It was the first large-scale daylight operation by the Navy’s Underwater Demolition Teams (UDT), an elite unit of frogmen assigned to scout enemy-held Pacific islands and blow up coastal ...

In just four minutes during the Battle of Cape Matapan, the Royal Navy decisively shattered the Italian Regia Marina, sinking multiple ships and killing over 3,000 Italian sailors, while suffering ...

Relatively little known today, the frogmen’s legacy lives on in the Navy’s most elite special operations force. The SEALs inherited many techniques and traditions from their World War II ...

The U.S. Navy’s Sea, Air ... Underwater Demolition Team divers, or UDT divers, were first called frogmen during World War II. “I mean, somebody, somewhere, looked over the side of a ship ...

Fred "Tiz" Morrison, thought to be the first Black Navy SEAL, technically served as a "frogman" on an underwater ... He served in World War II and served as a member of Underwater Demolition ...

These Navy divers, also known as Frogmen, went airborne during a dangerous ... The SEAL missions continued in the years that followed World War II. The UDTs put their demolition expertise to ...

preserving the legacy of the Frogmen from World War II to present-day SEAL Teams. Visitors will learn about the storied past of the Navy SEALs and their predecessors through interactive exhibits ...

Goines was a junior at Lockland Wayne High School when he saw a film that depicted Navy frogmen, who performed underwater demolition operations during World War II. "My fate was sealed right there.