Containing a number of half tone photo illustrations, maps, line drawings and plans in text and half tone photo pictorial endpapers, the book is an account all types of mines - moored, magnetic, acoustic and pressure, their discovery and recovery, the measures taken to counter their threat, the methods of minesweeping developed and the major operations that depended on minesweeping, including Normandy, the South of France and the Pacific, post-war mine clearance and Appendices of minesweeper classes, minesweepers in commission, comparative specifications and losses, etc..
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. (WWII) ALLIED MINESWEEPING IN WORLD WAR 2. By Peter Elliott. First edition, Naval Institute Press, 1979. 8vo size book, blue clth binding w/DJ in fine condition. 201-pages of text fine, many illustrations. Seller Inventory # 8375
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