And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
One of my Mother's Cousins was a "UDT Frogman" (Navy Seal) in WWII and his team operated from a British Navy Sub off of the Normandy Beaches for Weeks before the Invasion, Mostly Cutting Down the Steel Obstacles and like this, getting rid of Mines. on the morning of the Invasion, they set out Submerged Lanterns, anchored and with Delay Switches, to mark the Cleared Lanes For Landing Craft going in before Dawn.
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ReplyDeleteYes, we very rarely get to blow live mines in training.
ReplyDeleteTied to the sea floor with clothesline?
ReplyDeleteyep, you would not believe how far out of the water those things bound when cut loose from the anchor.
DeleteOne of my Mother's Cousins was a "UDT Frogman" (Navy Seal) in WWII and his team operated from a British Navy Sub off of the Normandy Beaches for Weeks before the Invasion, Mostly Cutting Down the Steel Obstacles and like this, getting rid of Mines. on the morning of the Invasion, they set out Submerged Lanterns, anchored and with Delay Switches, to mark the Cleared Lanes For Landing Craft going in before Dawn.
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