[Man50D]

My father participated in the practice landing. He vividly remembers seeing a huge plume of black smoke in the distance and thinking they were going to great lengths to make it seem real. He later found out it was real as a German PT boat had penetrated the practice area and torpedoed a ship. Several hundred military personnel were killed.

[DuncanWaring]

I don’t recall any details of when and where, but there was another landing exercise which went horribly wrong, drowning thousands.

[BGHater]

Exercise Tiger

[SunkenCiv]

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