Exercise Tiger Flypast Chesil Cove, Portland. Poppy scatter tribute. Disaster 1944. WW2

A flypast and poppy scattering to commemorate the tragic Exercise Tiger, a massive beach landing operation by the United States Army to secretly practice for the Normandy landings from April 22-30, 1944 at Slapton Sands, Devon. American Tank Landing Crafts (LCTs) were torpedoed by German E=Boats. Many of the 749 US servicemen who died were washed up on Chesil Beach, Portland where this event was held. Crowds at Chesil Cove watched the vintage Westland Wasp helicopter scatter 100s of poppies, filmed from an accompanying Stinson Reliant aircraft built in 1943 in Detroit, USA.
This was followed by a ceremony at the D-Day memorial in the nearby Victoria Gardens - see separate video.
Sorry for the typo in the caption!

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I remember the wasps in the 70's when they flew over our caravans at Blue Waters Park