U.S. Army Assault Training Centre

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A sixteen square mile corner of south west England, ten miles of Atlantic coastline, beaches, cliffs, headlands and sand dunes.

The only training site where American troops destined for Normandy on D-Day learned and practised new tactics of amphibious assault.

Forgotten for over sixty years, research has built up a definitive and detailed history of this establishment vital to the success of D-Day.

Where spearhead units destined for the beaches of Normandy learned the skills of amphibious assault