Welcome to the OFFICIAL TRIBUTE

In the early hours of the 28th of April 1944 eight Landing Ship Tanks (LST's), full of American servicemen were in Lyme Bay, off the coast of Devon, England. Their purpose to take part in Exercise Tiger, the realistic rehearsals for the D-Day landings in Normandy. The night turned into tragedy as a group of patrolling German e-boats discovered and attacked them. At the end of the series of practice landings 946 American Servicemen lost their lives.

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This website is dedicated to the tragedy of Exercise Tiger, and to Ken Small. Ken tirelessly campaigned to recover a 32 ton Sherman tank lost in the practice landings, later recovered from the sea bed and now displayed at Slapton Sands in memory of all the American servicemen who tragically lost their lives. This web site is their story.

This web site is generously sponsored by Securewest International specialists in international maritime security.