The Picture bellow was taken in Slapton, in Devon. I took it using the panorama feature on my camera, supposedly panorama's are meant to be straight..
I've actually not got much to say about this beach, the beach it self is not made up from sand but small pebbles ranging in size from around 5mm to several centre metres, bet that had you on the edge of your seat.
Anyway here's a bit of history.
In 1944 a military exercise named 'Exercise Tiger' took place at Slapton Sands, it was a full scale rehearsal for the D-Day invasion of Normandy.
Protection for the exercise was provided by the Royal Navy, Two destroyers, three motor torpedo boats and two motor guns boats where watching the Cherbourg area where German E-boats where positioned.
On April 28th early in the morning, the German E-boats left for patrol and spotted a convoy of 8 LSTs carrying vehicles and combat engineers and attacked. 638 service men where killed, 441 US Army and 197 US Navy.
A Tank which was recovered from the Sea now stands as a reminder of the losts lives.
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