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Exercise Tiger: The D-Day rehearsal that went wrong

It was supposed to be a secret: On this date in 1945, hundreds of allied troops carried out a training mission off the British coast. It was a rehearsal for the D-Day invasion of France, but unlike that mission the Nazis found out, and it would cost hundreds of American lives. CBS News' Imtiaz Tyab has the story.
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