Download or read book The Forgotten Dead written by Ken Small and published by Bloomsbury Pub Limited. This book was released on 1989 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the night of 27th April 1944, Exercise Tiger, a rehearsal for the D-day landings, took place off the coast of Devon. This supposedly routine exercise experienced a series of fatal blunders that allowed German E boats to intercept the convoy of landing craft. By dawn, nearly 1000 American servicemen, many young and untrained, had lost their lives.