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	Seabee History: World War II (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		With authorization to establish construction battalions at hand and the question of who was to command the Seabees settled, the Bureau of Yards and Docks was confronted with the problem of recruiting, enlisting, and training Seabees, and then organizing the battalions and logistically supporting them in their operations.
		Thus, the Seabees were instrumental in spelling the beginning of the end for the southern stronghold of the Axis.
		While the Seabees in the South and Southwest Pacific were hacking their way through vermin-infested jungles toward the Philippines, their comrades to the north were striking across the Central Pacific island chains straight at the heart of the Japanese Empire.
	www.history.navy.mil.cob-web.org:8888 /faqs/faq67-3.htm (7154 words)

	Seabees -- Special Forces?
		Joe's father was an enlisted man in the Navy (Seabees in the Pacific Theater) from 1948 through 1953, and his uncle was a merchant mariner on the North Atlantic convoys late in World War II, before being drafted into the U.S. Army to serve in the Occupation of Nazi Germany.
		Seabees are trained for combat, but usually don’t serve in front-line offensive ops; yet their weapons training and qualification standards are very rigorous -- they are definitely not support or rear-area personnel.
		Seabees routinely operate bulldozers or jackhammers while enemy bullets and shrapnel fly on their often-hellish worksites around the globe.
	www.military.com /NewContent/0,13190,Buff_102003,00.html (1322 words)

	The Fighting Seabees of World War II
		Fighting rain, mud, sniper fire, artillery and bombing, the field was finished and maintained by the Seabees.
		This gave rise to one of the Marinesþ favorite expressions: "Be kind to a Seabee, he might be your father." It seems that the "kids" in the Marines couldn't help but have fun at the expense of the "old men" building and fighting by their sides.
		Seabees were not generally impressed with rank; a primary reason being that most Seabees were quite a bit older than many of the officers they encountered.
	www.seabeecook.com /history/seabees_in_ww2.htm (982 words)

	Navy's Seabees Prepare for Possible War
		The Seabees, the Navy's construction force, may not be front-line soldiers, but their role -- paving roads and building bridges for tanks and Humvees in hostile territory -- may be nearly as important in the event of war in Iraq.
		Their motto is ``We build, we fight.'' Their symbol is a bee with a sailor's cap wielding a machine gun, a wrench and a hammer.
		Many of the more than 1,000 Seabees in the region are based at Camp 93, a desert camp of tents named in honor of the passengers who fought hijackers aboard United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001.
	www.iraqfoundation.org /news/2003/bfeb/14_navy.html (448 words)

	Seabees of 133: The Kangroo Naval Construction Battalion
		On April 13, 1974, three Seabee officers were murdered by Hukbalahap guerillas while they inspected road construction in an isolated corner of the Subic Bay US naval base.
		MCB 133 Veterans Organization Robert Ellis Smith, former UT1 was on board for the recommissioning of MCB 133 on August 12, 1966 in Gulfport and served with this Seabee battalion during its first two tours in Vietnam.
		Yahoo Seabees Club This club was started by the son of BU1 Richard Dupont - who served in Da Nang ('67-'68) with MCB 128 out of Gulfport.
	www.atch.com /seabees/index.html (1330 words)

	The Fighting Seabees
		In the wartime film The Fighting SeaBees (1944) the final scene of combat on the island the SeaBees are securing ends with the fiery self sacrifice of John Wayne.
		By 1944 the American people had seen the Japanese fight relentlessly on the islands of the Pacific, they had also been inculcated by skilled propaganda playing on existing racial prejudices and fueled by the exterminationist rhetoric of the war.
		The dehumanization of the Japanese fighting man, and the Japanese people as a whole, was so effective that a portrayal of combat such as the one in The Fighting SeaBees, a film not solely concerned with combat, would have been run of the mill.
	mcel.pacificu.edu /jwasia/reviews/seebeesRW.html (559 words)

