The assault at Slapton Sands was known as Exercise Tiger, one of several rehearsals conducted in preparation for the momentous invasion to come. troops were to storm ashore as part of history's largest and most portentous amphibious assault: D-Day. The sea was calm.Ī few hours earlier, in daylight, assault forces of the U S 4th Infantry Division had gone ashore on Slapton Sands, a stretch of beach along the south coast of England that closely resembled a beach on the French coast of Normandy, code-named Utah, where a few weeks later U.S. Since the moon had just gone down, visibility was fair. It was two hours after midnight on 28 April, 1944. What was that terrible event so heinous as to prompt those accusations of perfidy 43 years later from the British news media from some American newspapers and in a particularly antagonistic three-part report from the local news of the ABC affiliate in Washington D. It was "a story the government kept quiet.
"Relatives of the dead men have been misinformed - and even lied to - by their government. Bradley and Eisenhower watched "the murderous chaos" and "were horrified and determined that details of their own mistakes would be buried with their men." Eisenhower authorized it is equally clear." That a massive cover-up took place is beyond doubt. "It was a disaster which lay hidden from the World for 40 years.
(NOTE: The following article represents the views of the author and not necessarily the views of the Naval History & Heritage Command) 'Slapton Sands: The Cover-up That Never Was'
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