The Frogmen Of World War Ii

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 : Wyatt Blassingame
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780394904061
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The U. S. Frogmen of World War II. written by Wyatt Blassingame and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1964 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the heroic exploits of the U.S. Navy's Underwater Demolition Teams during World War II.

Author : Robb White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Frogmen written by Robb White and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventures of a young ensign assigned to frogman duty during World War II.

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 : 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 : Giles Milton
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1250134927
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die written by Giles Milton and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ground-breaking account of the first 24 hours of the D-Day invasion told by a symphony of incredible accounts of unknown and unheralded members of the Allied – and Axis – forces. Seventy-five years have passed since D-Day, the greatest seaborne invasion in history. The outcome of the Second World War hung in the balance on that chill June morning. If Allied forces succeeded in gaining a foothold in northern France, the road to victory would be open. But if the Allies could be driven back into the sea, the invasion would be stalled for years, perhaps forever. An epic battle that involved 156,000 men, 7,000 ships and 20,000 armoured vehicles, the desperate struggle that unfolded on 6 June 1944 was, above all, a story of individual heroics – of men who were driven to keep fighting until the German defences were smashed and the precarious beachheads secured. This authentic human story – Allied, German, French – has never fully been told. Giles Milton’s bold new history narrates the day’s events through the tales of survivors from all sides: the teenage Allied conscript, the crack German defender, the French resistance fighter. From the military architects at Supreme Headquarters to the young schoolboy in the Wehrmacht’s bunkers, Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die lays bare the absolute terror of those trapped in the front line of Operation Overlord. It also gives voice to those who have hitherto remained unheard – the French butcher’s daughter, the Panzer Commander’s wife, the chauffeur to the General Staff. This vast canvas of human bravado reveals ‘the longest day’ as never before – less as a masterpiece of strategic planning than a day on which thousands of scared young men found themselves staring death in the face. It is drawn in its entirety from the raw, unvarnished experiences of those who were there.

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 : Iunio Valerio Borghese
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sea Devils written by Iunio Valerio Borghese and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating memoir of service with the "human torpedoes" of the Italian Navy's Tenth Light Flotilla.

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 : Lawrence Paterson
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526713497
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weapons of Desperation written by Lawrence Paterson and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Third Reich headed for destruction, German ingenuity in the naval field turned to unconventional weapons – midget submarines, radio-controlled explosive boats, and various forms of underwater sabotage. This is one of the last un-chronicled areas of World War II naval history and this well-known author describes how, facing overwhelming odds, German sailors – most of them volunteers – mounted attacks that were little better than suicide missions. Judged by their effect on the Allied advance, their successes were slight, but there seems to have been no collapse of morale and the indomitable bravery of those involved makes riveting reading. Pieced together from fragmentary sources, this largely untold story uncovers some of the most desperate operations of the War.