D-DAY “WHAT WE DIDN’T TELL YOU”

A major event of the Second World War, the landing of June 6, 1944 has been the subject, for more than seventy years, of countless books, films, investigations, reports and television series. No one today is unaware of the unprecedented technological feats represented by the construction and delivery of the two artificial ports, as well as the heroic sacrifice of the Rangers of Lieutenant-Colonel James Rudder who stormed Pointe du Hoc or the martyrdom of the GIs of the 29th and 1st US Infantry Divisions on the sand of Omaha Beach, entered in history under the sad name of “Bloody Ohama”. But do we know that D Day was preceded, at the end of April 1944 off the coast of Slapton Sands, in Devon, by a tragic repetition which left more than seven hundred dead and remained secret for several decades? Do we know that the beautiful Lily Sergueiev, artist and great traveler, was considered by the Allies to be their prime?