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 ...

“The Seabees went from zero to 325,000 — and that’s because nobody else had the skill sets they had,” says Lara Godbille, head of the U.S. Navy Seabee Museum in Port Hueneme, Calif., which ...

During World War II, Seabees in the Pacific theater would build 441 piers, 111 airstrips, hundreds of square blocks of warehouses, and numerous hospitals that would serve 70,000 patients.

In World War II nearly 400,000 men served with the Seabees on several continents, building major airstrips, bridges, roads, warehouses, hospitals, gasoline storage tanks and housing, sometimes ...

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 ...

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.

Pete Behenna was anxious to join the action during World War II. "With the war on, I didn't want to stay in high school — I thought I'd miss something," he said. "I volunteered on my 17th ...

World War II veteran Ira Rigger recounted his time as a U.S. Navy "Seabee" with the 301st Construction Battalion in the Pacific Theater. He talked about working to create a harbor at Guam and ...

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

A man who dropped out of high school to fight in World War II earned his high school diploma Friday at age 90, according to a report Saturday.