Cecil Herman (close up) MOORE
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Additional MOORE Surnames in WEST END (STEPHENVILLE) Cemetery
MOORE, Jackie HMOORE, Billy RayMOORE, Bryan KeithMOORE, Jacquieta (Nana)MOORE, Herbert N.MOORE, Millie P.MOORE, OrvilleMOORE, MableMOORE, RubyMOORE, Cecil RayMOORE, Cecil HermanMOORE, Harry GordonMOORE, Mary AllisonMOORE, Ruble G.MOORE, Laura B.MOORE, William WesleyMOORE, Sam M.MOORE, Annie L.MOORE, Cecil DonMOORE, Daisy E.MOORE, Llewellyn D.MOORE, Leah AnnMOORE, Kate IreneMOORE, Lucy M.MOORE, NellMOORE, Mary FrancesMOORE, Hildred BeatriceMOORE, ElizabethMOORE, NellieMOORE, Elsie LeeMOORE, Billy JoeMOORE, Thomas WilsonMOORE, Viola Dell Additional MOORE Surnames in ERATH County
MOORE, Louis WilbornMOORE, AliceMOORE, James MMOORE, Warren DebsMOORE, Cecil Thomas "Tom"MOORE, James BenjaminMOORE, ALice MaeMOORE, LewisMOORE, HazleMOORE, Mollie BMOORE, Richard AMOORE, Ruth InezMOORE, John WilsonMOORE, Richard AMOORE, Mollie B.MOORE, Mary ElizabethMOORE, NathanMOORE, Sabra JaneMOORE, Joyce McCarty
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Submitted: 8/21/15 • Approved: 10/26/19 • Last Updated: 10/29/19 • R87699-G0-S3
World War II Veteran
Underwater Demolition Team
2 & 4
Special Forces
'Department of the Navy' {symbol}
'Underwater Demolition' {symbol}
Jan. 10, 1926 - Apr. 12, 2010
The Underwater Demolition Teams (UDT) were an elite special-purpose force established by the United States Navy during World War II. They also served during the Korean War and the Vietnam War. Their primary function was to reconnoiter and destroy enemy defensive obstacles on beaches prior to amphibious landings. They also were the frogmen who retrieved astronauts after splashdown in the Mercury through Apollo manned space flight programs.
The UDTs reconnoitered beaches and the waters just offshore, locating reefs, rocks, and shoals that would interfere with landing craft. They also used explosives to demolish underwater obstacles planted by the enemy. As the U.S. Navy's elite combat swimmers, they were employed to breach the cables and nets protecting enemy harbors, plant limpet mines on enemy ships, and locate and mark mines for clearing by minesweepers. They also conducted river surveys and foreign military training.
The UDTs pioneered combat swimming, closed-circuit diving, underwater demolitions, and midget submarine (dry and wet submersible) operations. They were the precursor to the present-day United States Navy SEALs.
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