SBS Documentaries

Secret D-Day Disaster (2014x15)

Fecha de emisión: Jun 06, 2014

How did a rehearsal for D-Day on a sleepy stretch of British coast turn into a bloodbath resulting in the death of hundreds of Allied soldiers? 'Exercise Tiger' was the Allies' worst training disaster of the 20th century - a combination of allied incompetence and enemy infiltration that was hushed up until 1984. Survivor and eye-witness accounts, top-secret documents, film archive and findings from underwater excavations help to reveal the secrecy and conflicting evidence that persists to this day. This documentary tells the truth about Exercise Tiger, a rehearsal for D-Day on the Devon coast in April 1944 that turned into a bloodbath when the US landing craft were ambushed by German E-boats. (From the Netherlands, in English) (Documentary) PG