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This is the little-told story about the weather forecasters who prevented a disaster on D Day 1944.

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Exercise Tiger was a large-scale dress rehearsal for the D-Day landings in 1944 that went horribly wrong.

A friendly fire incident was compounded when high-speed German torpedo boats intercepted an American convoy off the coast of Southern England.

Over 700 men were killed, more than were killed on Utah beach on D-Day itself!

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General Sir William Butler, was an enigmatic member of Sir Garnet Wolseley’s Ashanti Ring of officers in the British Army during the late 19th century.

And yet, despite being part of Queen Victoria’s army as it painted large parts of the globe British red, he was also a passionate supporter of Irish Home Rule and of Boer Independence in South Africa.

Indeed, there was a brief moment when he came tantalisingly close to preventing the 2nd Boer War. And how history might have been different if he had done so.

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