Hello and welcome to another episode of the World War II podcast

episode 79 apparently how time flies this episode is two stories in one

very much like the Robert Rodriguez film Dusk Till Dawn.

But in this instance we'll start by looking at Operation Tiger, the Allied Training

exercise off the south coast of England that goes disastrously wrong in

1944 and will end up with a story of a Sherman Tank. It's all connected by a chap

called Ken Small. I'm joined by Ken Sundine to talk us through it.

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So on to the main feature, Dean, thanks for joining me whilst we're going to be talking about

exercise tiger which took place in April of 1944.

The story isn't really just about what I'd been a largely forgotten

exercise but I guess that's the place to start. So what's the background to Tiger?

Well basically the the idea was that the Americans

needed to practice beach landings. Naturally, you know, the numbers involved, a lot of the Army recruits were young, and it was

decided that it was essential that they found

planned live fire exercises.

So having done a lot of research, they found slaps and sands

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