	The Fighting Seabees - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Fighting Seabees is a 1944 war film starring John Wayne, Dennis O'Keefe and Susan Hayward.
		The Japanese launch a major attack, which the Seabees barely manage hold off, sometimes using heavy construction machinery such as bulldozers and a clamshell bucket.
		The plan works, sending a cascade of burning liquid into the path of the Japanese, who retreat in panic, right into the sights of waiting machine guns, but Donovan is killed by a sniper before he can jump off the bulldozer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Fighting_Seabees (361 words)

	Why Are We Called the "Fighting Zee-Bees"? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The work of the Construction Battalions (simply called C.B.'s) was vital to closing the gap between the U.S. and Japan.
		The men who served in these units later became know as "Seabees," and because they often faced hostile Japanese soldiers who were left on the islands, the men had to be prepared to defend themselves in addition to their work.
		Zion-Benton Township High School, built by the Public Works Administration in 1939, later became known as the "Fighting Zee-Bees" in appreciation of the men who performed this dangerous and vital service to their country.
	www.zbths.k12.il.us /general/why_fighting_zee_bees/index.htm (328 words)

	Seabee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During the Gulf War, more than 5,000 Seabees (4,000 active and 1,000 reservists) served in the Middle East.
		There are also two special Navy Units that are primarily Seabee Units: Naval Support Unit State Department where Seabees work, rehab and maintain security areas at US Embassies and Consulates overseas and Presidential Support Duty which is located at Camp David.
		While assigned to the State Department, a Seabee reports to a Department of State Security Engineering Officer or directly to a Department of State Regional Security Officer, who both work for the Department of State Bureau of Diplomatic Security.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Seabees (947 words)

	Seabee History
		Since the Seabee Log is no longer in publication, I've started to post the stories I authored.
		Shields and his unit, Seabee Team 1104, were constructing a compound for Detachment A342, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) when they were attacked by a Vietcong regiment.
		Two reports from the Seabee archives at Port Hueneme, CA give you a sense of the importance of the Seabee task at Utah and Omaha...
	www.seabeecook.com /history (337 words)

	SEABEES in Marine Uniform
		Then add to this the fact that entire SEABEE Battalions were described in the official orders of battle, during WWII, as Marine battalions.
		SEABEES in WWII, and afterwards, look exactly like the Marines they fight and die beside.
		Although SEABEES are not assigned normal patrol duties, they may assist Iraqi citizens with law enforcement efforts.
	mysite.verizon.net /vzeo0pwz/76thseabeesworldwar2/id13.html (700 words)

	Game Caravan Movies Details Page
		THE FIGHTING SEABEES is one of only four films that John Wayne shot during WWII with him winning it practically single-handedly.
		The Seabees are constructing an airfield and refueling facility for the offshore naval taskforce.
		The Seabees are outnumbered and outgunned as their grenades, mortars, and light artillery seem to be useless against the advancing tanks.
	www.gamecaravan.com /qMoviesDetails.asp?qkey=22 (393 words)

	AMCTV.com MEMBER REVIEWS: The Fighting Seabees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		I served in the US Naval Seabees, USNMCB 40, during the Vietnam war, '72 - '78 with honor.
		We fought and worked along side the US Marines and was part of a storied organization.
		Fun and fast-paced; manages to throw every exploit of the Seabees during the whole war (and some they didn't) into one film.
	www.amctv.com /show/review?CID=6578-MST (222 words)

	Amazon.com: The Fighting Seabees: DVD: John Wayne,Susan Hayward,Dennis O'Keefe,William Frawley,Leonid Kinskey,J.M. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Now Wayne is fighting for his life on a different battlefield when he's brought up on court-martial charges for leading his troops in an all-out assault against the Japanese.
		Join JW and his colleagues as they work and fight their way across the Pacific, building runways and roads, and anything else that needed to be made.
		The film's focus is torn between the establishment of the Seabees and Wayne's romance with journalist Susan Hayward.
	www.amazon.com /Fighting-Seabees-John-Wayne/dp/0782011284 (1258 words)

