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Navy divers / Gregor Salmon.
Record no.:
6495
Author:
Salmon, Gregor.;
Publisher:
North Sydney, N.S.W. :: Ebury Press,
Year:
2011.
Description:
292 plates, [16] plates of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 24 cm
Subject:
Australia. Royal Australian Navy. Clearance Diving Branch.;
Underwater exploration - Australia.;
Navies - Australia.;
Navies - Australia - Amphibious operations.;
Divers - Australia.;
Notes:
"The incredible story of the Australian Navy's elite unit" --Cover.
Includes bibliogrpahical references (p.279-280) and index.Noel Dan
Gift ;
2023.
Type:
Monograph
ISBN:
9781741666571 (pbk.);
Abstract:
Machine generated contents note: One.Gates of Hell -- Two.Beating Hitler's Secret Weapon -- Three.All the King's Medals -- Four.Dawn of the Frogmen -- Five.The New Breed -- Six.Life on the Edge -- Seven.Into Vietnam -- Eight.Bin the Rulebook -- Nine.On
Patrol -- Ten.Running With the SAS -- Eleven.Nothing to Prove -- Twelve.The de Gelder Effect -- Thirteen.No Fish Out of Water -- Fourteen.Follow Me, Boys.

Hollywood has familiarised us with the basics of bomb disposal. From Goldfinger to The Hurt Locker, we've come to know that neutralising a device designed to cause massive destruction is a job best left to a specialist, a particularly courageous, skilled, and perhaps mad, individual. Let them start cutting wires.
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