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MADINGLEY, United Kingdom – U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Scott Reed, 501st Combat Support Wing Regional Contracting Office NCOIC., salutes after placing a wreath at the base of the Wall of the Missing during a ceremony at Cambridge American Cemetery, in Madingley, United Kingdom commemorating the 69th anniversary of the Exercise Tiger tragedy April 23. In all 749 American Soldiers and Sailors died April 27, 1944, during one of several assault rehearsals in exercise Tiger conducted at Slapton Sands on the Devon coast of England in preparation for the launch of Operation Overlord. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Brian Stives)


Exercise Tiger tragedy remembered during Cambridge ceremony

MADINGLEY, United Kingdom – U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Scott Reed, 501st Combat Support Wing Regional Contracting Office NCOIC., salutes after placing a wreath at the base of the Wall of the Missing during a ceremony at Cambridge American Cemetery, in Madingley, United Kingdom commemorating the 69th anniversary of the Exercise Tiger tragedy April 23. In all 749 American Soldiers and Sailors died April 27, 1944, during one of several assault rehearsals in exercise Tiger conducted at Slapton Sands on the Devon coast of England in preparation for the launch of Operation Overlord. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Brian Stives)

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