William Bradford Huie, joined the U.S. Navy in 1943. He was
commission as a public relations officer in the little-known Civil
Engineer Corps' Construction Battalions--the Seabees. The following
year he published "Can Do ," an account of their landing with the
Marines at Guadalcanal and Wake Island, Sicily and Salerno. This
book is a sequel to "Can Do " and continues the saga of the combat
trained civilian plumbers, carpenters, heavy equipment operators,
wharf builders, and civil engineers who served in the U.S. Navy
construction battalions. The story begins with Iwo Jima when the
Seabees braved concentrated enemy fire to rig floating causeways,
blow up wrecked landing craft, and to build the desperately needed
airstrips while under enemy fire. Huie also describes the Seabees
on D-Day at Omaha Beach, where they manned fifteen hundred vehicles
during the first wave of landings at Normandy. He provides the
details of the creation and testing of various pier-heads, floating
steel bridges, and "Rhino" ferries. He also tells colorful stories
of moon-shining, brawling, and carousing along with compassionate
stories of the children in the prisoner of war camps.
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