Listen to these D-Day ‘frogmen’ explain their crazy role in the historic battle
Listen to these D-Day ‘frogmen’ explain their crazy role in the historic battle Despite a limited number of submarines and other surveillance assets, naval forces in World War II had to find a way to spot enemy obstructions and defenses at fortified islands and beaches. Into the gap stepped the frogmen and recon swimmers, brave sailors and Marines who swam into enemy waters and surveyed defenses with just snorkels and fins, often with enemy fire raining around them. Top Storiesby We Are The Might Germany is hosting thelargest air exercise inNATO history On D-Day, these brave men played a critical role ensuring that landing craft could make it to shore and take part in one of the most daring, important assaults of World War II. Hear what it was like to be in the waters at Normandy on that fateful day from the frogmen who were actually there in the interview below. But the heroics of Naval Combat Demolition Units didn’t stop at D-Day; they played key roles in many defining operati