Author: Publisher: U.S. Navy Seabee Museum
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
One Hundred and Thirtieth United States Naval Construction Battalion
Author: Publisher: U.S. Navy Seabee Museum
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
The One Hundred Eleventh Naval Construction Battalion: A Pictorial History of the 111th Naval Construction Battalion, 1943-1944
Author: Publisher: U.S. Navy Seabee Museum
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
One Hundred and Thirtieth United States Naval Construction Battalion
Author: United States. Naval Construction Battalion, 130thPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Unit Histories of World War II
Author: United States. Department of the Army. Office of Military HistoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Bulldozer
Author: Francesca Russello AmmonPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300220545
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Although the decades following World War II stand out as an era of rapid growth and construction in the United States, those years were equally significant for large-scale destruction. In order to clear space for new suburban tract housing, an ambitious system of interstate highways, and extensive urban renewal development, wrecking companies demolished buildings while earthmoving contractors leveled land at an unprecedented pace and scale. In this pioneering history, Francesca Russello Ammon explores how postwar America came to equate this destruction with progress. The bulldozer functioned as both the means and the metaphor for this work. As the machine transformed from a wartime weapon into an instrument of postwar planning, it helped realize a landscape-altering “culture of clearance.” In the hands of the military, planners, politicians, engineers, construction workers, and even children’s book authors, the bulldozer became an American icon. Yet social and environmental injustices emerged as clearance projects continued unabated. This awareness spurred environmental, preservationist, and citizen participation efforts that have helped to slow, though not entirely stop, the momentum of the postwar bulldozer.
28th Special Naval Construction Battalion
Author: Publisher: U.S. Navy Seabee Museum
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Davisville and the Seabees
Author: Walter K. SchroderPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738501062
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The U.S. Naval Construction Battalion Center at Davisville, Rhode Island, is first remembered as the original "Home of the Atlantic Seabees." During World War II, 100 battalions as well as dozens of other U.S. Navy "Builder-Fighter" units were formed, outfitted, trained, and prepared for overseas deployment. Here, in the first photographic history of the base, is the story of the men and women who came to Davisville and their legacy of superb accomplishments in the service of their country. Established on February 27, 1942, the base was designated to manufacture and ship overseas materials and equipment and to outfit and embark construction battalions and other naval units. Between 1942 and 1994, when the base was closed, the Seabees participated in every war involving the United States. The Quonset Hut and the Davisville Pontoons were both developed at the Davisville Seabee Center. The base has schooled and trained thousands of officers and tens of thousands of Seabees.
Century, 100th U.S. Naval Construction Battalion, World War II
Author: Publisher: U.S. Navy Seabee Museum
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
One Hundred Eighty Landings of United States Marines, 1800-1934
Author: United States. Marine CorpsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
The Story of the 113th Seabees, 1943 - 1945
Author: Publisher: U.S. Navy Seabee Museum
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description