"THEY CAME TO AN ISLAND" U.S. NAVY CIVIL ENGINEER CORPS WWII SEABEES CONSTRUCTION BATTALIONS 29564
They Came To An Island (MN-5834) is a 1946 U.S. Navy film that gives viewers a look at just some of what the Navy’s Civil Engineer Corps accomplished in the Pacific during World War II. The film opens with a shot of the Navy Department Bureau of Yards and Docks, which is headquarters to the Civil Engineer Corps. In the unit’s archives are rows and rows of file cabinets containing the files of the men who served during the war. Navy men drill in full dress (01:28). Men climb aboard a ship with their gear; cargo is loaded onto the ship by cranes. Heavy machinery and tanks are also loaded onto the ship. The men kill time sitting out on the deck of the ship (02:38), some box, and others paint. A church service is held on the deck of the ship. Aerial footage shows the sea and the ships from planes. This is followed by explosions on an island and shots of Grumman F6F Hellcats and Vought F4U Corsairs. A pontoon causeway is dropped into the water. Seabees build a dock out of the pontoon bridges (05:43). Trucks drive off the ship and onto the makeshift dock as they head to the island. A tractor plows grass and clears underbrush. Men chainsaw down palm trees; another tractor knocks over a tree. A large tractor pulls equipment (08:00); earth is leveled and graded. Men cut logs, which are then trucked away. A blast destroys rock and a backhoe clears out the rubble to make way for an airstrip. More graters and bulldozers level the terrain. Rollers flatten the earth. 10:44 Men lay down steel Marston Mats and link them together for the air strip (10:44). Men move lumber in makeshift lumber yard on the island (11:14). The Seabees raise walls for buildings, then they put on trusses. What appears to be a Vought F4U Corsair takes off from the newly made runway (12:09). The Navy engineers set up a fuel pump. Men service a B-24 Liberator (12:51); the Liberator then takes off. There are some good shots of the island base being developed. Then the men are back at sea on their way to Iwo Jima. Men gather on deck for a briefing. The troops tend to cargo and clean their weapons (14:36). A ship in their convoy takes a direct hit off in the distance (14:58). The troops see Iwo Jima, and then the Marines move in. Seabees cling to cargo nets as they are moved from one ship to the next for landing (15:40). The Seabees head to shore in a LCVP to wait for incoming cargo. Large artillery guns are moved off the ship; trucks and other equipment are moved onto LSTs. An LST loaded with equipment heads to the beach near Mount Suribachi (18:38). Footage shows tanks, trucks, and artillery guns moving off the LSTs and onto the sand. Men form a bucket brigade line and pass along boxes and barrels of supplies. A truck gets stuck in the sand (21:07) and a bulldozer needs to tow it out. Men roll out the Marston Mats to make a better surface to drive equipment and supplies off of the LSTs. Seabees set up water hoses to distill water (23:00). The Seabees follow the Marines as they push the Japanese back on the island (23:50). A bulldozer moves earth at a new site (24:38). A lookout stands on the bulldozer blade searching for land mines. The film then shows the men living on the island, shaving, bathing, and cooking. A large shovel chips away at Mount Suribachi (26:27) and loads lava rock onto trucks. Tractors pull graters to build an airstrip, and then heavy steam rollers compact the earth. Some Seabees build a cemetery on Iwo Jima and put up grave markers. Other men walk around the cemetery looking at the graves of their brothers (28:45). There are fresh water wells, and the men shower with the new fresh water. Men build an underground medical center using leftover strips of Marston Mats (31:05); they add a weather-strip cover and then surround the building with sandbags. A bulldozer moves sand over the sandbags to camouflage the medical center. The Seabees are then back on the ships heading for Okinawa. Floating pontoons are dropped onto the water (34:24). Trucks leave the ships, driving to the island over the causeway. Trucks move through thick mud; a bulldozer pushes mud out of the way to make a more serviceable road. An aerial view of the island shows the ocean “pier” and the roads and airstrip built by the Seabees. (37:53). This is followed by a shot of “harbor” at Okinawa built by the Seabees (38:50).
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My husband was in the Sea Bees from 1960 until the end of 1963.He was on Midway Island for ten months and in states three months then to Kodiak,Alaska eight months and then shore duty ,Mare Island.He was in MCB 9 and was a welder.He later became a nuclear welder on submarines.He passed away last year.
No doubt a long string of stories in those 3-4 years.
Thank you and him for his service.
