In the last post I mentioned that two live bombs were found while divers were looking for "horned scullies" near Vero Beach in Florida.
The Random House Dictionary describes a "horned scully" as "A tapered block of concrete with projecting steel rails placed underwater to tear holes in the bottom of ships.
The Germans used these to defend their Atlantic Wall and were also at the Normandy invasion beaches. U.S. troops referred to them as "Horned Scullies."
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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