Operation Tiger was the dress rehearsal for D-Day. It cost many lives, but also saved many lives on D-Day.
http://www.kansasheritage.org/abilene/ikespeech.html
http://www.kansasheritage.org/abilene/ikespeech.html
https://www.history.com/news/d-days-deadly-dress-rehearsal
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/06/fact-sheet-normandy-landings
https://www.npr.org/2012/04/28/151590212/operation-tiger-d-days-disastrous-rehearsal
http://www.exercisetigermemorial.co.uk/story-exercise-tiger
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Abilene Kansas was in our ward!! Loved those links. 🙂
Holy cow. I didn’t ever know about this operation and definitely didn’t know about the mistakes. Those are so many deaths!! Wow.