My Cover Comes Off In Remembrance Of These Kind Of Men, That Combines Building, Clearing & All Of The Trademarks, Of Who Tore Down The Rival Extremely Filthy RICH Astoria And Their Feuding Waldorf Families 1st Their Homes/Mansions/Hotels, That Built NYC's Empire State Building & Other Accomplishments, And Putting Their Lives In Harms Way, Just Like Today's Men & Women In Blue = The USA's Police Force Officers, Who Do Their Utmost To Keep Ourselves/Families & Relatives Free From Harm!!!!!!!
Dad was a Seabee of WWII and was a reserve Seabee. Loved that life.
Such engineers were vital to winning WWII. Their feats were amazing, but very little praise came their way. SALUTE SEABEES!
CAN DO!
I served as a Seabee equipment operator from 1973 to 1994. I served with a lot of the original Seabees because a large number of them stayed in the navy reserve and returned to active duty during the Vietnam war and made it a career. I even operated WW2 era equipment once or twice. My fathers uncle Ed was a Seabee chief during WW2 stationed on Guam after it's liberation.
They didn't call this the greatest generation for nothing! My dad was a SEABEE in WWII. I followed in his footsteps as a BEE reservist 91-99. CAN DO!! These guys were really something!!
I served as a seabees in NMCB-16 during operation desert storm. I missed my friends I worked with during those times. Love every minute of it with them!
Had 2 uncles in Seabees in Pacific theater in WW2. One NEVER would discuss it. The other told a few of us how they went in to an island, their own sappers defeated imbedded Japanese snipers and then SB's were able to build LZs on the shores with inbound roads, etc. He said when Marines landed days later the first on the island was the movie type film reel photographers to film "the landing of the Marines". Seabees paved the way, others got the PR glory.
I served 6 years in the NAVY Reserve in various units, my last active duty unit was NMCB 7, My Dad served in Viet Nam in NMCB3, My Grandpa served in the Pacific in WWII in the Seabees. I was a Construction mechanic,Dad was a Construction Electrician, Grandpa said he did a little bit of everything. Thanks to Periscope Film i have seen this way cool footage.
We Build - We fight!
Thanks for your service to our great nation.
NMCB-7 97-99 here.
Uncle Gus was a SeaBee and helped me get hired on at the Post Office. He never had kids but loved his family. I miss him, he was a good man🇺🇸
My late father was a SeaBee in WW2 on the island of Saipan. He passed away about two years ago at the age of 91.
I dated a guy in 1963, whose father, who was from Texas, was a Seabed in the Pacific, WWII. He was killed there, and this guy barely remembered him, but he was so proud of his Dad. This was the first time I had heard of Seabees, and was about 20 yrs old at the time.
@Legion 57 Thank you.
My father also was in the Seabees. He was on the Aleutian Islands 4th Battalion. He turned 100 in April. He had a band and entertained the rest of the troops.
God bless
Thank you for his service.
My dad was a seabees in ww2 when they asked for volunteers to become the original frogmen. My dad volunteered and was one of the original frogmen. He was on saipan and oklnawa before any one else. He is my hero. I wish I had talked to him more about his time in ww2.
My dad was in the 121st seabee battalion which was also the 20th marines. He said they were working hard and visited the bulletin board for news, a sign up sheet asked for good swimmers, dad figured with his buddy, this could be easier, well he said they were in the water 12 hours straight practicing being picked up by rubber rafts and back to the PT boats. One day they were told, get ready the mission is going to be when the invasion of japan starts, swimmers ( dad never said anything but swimmers as seals had not been invented yet ) will go in first to blow up the nets( seabees had the munitions). This is a suicide mission, you have to volunteer for it. But we know you all are volunteers. There will be Japanese guarding these nets and it will be one or 2 days where you will be on your own.
Grandfather was a SeaBee in the Alaskan Aleutians. Great Uncle was a SeaBee in New Guinea. Bless them both and may they RIP.
My dad was there also. 78th construction battalion.
I grew up in oil camps in Venezuela, Ecuador, and Congo in the 60s and 70s and I still hold memories of CB veterans putting together Nissen huts, clearing well sites, building roads, making the clubhouses and swimming pools, etc. They did it in the same high-paced frenzy as they did in WWII, but this time for the oil companies. Proud (and relieved) to be an American. I don’t think anything symbolized the power of the US in the Pacific more than the accomplishments of the CBs and logistics troops. The Japanese didn’t stand a chance against the sheer weight of American industrial production, but neither did our foreign oil competitors after the war. I know they also had a huge impact on building hydroelectric and power transmission facilities in some pretty inaccessible spots the globe over. Saw it with my own eyes.
