Service to remember D-Day tragedy

[Jimbuna]

My father was on a merchant vessel nearby when this tragic event took place.

~SALUTE~

A service is being held later to remember hundreds of US servicemen who died off the coast of Devon during a World War II training exercise.
The event will mark the anniversary of Exercise Tiger at Slapton Sands on 28 April 1944.
A total of 749 servicemen died when convoys training for the D-Day landings were attacked by German torpedo boats.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-22280461