Water Is Never Cold: The Origins of the U.S. Navy's Combat Demolition Units, Udts, and Seals,9781574884111

Water Is Never Cold: The Origins of the U.S. Navy's Combat Demolition Units, Udts, and Seals

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ISBN13: 9781574884111
ISBN10: 1574884115
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-10-01
Publisher(s): Potomac Books Inc
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Summary

A detailed history of the unheralded fore-runners of the U.S. Navy SEALs Includes many rare and previously unpublished photographs.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Acknowledgements xviii
First and Last
1(17)
New Ideas
18(18)
Another Air
36(30)
The Rommel Belt
66(18)
Coral Crucible
84(15)
Get the Picture?
99(19)
Seabees and Sand Fleas
118(12)
Advanced Training
130(28)
The Green Ship
158(14)
Hot Rock, Cold Water
172(16)
A Half Foot of Freeboard
188(17)
Recovery and Recast
205(12)
Appendix One: UDTs in the News, Selected Articles 217(2)
Appendix Two: UDT Hand Signals, Daylight Reconnaissance 219(2)
Appendix Three: Naval Combat Demolition Units Combined into UDT 15 221(2)
Appendix Four: Underwater Demolition Team 15, January 1945 223(3)
Appendix Five: Casualties at Iwo Jima from USS Blessman and UDT 15 226(2)
Appendix Six: Underwater Demolition Team 15, August 1945 228(2)
Appendix Seven: Abbreviations 230(3)
Notes 233(35)
Selected Bibliography 268(2)
Index 270

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