I wonder if that construction tempo will still stand up against the current Chinese construction? I've been seeing Chinese engineers pull absolute miracles in the building of China's modern infrastructure, they literally put tens of thousands of bodies to an project and accomplish it in record time. As an American, this concerns me as our ability to do infrastructure seems to be slipping away.
@@mochaholic3039 there hospital they built fast collapse
@@mochaholic3039 The Chinese have lax building codes and slip-shod construction. I wouldn't set foot in any Chinese built structure!
My wife's father was a SeaBee in WW2. I love watching and studying WW2 because my dad and 5 of his brothers were in the war (not all were sent over seas because they were a little older). Anyways, a few years ago she acted like she was a little disappointed that her dad was just a Seabee. I said now hold on just a minute. Those guys preformed just as valuable role as anyone else. After all, would they have made a movie with John Wayne starring in it if they weren't?
James Cress Good answer and good point.
That's right! I was a seabees during operation desert storm. We made a difference to lay out airfield for the troops to land in Saudia Arabia and provided support for the marines and we ended up winning the gulf war!!
Valuable role or not, you bet these guys died by the dozens too.
deep throat is a movie.
20:07 John Basilone was from the town I grew up in- Raritan, NJ. Played lacrosse and lifted weights on 'John Basilone Memorial Field' at my local high school. If you ever make it out that way absolutely check out the local library, there is an absolute treasure trove of stuff about his story and life; that of a true American hero
There is also a Basilone Memorial at Camp Pendleton.
@@PeriscopeFilm Seen it! Visited during my son's "graduation" at MCRD Pendleton, my son earning the privilege of the title MARINE was an unusual journey from the Army to there. He was non-com Army Cav Scout those 4yrs, but never deployed. After honorably discharged he and I had that second "big talk", he wanted the Marines, because they DEPLOY. He was his own man but seeked my advice, he wanted to honor his grandfather by wearing the same "largest patch" in the Army, 1st Cav, but never deployed. I signed off, pleased to find he would enter in SoCal at Pendleton, only a hop, skip & jump from the Monterey Peninsula. The Marines wanted him, a trained Cav Scout, he would go straight into Recon by policy and need, even avoid the induction/training phase which did not set well with my son. He stated, if he did not do EVERYTHING the recruits were expected to do, how could he be seen as worthy of leadership to those new Marines. He knew what he was saying, my son was 23yo, a trained non-com Cav Scout, would "stick out" like a sore thumb amongst the 17-19yo recruits and if ANY of them saw that he was given preferential treatment, his career would end before it began. The Marines agreed, it meant that Recon "slot" had to wait for my son but they got one hell of a MARINE. after 10years, a total of 15 years of service to our country, he honorably discharged. He went on to became a BOPE squad leader and is in the UIFL under the flag of another nation. Here, there is a recent video short of him, his squad taking out an RF BMP. He and his people are killing Putin's Russian Orcs by the BUSHEL and the death cards left behind have the Marine EGA and "knife in the skull" symbols ("victory over death") on them. To my son, his warriors: GET SOME...
Wonder if my grandfather is in any of these videos. Was a Seabee in ww2 pacific etc.. got elephantiasis while serving over there. Hardest working man I knew. Died at age 86 in a tree on a new piece of property he just got to rebuild. Had a stroke with a chain saw in hand in a tree topping it with his tree spikes on and harness. Neighbors found him the next day dead in top of a tree… man worked till the day he died and was never easy work. If he wasn’t building a new house or fixing a new one, landscaping, tree cutting, or buying old boats and fixing em up and doing underwater welding etc. man was always doing something. They just don’t make men like that anymore. So much respect had for my grandfather. Great man.
Respect! thats impressive I did a Divers aprenticeship from 2 Masterchiefs in 1979 I learned so much from those guys!
my dad went to north Africa to paris to the pacific ,all in the CBs, me to the west pac 1961-1965, He and his won, we lost
On behalf of my Grandfather, Thank You. He was too old to be drafted but at 35, he volunteered on December 8,, 1941. The cut off for volunteers was 36. He said if you saw the movie "The Fighting SeaBees" with John Wayne, they got that one right. He joined before the Navy absorbed them. As civilians, they were not armed as a civilian on an enemy held island was instantly shot if they were caught and armed. He said on occasion they did have cold beer. Their nick name for the TBM Avenger was "Beer Hauler". They would fill the bomb bay of an Avenger with beer and get the pilot to take it up to around 15,000 feet or so for around 10 to 20 minutes and waa laa, cold beer. It wasn't often, but it was a treat. They enemy would target SeaBee's knowing that each one was a specialist and hard to replace. Again, thank you and God Bless. This was a real treat. Take care from Florida.
