Over 700,000 American soldiers and sailors served in engineering units during World War II; 325,000 were Seabees and the remainder with the Army. KEYWORDS: archives Corps of Engineers ENR 150th ...

During World War II, the 17th Special Seabees, attached to the 7th Marine Regiment, rest amid the rubble on the island of Peleliu, Sept. 1944. (National Archives) 7.

On Friday afternoon, a 100-year-old WWII veteran, Putnam Green, was honored with a new monument at the National Cemetery at ...

During World War II, the Seabees built over 400 advance bases, 111 major airfields, 441 piers, 2,558 ordnance magazines, hospitals to serve 70,000 patients and housing for 1.5 million service members.

A Veteran WWII Navy Seabee from Flint recently celebrated his 100th birthday. In 1942, Maurice “Bud” Prottengeier, an 18-year-old college student, decided to enlist in the Navy along with his ...

GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - A group of Seabee veterans united in Gulfport on Saturday to share memories, honor their fallen, and reconnect with old friends. Around 160 Seabee vets and spouses filled ...

The Seabee diving community can trace its roots back to World War II, when specially trained Seabees qualified as Navy divers and participated in underwater demolition of reef obstructions, beach ...

A photograph shows Navy Seabee Anthony Amaral holding a copy of The Providence Journal-Bulletin with two other Rhode Island Seabees and an island native some 9,200 miles away from the Ocean State.

The USS Amsterdam sailed back to America from Japan when World War II ended, picking up Seabees in Guam. The passengers brought a different perspective on war to the Amsterdam’s sailors. “We ...

A group of Seabee veterans united in Gulfport on Saturday to ... “What we’re doing here today is getting all our brothers that have paved the way for Seabees since World War II,” explained ...