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* {{USS|LST-289||2}} was set on fire but eventually made it back to shore with the loss of 13 Navy personnel.
* {{USS|LST-507||2}} was torpedoed and sunk with the loss of 202 US Army/US Navy personnel.
* {{USS|LST-511||2}} was damaged by [[friendly fire]] from {{USS|LST-496||2}} (intended to be directed at one of the E-boats which passed between the two LSTs)<ref>{{cite web |title=Report of Action Taking Place Morning of 28 April 1944 (LST 511) |website=Exercise Tiger.org.uk |url=https://www.exercisetiger.org.uk/document-archive/declassified-report-uss-lst511-enclosure-a/ |access-date=29 August 2019}}</ref> resulting in injuries to 18 US Army/Navy personnel.<ref>{{cite web |title=Exercise Tiger UK LST 511 casualty report |website=Exercise Tiger.org.uk |url=https://www.exercisetiger.org.uk/document-archive/declassified-report-uss-lst511-casualty-report-table/ |access-date=29 August 2019 |archive-date=3 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190703212252/https://www.exercisetiger.org.uk/document-archive/declassified-report-uss-lst511-casualty-report-table/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* {{USS|LST-531||2}} sank within six minutes of being torpedoed with the loss of 424 Army and Navy personnel.<ref name=MacDonald-1988/><ref name=Fenton-2004/><ref>{{cite web |title=Operation Tiger |publisher=[[Combined Operations Headquarters|Combined Operations Command]] |url=https://www.combinedops.com/Op_Tiger.htm |access-date=4 July 2022}}</ref>
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* [http://www.exercisetigermemorial.co.uk/ The Official Exercise Tiger Memorial Website]
* [http://www.wvculture.org/history/wvmemory/vets/exercisetiger.html History of Exercise Tiger from the West Virginia State Archives]
* [http://www.exercisetiger.org.uk/index.php The Official UK Charity for Exercise Tiger] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090604021357/http://www.exercisetiger.org.uk/index.php |date=4 June 2009 }}
* [http://content.library.ccsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/VHP/id/5580 Oral history interview with John Maltese, a survivor of Exercise Tiger] from the Veterans History Project at Central Connecticut State University
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