The U.S. Navy is now undeniably the largest and most powerful in the world with its impressive aircraft carriers, state-of-the-art cruisers and destroyers. Astonishingly, mine sweepers have been neglected in recent decades.
In this documentary, Wilhelm M. Donko presents all U.S. Navy mine sweeping vessels by type and class and describes all units that were ever classified as such from the interwar years til Second World War to the present day.
With 250 (mainly) b/w pictures.