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Can Do! The Story of the Seabees

Can Do! The Story of the Seabees

Huie, William Bradford

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Biographies GeneralFiction AnthologiesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1387933000
ISBN13: 9781387933006
Publisher: Lulu Pr
Published: Jul 8 2018
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Born in 'the hellish aftermath of Pearl Harbor, ' the Seabees began as barely armed civilians with no military training. They had an average age of 35. GI's would joke, Never hit a Seabee, for his son might be a Marine. America's bulldozing, jungle-hacking, 'Jap-cracking' Construction Battalion or the Seabees ('C.B.'s) soon proved themselves miracle-construction-workers in seemingly impassable combat zones. Before World War 2, Marines were the ones to 'get their first, ' but the need for roads in the muddy battlefields of the Pacific meant that claim would pass to the Construction Battalion. Their early motto was 'Can Do!'

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