This is the "forgotten" story of the April 28, 1944, tragic deaths of hundreds of US servicemen off the southern coast of England at Slapton Sands during rehearsals for the D-day invasion.
The incident was shrouded in secrecy at the time due to the impending invasion, and only now have the full details of what happened that night been appraised in this new book.
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