Hundreds of US troops who died during D-Day exercise remembered

American soldiers who died during rehearsals for the D-Day landings are being remembered with a memorial 75 years after the event. Nearly 750 GIs died when a Royal Navy convoy carrying them to a practice beach in Devon was attacked by Nazi fast attack boats. Others are thought to have died in friendly fire incidents. Hundreds of bootprints have been laid out on Slapton Sands to mark the anniversary of Exercise Tiger, the secret mission to prepare for the Allied invasion of Normandy.

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