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Interesting. And it's still being used.

A blast from the past! Thanks for sharing this with us!!

The Engineers and the logistics folks have never gotten the credit they deserve. The script for this video is quite terrible as it is so antagonistic and that serves no good. Thanks for preserving the history and let us hope we can somehow learn from it, for a change!

I always do the BU

Seabee Vet here. Was an EO and after I was done I have never been out of a job. Had a blast and proud to have served in such a great unit.

The duke never served a single day. He was too busy drinking and screwing starlets. And that my friends is the real story

75' with MCB5

While I really do appreciate your efforts to save this documentation, you might consider pointing out that describing Diego Garcia as being "part of the British Indian Ocean Territory" is rather similar to saying that Crimea belongs to Russia: it's not entirely inaccurate, but it ignores the view of the former inhabitants. The Chagossians have been fighting to get Diego Garcia back for decades. This land never belonged to the British government, it was stolen and the US is an accomplice in that theft. Cheers, Alan Tomlinson

Gary Parker , good to see you again after all these years.

Was there in '81. Seabees were still very actively building the base.

The battalion itself (main body) 'mounts out' by sea? I don't think so. Not in modern times. They travel by military aircraft or by chartered airline.

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SeabeeMuseum, cool video keep up the amazing content

Amazing

Former member of NMCB-7,A Co CM3, thanks for posting this.

That was my Battalion as well, I was in Rota from 80 to 81, Charlie company, I was on the marginal wharf project with Paul Lawrence

We have nothing on that generation

Thanks for sharing very informative! My son just enlisted seabees UT.

My dad was there during 1960-1961. I still have many of the newspaper clippings my mom saved.

At 09:38, looked like a TBF or TBM going down.

There at the end, i said to myself WOW that’s the good stuff, putting that C-10 sea plane on that barge was something to see, thanks for video

This was indeed something special to view. Truly so much in this footage. Wouldn't we all love to have been able to follow that PBM Martin seaplane until it was back in the air? What a beautiful aircraft. One is easily reminded again of the immense scope of logistics in the Pacific war. Operation Overlord, with its June 1944 D Day landing in France, continues to garner the lion's share of acclaim as to stellar accomplishments in the field of logistics by the American staff officers during World War 2 . Yet, that European theater event is dwarfed as compared to what took place in the Pacific. "Operation Overlord" is a fitting name we've all become used to. "Operation MindBoggling" should be the name attached to what took place in the Pacific.

For every marine in the breech there were 10 support men and women of all types.

My Dad , a seabee , was on Okinawa , June to September 1945 .Saw some one things he talked about. I miss you Dad .

I have been looking for this video for years, I’m so glad that i finally found it!!!

Can Do ! BIG salute, fellas....

RIP to my hometown hero and legend John Basilone. One of the greatest American soldiers to ever live.

Thank you for the valuable video.　Living in today's peaceful days, there is no chance to imagine that there was a war between Japan and the USA .　There was no way Japan could win against the materially rich USA.　Did Commander Kuribayashi, who was annihilated in the attack, have no option to surrender?　I don't think there's any shame in surrendering in war.　It is truly tragic and sad that so many lives were lost in both countries.

thanks for posting this !

I always look for the ship and Higgins boats with the APA 28 on them. That was my father's ship. He wasn't in the Iwo Jima landings. His troop ship was in Okinawa, Normandy, Africa, Sicily and some others. The captain's son wrote a book about the Charles Carroll APA 28. They all thought they were going to die in Okinawa. They were targeted by Kamakazis a number of times being a troop ship. They even had to perform picket duty at times. I never would have believed it if I hadn't read the book. Their ship received six battle stars for their performance in the war. My father was tormented by the war. He watched the ship load up with kids his own age ( he was 17 when he enlisted) then watch them load into those Higgins boats when they arrived at their destination. Then head to shore.Some would return shot to pieces, just like the Higgins boats. He would then tend to the wounded until they could transfer them to shore or to a hospital ship. He watched this scenario over and over again. I do know that on june 6th 1944 he was at his duty station when their ship launched the boats loaded with the 29th division. They were headed to Omaha beach on that fateful day. My father died of cancer on june 6th 1975. The Navy gave him a full military burial at sea. It was done off the beaches of Normandy.

原來是折博山的征服之生死戰，視為二戰的最後戰役。對於雙方軍人我都給於絕對的尊敬，敬禮。

My Father was there on Tinian-Saipan and Guam '44 & 45..USA Medical Corps. I wish he had lived long enough to see these historical films on the Internet.

18:30 International M-5H-6 dump trucks 19:06 19:48 20:00 International M-5H-6 cargo trucks USMC 19:50 GMC CCKW 353 B2

WOW!

I'm proud to have served in the Seabees from 1971-75. Assigned MCB 5 73-75. I later served with RNMCB 28, 87-93.

Thank you for posting unpopular events that took place on the island. To see what went on behind the front lines shows how it’s just as crucial as the grunt on the line.

Probably the last time young men with rich parents ever had to go to war for the US. The rest were considered 'expendable'.

I just found this channel. Sorry it took me so long. I have a lot of videos to catch up on.

No blue and green hair under them helmets ....

Not all of the footage was of Iwo!! There were NO trees, and NO white sandy beaches with guys in shorts.

You see Marines in their dress uniforms. Here they're all dirty. 😂

My grandpa Homer smith was a Seabee and said his company suffered nearly 40% casualties

Thank you for your time 🙂

Thank you for your time 🙂

Of all the history on earth all mankind can do is create war while Jehova god looks down on us waiting for us to stop

I’m just a retired Army Infantry Senior NCO and served on active duty from 1983-2009 and every where I went we saw footprints of the CB’s. When we were sent to FOB St. Michael’s in March of 2004 we stayed in reinforced rooms built out of thick plywood and 4x4 upright supports studs and you could tell it was made to support some serious weight on top which is where multiple layers of sand bags were laid down providing overhead cover. These bunk houses were scattered throughout the “chicken factory” so if one was hit, it wouldn’t destroy others. And that was just one part of the FOB they built, they made some nice perimeter watch towers that we could easily reinforce with sand bags. Engineers can do some amazing things either with or without resources.

My father was one of those Seabees

Those Navy sailors sure did bust their butts.

Seldom see footage of the landing beaches. My grandfather was in the 5th Pioneers. His first days on the island were spent there, and later camped at the foot of Suribachi. The 5th Pioneer battalion defeated the Japanese in the last fight on the island at the airstrip, a few hours before the Army relived the Marines.

Now are you sure that this wasn't filmed this week ....😮 I'm thinking " they " probably should revamp all this.