Beach in Devon, England, where during World
War II, on the night of 27/28 Apr 1944 a
convoy of landing craft carrying US troops on
a pre-D-day exercise was by chance attacked
by German E-boats (fast, armed boats). There
were nearly 1,000 casualties, but the
incident was not made public in case the
Germans realized that Normandy was the
intended Allied landing place, rather than
the Pas-de-Calais.