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Quite ingenious for making beer cold!
Spawn 1960 I heard a similar story from a Korean era vet. Except it was on Guam and they used a B29 to get cold ice cream
Spawn 1960 h
Another trick was to immerse the cans of beer in Gasoline to cool them down but don't ever wash yer clothes in it without a good rinse with water!
My late father was a SeaBee on Tinian. He said that they dynamited living coral, spread it out to pave the airfields then watered it with ocean water which kept it alive which then stitched it together and made it strong. The airfields are still visable on Google Earth. I've got my eyes looking for maybe a glimpse of him at work.
My father also SeaBee in Solomon Islands…
My Grandpa was also on Tinian 110th N.C.B. Great men!
They built whatever was needed while under fire and in miserable conditions. The Seabees' motto is Can Do! U.S. NAVY veteran. PO3 73>'77 ✌🏻🇺🇸
The great fighting seabees!🇺🇲😎👍i remember watching the movie with John Wayne. The movie was great too, and a great tribute to those who built the roads, the air strips and building. Without them nothing wouldnt have been posible.🇺🇲😎👍
Hard to believe this country coming together like this again on a contiental scale, in these polarized/divided days of hate for each other.
Thanks again, Periscope! My Uncle and my hero was a SeaBee in WW-2. I don't know where he was but he said he ran a machine with one hand and held a rifle with the other. I was hauling river sand from a neighboring state back to the concrete plant when I saw him talking to a local contractor. Always wanting to yak a little with Unc. I got out of the truck and walked up to the two. Answering 'What'n the hell are YOU doing here' from the contractor, he said 'When I was in the Sea Bees all they had to do was yell, whistle or point to what they wanted me to run'. Pointing at me he said 'He's just like I am'! I about passed out! An honor too heavy to hold! I sure miss him. Thanks again!
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@BC Bob How does 2 years, 9 months, 14 days and around 10 1/2 hours, plus or minus 30 minutes with a year in RVN and a dose of malaria sound, Pal?
@@capie44 Thanks, Capie! BLESSINGS 2 U!
Seabees; the difficult they did immediately, the impossible took a little longer,
It took longer, but they still DID the Impossible too.
Hooyah! Can do!
I was one of the last babies born on that Seabee base in Port Hueneme. The old Naval Hospital was made of Quonset huts next to the Sunkist main gate, it’s now the Navy Exchange parking lot. Lots of memories growing up on and next to that Naval port.
My "A" School was there at Hueneme back in 2008-what great memories of being there : ) I remember the Navy Exchange-smokes for a buck 99 a pack back then! What a deal! : ) Thanks for sharing your memories!
I first became a Sea Bee Brat at Quonset point RI My Dad was XO of MCB 58 then CO of MCB 7 2 tours of Nam then I was one of many of the Sea Bee Brats at Port Hueneme from 67 to 70 all of our Dads and many of us Were Nam Vets , My Dad became the Commanding Officer of CECOS . My life revolved around the CBs for many years. I am retired now but I still live outside CBC Port Hueneme. To this day I have a warm feeling about Quonset huts !
I was a kid in Montalvo, just north of Hueneme in the early 50's. Several of my neighbors were seabee officers. I still remember the long trains of seabee equipment and personnel going to port hueneme 24 hours a day during the korean war and the ships lined up out in the channel waiting to load.
I went to A school in port hueneme back in 85
Does anyone remember that the character of Ward Cleaver (Beaver's father on Leave it to Beaver) was a Seabee in WWII? Ward would reference that experience in a few episodes. The actor who played Ward Cleaver, Hugh Beaumont, who was also an ordained minister, and was a conscientious objector. Nevertheless, Beaumont served in WWII as an Army medic. Also, Jerry Mathers (Beaver Cleaver) served in the Air Force Reserve Command from 1966-1969 as a Sergeant while Ken Osmond (Eddie Haskell) served in the Army Reserve and retired as an LAPD Police Officer.
