U.S. salvage experts clear Naples Harbor. A U.S.

U.S. salvage experts clear Naples Harbor. A U.S. Navy diver is relieved of his ponderous equipment after a dive into the Bay of Naples, Italy, to investigate the wreckage of ships bombed by retreating Germans in their effor to destroy the harbor's usefulness to Allied shipping. (December, 1943). The same salvage experts who cleared the harbors of Tunis, Bizerto and Palermo and kept supply lines clear for advancing. Allied troops are at work inNaples. Directing the salvage operations is Commodore William A. Sullivan, Chief of Salvage for the U.S. Navy, whose rightling of the 83,000-ton Normandie after she burned and capsized at her New York City pier is considered one of the greatest salvage achievements in maritime history.