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Describes the courage, endurance, and devotion of the American military nurses who served throughout the world in hospitals, on ships, on planes, and in camps of internment during the nightmare of the Second World War.

During World War II the United States produced a remarkable group of swimming warriors often called frogmen. These volunteers carried out vital pre-invasion assignments in major offensives. They charted the approaches to enemy beaches and destroyed mines and other obstacles that could block the path of American landing craft.