At 9 a.m. on June 14, eight days after the Normandy invasion, Lieutenant Commander Draper Kauffman and his team of frogmen motored in four landing craft toward the calm, turquoise, saltwater ...

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 ...

ALAMEDA — An 89-year-old Morgan Hill resident who has presented himself for years as one of the nation’s most decorated World War II veterans — most recently in a talk Saturday aboard the ...

Watts, a former Navy SEAL, said he hoped the new gallery would pay tribute to the frogmen who served their country during World War II. “For those of us who came later, we stand on your ...

Sidney Robbins was part of a pioneering group known as “frogmen” during World War II, participating in and later commanding a unit charged with clearing obstacles for amphibious landings ...

Behind the grand naval battles of World War II, a covert struggle raged in the Mediterranean. Italy’s 10th Flotilla MAS—a special forces unit of frogmen and explosive-laden boats—waged ...

At 9 a.m. on June 14, eight days after the Normandy invasion, Lieutenant Commander Draper Kauffman and his team of frogmen motored in four landing craft toward the calm, turquoise, saltwater lagoon of ...