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WYNN, Stephen. Disaster Before D-Day: Unravelling the Tragedy at Slapton Sands. 224p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2019. ISBN: 9781526735119.
Retells the story of how some 750 American servicemen lost their lives on a pre-D-Day landing exercise, code-named 'Operation Tiger', on the evening of 23/24 April 1943 when attacked by German E-Boats off Slapton Sands.
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