"Operation Tiger - Lyme Bay" Topic
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Korvessa | 14 Jun 2019 6:38 p.m. PST |
just watched an interesting (if sad) on Operation Tiger or the Battle of Lyme Bay. Does anyone know what division these troops were from? Were they they the units that landed on DDay? (Bug got me) |
Mark 1 | 14 Jun 2019 6:58 p.m. PST |
Watched an interesting what? Documentary? Old Movie? Episode of NCIS? Watched it where? Local theater? CNN? Old dusty VHS? YouTube? C'mon, give us something to work from here… -Mark (aka: Mk 1) |
Korvessa | 14 Jun 2019 7:47 p.m. PST |
You tube video YouTube link D-Day: The Forgotten Battle of Lyme Bay |
Thresher01 | 14 Jun 2019 8:27 p.m. PST |
See here: link The link doesn't list the unit(s) the men were from, sadly, but does give a good overview of events. |
ColCampbell | 14 Jun 2019 8:30 p.m. PST |
Two of the memorials in the link (above) mention the 70th Tank Battalion and the 4th Infantry Division. Jim |
Korvessa | 14 Jun 2019 9:07 p.m. PST |
I guess I am curious if the troops were part of the actual landing force what effect those losses and getting a bunch of replacements so close to DDay would have on the landing forces. |
ColCampbell | 16 Jun 2019 12:58 p.m. PST |
Some further on-line research. From the 70th Tank Battalion/70th Armored Regiment Wiki article link : "In April 1944, the 70th Tank Battalion participated in Operation Tiger, a dress rehearsal for the Utah Beach landing, successfully navigating their DD tanks through the surf for the first time. Although there were heavy casualties during the training, both as a result of friendly fire incidents and a German raid on the convoy, the battalion suffered no casualties. [Foot note: Jensen, Marvin. Strike Swiftly! The 70th Tank Battalion from North Africa to Normandy to Germany] Note the reference to "friendly fire incidents." There was another on-line article that advanced the theory that hundreds of Americans were gunned down on the beach either by the defenders who had been issued live ammunition by mistake or by confusion and delays which disrupted the exercise scheduled live fires. See link . This article from the Army Quartermaster Museum at Fort Lee, link VA, seems to indicate that the casualties from the at sea attacks on the LSTs came from various quartermaster units, not from the combat units of the 4th Infantry Division. It also states that the two quartermaster companies that had suffered so heavily were replaced by others in early May. Jim |
Blutarski | 16 Jun 2019 1:39 p.m. PST |
Lyme Bay is on the coast of Devon, not far from Dartmouth (home of the Naval War College). While touring in that district back in the 90's, I stumbled upon a beachside memorial to the event before I ever knew anything of "Operation (exercise) Tiger" or the German E-boat attack. B |
shaun from s and s models | 17 Jun 2019 1:44 a.m. PST |
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