North Korea's Secret Weapon Is Underneath the Surface
A four-hour rescue effort saved 170 crew from Pledge and Pirate—though a dozen crew from Pirate and Pledge would never make it back home
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When North Korean Mines Sank U.S. Navy Ships
North Korean boats had laid over 3,000 Soviet-supplied contact and magnetic mines in the 400 island-congested square miles surrounding the port.
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Did North Korea Really Defeat the American Navy at Sea? (What?)
The Pledge and Pirate ships had unfortunate run-ins during the Korean War.
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The U.S. Navy's Worst Nightmare: North Korean Mines?
North Korean mines were a serious obstacle for the U.S. Navy in the 1950s.
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North Korean Mines Dealt the U.S. Navy a Nasty Blow In 1950
A four-hour rescue effort managed to save 170 crew. Here's What You Need to Know: Korea was no piece of cake. At noon sharp on October 12, 1950, the minesweeper USS Pirate had just completed a busy but productive morning off the North Korean port of Wonsan when everything went wrong at once. Hours earlier, the small, 625-ton vessel had led the five ships of Mine Division 32 based in Sasebo, Japan through two belts of contact mines laid in a channel just one mile wide, and fourteen miles long leading into Wonsan Harbor in North Korea. At the time U.N. troops were on the offensive followin...
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