Lured across the English Channel by an unexpected frenzy of radio chatter, the Nazi predators sliced through the waves toward an unknown enemy. It was shortly after midnight on April 28, 1944. Within ...

The D-Day rehearsal, codenamed Exercise Tiger, was a disaster on a grand scale with the loss of life greater than the actual invasion of Normandy just months later. But the true story was to remain a ...

To this day the beaches of the South Hams have a quiet, half-forgotten air as if time has passed them by. And one of the reasons behind that strangely nostalgic atmosphere is that the long sloping ...

RAF MILDENHALL — For decades, few people other than the survivors of the freezing waters off the coast of Slapton Sands knew how 749 men died in one of the worst American training disasters of World ...

This weekend marks the 75th anniversary of the Slapton Sands tragedy. To this day the beaches of the South Hams have a quiet, half-forgotten air as if time has passed them by. And one of the reasons ...

The man who uncovered a D-Day training disaster in south Devon which killed more than 700 US soldiers and sailors has died. Ken Small, affectionately known as the "Tank Man", spent 24 years fighting ...

The dead soldiers were hastily removed and interred in conditions of utmost secrecy. The complete truth of what happened is still unknown. But the idyllic Slapton Sands in Lyme Bay was once the scene ...

The 60th anniversary of a D-Day exercise which led to the deaths of more than 700 US servicemen has been remembered in a special service. A total of 749 US military personnel were lost when German E ...