The Tank Man by Julia Stoneham

Afternoon Play: The Tank Man
Thu 24th Aug 2006, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM
By Julia Stoneham
The story of Ken Small, a hairdresser from Hull, who settled in Devon and became dedicated to the creation of a permanent memorial to the victims of Exercise Tiger, one of the worst fiascos of World War Two.
Producer Viv Beeby

Ken: Shaun Prendergast
Devonian woman: Stephanie Cole
Devonian man: Bill Wallis

The Utah Beach WWII D-Day Dress Rehearsal where 639 American Soldiers and Sailors Died.

“We sailed along in fatal ignorance,” writes Lieutenant Eugene E. Eckstam, a medical officer aboard the first of two tank landing ships to be sunk by German S-boats off the southern coast of England on the night of 27/28 April 1944. The attack, which happened in the midst of an Allied dress rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killed hundreds of men. Some of them succumbed to blast injuries and burns, others to drowning or hypothermia.

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