US Navy underwater demolition team recovery, 1945
1945
Recovery of an underwater demolition team swimmer by rubber boat. Wartime combat swimming, in France and America alike, ran in parallel with the development of autonomous diving. Public domain as a US federal work.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
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