	Fighting Seabees Establish Beachhead in Central Texas
		During the four-day exercise, Seabees built a 16 by 32 foot Seahut (a multipurpose field building), a strong-back (a wooden frame to support a canvas tent) and a bunker.
		From ensuring proper materials and tools were available to supervising the construction teams as they built, Seabees learned vital leadership skills that will enable them to carry out their missions effectively and efficiently.
		In keeping with Seabee tradition of honoring their fallen shipmates, the Seabee encampment at Camp Swift was named Camp Dahl in memory of Michael Dean Dahl, a Seabee assigned to NMCB 22’s detachment based in Lubbock, Texas.
	www.navy.mil /search/display.asp?story_id=9560 (838 words)

	WELCOME TO OPERATION SEABEES KNOWLEDGE / seabeesinfohq.org
		To make the broader military community, and the public at large, better aware of the ongoing role of the SEABEES as U.S. Navy combat troops and construction workers heavily involved in national defense and humanitarian aid worldwide.
		You are invited to submit a SEABEE fact to “Did You Know” by e-mail to didyouknow@seabeesinfohq.org Your write-up should be no more than 300 words long.
		The famous “Fighting Seabee” logo drawing that was adopted to represent the combined fighting and construction aspects of the newly created “Construction Battalions” or “CBs” of the Navy, almost was a “Fighting Beaver” instead!
	www.seabeesinfohq.org /dyk.htm (545 words)

	Watching Wartime Wayne (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Fighting SeaBees carried messages of discipline, of accepting military mistakes, and of hardening oneself to exterminationist warfare all contained in a film which is simultaneously dismissible and unforgettable.
		One Seabee asks him why he shot the solider and the reply comes "I was afraid the fall might kill him." This is not a fanciful image according to Dower "many men in the field participated in or at least witnessed the killing of helpless, wounded, or captured Japanese."
		Taken in sum The Fighting SeaBees represents a cornucopia of wartime messages for its viewer, and that it was able convey all of these while advancing not only a love triangle but also a story of true camaraderie, is evidence of the sophistication of wartime filmmaking.
	mcel.pacificu.edu.cob-web.org:8888 /jwasia/papers/finalRW.html (4652 words)

	79th Battalion Seabees Information & Links
		Timeline of Action Around Kokiak Island 1943-1944 (79th Battalion is named): A very detailed Timeline of action taking place in 1943 and 1944 around Kodiak Island in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, where and while the 79th Battalion Seabees did their first tour of duty, and the Kurile Islands of Japan during World War II.
		The Fighting Seabees of World War II: A delightful historical perspective of the typical WWII Seabee
		Seabee History: The Formation of the Seabees and World War II Stones Point Press
	members.aol.com /seabeemem/seabeemem/newpage10.htm (498 words)

	The Fighting Seabees
		While John Wayne maintains his elevated status of strength and power, The Fighting Seabees reveals the struggle behind retaining this stauts for any character.
		Even the Japanese are seen as weak in The Fighting Seabees.
		During the last years of the war The Fighting Seabees showed just how vulnerable the United States, Japan, and even Wayne could be.
	mcel.pacificu.edu /jwasia/reviews/seebeesCH.html (716 words)

	Navy's Seabees Prepare for Possible War
		While other military units train for tank battles and air assaults in Iraq, Navy Seabees are laying concrete and refreshing their bridge-building skills.
		The Seabees, the Navy's construction force, may not be front-line soldiers, but their role paving roads and building bridges for tanks and Humvees in hostile territory may be nearly as important in the event of war in Iraq.
		The Seabees whose name comes from a play on Construction Battalion, or CB were created during World War II to handle construction projects in areas too dangerous for civilian engineers.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/843044/posts (501 words)

	U.S. Naval Construction Force (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In here weâve chronicled the heroic accomplishments of our Fighting FORTY fore fathers who laid the foundation of our proud heritage as fighting Seabees.
		Youâll also find information and photos of our current Seabees in action, proudly building and fighting in support of todayâs missions and writing the next chapters of our distinguished history.
		The men and women of Fighting FORTY are all proud professionals of the Naval Construction Force, the construction force of choice.
	www.seabee.navy.mil /index.cfm/61424 (166 words)

