Buster Crabb and the dawn of underwater frogman warfare in World War Two 5
by John Bevan, 24-05-18
Lieutenant Lionel ‘Buster’ Crabb, RNVR, of the Underwater Working Party at Gibraltar. Copyright: © IWM.
Dr John Bevan, chair of the Historical Diving Society at the Diving Museum in Gosport, on a collection telling the story of the mysterious Commander Lionel ‘Buster’ Crabb and the dawn of underwater frogman warfare in World War Two
Commander Lionel ‘Buster’ Crabb first came to fame during the Second World War in Gibraltar where he was involved with a team of divers removing the mines planted by Italian human torpedo squads and other saboteurs on Allied ships.
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