Fully updated to include a detailed analysis of recent SEALs
operation Neptune Spear, this is a complete history of one of the world’s
foremost military units
The United States Navy SEAL Teams were only founded as recently as
1962, on the orders of President John F. Kennedy, but they already have a
reputation as one of the best special forces units in the world. The US Navy
SEALs tells the story behind these Sea, Air, and Land (SEAL) specialists. The
book begins with the SEALs' origins in World War II, when the Navy's Underwater
Demolition Teams (UDTs) prepared beaches in Normandy and the Pacific for US amphibious
landings. The UDTs also served in the Korean War. A new conflict in
Vietnam demanded a new type of unit,
and the SEALs were born out of the UDTs as a maritime special operations unit
capable of a multitude of missions. The SEALs served with distinction in
South East Asia, targeting the Vietcong
infrastructure and earning a fearsome reputation. Since the American withdrawal
from Vietnam, the SEALs have
seen action in Grenada,
Panama, the Persian Gulf,
Kuwait, Somalia, Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq. They
carried out the notorious mission that led to the demise of Osama bin Laden. The
book describes the full combat record of the SEAL Teams, and details their
organization, equipment, uniforms and insignia.
Illustrated with black-and-white and colour photographs and artworks,
and with an authoritative text, The US Navy SEALs is a definitive history of one
of America’s elite fighting
units..