	Film Review - Fighting Seabees
		Wayne's construction engineer Wedge Donovan in The Fighting Seabees helps to organize the Fighting Seabees, the special fighting units of civilian workers.
		Donovan is told by Lieutenant Commander Bob Yarrow (Dennis O'Keefe) to disregard the Japanese snipers and to focus on construction.
		He continues to obey orders until his friend is killed, then in defiance of the rules, he orders his men to fight back.
	www.emanuellevy.com /article.php?articleID=2219 (196 words)

	TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In The Fighting Seabees, they are a melting-pot group led by John Wayne and Dennis O'Keefe.
		It's true that Wayne was of legal draft age and never served, and in light of Wayne's strong and conservative support of patriotism and the military, it became a controversial element of his life.
		Some more tidbits: The Fighting Seabees is one of only seven movies in which John Wayne dies on screen, and it happens in a blaze of spectacular glory.
	www.tcm.com /thismonth/article/?cid=133201 (689 words)

	The Fighting Seabees (1944 b 100') (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Yarrow commands several battalions, and Wedge leads the landing Seabees.
		Wounded Yarrow tells Wedge he will be court-martialed and to defend the oil tanks at all cost.
		The Seabees are defeating the larger Japanese force.
	www.san.beck.org /MM/1944/FightingSeabees.html (370 words)

	FOXNews.com - The Navy’s Fighting Seabees - Oliver North \| War Stories
		FOXNews.com - The Navy’s Fighting Seabees - Oliver North
		The Seabees are the U.S. Navy’s construction battalions.
		From the sweltering jungles of Guadalcanal, to the arid deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan, they've upheld their proud tradition as fighters who build and builders who fight.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,187374,00.html (379 words)

	Seabees
		The Navy first relied on civilian contractors to build advance bases on Pacific islands starting in 1940, but after the fall of Wake Island it became important to train construction workers to also be soldiers.
		On 5 March, Construction Battalion personnel were officially named Seabees by the Navy Department and the fighting, building bee insignia and shoulder patch was approved." (quote from Larry DeVries, Navy Seabees on Guadalcanal
		History of the Seabees by Dr. Vincent A. Transano, 1977, from Naval Historical Center
	history.sandiego.edu /gen/WW2Timeline/seabees.html (1016 words)

	Fighting Seabees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		See the World War II Timeline Seabees page for the origin of the real Navy Seabees in 1942.
		Hueneme, Point Mugu, and Camp Pendleton, California, rather than in the South Pacific, The Fighting Seabees starred John Wayne and Susan Hayward.
		This picture also began a relationship between John Wayne and the Seabees that lasted for more than three decades ending with what was 'The Duke's' last production, Home for the Seabees, a documentary film in 1977 at the Naval Construction Battalion Center, Port Hueneme, California.
	history.sandiego.edu /gen/filmnotes/fightingseabees.html (270 words)

	U.S. Naval Construction Force (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		For over 60 years, the men and women of the Naval Construction Force have been giving their all to protect our Nation and serve our armed forces with pride.
		We welcome you to the official Web site of the United States Navy Seabees and recommend that you check back often for battalion news and updates.
		Feel free to contact us with any questions or if you are interested in learning more about how you can become a Seabee.
	www.seabee.navy.mil (86 words)

	The Fighting Seabees
		The story of how the Navy's Seabees, a construction worker-fighting unit, were formed.
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		Certain The Fighting Seabees article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/fighting_seabees (329 words)

	StreetSwing's Dance Archives - Fighting Seabees - Main
		This Video is about construction workers in World War II in the Pacific who are needed to build military bases.
		John Wayne takes a crew of construction workers and turns them into one of WW II's toughest fighting forces in this action-packed war classic.
		But first he has to convince the army brass to let his civilians bear arms, and then he's got to whip them into combat shape.
	www.streetswing.com /films/video/f2_fighting_seabees.htm (172 words)

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