article_snippet.sent: Allied soldiers would spend a week of intensive training at the castle, which included swimming in full kit and daily exercises on the surrounding hills.
article_snippet.sent: : Swimming training saw the forces jump off the pier and the forces then had to wade to shore in full military gear .
article_snippet.sent: Across the UK, troops took part in various military exercises in preparation for D-Day.
article_snippet.sent: The first large training exercises - on the south Devon coast at Slapton Sands – revealed communications problems, lack of mission comprehension, poor crisis management abilities and a general sense of chaos.
article_snippet.sent: Exercise Tiger was one of the biggest full-scale rehearsals before D-Day, involving all 23,000 US soldiers who were planning to land on the Normandy beach codenamed Utah.
article_snippet.sent: Apart from the Devon and Scotland coastline, training also took place at Camp Gordon Johnston near Carrabelle, Florida.
article_snippet.sent: With the ramp down They would jump into what They thought was shallow water and some drowned.' '
article_snippet.sent: Swimming training would see Swimming training jump off the pier and swim to shore in full kit.'