[HN Gopher] World War II frogmen who trained in secret off the C... ___________________________________________________________________ World War II frogmen who trained in secret off the California coast Author : Thevet Score : 26 points Date : 2022-07-11 03:52 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (www.atlasobscura.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.atlasobscura.com) | lapetitejort wrote: | And now the spiritual successors of the Frogmen, the Navy SeALs, | begin their training in full view of tourists on Silver Strand | Beach, California. | eesmith wrote: | Tangent coming! | | This reminded me of the book "Up Periscope", which I read as a | kid, about a frogman during WWII using a sub to infiltrate a | Japanese camp to photograph a code book. | | I remember it talked about the then-new diving technology. I | thought it was SCUBA. It was Aqua-Lung; verified with a checked | out copy at | https://archive.org/details/upperiscope00whit/page/150/mode/... . | | Turns out that book is based on the movie. ('Garner called the | film "another piece of crap that Warner Bros. stuck me in while I | was under contract."' says Wikipedia.) | | And Aqua-Lung wasn't available until after WWII. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua-Lung | | Guess the book wasn't that accurate. | | I enjoyed it when I was 12 or so. | Spooky23 wrote: | That was a fun book. I remember I picked it up at a yard sale | when I was on vacation around the same age. | | Thanks for the nostalgia. Too bad it wasn't real. | andyjsong wrote: | > To fill its ranks, the agency recruited top swimmers from | throughout the armed forces. Korean prisoners of war, released | after showing a commitment to fighting the Japanese, also | participated in OSS training on Catalina. | | Interesting that they would mix Korean nationals and Japanese | Americans together. I wonder what the group dynamic was like. It | also reminds me of Silmido and Unit 684, except the S. Korean | government cancelled the mission since North and South relations | were improving, so the soldiers killed their trainers and | committed mutiny. | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_684 ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-07-12 23:00 UTC)