The Navy decided that men would have to go in to reconnoiter the landing beaches, locate obstacles and defenses, as well as guide the landing forces ashore. forces would need to perform a large number of amphibious attacks. entered World War II, the Navy realized that in order to strike at the Axis powers the U.S. Peddicord being assigned the task of analyzing the need for a human intelligence (HUMINT) capability.
In August 1941, landing trials were performed and one hazardous operation led to Army Second Lieutenant Lloyd E. This contributed to the development and experimentation of new landing techniques in the mid-1930s. The United States Navy studied the problems encountered by the disastrous Allied amphibious landings during the Gallipoli Campaign of World War I. SDVTs have since been re-designated SEAL Delivery Vehicle Teams. In 1983, after additional SEAL training, the UDTs were re-designated as SEAL Teams or Swimmer Delivery Vehicle Teams (SDVTs). Commando training was added making them the forerunner to the United States Navy SEAL program that exists today. They later were tasked with ensuring recovery of space capsules and astronauts after splash down in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo space flight programs. UDTs were pioneers in underwater demolition, closed-circuit diving, combat swimming, and midget submarine (dry and wet submersible) operations. With that they came to be considered more elite and tactical during the Korean and Vietnam Wars.
Postwar they transitioned to scuba gear changing their capabilities. Their primary WWII function began with reconnaissance and underwater demolition of natural or man-made obstacles obstructing amphibious landings. They were predecessors of the navy's current SEAL teams. Underwater Demolition Teams ( UDTs), or frogmen, were amphibious units created by the United States Navy during World War II with specialized non-tactical missions.
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