Respect remember riding in a troop transport with a bunch of these guys
It gives one a respect for each person that served in any job yhat was needed during the war. Military training films are the history that our schools today gloss over or fail to teach. It proves that determination, self reliance and team work can over come anything. When the need of woking together is the common focus, differences among people disappear. Thanks for the film and history lesson.
Military films are nothing more than propaganda that politicians and the rich use to get 19 year old kids to kill and die under a false idea that you are protecting your country and its people. poor kids have always been cannon fodder for the elite and their economic interests.
Had two great uncle’s who served in Seabees in World War II. Both brothers. Uncle Joe and Uncle Ed Slupinski. Joe was attached to 136 NCB Carpenters mate 2nd. On Guam, and the. Okinawa. I’ve got his scrap book and affairs. Including telegrams to his mother and Fiancée, later to be his wife. His Mother, my great Great-Grandmother. I too served in Seabees in early 2000’s. Those guys were a different breed
I grew up on Guadalcanal in the 70s they still have the bridges the Seabee's built at lunga river
When I was a kid an older gent lived down the road from my grandparents home. He was a SeaBee during WW2 in the Pacific. He would tell us kids how the would build air strips from jungle and have planes flying missions from in under a week. I saw pics of him as a young man sitting on a bulldozer with an M1 Carbine slung over his shoulder.
Karl T today they the city can’t fix pot holes in a week.
As a retired SeaBee (retired in 1992) it amazes me how few people have ever heard of us. It's the best damn outfit in any military, just don't expect us to be pretty........lol
When I graduated bootcamp (fall of 2000) my grandma asked me what job I was getting. When I told her I had signed up to be a Sea Bee, her eyes lit up and she started singing the Sea Bee Song. She was just a schoolgirl when we were created, but that generation knew who we were. Nowadays, you can tell a Marine who's been in the desert by how he reacts to you telling him you're a Bee. If they've been deployed, they'll offer you a beer
Thank you John for your service to our great nation.
@@alejandrogonzales7022 I worked with Marines in the Seabees as a CM-they would back you up anytime : ) We sang the Song Of The Seabees everyday at "A' School in Port Hueneme! Many thanks to a fellow Bee from a bent wrench Bee NMCB 18 2007-2010
These days few people have heard of any unit not mentioned in a relatively recent movie or video game, or in the news.
The Marines i talk to about us seabees they all called us Marines with light duty chits lol oh yeah they all said we was crazy
I had to look up the road-making machine that was similar to a steam roller except it had dozens of tiny legs. It is called a "stone compactor". I watched a movie about the Sea-Bees when I was a kid. I think it was called, "The Fighting Sea-Bees". Running road building machinery was the job I wanted when I grew up. Then I found that my next door neighbor was a railroad engineer in a steel mill. Now I wanted to drive trains around the country. I guess that I really wanted a job that helped others and where I got to sit all day. Well, after years of schooling, I ended up as a salesman, so I got to help people but I had to stand all day. My last position before I retired ten years ago, was at one job, which I held for five weeks short of twenty one years. The selling that I did was to print shops for all of their paper and ink supplies.
It was also called a "sheep's foot!" Back then it was halled by a dozer. Now they move themselves. I was a roller operator.
My Scout Tripp’s assistant scoutmaster would tell us of building island airfields constructed while a Seabee. They made coffee over an iron pipe sunk into an underground sulfur pit that was so hot it would boil the water at the top end of the pipe
My youngest son and i was watching a documentary on the seabees and at the end of it he said damn dad you seabees are crazy i laughed and told him yep we gotta be
Our neighbor was a dozer operator in the Seabees in the Marianas, You know where they made bases for the B-29's to bomb the main Japanese islands. Those pictures of them knocking down the palm trees reminded me of when he told of dead Japanese snipers still in them and falling out and bursting when the dozer hit the tree.
My grandfather was a SEABEE during WWII. He went down to join the Army but they stuck him in the Navy haha Holy crap, I think thats him at 14:01 !!!
As a retired Aussie stevedore, this is truly amazing
Loved the Lincoln welder hitting the beach.
Wonder if my Father watched this he was in the Sea Bees. 1943-46. He was always proud of his service in the Greatest Navy in the World. He was the Best and I Miss Him Everyday. He has my Mom with Him now.
Me too.
Love these Old Navy training films
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I’m a Construction Mechanic. 2001 to present. 19.5 years in Battalion. NMCB14. Can do!
20 years as a SeaBee, 1991-2011 turning wenches on everything. It was a great life.
Not to many people know about us seabees but i am proud to have earned that title of seabee
Salute to a fellow Bee from a bent wrench Bee!
I always wonder about the tools these men brought with them, they had to bring everything from saws to sockets.. who decides what to bring ? 3000 wrench sets, 2000 spare chainsaw blades , aint no harbor freight for them boys
These guys don't get the credit they deserve. Look at all the things they had to do and have it done yesterday. That's a lot of pressure. Plus I've seen plenty of videos of them in action and bullets are zinging all around them! That takes some guts and dedication. I love that motto, "Can Do." Hopefully people will see these videos on KZhead and they will get some more kudos.
"Da fastest boogie-woogie beat you ever heard...yas suh!" "Dat's whut I dun in da big war, son." Gimme a break.
Seabees were a Vital Component of winning WW2 and seldom get credit they deserve. One of the keys to understand "The Greatest Generation" which was a most well deserved description.
I lived at Pax River NATC. In Lexington park,MD. as a kid and the CB’s made our baseball field. We would hide in the woods and watch them. One day at lunch one of the guys called to us to come out and he said they new we were there and they gave us their chocolate bars. They were nice guys. Built a good field for us. Those were great days for me. Baseball, Fishing and exploring. Friends that had no motives.
The tree huggers are probably all having a stroke watching the seabees at work!
My uncle was SeaBee in the Pacific during WWII.
Proud to have served SeaBees Can Do! NMCB 18 Det 0818 Construction Mechanic 2007-2010
Thanks for your service to our great nation.
Thank you.
My mom always said: " the first thing the SeaBees built was a still." Later during the VietNam war, and RedHorse BN of the Air Force started doing their construction work on building airfields the first day they built was a golf course or the officers would raise hell. Or so says my mom, Cpt. Lurleen Brown, USA Nurse Corps, ETO, D+3 on Normandy beach.
Of course your mom was right-Whether its a still or a golf course, if it keeps the grunts or brass happy-the motto is still the same-We Build, We Fight : ) Seabees Can Do, And Have Done : ) A salute of proper military bearing to your mother Captain Brown, USA from just an E-3 like me in the Navy many thanks to her for her service
Thanks for your service! USS Newport News (CA-148) 68-69-70 Call sign THUNDER flag hoist; November - India - Quebec - Quebec "Fair Winds and Following Seas" Brothers
NMCB 1 here love the SEABEES. EO2
I didn’t fit in any war But the Guys that though me did an I worked my ass off .!! I’m a Carpenter Old School.!! Anybody from the late 70’s an Beyond WILL NEVER Understand.!!!!!! Thank you Ray, Don
"I didn’t fit in any war But the Guys that though me did an I worked my ass off .!!" Are you saying, "I didn't fit in with any war, but the guys that did work with me did -- and I worked my ass off!!"
I was assigned to NMCB Three in Oxnard California from 1992 until 1994. Deployed to Rota Spain and Guam. I was assigned as a YN1 Yeoman First Class-E-6). In support of the NMCB Three. It was a great tour and many expert military constrction workers. Seabees Can Do!
God bless you for your service to our great nation.
I'm a very proud daughter of a WWII SeaBee! Can Do ❤ He could do every and anything. Dam I miss him.
My father was a SeaBee and I still have his foot locker with some of the emblem left. He told many stories and was proud of this period. A humorous story included his buddies liberating the officer's cheese alotment. To keep from being caught with the evidence in a no privacy situation they decided to eat all of it. The did and had a few weeks of extreme GI tract issues. On Tinian one of his buddies was the enlisted Crew Chief of the Enola Gay. The Chief never discussed his job. The Fighting SeaBees is a good WWII propaganda film. The most heartfelt movie is "Gallant Bess" about Seabees and a great emotional story.
God bless your dad for his service to our great nation.
Well done!
Thanks fer postin this up. Air Det Seabee '85-'93, NMCB5, RNmCB 15, NMCB 24...Charlie or Delta Co., Hvy Wpns Plt. Can Do, Oorraahh!!!!
Wonderful movie. My Dad AS a SeaBee in his youth. He did 4 years, most of it throughout Asian locations. Most of his time was in the Philippines. My Dad-in-Law was a Marine having fought on Iwo. He took a bullet but survived then did Japan Occupation after the Big Bombs dropped. When he got home, he found work as an explosive man at a quarry. Shortly after that he took up cross country electrical Lineman work. He lived on to the ripe age of 89. I miss him dearly.
