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| | Underwater Demolition Teams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Unlike their later teams, the early UDT's were not manned by combat divers; holding true to their NCDU roots they were meant to operate from landing craft in heavy boots and helmets and were tethered to the boats. |
 | | UDT's Able, Six, and Seven were dispatched Disaster struck before the invasion however, when APD-24 USS Noa, carrying UDT Able, was rammed by another American destroyer and sunk with the loss of all of Able's equipment. |
 | | UDT's were tasked with reconning and providing information about the channels, beaches, and defenses of Inchon Harbor, allowing a massive landing to take place and change the course of the war. |
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