Welcome to the U.S. Navy Seabee Museum’s RU-vid page sponsored by the Naval History and Heritage Command.The mission of the U.S. Navy Seabee Museum is to select, collect, preserve and display historic material relating to the history of the Naval Construction Force, better known as the SEABEES, and the U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps. The second oldest of the official Navy museums, the Seabee Museum was established in 1947 in Port Hueneme, California, which today is part of Naval Base Ventura County (NBVC). This page is intended to provide updated information and discussion on the Seabee Museum. Please visit our official homepage at www.history.navy.mil/museums/Seabee/seabee_museum.htm While this is an open forum, it’s also a family friendly one, so please keep your comments and wall posts clean.
The Engineers and the logistics folks have never gotten the credit they deserve. The script for this video is quite terrible as it is so antagonistic and that serves no good. Thanks for preserving the history and let us hope we can somehow learn from it, for a change!
While I really do appreciate your efforts to save this documentation, you might consider pointing out that describing Diego Garcia as being "part of the British Indian Ocean Territory" is rather similar to saying that Crimea belongs to Russia: it's not entirely inaccurate, but it ignores the view of the former inhabitants. The Chagossians have been fighting to get Diego Garcia back for decades. This land never belonged to the British government, it was stolen and the US is an accomplice in that theft. Cheers, Alan Tomlinson
Yes, the Seabees used to travel with their equipment and materiel by sea for deployments. Air travel for the entire unit was a luxury not standard for personnel until the early 1960s.
This was indeed something special to view. Truly so much in this footage. Wouldn't we all love to have been able to follow that PBM Martin seaplane until it was back in the air? What a beautiful aircraft. One is easily reminded again of the immense scope of logistics in the Pacific war. Operation Overlord, with its June 1944 D Day landing in France, continues to garner the lion's share of acclaim as to stellar accomplishments in the field of logistics by the American staff officers during World War 2 . Yet, that European theater event is dwarfed as compared to what took place in the Pacific. "Operation Overlord" is a fitting name we've all become used to. "Operation MindBoggling" should be the name attached to what took place in the Pacific.
Thank you for the valuable video. Living in today's peaceful days, there is no chance to imagine that there was a war between Japan and the USA . There was no way Japan could win against the materially rich USA. Did Commander Kuribayashi, who was annihilated in the attack, have no option to surrender? I don't think there's any shame in surrendering in war. It is truly tragic and sad that so many lives were lost in both countries.
I always look for the ship and Higgins boats with the APA 28 on them. That was my father's ship. He wasn't in the Iwo Jima landings. His troop ship was in Okinawa, Normandy, Africa, Sicily and some others. The captain's son wrote a book about the Charles Carroll APA 28. They all thought they were going to die in Okinawa. They were targeted by Kamakazis a number of times being a troop ship. They even had to perform picket duty at times. I never would have believed it if I hadn't read the book. Their ship received six battle stars for their performance in the war. My father was tormented by the war. He watched the ship load up with kids his own age ( he was 17 when he enlisted) then watch them load into those Higgins boats when they arrived at their destination. Then head to shore.Some would return shot to pieces, just like the Higgins boats. He would then tend to the wounded until they could transfer them to shore or to a hospital ship. He watched this scenario over and over again. I do know that on june 6th 1944 he was at his duty station when their ship launched the boats loaded with the 29th division. They were headed to Omaha beach on that fateful day. My father died of cancer on june 6th 1975. The Navy gave him a full military burial at sea. It was done off the beaches of Normandy.
My Father was there on Tinian-Saipan and Guam '44 & 45..USA Medical Corps. I wish he had lived long enough to see these historical films on the Internet.
Thank you for posting unpopular events that took place on the island. To see what went on behind the front lines shows how it’s just as crucial as the grunt on the line.
@@ChitFromChinola Where in my comment did I say American soldiers have blue and green hair under their helmets? If you are the thought police you should be thrown off the force. ..
I’m just a retired Army Infantry Senior NCO and served on active duty from 1983-2009 and every where I went we saw footprints of the CB’s. When we were sent to FOB St. Michael’s in March of 2004 we stayed in reinforced rooms built out of thick plywood and 4x4 upright supports studs and you could tell it was made to support some serious weight on top which is where multiple layers of sand bags were laid down providing overhead cover. These bunk houses were scattered throughout the “chicken factory” so if one was hit, it wouldn’t destroy others. And that was just one part of the FOB they built, they made some nice perimeter watch towers that we could easily reinforce with sand bags. Engineers can do some amazing things either with or without resources.
Seldom see footage of the landing beaches. My grandfather was in the 5th Pioneers. His first days on the island were spent there, and later camped at the foot of Suribachi. The 5th Pioneer battalion defeated the Japanese in the last fight on the island at the airstrip, a few hours before the Army relived the Marines.
