Can Do! The Story of the Seabees

Can Do! The Story of the Seabees - Hardcover

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Can Do! The Story of the Seabees - Hardcover

Can Do! The Story of the Seabees - Hardcover

by William Bradford Huie
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Born in 'the hellish aftermath of Pearl Harbor, ' the Seabees began as barely armed civilians with no military training. They had an average age of 35. GI's would joke, "Never hit a Seabee, for his son might be a Marine." America's bulldozing, jungle-hacking, 'Jap-cracking' Construction Battalion or the Seabees ('C.B.'s) soon proved themselves miracle-construction-workers in seemingly impassable combat zones. Before World War 2, Marines were the ones to 'get their first, ' but the need for roads in the muddy battlefields of the Pacific meant that claim would pass to the Construction Battalion. Their early motto was 'Can Do!'
ISBN9781387934966
Author William Bradford Huie
PublisherLulu.com
GenreBiography, History, and Literature
FormatHardcover
PublishedJuly 2018
LanguageENG- English
Pages126
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About William Bradford Huie

William Bradford "Bill" Huie (November 13, 1910 - November 20, 1986) was an American journalist and novelist. He wrote several books about controversial topics related to World War II and the Civil Rights Movement. He was also known for the practice of checkbook journalism, paying subjects to gain interviews and articles about them. In January 1956 he published an interview in Look magazine in which the two white men who killed Emmett Till admitted their guilt and described their crime. They had been acquitted at trial several months previously by an all-white jury. Huie had several of his books adapted as feature films during the 1960s and 1970s.

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