(Ebook) The Forgotten Dead, The True Story Of Exercise Tiger 1944 - The Disastrous Rehearsal For D-Day by Ken Small ISBN 9781472834492, 9781472834553, 1472834496, 1472834550

(Ebook) The Forgotten Dead, The True Story Of Exercise Tiger 1944 - The Disastrous Rehearsal For D-Day by Ken Small ISBN 9781472834492, 9781472834553, 1472834496, 1472834550

The night of 27 April 1944. Off the coast of Slapton Sands on a darker then normal night, off the coast of Devon, England.An American Landing craft training Exercise, 'Exercise Tiger', is now well underway off the coastline as part of the buildup for the planned invasion of France - Operation Overlord - when disaster strikes. A force of well trained, highly proficient Kriegsmarine S-Boats cross paths with the US force of Landing ships and associated naval units while out hunting for inshore convoys to attack.Bedlam ensues.Survivors are instructed to not to discuss what took place.Inevitably tales some discount as fiction or wartime 'wild stories' start to leak out, rumours of night time explosions, naval gunfire and bodies washing ashore are soon common throughout the area.Quietly and in complete secrecy the matter is 'hushed up' by the Allied High Command, with those whose bodies washed ashore quickly being buried in local cemeteries, and along with those missing who were never recovered, all were quietly forgotten and almost never talked about for decades after the war.  That is, until Ken Small discovered the story quite by chance, and decided to dedicate the rest of his life to honouring the brave men who perished in such a disastrous manner, only to have their sacrifice forgotten by history. Later becoming the driving force and assisting in the recovery of a Sherman tank from the seabed lost on that night during that attack, Ken went onto create a memorial to those who died and started to share their stories and the stories of the Kriegsmarine Seamen that attacked them so effectively, as widely as he could so that all their actions that night could never be forgotten.This expanded and updated edition of the long out of print bestselling classic by Mark Rogerson, is a gripping tale of wartime disaster and rescue in the words of the soldiers and sailors who were there, of their German Enemy's attack methods, and of one man's curiosity that tur