Editing Exercise Tiger (section)

===Operational consequences===
[[Alan Goodrich Kirk|Vice Admiral Kirk]] of the US Navy immediately realised the huge damage E-boats could inflict on slow-moving landing craft with minimal defences and feared that the German success in Lyme Bay could be repeated on D-day, with disastrous consequences. On 4 May 1944 he sent a signal to [[Bertram Ramsay|Admiral Ramsay]] of the Royal Navy arguing for heavy aerial and naval bombardment of Cherbourg:
{{Blockquote|text=In my opinion the E-boats must be destroyed or driven from the Cherbourg area, prior to D-day. The only successful defense against the E-boat is to sink it before it can reach an attack position.|author=Vice Admiral Kirk{{sfn|Simpson|2021|p=222}}}}