The History of the Underwater Demolition Teams

John f. Kennedy signed an executive order that said the u d ts can now go past the high water mark, and created the navy seals. The underwater demolition teams came out of world or two when marines were doing one of them big marine landings in whirl war two wen. They never even made it ashore. So what happened was they realize, wait a minute, we've got to have people to recon do reconnaissance of these beaches before the marines land. And that's where the famous underwater demolition teams were formed. You may have seen the great movie which inspired many of my generation, richard whitmarkin the frogman. It's an old movie on t v starring rich