Author: Small, Ken with Rogerson, Mark,
Title: THE FORGOTTEN DEAD.
Description: Bloomsbury, London, 1999, 3rd hardback edition, x, 198pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, edges coloured (9.5 x 6.5" approx.), on the night of 27th April, 1944 Exercise Tiger took place off the Devon coast, a rehearsal to simulate the forthcoming Normandy landings, in which Convoy T-4, consisting of eight LSTs carrying US vehicles and combat engineers of the 1st Engineer Special Brigade, were attacked by six E-boats of the 5th E=boat Flotilla resulting in horrendous losses which, because of the imminence of the Normandy Invasion, were never admitted at the time. This is an account of why 946 American servicemen died off the coast of Devon and of the memorial to their memory, edges tanned, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

Keywords: war ww2 army navy tiger e-boats devon


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