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Slapton Sands and its immediate land area played a very important part in the training exercises by the American troops leading up to the D day landings. People still recall the evacuation of all its inhabitants and livestock from many farms, villages and homesteads and the appearance of the United States troops engaged in realistic exercises, in which many casualties occurred. This brief episode in the life of the South Hams has not been forgotten and enquiries from visiting Americans still show a continuing interest in this event.