Soldier Clearing Minefield

ID: 657 ~ Source: Newspaper coverage in the Puget Sound area, courtesy of San Juan Historical Museum. ~ Date: circa 1961

This file appears in: Operation Sea Wall

A Liberator clears his way through a simulated Aggressor minefield.

This file appears in: Operation Sea Wall

Operation Sea Wall – The 1961 Mock Invasion of San Juan Island

By Zion Flores

In 1961, over a century after the events of the Pig War, San Juan Island was once again the site of military action. Rather than a tense standoff between two nations, the occasion this time was a military exercise—named “Sea Wall”—conducted by the…