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Before V-J day, 4,000 men had gathered mysteriously at Tokyo Bay's naval base of Yokosuka. Their working garb was strange, their training secret, their mission vitally important, their fate certain death. These were the first of the fukuryus (crouching dragons), underwater attack units wearing special diving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Crouching Dragons | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

In diving suits equipped with two oxygen tanks, submarine-type air cleansing devices, tubes for liquid food, the fukuryus could operate in deep water (most effectively at 50 feet), walk under water more than a mile an hour, stay under about ten hours. Each carried at the end of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Crouching Dragons | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

Tony Bryan, late of the RAF and a graduate of Oxford doing special undergraduate work at the University, took the 50 yd. free-style with ease, with the stop-watch reading 26.4 secs. Ulen's two diving artists, Pete Steffens and Tony Drohan, ended up a half-point apart, with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swimmers Topple Bruins In 52-20 Upset Opener | 12/18/1945 | See Source »

Prospects for a victorious season, according to Coach Hal Ulen, are slim. In resuming competition, the Varsity, which dropped the sport through the war, will find itself against schools with three years experience behind them. The only holdover from the 1942 squad is Pete Steffens, who will compete in the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROWN WILL TEST ROOKIE SWIMMERS | 12/14/1945 | See Source »

Jerry German will start in the 220 and the 100 yard races; Frank Krayer will do the backstroke; and Gulio Vielman will swim the breast stroke events. Steffens and Tom Droham are scheduled to do the diving, and Ted Norris will compete in the 440. Starters in the other events...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROWN WILL TEST ROOKIE SWIMMERS | 12/14/1945 | See Source »

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