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The film's storyline is based on operations by United States Navy Underwater Demolition Teams, popularly known as "frogmen", against the Japanese Army and naval forces. It was the first such film about scuba diving and became a popular cultural hit. Following the opening credits, The Frogmen has an on-screen written statement:
The Frogmen (1951), starring Dana Andrews and Richard Widmark. World War II film based on the Underwater Demolition Teams. Contemporary UDT members appear in several sequences. [citation needed] Underwater Warrior (1958) directed by Andrew Marton is based on the memoirs of Lieutenant-Commander Francis Douglas Fane, Naked Warriors.
Frogman (also Tongue Man), a villain in the 2013 Indian film Krrish 3; Frogmen, an unaired TV-movie starring O.J. Simpson; Frogman, a horror film based on the legend of the Loveland frog, was released in 2024.
The third season (1963-1964) began on September 21, 1963. For the third season in a row, the network opened its Saturday night movie series with a Marilyn Monroe-starring film, 1955's The Seven Year Itch. By this time, NBC had added a second movie night, Monday, to its prime-time schedule.
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An incident off the coast of West Africa in late 2021 offered a rare look at the operations of Denmark's Fromandskorpset, or Frogman Corps.
Spence was unable to tell friends and family of his role in the frogmen until the late 1980s, when files on the group were finally declassified. [1] Spence remained with the United States Navy until his retirement in 1961. [1] [2] He worked as a systems testing engineer at the Lockheed Corporation after leaving the navy. [1]
In the U.S. Navy, frogmen were officially phased out in 1983 and all active duty frogmen were transferred to SEAL units. In 1989, during the U.S. invasion of Panama, a team of four U.S. Navy SEALs using rebreathers conducted a combat swimmer attack on the Presidente Porras, a gunboat and yacht belonging to Manuel Noriega.