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WITH U. S. SUPPLY FORCES, Belgium—Submarine soldiers,** they call these GIs who go beneath the sea in shifts.The 13 divers and sis divers” tenders of the 1053d Eng- Port andConst Gp. have spent more than 1,488 hours under the waters ofEuropean harbors since they arrived on the Continent July IXThey started out reconstructing the Cherbourg docks and have since been working on other harbor facilities. Their work is in an underwater ’’battlefield”* strewn with such hazards as uinespioded mines, booby traps, twisted and wrecked cranes and other debris. The divers* tenders have been pressed into service manyon rasli fobs* One of them. €pl. Woodrow F. Collett, of Stoolc* Ain*Hmm spent 54 hours In the ETO section of Davy Jones* locker.
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New York Stars and Stripes
New York, New York, US
Sat, Mar 17, 1945
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