Frogmen

Author : Darryl Young
Publisher : Ivy Books
ISBN 13 : 0804151210
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book SEALS, UDT, FROGMEN written by Darryl Young and published by Ivy Books. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those are just a few of the assignments of the men who, since World War II, have endured the toughest and most sophisticated training of any military unit in the world. SEALs, UDT, FROGMEN is the first book to give the broad picture of the history and assignments of SEALs at peace and at war. If you want to know what SEAL training is really like, how SEALs work together on the Teams, what it was like to conduct a canal-side ambush in Vietnam, how the world’s largest demolition project was carried out, what it was like to survey a hostile beach after a clandestine lock-out from a submarine—it’s all here.

Author : T. J. Waldron
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Naval Frogmen written by T. J. Waldron and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2017-05-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chet Cunningham
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416595805
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Frogmen of World War II written by Chet Cunningham and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Benjamin H. Milligan
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0553392212
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book By Water Beneath the Walls written by Benjamin H. Milligan and published by Random House. This book was released on 2024-07-16 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping history chronicling the fits and starts of American special operations and the ultimate rise of the Navy SEALs from unarmed frogmen to elite, go-anywhere commandos—as told by one of their own. “Deeply researched, well organized, and incredibly engaging . . . This is our legacy with all the warts, the challenges, and the heroics in one concise volume.”—Admiral William H. McRaven, #1 New York Times bestselling author and former commander, United States Special Operations Command How did the US Navy—the branch of the US military tasked with patrolling the oceans—ever manage to produce a unit of raiders trained to operate on land? And how, against all odds, did that unit become one of the world’s most elite commando forces, routinely striking thousands of miles from the water on the battlefields of Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, even Central Africa? Behind the SEALs’ improbable rise lies the most remarkable underdog story in American military history—and in these pages, former Navy SEAL Benjamin H. Milligan captures it as never before. Told through the eyes of remarkable leaders and racing from one longshot, hair-curling raid to the next, By Water Beneath the Walls is the tale of the unit’s heroic naval predecessors, and the evolution of the SEALs themselves. But it’s also the story of the forging of American special operations as a whole—and how the SEALs emerged from the fires as America’s first permanent commando force when again and again some other unit seemed predestined to seize that role. Here Milligan thrillingly captures the outsize feats of the SEALs’ frogmen forefathers in World War II, the Korean War, and elsewhere, even as he plunges us into the second front of interservice rivalries and personal ambition that shaped the SEALs’ evolution. In equally vivid, masterful detail, he chronicles key early missions undertaken by units like the Marine Raiders, Army Rangers, and Green Berets, showing us how these fateful, bloody moments helped create the modern American commando—even as they opened up pivotal opportunities for the Navy. Finally, he takes us alongside as the SEALs at last seize the mantle of commando raiding, and discover the missions of capture/kill and counterterrorism that would define them for decades to come. Now required reading throughout the US special operations community, By Water Beneath the Walls is an essential history of the SEAL teams, a crackling account of desperate last stands and unforgettable characters accomplishing the impossible—and a riveting epic of the dawn of American special operations.

Author : Elizabeth Kauffman Bush
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612512984
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's First Frogman written by Elizabeth Kauffman Bush and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2012-12-09 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Cliff Hollenbeck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780962686535
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Old Frogman written by Cliff Hollenbeck and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retired SEAL encounters drug gang intent on killing him and his attorney girlfriend. With help of his friends, they take on the gang in Baja Mexico.

Author : William Schofield
Publisher : Branden Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780828320887
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frogmen written by William Schofield and published by Branden Publishing Company. This book was released on 2004-12-31 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors recount the history of underwater warfare -- a new type of guerrilla war developed by the Italian navy toward the end of World War I and completely implemented during World War II. This type of warfare, conducted by frogmen with special training and prototype equipment, proved fatal to Allied civilian and military ships operating in the Mediterranean Sea. Single frogmen, or frogmen in teams of two, four or six, sank more vessels than any other traditionally formed military entity. It's main unit was the X Light Flotilla, whose frogmen conquered the Mediterranean and even planned an attack on the city of New York -- not completed due to War coming to an end.

Author : Carroll B. Colby
Publisher : Putnam Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frogmen written by Carroll B. Colby and published by Putnam Publishing Group. This book was released on 1954 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bruce S. Wright
Publisher : Toronto ; Vancouver : Clarke, Irwin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Frogmen of Burma written by Bruce S. Wright and published by Toronto ; Vancouver : Clarke, Irwin. This book was released on 1968 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael G. Welham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Combat Frogmen written by Michael G. Welham and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: