Can Do! The Story Of The Seabees

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!'

• | Author: William Bradford Huie
• | Publisher: Lulu.com
• | Publication Date: Jul 09, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 126 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/History
• | ISBN-10: 1387934961
• | ISBN-13: 9781387934966