Great Lakes Naval Station

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, a 230-mile-long chain of 70,000 naval mines between Scotland and Norway completed by Great Britain's Royal Navy and the United States Navy. The barrage had been effective at limiting the number of German U-Boats seeking … [Read more...] about Researching Robert