God bless your dad for his service to our great nation.
Very interesting film, thanks! A few points that interested me, from a vehicles perspective: 2:17 M4 High Speed Tractor, unknown trailer 6:30 Is this an International M-1-4 4x4 truck? 9:43 Perhaps the only WW2 PTO dozer I've seen where the driver has arranged for some sun protection 11:04 Two men mighty close to that P-38 landing! 11:22 An interesting lumber carrier vehicle. Who built it? 12:46 Ford GTB truck 'Burma Jeep' 18:01 Is this a Water purifier trailer? 22:56 Amphibious trailer for LVT 34:47 M5 High Speed Tractor
We tend to think it was only the front line guys who did the fighting who won the war. That was undoubtedly the most dangerous and the people who paid the highest price. But the was was won by these energetic and inventive people too.
My great uncle was a Seabee at Saipan and Tinian in late 1944-45.
God bless your great uncle
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My grampa bing was in the seabees. I remember seeing the pictures and hearing his stories. My God! Those guys were tough.
Fantastic movie, respect ✊ I
Julian is a hero!
Excellent job.
I just had a flashback to 1975-76.....when I was stationed at Kaneohe Bay Marine Corps Air Station on Oahu. There was a Seabees sticker attached to the inside of the bathroom stall door in the building where I worked. What a bizarre memory to recall after all these decades.
I was in the USMC 74 to 78. I was stationed at MCAS El Tora in Southern California. I could have not picked a better duty station myself. Me and my buddies use to call it Marine Corps Lite....lol. My dad use to tell me that I should stay in for 20 or 30 years but I already had other plans. I wanted to go back to school and get my college degree to become a teacher. That's what I did. Since I lived in Indiana, and still do, I picked Indiana State to attend. I was fortunate to be at ISU the same time that Larry Bird was there! How lucky was that?
My dad said the land crabs were everywhere. Trucks ran them over and the air was heavy with the stench.
HEROES ONE AND ALL BECAUSE OF ALL OF THEM WE ARE A BETTER NATION ...
We miss you Phil Hartman. We always will.
Never forget!
Salute to all who served!
My dog, a Chihuahua/Yorkie mix, was attached for guard duty with a SeaBee´s Unit, during the Battle at Guadalcanal. She caught a skin infection while serving, that never really went away, so all the fur on her butt to her rib cage and fallen out. The Seabees had gotten drunk the day before, after finding a cache of Japanese sake, and they´d all fallen asleep. Late that night, she heard Japanese speaking not fifty yards away in the jungle, and being unable to wake anyone up, she run toward a Marine dugout and barked incessantly. As soon as they heard Mutsi barking, they knew there was danger near and they grabbed their weapons and fallowed her back to the Seabees. A fierce hand to hand fight ensued, and Mutsi was wounded, but she´d saved the Seabees´ lives. She recovered from her wounds, and a year later went through Navy Seal training in San Diego, and went on to fight at Iwo Jima and the Chosen Resevoir during the Korean war, where she was wounded twice more and was forced to retire. I found her at the pound in Orange County, California, just minutes away from being euthanized and I adopted her. She had a lot of nightmares, where she would growl in her sleep and her back legs would kick out really fast. She passed away last year, after a long life. I salute her for her service. Truly, she was a part of The Greatest Generation.
Great stuff.
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Proud to have served in the greatest construction outfit on the seven seas! Construimus, Batuimus. NMCB-62 79-85
I remember you. We served in Adak together
Battalion 7,Atlantic Fleet, Alpha Co Mechanic (retired)checking in-Thanks again PeriscopeFilm. SeaBees..."Construmious Battumus"..."We Build-We Fight".....ooh rahhh.
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The military is just about the only place you can still find men like this. And that's the reason I know the US will never be beaten on the battlefield. Every time we fail to meet military objectives its due to politics or subversion. My grandpa was a seabee and I only wish I was half the man he was.
Dang the logistics of the WWII war effort is just mind boggling. The greatest generation without a doubt!
20:19 Marston mat is very useful when crossing boggy and slippery ground. why didn't they think of it considering they had a shipload of it?
Special Forces loves the Seabees as they built a lot of A-Camps!
@sargint rock The Navy does it all Mr. Rock, and does it all AT ONCE ! Go NAVY ! U.S. NAVY veteran PO3 '73 >'77 PATRON TWO FOUR, (ASW Sqaudron) NATO FORCES. ✌🏻🇺🇸
Love the lingo on this one....
