Navy SEALs - Počátky jednotek za druhé světové války – Dubbins Andrew (2023)

The memories of a veteran from an elite unit of underwater demolitionists, the predecessors of the Navy SEALs, who carried out nearly impossible combat missions during World War II on D-Day and in the Pacific. Into enemy waters is the story of the unit of the most elite and bravest warriors of World War II and direct predecessors of today's Navy SEALs, told by its last surviving member, ninety-five-year-old George Morgan. Morgan was an ordinary seventeen-year-old sailor from New Jersey who joined a new naval engineering unit tasked with destroying enemy coastal defenses before the main Allied forces landed. His first deployment: Omaha Beach on D-Day. But that was just the beginning of his service. He was subsequently deployed in the Pacific as a member of the pioneering underwater demolition unit. The infantry referred to them as "half fish, half crazy." Today we call them frogmen – or Navy SEALs. Under the command of the eccentric officer Draper Kauffman, Morgan spent the last year of the war scouting beaches in enemy territory and removing obstacles hidden beneath the surface. The closer they got to Japan, the more complex the defensive positions on enemy islands became, and their crews more fanatical.