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Seabees - We Build, We Fight
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keywords: wwii, pacific theater, fighting seabees, military construction projects, captured enemy airfield, the korean war, the vietnam war
Synopsis: Narrated by Adm. Ben Moreell and founder of the famed U.S. Seabees a hybrid construction and combat force tasked with repairing captured airfields and defenses while under fire as well as building new military facilities around the World starting in WWII through the Korean War and the Vietnam War...(read more)
- Date: 1940's-1960's
- Duration: 00:20:51
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Color
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: Pacific Theater
Seabees - We Build, We Fight
The 6th Naval Construction Battalion were given the task of expanding and repairing Henderson Field on Guadalcanal. Various scenes of combat and action in WWII. Shows construction of airfield on Tinian in the Northern Marianas Islands that allowed the B-29 Superfortress to carry the war to the Japanese homeland.
The B-29 Bomber Enola Gay used this airbase to deliver the first atomic bomb dropped on Japan. Aerial view of mushroom cloud from atomic bomb dropped over Hiroshima Japan. Troop ship arriving in New York harbor after WWII with scene of soldier “kissing the ground” - thankful to be alive and safe back home.
With the start of the Korean War the unique experience of Seabees is tapped again in 1951 to build an airbase at Cubi Point, Subic Bay Philippines. Seabees at work at the South Pole Station in the Antarctica. Seabees in Southeast Asia. Construction project at Chu Lai Vietnam.
- Related Titles:
- Seabees Of World War II
- Seabees In Action
