Exercise Tiger was the code name for an eight-day practice run for D-Day, on April 28, 1944, at a beach in Slapton (Slapton Sands), South Devon. Things turned tragic in the early morning. The American troops were about to practice for a landing, when nine Cherbourg-based GermanE-boats launched a surprise attack, killing 749 military personnel. Just six weeks before the 'big show', the mock operation involved 30,000 men and 300 ships. The 749 killed included 551 Army and 198 Navy personnel, all of them Americans.
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Exercise Tiger at The Naval Historical Center (http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq20-1.htm)
Exercise Tiger UK Memorial Site (http://www.exercisetiger.co.uk/)
On 22 July 2003, during a raid by the U.S. 101st Airborne Division and soldiers from Task Force 20, Saddam Hussein's sons (Uday and Qusay) and one of his grandsons were killed.
The operation was conducted by the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division and members of Task Force 121.
Toward the end of June (2004), the Coalition Provisional Authority transferred the "sovereignty" of Iraq to a caretaker government, whose first act was to begin the trial of Saddam Hussein.
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