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The other place where the frogmen/underwater demolition teams trained was Ft. Pierce, Florida

Their main focus was the D-Day Normandy invasion and, in fact the Florida beaches were used to practice for D-Day.



There's a bit about them in James D. Hornfischer's last book, The Fleet At Flood Tide, and the role they played in the western Pacific.




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