The D-Day heroes who never made it past Dorset: Divers explore haunting wrecks of amphibious tanks which sank practising for Normandy landings killing six soldiers in front of a horrified Winston Churchill
Seven Valentine Duplex Drive tanks still lie on the seabed 73 years after failed op
The exercise took place on Studland Bay in Dorset in front of Winston Churchill
Six soldiers perished after the tanks sank 60ft to the seabed in choppy waters
Their deaths were hushed up for decades before a memorial was unveiled
By Keiran Southern For Mailonline
Published: 07:44 EDT, 22 September 2017 | Updated: 08:10 EDT, 22 September 2017
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