Seabee Book

Author : William B. Huie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9798869081827

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Can Do! by William B. Huie Pdf

Can Do!, first published in 1944, is a fascinating account of the formation and Second World War activities of the U.S. Navy 'Seabees' (from 'C.B.' - construction battalion). The book covers projects of the Seabees throughout the South Pacific, the Aleutian Islands, and in Italy, as well as numerous personal stories of the men as they faced enemy attacks, for example, while attempting to construct vital island runways. Their skill and competence in critical trades such as construction, engineering, pipe-laying, electricity, and plumbing, and their positive 'Can Do!' attitude in the face of danger and difficult conditions were critical in the Allied effort to win the war and remain an inspiration to younger generations. This unabridged reprint edition includes 70 pages of drawings and photographs of Seabee activities throughout the world.

Author : Richard Tregaskis
Publisher : U.S. Navy Seabee Museum
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Military bases, American
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Southeast Asia, Building the Bases by Richard Tregaskis Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Terry Lukanic
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780998888767

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U.S. Navy Seabees-The Vietnam Years-1968 by Anonim Pdf

A historical chronology of the U.S. Navy Seabees in Vietnam during 1968. Data was researched from Battalion Cruisebooks and Deployment Completion Reports, Stars & Stripes Newspaper, All Hands magazine as well as personal stories and memories from the men who served 'boots on the ground'

Author : David H. Lyman
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476678443

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Seabee 71 in Chu Lai by David H. Lyman Pdf

 Hoping to stay out of Vietnam, David Lyman joined the U.S. Naval Reserve to avoid the draft. By summer 1967 he was with a SeaBee unit on a beach in Chu Lai. A reporter in civilian life, Lyman was assigned to Military Construction Battalion 71 as a photojournalist. He documented the lives of the hard-working and hard-drinking SeaBees as they engineered roads, runways, heliports and base camps for the troops. The author was shot at, almost blown up by a road mine, and spent nights in a mortar pit as rockets bombarded a nearby Marine runway. He rode on convoys through Viet Cong territory to photograph villages outside "The Wire." The stories and photographs Lyman published as editor of the battalion's newspaper, The Transit, form the basis of this memoir.

Author : 133rd Ncb,Kenneth E. Bingham
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1456583166

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Seabee Cruise Book 133 by 133rd Ncb,Kenneth E. Bingham Pdf

Seabee Cruise Book-133 Naval Construction Battalion 1943-1945. The 133rd NCB landed with the first waves of Marines on Iwo Jima Feb 19, 1945. The 133rd NCB suffered the highest casualty rate of any Seabee Battalion to date, 43% casualties. Cruise Books are Informal and nonofficial in nature (they sometimes are compared to college yearbooks) These publications offer insights into the daily activities and attitudes from the perspective of a unit's crew. Cruise books dating from the World War II years are rare today, but they are of special note because of the intense interest by veterans, writers, and scholars in a conflict that involved the entire American nation and engulfed most of the rest of the world. Care has been taken to render the best copy possible. However, quality of this book is based on the condition of the original, and current technology available. All proceeds from the sale of this book are donated to non-profit organizations.

Author : Gina Nichols
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0738531200

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The Seabees at Port Hueneme by Gina Nichols Pdf

In 1942, the navy sought a location for an advance base on the West Coast to ship construction materiel, equipment, and men into World War II's Pacific theater. Port Hueneme's deepwater harbor, rail system, and rural setting made it the ideal site from which to send 20 million measurement tons of war materiel and a quarter of a million men onto island specks that later became headlines: Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and the Philippines. Seabees later deployed from Port Hueneme to serve in the Korean, Vietnam, Desert Shield/Desert Storm, and Iraqi conflicts, as well as in peacetime, for more than 60 years. Charged with building air bases, ports, combat camps, hospitals, and other support facilities as part of military and humanitarian efforts around the world, the Seabees remain at home in Port Hueneme.

Author : Gina L. Nichols
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439635384

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The Seabees at Gulfport by Gina L. Nichols Pdf

In June 1942, the U.S. Navy established an advance base depot in Gulfport because of its uncrowded deepwater port, rail access, open land, and a tepid climate that permitted training and open port facilities year-round. The base became the southern home for the Seabees and was ideal for shipping construction materiel and men to the Caribbean or the Pacific via the Panama Canal. Since the base reopened in March 1966, Seabees have deployed from Gulfport to serve during major conflicts as well as in peacetime. Seabees from Gulfport played an integral part in Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm and more recently deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq to assist in local construction efforts to rebuild both countries. Seabees assist thousands each year in international humanitarian projects while still calling Gulfport home.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Terry Lukanic
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780998888774

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U.S. Navy Seabees-The Vietnam Years-1969 by Anonim Pdf

