The reason Slapton Sands got buried in obscurity was probably due to security and because D-Day came not long after and captured all the attention of the media at the time. Much as the ugly meatgrinder that the US Army went through at Hurtgen Forest tends to get lost because of the much large Battle of the Bulge that followed. In the afterglow of victory, setbacks on the way there tend to be forgotten.
I've often thought that the negligent loss of the US heavy cruiser Indianapolis in the dying days of the war would have been largely forgotten had it not been a major plot point in the 1975 movie Jaws.
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