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December 25th 03, 01:26 AM
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Minesweeping by rifle fire.
When my father was coming home from Japan in January of 1946 the ship he was
encountered free floating mines that were destroyed by massed rifle fire from the ship. Dad thinks he it two of them but with so many men shooting no one can be sure who hit the detonators that destroyed the mine. How common was this practice and how long after the war it did last? John Dupre' 
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