The naked warriors
By: by Francis Douglas Fane and Don Moore. With a foreword by Richmond Kelly Turner.
Contributors: Moore, Don, joint author.
Publisher: Appleton-Century-Crofts
Published: 1956
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: United States. Navy. Underwater Demolition Teams; World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations -- Submarine; Deep diving
Description: 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.