Frog men
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Frog men
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Title: Frog men
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IN RUBBERIZED diving suits fitted with
helmets and breathing apparatus, Britain's
web-footed “frog men" performed one of the
most hazardous operations of ‘the war.
Shortly after dawn on D Day, they slipped
unobserved from rubber dinghies and swam
like fish to neutralize underwater mines and
booby traps. Also, they flattened massive
obstructions the Germans had erected in the
shallows off the coast of Normandy and
opened a path to the beaches for the flat-
bottomed landing craft.
In the Pacific, from the Marshalls to Ba-
likpapan, the U.S. Navy had its “warriors
in swim trunks.” Unarmed, and garbed only
in shorts and webfoot galoshes, these mer-
men of the Underwater Demolition Units
braved sharks and enemy fire to blast nat-
ural and man-made obstacles, clear-
ing the way for our assault troops.
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Language (Dublin Core)
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Eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1945-12
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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121-124
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public domain
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Sami Akbiyik
Popular Science Monthly, v. 147, n. 6, 1945
