BRITISH “FROGMEN”
OBSTACLES BLOWN UP (10 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 2. British naval swimmers, wearing skin-tight diving-suits and a frog-like attachment on their feet, blew up 3000 underwater obstacles lining the Atlantic Wall in five hours before D-day, says the Sunday Express. The existence of this special force dates back to the early days of the war, long before the appearance of the Germen “frogmen” who tried to blow up the Nijmegen bridge. But the use of them was kept a secret because they were assigned to tackle obstructions around the coast of Japan.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21808, 3 September 1945, Page 5
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