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The Fighting Seabees

Introduction

In "The Fighting Seabees the "Duke" performances Lt. Cmdr Wedge Donovan, a citizen building supervisor who is tasked to pattern the Navy's first Construction Battalion, (CB CBs=Seabees). The new CBs have to both construct and be prepared to fight. Donovan a hardnosed building supervisor at the start chafes under infantry command, but one time requested, he discovers the significance of managing things the Navy way (Bowman 90). This turns him into a large foremost and his unit into a very productive force. One of the couple of videos that the "Duke" passes away in. Makes one just desire to cry.

How Japanese & Nazis are Portrayed

In December 1941, with U.S. involvement in war soon expected on both oceans, Rear Admiral Ben Moreell, Chief of the Navy's Bureau of Yards and Docks, recommended establishing Naval Construction Battalions at a newly constructed base at Davisville, R.I. (now part of North Kingstown). With the attack on Pearl Harbor and the U.S. entrance into the war, he was given the go-ahead. The earliest Seabees were recruited from the civilian construction trades and were placed under the leadership of the Navy's Civil Engineer Corps. Because of the emphasis on experience and skill rather than physical standards, the average age of Seabees during the early days of the war was 37.

More than 325,000 men served with the Seabees in World War II, fighting and building on six continents and more than 300 islands. In the Pacific, where most of the construction work was needed, the Seabees landed soon after the Marines and built major airstrips, bridges, roads, gasoline storage tanks, and Quonset huts for warehouses, hospitals, and housing.

The Seabees were officially organized in the Naval Reserve on December 31, 1947. With the general demobilization following the war, the Construction Battalions were reduced to 3,300 men on active duty by 1950. Between 1949 and 1953, Naval Construction Battalions were organized into two types of units: Amphibious Construction Battalions (NACBs) and Naval Mobile Construction Battalions (NMCBs).

Wedge Donovan (John Wayne) is a tough construction boss, building airstrips in the Pacific for the US Navy during World War II. He clashes with his liaison officer, Lieutenant Commander Robert Yarrow (Dennis O'Keefe), over the fact that his men are not allowed to arm themselves against the Japanese. When the enemy lands in force on the island, he finally takes matters into his own hands, leading his men into the ...