Book Description
Describes the vigorous physical and technical training of the frogmen, the Navy's Amphibious Force Underwater Demolition team who train to undertake defensive and exploratory military projects in the deep.
Author : Erick Berry
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,56 MB
Release : 1967
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Describes the vigorous physical and technical training of the frogmen, the Navy's Amphibious Force Underwater Demolition team who train to undertake defensive and exploratory military projects in the deep.
Author : Erick Berry
Publisher :
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 34,90 MB
Release : 1967
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Describes the work of the Underwater Demolition Teams of the United States Navy and how the members are selected and trained.
Author : Chet Cunningham
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 48,13 MB
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1416595805
The exciting story of the Navy's Underwater Demolition Team—also known as the Frogmen of WWII—who were the precursors to today's Navy SEALs, in their own words. As countless battlefronts in the Pacific, African, and European theaters called for direct amphibious assaults against islands and beachheads, a small corps of exceptionally skilled fighting men was formed—the U.S. Navy underwater warriors. Beginning in 1943, these men undertook never-before-attempted missions ranging from eye-to-eye recon of enemy-held positions to staging the demolition of shoreline obstacles and clearing the way for landing craft. Here, in their own words, are the true stories of these aquatic commandos, whose daring exploits and bravery would pave the way for thousands of American fighting men around the globe—and whose revolutionary training and fighting methods would evolve into the modern special forces known as the Navy SEALs.
Author : Francis Douglas Fane
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 10,46 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
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From the tragic Marine Corps landing at Tarawa in 1943 that spawned the UDT "frogmen", to the beaches of Normandy, Kwajalein, Okinawa, and Korea, to the formation in the 1960s of the U.S. Navy SEALs, Fane takes the reader along as the men swim alone through mines and anti-invasion obstacles, treacherous reefs, and enemy machine-gun fire, scouting beaches and clearing invasion approaches before an assault. Also included are Fane's heart-stopping Arctic diving experiments in the 1950s and his pioneering development of submersible vehicles, mixed-gas scuba gear, and lock-in/lock-out operations with Navy submarines.
Author : Wyatt Blassingame
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,11 MB
Release : 1982
Category : World War, 1939-1945
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Describes the daring exploits of the Navy's Underwater Demolition Teams during World War II. Includes information about frogmen of other countries.
Author : John C. Fredriksen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 23,37 MB
Release : 2011-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1598848119
From Army Rangers to Green Berets to the U.S. Navy SEAL team that killed Osama bin Laden, this book explains what makes Special Forces "special," covering the rich and varied history of elite formations in American military history and describing their recruitment, intense training, and equipment in depth. Most civilians have only a vague idea of what the U.S. Special Forces are all about—who they are, how they differ from our "normal" military forces, what they've accomplished throughout our history, and how they operate today. Fighting Elites: A History of U.S. Special Forces examines the rich and varied history of U.S. Special Forces, identifies their contributions to specific conflicts from colonial times forward, and highlights their present operational excellence. In this first-ever reference guide to U.S. Special Forces, military historian John C. Fredriksen provides a carefully balanced presentation, describing all units in their own detailed section that discusses their origins, recruitment, training, tactics, and equipment, and defining military engagements, if known. The text also contains 20 biographical entries of noted personalities associated with special purpose activities.
Author : Wyatt Blassingame
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 19,59 MB
Release : 1964
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 9780394904061
The story of the heroic exploits of the U.S. Navy's Underwater Demolition Teams during World War II.
Author : R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
Publisher :
Page : 2530 pages
File Size : 48,94 MB
Release : 1978
Category : United States
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Author : Ron Martini
Publisher : Ron Martini
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 42,13 MB
Release : 2005
Category :
ISBN : 1932606149
Submariners are a tight knit group of men bound together by training and experience, and with a language all their own. That language is perhaps a little vulgar, but never intentionally demeaning, and a little irreverent but still worldly. This work is an attempt to preserve and explain some of these curious guys who so proudly wear a shiny metal pin that looks like a strange pair of fish on their left breast. This process of accumulating this new language begins in Boot Camp, and is added to with every change of duty station the sailor undergoes. It is heard aboard the boats and, unknowingly, by family members who can't understand terms like head, deck, and overhead, and who think SOS is a distress signal.
Author : Elizabeth Kauffman Bush
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 31,76 MB
Release : 2012-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1612512984
Although bad eyesight kept him from receiving a commission in the U.S. Navy when he graduated from the Naval Academy in 1933, Draper Kauffman became a hero of underwater demolition in World War II and went on to a distinguished naval career. Today Admiral Kauffman is remembered as the nation's first frogman and the father of the Navy Seals. His spectacular wartime service disarming enemy bombs, establishing bomb disposal schools, and organizing and leading the Navy's first demolition units is the focus of this biography written by Kauffman's sister. Elizabeth Kauffman Bush, who also is the aunt of President George W. Bush, draws on family papers as well as Navy documents to tell Kauffman's story for the first time. Determined to defend the cause of freedom long before the U.S. ever entered the war, Kauffman was taken prisoner by the Germans as an ambulance driver in France, and after his release joined the Royal Navy to defuse delayed-action bombs during the London blitz. After Pearl Harbor his eyes were deemed adequate and he was given a commission in the U.S. Naval Reserve. With his experience, he was asked to establish an underwater demolition school in Fort Pierce, Florida, where he personally trained men to defuse bombs and neutralize other submerged dangers. His men were sent to demolish the obstacles installed by the Nazis at Normandy, and Kauffman himself led underwater demolition teams in the Pacific at Saipan, Tinian, and Guam and later directed UDT operations at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. His men remember him as an exceptional leader who led by example. He trained and fought alongside them, impervious to danger. Because of the high standards he set for those who became "frogmen,"thousands of American lives were saved in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. Draper Kauffman's early established UDT traditions of perseverance, teamwork, and a lasting brotherhood of men of extraordinary courage is carried on by Navy Seals. This is his legacy to the U.S. Navy and his country.