoy found itself in the path of the same German motor torpedo-boats that had attacked the T4 convoy, has remained hidden from history until the 21st century.
Dr Harry Bennett, Associate Professor in History in the School of Society and Culture, is the author of The War for England's Shore: S-Boats and the Fight Against Britain's Coastal Convoys.
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