NORMANDY INVASION DRY RUN ENDS TRAGICALLY
Slapton Sands, Devon Coast, Southwest England • April 28, 1944 Shortly after midnight on this date in 1944 German torpedo boats (S‑boats, short for Schnell [Fast] boats) on a routine patrol out of Cherbourg in occupied France suddenly found themselves in the middle of Operation (or Exercise) Tiger, codenamed T‑4. Operation Tiger consisted of a convoy…