Author: Publisher: U.S. Navy Seabee Museum
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The Log of the 107 Seabees
Author: Publisher: U.S. Navy Seabee Museum
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Time Out: A Pictorial History of the 119th Seabees
Author: Publisher: U.S. Navy Seabee Museum
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
From Texas to Tinian and Tokyo Bay
Author: Jonathan Templin RitterPublisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 1574417819
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
This is the story of J. R. Ritter (1902-1994), a civil engineer from Texas who became a U.S. Navy Seabee officer during World War II. For his memoir he preserved personal papers, letters, photos, and other items, many of which are reproduced in this book. His narrative is edited and annotated by his grandson, Jonathan Templin Ritter. The U.S. Naval Construction Battalions, known as the “Seabees,” were formed in March 1942. Their duties were to build military facilities and airfields overseas, in both the European and Pacific Theaters. In the Pacific Theater alone, including the Aleutians, the Seabees built 111 major airstrips, 441 piers, 2258 ammunition magazines, and much more. Ritter tells the story of two Seabee Battalions, one in the Aleutians and one in the Central Pacific. He describes the Aleutian Islands Campaign during 1942-1943, when there was a real concern that Japan might try to attack Alaska and the continental United States through the “back door.” Ritter also gives an eyewitness account of the building of the airfields on Tinian Island in the Northern Marianas that enabled the B-29 fire raids on Japan—the “Empire Run”—which culminated in the two missions that dropped the atomic bombs in August 1945, ending the Pacific War. This book provides a major contribution to the wartime literature about the Seabees, those brave, resourceful, and hard-working American patriots, whose mottos were “Can do!” and “The difficult we do now; the impossible takes a little longer.”
The Story of the 113th Seabees, 1943 - 1945
Author: Publisher: U.S. Navy Seabee Museum
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
The Log, 1943-1945
Author: United States. Navy. Construction Battalion, 107thPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Pacific Album 75th Seabees, 1942-1945
Author: Publisher: U.S. Navy Seabee Museum
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 215
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.
68th Seabees
Author: United States. Navy. Construction Battalion, 68thPublisher: U.S. Navy Seabee Museum
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
73rd Seabees
Author: Publisher: U.S. Navy Seabee Museum
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
28th Special Naval Construction Battalion
Author: Publisher: U.S. Navy Seabee Museum
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description