Two US landing ships sunk off Devon coast in D-Day rehearsal operation to be made protected wrecks
Two American amphibian landing ships that were sunk in an ill-fated D-Day rehearsal, covered up for years by military leaders, are to be protected. More than 700 US troops were killed when they were intercepted by German E-boats off the Devon coast during Operation Tiger in 1944. LST-507 and LST-531, which were carrying hundreds of … Read more