08-01-2011, 01:39 PM
Those are cool photos. I read an article the other day in on eof my WWII magazines regarding minesweepers in the Pacific after the war. It seems that the US had seeded the waters around Japan (not to mention the Japanese defensive mines) into a deadly killing ground (or water, I suppose). People forget about all the guys who hung around and took care of that sort of thing (to include removing landmines, booby traps, etc) and who sometimes died as these minesweepers did. When I look through my magazines I will post the issue.