They call themselves seabees, im oliver north and this is war stories coming to you from the u. S. Navy seabee museum, port hueneme, california. Seabees landed on iwo jima and built the bunker i lived in. Their motto, we build, we fight, has taken them with a rife until one hand and a hammer to every major battlefield in world war ii, korea, vietnam and beyond. Today their cando spirit, ingenuity is evident in iraq, afghanistan and anywhere elsewhere the global war on terror is being fought. Join us tonight as we pay tribute to the men and women of the u. S. Navy seabees. December, 1941, before the seabees were created, some 70,000 civilian contractors employed by the u. S. Navys bureau of yards and docks were working on Construction Projects overseas. Most were spread out over the pacific, Building Bases on tiny specs of coral, like wake island, midway and guam. The civilian contractors were the same kind of construction workers who had worked on a lot of the big projectsike hoover da
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