What is wrong with the images in this news story?

You don’t have to; you can come from the other direction…

…but as you say, you can pass the other memorial…..and that’s exactly what I did last time I was there…..I drove past it. 😮

Yes, nice fella.

Other direction?
Oh yeah. From inland.

Not Tommy Atkins in the pic – Royal Marine Commandos

You don’t have to; you can come from the other direction…

…but as you say, you can pass the other memorial…..and that’s exactly what I did last time I was there…..I drove past it. 😮

Yes, nice fella.

I don’t remember the other memorial…..well it doesn’t have a tank does it!
………….he shook my hand and I remember him being close to tears.

To get to the Tank, you had to pass the original / official memorial. It’s half way along that road to the Tank, on the edge of what I think is one of the best beaches in the UK.

Likewise when I met him! Nice fella.

I’m afraid the media in general are all as poor at telling the true story. Half the time it’s not just the fact that the truth would spoil the story, more a case of the reporter being too idle to actually research the story properly to find the true story in the first place.

das schnellboot

Amazing coincidences.

We’re reading a book to our kids at the moment, The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips by Michael Morpurgo, about the evacuation of Slapton and the pre-invasion exercises that went on there. It’s a great read.

If it hadn’t been for that connection, I wouldn’t have followed my nose from this thread to go on the ‘net to show my wee lad a picture of an e-Boat.

And if I hadn’t done that, I wouldn’t have discovered that the one and only e-Boat survivor is in fact one of those that intercepted Operation Tiger! It’s in Cornwall if anyone local wants to go and take a look at it.

I don’t remember the other memorial…..well it doesn’t have a tank does it!

I had the privilege of meeting Ken Small, in 2001 I think. He was selling his book, out of the back of his car by the tank, to raise funds to maintain it as a memorial. I remember him saying how much money it cost to keep painting it and how upset he was that somebody had sprayed ‘anti-war’ (:rolleyes:) graffiti on the tank a while back!

I bought a copy of his book, made a small donation and congratulated him for recovering the tank…..he shook my hand and I remember him being close to tears.

…don’t forget, this is Ken Small’s memorial, near the Start Bay pub. The official one (With the flagpoles etc.) is up the road.

…when we come to a tragedy like Slapton, where the US took the hit…

Yes, and doubly so, as failings by the Royal Navy possibly contributed to the scale of the tragedy.

The photo below is of the memorial at Slapton Sands to those lost. It is a Sherman DD (Duplex Drive) amphibious tank which sank during part of the exercise (although not due to enemy action) and which was recovered in 1984 largely due to the efforts of the late Ken Small who wrote a book ‘The Forgotten Dead’ about the fateful Exercise Tiger.

Indeed, and we get so pissed off with the Saving Ryan’s Privates and Objective Burma where the Americans win the war single-handed and then when we come to a tragedy like Slapton, where the US took the hit, all the BBC can do is print that same old UK soldier image.

Apologies to all our US contributors on behalf of the BBC

Moggy

Totally disgusted at the BBC.
I know this area very well and have visited since 1975, well before the Tank was dragged up as a memorial. I have a signed copy of “The forgotten dead” by Ken Small (The chap who tirelessly campaigned for the memorial).
I support the apology.

Indeed, and we get so pissed off with the Saving Ryan’s Privates and Objective Burma where the Americans win the war single-handed and then when we come to a tragedy like Slapton, where the US took the hit, all the BBC can do is print that same old UK soldier image.

Apologies to all our US contributors on behalf of the BBC

Moggy

I think you must mean this BBC page don’t you…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/3666355.stm

…and yes, that’s Tommy Atkins…..not G.I. Joe! 😮

I must be losing my marbles because I swear there was a photo of troops there earlier,but it’s not there now.From a quick glance they looked British.Is that it ?