Sherman Tank -- Fort Taber, New Bedford, Massachusetts - Military Ground Equipment Displays on Waymarking.com

This Sherman Tank stands near the Fort Taber Military Museum at the southern tip of eastern New Bedford. It is the centerpiece of a monument dedicated to those who lost their lives in Exercise Tiger, a preparation for the D-Day landings at Normandy. During this exercise on April 28th, 1944, German E-boats sunk two tank landng ships and crippled a third, killing 749 US servicemen (551 Army, 198 Navy). These were the heaviest American losses for a battle up to that point in the war after Pearl Harbor - yet the Exercise and D-Day went on as planned.

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