Seabees consider Rear Admiral Ben Moreell to be their founding father, or "King Bee." The Seabees didn't exist prior to World War II, but by December 1941, there were some 70,000 civilian ...

After V-J Day and the cessation of the Pacific offensive, the 11th was de-activated. The Seabees boarded the USS Yorktown in Guam on Nov. 17, 1945, and arrived in San Francisco on Dec. 1, 1945.

Two weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the little-known head of the Navy Bureau of Yards and Docks made an urgent personnel request that had a decisive impact on the outcome of World War II. K… ...

When the Selective Service System kicked in for the Seabees, they were allowed to carry weapons. Field's battalion was issued .30 caliber carbines, and the men could work with the carbine strapped ...

The Seabees here work under constant threat of snipers, roadside bombs and suicide attacks. Members wear side arms and keep their rifles handy while doing their hammering and sawing.

Bulldozers come first. This slogan crystallizes the role that engineering and construction played in World War II, where combatants were far more mobile than in previous conflicts.

The Seabees on Iwo Jima focuses on the United States Naval Construction Battalions in World War II, which built all the infrastructure for the Allies in Europe and the Pacific in WWII.

On Thursday, sailors at the Camp Moreell Seabee base in Kuwait will host a ceremony to dedicate a memorial to Seabees killed in the Iraq war. The memorial will be dedicated at 10:45 a.m ...