Sherman Tank at Torcross 1984

In August 1984 I made one of my many trips home to Devon from London and I had heard that a Sherman tank had been raised off the sea bed at Torcross just a few months earlier. The pictures show the tank long before it was cleaned up and became a fixed monument on the beach. US servicemen were here in 1944 to 'rehearse' for the D-Day landings in what was known as Operation Tiger, but it all went horribly wrong. Around 800 US servicemen lost their lives.