My great uncle died in the attack by German E-boats on transports during a pre-Dday training exercise. A lot of troops died that day.
You mean Slapton Sands? My God, how horrible. God Bless him. There was another tragedy of WW2 not many people know about. The awful fate of the 66th. Infantry Division. On Christmas Eve, 1944 a troopship carrying the division, badly needed for the fighting in The Ardenne was torpedoed in the English Channel and some 800 men went down with the ship. It was horrible.