Can Do!: Story of the Seabees (Bluejacket Books) (Bluejacket Books Series) - Softcover

William B. Huie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1557503796 ISBN 13: 9781557503794

Publisher: Naval Institute Press, 1997

Synopsis

When William Bradford Huie, a reporter for H. L. Mencken's American Mercury, joined the U.S. Navy in 1943, he received a commission as a public relations officer in the little-known Civil Engineer Corps' Construction Battalions - the Seabees - and the following year published this account of their landing with the Marines at Guadalcanal and Wake Island, Sicily and Salerno. <br><br>As readable and entertaining today as it was some sixty years ago, it tells the story of these civilian engineers, carpenters, steam-shovel operators, plumbers, truck drivers, surveyors, and the like, who landed with the first waves of American assault troops, not only in the Pacific but also in Europe and Africa, bringing heavy equipment ashore to build roads, bridges, and airfields and repairing whatever they could. Often working under enemy fire, they incurred many casualties and won the deep respect of everyone who came into contact with them.

About this title

About the Author:

<strong>William Bradford ""Bill"" Huie</strong> (1910 – 1986) was an American journalist, editor, publisher, television interviewer, screenwriter, lecturer, and novelist. During World War II, he served in the United States Navy, for a time as aide to Vice Admiral Ben Moreell of the famous Seabees. While chronicling the wartime activity of the Seabees, Lieutenant Huie had special permission to continue his own writing projects, both fiction and nonfiction, dealing primarily with the war.

About this edition

• Publisher: Naval Institute Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1557503796
• ISBN 13: 9781557503794
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256