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8\"x10\" glossy black and white photograph of Operation Deep Channel II during the Vietnam War. Excuse the reflecion; no damage to photo. Marks from cellophane tape and paperclips.
From the. estate of Donald L. Schwab, 40+ year Navy veteran.He was a Marine for 3 years and completed his Naval career assigned to Seal Team 3 in Coronado, California. He was chosen to serve on the Apollo 8 Recovery Team in 1967.
He typed an identification of this photo as follows:\"Navy Underwater Demolition Personnel move sections of Mark 8 explosive \"hose\" into position during the clearing and widening project of Operation \'Deep Channel II\"Official U.S. Navy photo\"
Background of this operation from the 1971 Proceedings, published by the U.S. Navy Institute:
22 frogmen from Underwater Demolition Team TWELVE began blasting a narrow, 5 1/2 mile canal across a remote plain in South Vietnam. If successfully completed, the Kinh Gay (Gay Canal) would be the first canal ever to be constructed with demolitions in Vietnam—and the largest combat demolition job in U. S. naval history.
This operation—“Deep Channel”—was being undertaken to cut the enemy’s busiest infiltration route into Saigon and the upper Mekong Delta near its origin at the Cambodian border. When completed, it would connect two major rivers, the Song Vam Co Tay and the Song Vam Co Dong, providing a vital interdiction route for naval patrol boats and a timesaving commercial route for the civilian population.