A historical chronology of the U.S. Navy Seabees in Vietnam during 1969. Data was researched from Battalion Cruisebooks and Deployment Completion Reports, Stars & Stripes Newspaper, All Hands magazine as well as personal stories and memories from the men who served 'boots on the ground'

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Terry Lukanic
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780998888750

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U.S. Navy Seabees-The Vietnam Years-1967 by Anonim Pdf

A historical chronology of the U.S. Navy Seabees in Vietnam during 1967. Data was researched from Battalion Cruisebooks and Deployment Completion Reports, Stars & Stripes Newspaper, All Hands magazine as well as personal stories and memories from the men who served 'boots on the ground'

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2001-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781681621500

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Navy Seabee Veterans of America, Inc. by Anonim Pdf

NAVY SEABEE VETERANS of AMERICA is a non-profit organization of veterans that have served in Naval Construction Force commands, who dedicate and pledge to preserve the fundamental ideals on which our Nation was founded believing in Justice, Freedom and Equality for all.

Author : Janice Blake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 0817922245

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The Battalion Artist by Janice Blake Pdf

The Battalion Artist explores the three years, three months, and three days of Nat Bellantoni's life on the Pacific front in World War II. He had known since childhood that he wanted to be--that he in fact was--an artist. When he packed his seabag and took leave of his family and his sweetheart to go to war, he knew that the best way to manage the narrative of his life and to cope with the ups and downs of his feelings was to create images--visual records that spoke of what he felt, as well as what he saw. In this stunning book filled with authentic World War II images--many in full color--we see and feel the intensity of wartime life through the eyes of a talented young artist who was also a US Navy Seabee. Natale Bellantoni, a young art student from Boston, sailed across the Pacific in 1943-45 and returned home with a sea chest of art and photographs documenting his experiences in New Caledonia, New Guinea, the Admiralty Islands, and Okinawa. His subject matter was his daily life: endless weeks at sea, harbors and ships, men at work, airstrips, the local countryside, and the view of enemy planes overhead at night from his fox hole. Now collected in a lavishly illustrated volume, his watercolors, sketches, and photographs offer a window onto one of the most significant moments in American history. The Battalion Artist explores the World War II experiences of Nat Bellantoni, but it reflects the story of an entire generation.

Author : William Bradford Huie,Kenneth E. Bingham
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1479294551

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Seabee Book, Can Do by William Bradford Huie,Kenneth E. Bingham Pdf

The story of the Seabees by the famous author William Bradford Huie. This was Huie's first book about the Seabees. He wrote it while in the Navy Seabees. He was an assistant to Vice Admiral Ben Moreell, the "Father" of the Seabees.The Seabees were born of dire need at a time of national peril. The country was stunned by the blow at Pearl Harbor. Most of the men who joined theSeabees could have avoided military service [because of their age] had they chosen to do so, but it is a characteristic of the Seabees that they have a highly developed sense of individual responsibility to “get this thing over with.” Lieutenant Huie is to be complimented on the work which he has performed in setting forth the accomplishments and ideals of the Seabees and the spirit by which they are animated. This spirit can be summarized by quoting from an answer to a questionnaire distributed to a battalion of Seabees by their Chaplain. Among other questions was this one: “What can we do to make you more content?” and the answer was: “Nothing, I got in this outfit to give, not to get.” ––Ben Moreell Vice Admiral, Civil Engineer Corps, U.S. Navy

Author : Edmund L. Castillo
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 1456476033

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The Seabees of World War II by Edmund L. Castillo Pdf

The story of the U.S. Navy's Construction Battalions during World War II.

Author : William Bradford Huie
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Civil rights workers
ISBN : 160473695X

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Three Lives for Mississippi by William Bradford Huie Pdf

Author : Walter K. Schroder,Gloria A. Emma
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0738501069

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Davisville and the Seabees by Walter K. Schroder,Gloria A. Emma Pdf

The U.S. Naval Construction Battalion Center at Davisville, Rhode Island, is first remembered as the original "Home of the Atlantic Seabees." During World War II, 100 battalions as well as dozens of other U.S. Navy "Builder-Fighter" units were formed, outfitted, trained, and prepared for overseas deployment. Here, in the first photographic history of the base, is the story of the men and women who came to Davisville and their legacy of superb accomplishments in the service of their country. Established on February 27, 1942, the base was designated to manufacture and ship overseas materials and equipment and to outfit and embark construction battalions and other naval units. Between 1942 and 1994, when the base was closed, the Seabees participated in every war involving the United States. The Quonset Hut and the Davisville Pontoons were both developed at the Davisville Seabee Center. The base has schooled and trained thousands of officers and tens of thousands of Seabees.