War Stories
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War Stories

The D-Day Practice That Left Hundreds Dead and Nearly Jeopardized The Invasion

The story of Exercise Tiger

Every large scale production goes through rehearsal. Nothing that has a multitude of moving parts can go into effect without proper practice and that even includes large scale invasions. D-Day was the largest amphibious invasion in history and the invasion was practiced and rehearsed in…

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Wars are often portrayed as large singular events in history but every conflict is a menagerie of thousands of small stories that make up one superior narrative. These are those stories.

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