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Seabee Book World War Two--Seabee Images Of the 37th Naval Construction Battalion: 1942 - 1945

Seabee Book World War Two--Seabee Images Of the 37th Naval Construction Battalion: 1942 - 1945

Paperback

World War II

ISBN10: 1475190174
ISBN13: 9781475190175
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Apr 14 2012
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.29 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
A Pictorial History Of the 37th Naval Construction Battalion (Seabees). The book has over 120 Images of the 37th taken during their stay at Camp Parks and while deployed in the Pacific during WW II. --37th Naval Construction Battalion-- Commissioned at Camp Endicott, Davisville, R. I., on Oct. 28, 1942, the 37th Battalion was transferred to the army base, Norfolk, VA., Dec. 14, and two days later embarked for Noumea, New Caledonia, where they arrived Jan. 18, 1943. The outfit moved in two echelons to Guadalcanal, arriving Sept. 1 and Sept. 3. 1943. Leaving Guadalcanal in three echelons, the first echelon arrived at Ondonga, New Georgia, Sept. 12. The second and third echelons got there Sept. 13 and 15. Moving again in February 1944 in three echelons, the outfit arrived on Green Island, Feb. 15, 19 and 24, 1944. Bound for home, the battalion embarked on Oct. 4, 1944, and arrived at San Francisco on Oct. 26. In July 1945 the 37th began its second overseas tour of duty by sailing for Okinawa and were there at the war's end.

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