Operation Tiger 75th

[Matt Black]

The tragedy at Slapton Sands, Devon, in which hundreds of US servicemen lost their lives rehearsing for the Utah Beach landings, happened 75 years ago today, and is being commemorated locally by this memorial:
BBC News - Exercise Tiger: Bootprints mark D-Day disaster 75th anniversary
Beach art memorial to D-Day disaster

May their memory be eternal

 

[Adonia]

What a terrible day that was. WW2 was a conflict in which we used to lose hundreds of serviceman at a time, not just 4 or 5 as we lose in today's wars. There was the carpet bombing in Normandy where we bombed our own advancing troops, among many others.

1. Operation Cobra in Normandy, 136 Americans killed.
2. Incident at Mersa Egypt with 359 Allied troops killed (mostly British) and 560 wounded.
3. The Allerona Train disaster - 400 British, American and South African POW's killed, bombed by Allied aircraft.
4. In the Pacific, a Japanese "Hell Ship" taking Allied POW's to Japan was torpedoed by our own submarines with hundreds killed.

I don't know if the citizens of our respective countries could take those kind of casualties in this day and age.

 

[church mouse guy]

Is this D-Day anniversary what Trump is going to England for?

 

[Matt Black]

That's in June but, yes, 75th anniversary

 

[Squire Robertsson]

You are referring to Exercise Tiger . More on this later, suffice to say the results were regretable. They were more a matter of Murphy running wild than anything else.

 

[Matt Black]

Either name has been used over here.

 

[church mouse guy]

This should be Trump's last trip to the UK except for visiting his golf course. Let Pence do the ceremonial stuff.

 

[church mouse guy]

British Military Historian Mark Felton released a video today on Operation Tiger.