GREW UP IN PORT HUENEME , MY MOTHER WAS CIVIL SERVICE AT THE SCHOOL ON BASE FOR 40 YRS.
Bill Levitt was a CB. Look up 'Levittown'.
I didn't know he was a Seabee-that's pretty cool!
⚓️US NAVY SEABEES🇺🇸
The projection of US power in this film is just amazing. The Japanese were using horse drawn wagons.
I "bought" a year book of original CB, the CB's grandson treasured it returning to the family after estate auction.
Proud to have served NMCB 133. EO3
Thanks for your service to our great nation.
A salute to a fellow Bee from a CM bent wrench Bee-NMCB 18 CMCN
Note: Please, for those that are interested in history -- like me, provide a link that teaches of your outfit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Mobile_Construction_Battalion_133 www.history.navy.mil/content/dam/museums/Seabee/UnitListPages/nmcb/NMCB%20018.pdf
Once a bee always a bee thank you for serving from a old UT bee
As with all specialist arms of any military you are a soldier/sailor/airman or marine first and a tradesman second, but in the Seabees case they were in the thick of it a lot of the time, and for that they deserved this documentary/recruiting film, and the one where John Wayne formed the Seabees and built airfields, to showcase their unique situation, and in a way all of the allied engineering units, from Seabees, Pioneer Corps, and their equivalents in all the commonwealth/dominions, they are awesome men and women doing an awesome job, thanks to them all, past, present and future. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴
SeaBee 1973-1977. "A" school at Port Hueneme 1973. EO in MCB-1.
I was a seabee, NMCB-5 in Port Hueneme. However, I wasn't in WWll, but I was in Dessert Storm
a cousin of mine was KIA in Feb 1945 t Iwo Jima, and was in the cemetery *5th Marine Division* but was latter taken home. Pharmists first mate Calvin Harle Johnson
"CAN DO!" We the People are forever grateful...
Thank you CBs. You said you creation could hold the heaviest equipment. Could they hold a Maus?
Its encouraging to see positive things America is a semble of freedom,we are not a raisist country an all the other things politicians label us, anyone that will work an do there part can experience the American dream
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Do you know what you have when a group of SEA BEES get together? Ancer A BEE HIVE!
Ward Cleaver was a Seabee... and was always "a little too hard" on the Beaver...
So was Richard Karns of "Home Improvement" He was a BU-Builder rating
You saw that episode too? HA! Q: What is the most vulgar thing said on TV in the '50's? "Honestly Ward, weren't you a little hard on the Beaver last night?"
A tough bunch,they are
@27:31 Thats my grandpa Elza M Sanders USMC 484275 2nd Eng Bn @t. 2nd Marine Div He was a SeaBee before they were really called SeaBees. He drove one of the 4 earthmover/bulldozers in the company. His job was to cut roads/pathways/airstrips for troops on the beach moving in, smothering caves, bunkers and pillboxes and clearing bodies of @t Iwo he took part in the clearing out the final holdouts and then was immediately shipped off for the invasion of Okinawa. If you watch any IwoJima battle footage and see a bulldozer there is a decent chance its him :D
Was he the ONLY Seabee in WW2? I don't think so!!!
@@vivians9392He never claimed that. Are you a PROFESSIONAL jerk?
My father was a WW2 Navy man who traveled with and trained the Seebees! He was also in 3 battles in the Pacific! I still have all of his old black and white photos that he took during his travels! He was also a signed to watch over the guys working as a sniper and I still have his sniper rifle in fact the exact same gun used in Saving Private Ryan! My father never liked to talk about what happened over there but the one thing he said more than once was boy you never want to have to strangle someone with your bare hands! My mom used to say that he had a hard time living with the things he had to do in the war! He always had nightmares about the war! It made me realize what our military go through during war time! These guys and women who fight for our freedoms go through hell and they deserve every bit of respect that a person can handle! My dad has 2 plaques in the DDay museum in New Orleans! I lost a uncle and another uncle was shot down he flew a P 40 warhawk in the war and thank God he was picked up before the enemy got a hold of him! Another one of my uncles was a Mechanic during the war and he worked on tanks trucks jeeps and just about everything else! That's why I get so upset when I see people disrespecting our Flag and the National Anthem!!! These people deserve the highest of respect!!! Peace out!!!
My Paw Paw was 121st cb and 91st ncb ❤
Donald Mc Donald's parents were very creative in naming their kid.