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Into Enemy Waters is the story of World War IIs most elite and daring unit of warriors the direct precursors to the Navy SEALs told through the eyes of its last living member ninetyfiveyearold George Morgan Morgan was just a wiry seventeenyearold lifeguard from New Jersey when he joined the Navys new combat demolition unit tasked to blow up enemy coastal defenses ahead of landings by allied forces His first assignment Omaha Beach on DDay
When he returned stateside Morgan learned that his service was only beginning Outfitted with swim trunks a dive mask and fins he was sent to Hawaii and then on to deployments in the Pacific as a member of the elite and pioneering Underwater Demolition Teams GIs called them half fish half nuts Today we call them frogmenand Navy SEALs Morgan would spend the fierce final year of the war swimming up to enemy controlled beaches to gather intel and detonate underwater barriers Hed have to master the sea muster superhuman grit and overcome the demons of Omaha Beach
Moving closer to Japan the enemys island defenses were growing more elaborate and its soldiers more fanatical From the black sand beaches of Iwo Jima to the shark infested reefs of Okinawa to the cold seas of Tokyo Bay teenaged George Morgan was there before most fighting for his life And for us all
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