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Ready to give their all on D-Day, hundreds of GIs and sailors lost their lives rehearsing for the landings. In at least one respect, the name Slapton Sands is a misnomer. There is no sand at all on the beach at the edge of Lyme Bay, of the Devon coast—one of several southern English beaches …
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