Construction Battalions, better known as the Navy Seabees, form the U.S. Naval Construction Forces (NCF). The Seabee nickname is a heterograph of the initial letters...
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Seabee is an all-metal amphibious sports aircraft designed by Percival Spencer and manufactured by the Republic Aircraft Corporation. The RC-3 Seabee...
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A Seabee is a member of the United States Navy construction battalions (CB). Seabee, sea-bee or sea bee may also refer to: Seabee (barge), a barge loading...
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enlisted men reported from the Seabees dynamiting and demolition school at Camp Peary for a four-week course. Those Seabees were immediately sent to participate...
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Camp Peary (section Seabee training)
included the first six classes of Seabee volunteers for the Naval Combat Demolition Units. After June 1944 Seabee boot camp was moved to Camp Endicott...
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The Seabees Memorial is a sculpture and memorial to Seabees by Felix de Weldon, installed along Memorial Drive near the entrance of Arlington National...
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World War II broke out the United States Naval Construction Battalions (Seabees) did not exist. The logistics of a two theater war were daunting to conceive...
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The Fighting Seabees is a 1944 American war film directed by Edward Ludwig and starring John Wayne and Susan Hayward. The supporting cast includes Dennis...
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Naval Base Brisbane (redirect from Camp Seabee)
Seabee's 55th Battalion arrived and built "Camp Seabee", 5 miles north-east of Brisbane, at Eagle Farm. Camp Seabee became a staging camp for Seabees...
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Naval Base Puerto Princesa (section Seabee units)
84th Seabee Construction Battalion unloaded and loaned the needed equipment to the United States Army Engineers to work on the runway. The 84th Seabee Construction...
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The Seabee Combat Warfare Specialist (SCWS) insignia is a warfare qualification of the United States Navy. To be eligible to earn the SCWS insignia, personnel...
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Seabee Mine Aerodrome (TC LID: CCB2) is located near Laonil Lake and serves the Seabee Gold Mine in Saskatchewan, Canada. List of airports in Saskatchewan...
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Naval Base Banika Island (section Seabee units)
Renard Sound Seaplane Base. US Navy Seabee Construction Battalions built the base starting in February 1943. Seabee 33rd Battalion, 35th Battalion and...
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Seabee Hook Seabee Hook is a low, recurved spit composed of coarse volcanic ash which projects about 900 m (984 yd) west from the high rocky ridge forming...
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Civil Engineer Corps (section Notable Seabees)
and architects, acquisitions specialists, and Seabee Combat Warfare Officers who qualify within Seabee units. They are responsible for executing and managing...
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Naval Base Iwo Jima (section Seabees)
Jima. United States Navy Seabee built all the facilities on the island.[dubious – discuss] With the landings on Iwo Jima, Seabees' first task was to get...
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606757; -71.449404 Seabee Museum and Memorial Park is a non-profit military history museum in Davisville, Rhode Island, devoted to the Seabees of the U.S. Navy...
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Lighter aboard ship (redirect from Seabee (barge))
ships or lighter transport ships. During World War II the United States Seabees developed a pontoon assembly for moving cargo from transports to assault...
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Seabee Engineer Reconnaissance Teams (SERTs) were developed by the First Naval Construction Division (1st NCD) in Operation Iraqi Freedom intended to provide...
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department security had 800 employees, plus 1,200 U.S. Marines and 115 Seabees. That Seabee number is roughly the same today. Headquartered on Navy Hill, across...
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Civic action program (section Seabee teams)
health and preventive medicine. Seabee Teams also called Civic Action Teams or CATs A product of the Cold War, Seabee Teams were an idea of the U.S. State...
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Hallett Peninsula (section Seabee Hook)
Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE), 1957–58, because Hallett Station on Seabee Hook was established at the north end of the peninsula. The peninsula is...
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Republic Aviation (section RC-3 Seabee)
of military contracts to produce the Republic RC-3 Seabee, an unusual all-metal amphibian. The Seabee was the brainchild of Percival "Spence" Spencer, a...
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repaired and did expansion of the airfields on Okinawa. United States Navy Seabees built or repaired the facilities on the island. The bases on Okinawa put...
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were built in Algeria and Tunisia to prepare for the upcoming invasions. Seabees, United States Naval Construction Battalions, did most of the repair work...
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Naval Base Lingayen (section Seabee units)
excellent fleet anchorage. US Navy Seabee pontoon battalion landed with the troops at Lingayen on January 9, 1945. The Seabee task was building pontoon piers...
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Marvin Glenn Shields (category Seabees)
(December 30, 1939 – June 10, 1965) was the first and only United States Navy Seabee to be awarded the Medal of Honor. He was also the first sailor to receive...
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1942 Camp Seabee gate at Eagle Farm, Brisbane Camp Seabee Dock on Brisbane River Camp Seabee Naval Base Brisbane, base building trips map Seabees building...
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Naval Construction Battalion Center Port Hueneme (category Seabees)
Navy Seabee Museum, one of fifteen official U.S. Navy museums. The museum is the principal repository for the Seabees’ operational history. The Seabee Archive...
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ended on July 9, 1944. US Naval Advance Base Saipan was constructed by the Seabees Naval Mobile Construction Battalions. The base was under the Commander...
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