![]() The rehearsal was given the code name Operation Tiger. "The beaches in the west of England are almost identical to the beaches in Normandy." "The beaches there are long and they're wide, so it gave the soldiers plenty of opportunity to really experience what it was going to be like," Milton tells weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz. British historian Giles Milton wrote about the rehearsal on his blog last week. It took place on Slapton Sands, a beach in southwestern England. But that rehearsal turned into one of the war's biggest fiascos. Sixty-eight years ago today, the Allies launched a massive dress rehearsal for the invasion of Normandy - the famous D-Day landings that would happen five weeks later. Terry Smith/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image ![]() A disastrous rehearsal for D-Day took place on Slapton Sands in southwestern England.
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