Cape Cod Massachusetts

Minesweeper USS Heron By Jim Potter During the Armistice of 1918, while two million doughboys and bluejackets were anxious to return to the United States from Europe and to be demobilized, Robert Parks was preparing to help clear a portion of the North Sea Mine Barrage, an area 240-mile-long and of an average width of twenty-five miles, or over 6,000 square miles. Withn this area were concealed a chain of 70,263 naval mines between Scotland and Norway completed by Great Britain's Royal … [Read more...] about Researching Robert