Click to open image viewer. The Republic Seabee amphibian was one of the most unusual airplanes to appear on the post-World War II general aviation scene. It was designed as an affordable, all-purpose ...

The Navy Seabees are not ordinary construction crews—they are combat builders trained to create, repair, and defend under pressure. From builders and electricians to steelworkers, equipment operators, ...

"We Build! We Fight!" is the motto of the Fighting Seabees, members of the US Navy's elite Construction Battalions (CBs - get it?). This tireless team has built bases, roads, schools, and anything ...

Bulldozers come first. This slogan crystallizes the role that engineering and construction played in World War II, where combatants were far more mobile than in previous conflicts. Wartime plants for ...

Mike Rowe’s “Somebody’s Gotta Do It” airs at 9 p.m. ET/PT Thursdays on CNN. Can a bridge be built in less than an hour? If you’re a member of the Navy’s Seabees, it can – along with makeshift ...

Iwo Jima was small, but it was not fragile. Before the Marines landed on February 19, 1945, Japanese commander Tadamichi Kuribayashi had turned the island into a defense in depth. Instead of relying ...

A detachment of U.S. Navy Seabees is heading home after 184 days installing a floating pier at America’s largest research station in Antarctica. The structure, designed to replace McMurdo Station’s ...

CAMP 93, Kuwait — Gone these 23 years, John Wayne still inspires Navy Seabees. The Seabees were the heroes of one of the most famous war movies: 1944’s “The Fighting Seabees,” starring Wayne and Susan ...

IN A palm-shrouded, forgotten corner of the Gilbert Islands I have just met three Catholic nuns, survivors of Japanese occupation, who daily say grateful prayers for the U. S. Navy Seabees. To these ...

When the U.S. Marines stormed ashore at Iwo Jima, the Seabees swarmed in with them, armed and ready to fight, if needed. In the early days of the assault there was no opportunity for the Seabees to ...