The US amphibious craft, LST-507 and LST-531, were heading to Slapton Sands for Exercise Tiger in April 1944 when they were torpedoed by German E-boats. At least 749 US servicemen died.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) alleged a pleasure craft was used to transport at least 10 migrants across the English Channel from Normandy to Slapton Sands in south Devon in June 2022.

Getty Images Slapton Sands was used by US forces rehearsing ... The D-Day rehearsal that cost 800 lives Survivors' tales of covered up disaster Slapton service remembers Exercise Tiger Pam Wills ...

A good way to find depositional features is to look for name evidence - the term ‘sands’ appears at Slapton Sands, 833443 (Map 1) and Beesands, 821406 (Map 3). The shape of the coast in a map ...