1944 NAVY SEABEES DOCUMENTARY " THE EARTHMOVERS " CBs In WORLD WAR II CONSTRUCTION 82384

The Earthmovers (W.F. 21) is a 1944 War Department film that shows the heavy equipment used by the Army’s Corps of Engineers and the Navy’s Seabees during military operations in WWII. The film opens with a shot of a construction site: men dig the foundation for a skyscraper. This is followed by footage of building projects in America, including dams and highways. The film then cuts to the use of heavy equipment used in the military. Tractors and bulldozers are used in military settings. A bulldozer is lifted off a ship (01:53). The film contrasts American machinery with Chinese operations: Chinese men clear land for an airstrip by hand. A Douglas C-47 lands on a rural airstrip (03:20). A bulldozer is driven off the plane. Footage shows bulldozers moving rubble, moving beached landing craft back into water, and moving earth. A shot from a hilltop shows a construction site in the Pacific theatre where an airstrip is being built (04:53). Bulldozers move earth and tractors grade the surface of the ground. An aerial shot shows Bougainville, a Japanese-controlled island. Soldiers weld steel pieces for an airstrip. Men place the steel pieces on the ground for the airfield. Troops ride large trucks in a convoy on a road (07:30). Footage shows Europe’s destroyed bridges and towns. Jeeps cross a recently constructed steel treadway and buoy bridge (08:07). Soldiers dig earth with shovels and use a jackhammer to break rock. The film then shows Naples in rubble (09:28); ships sit disabled in the harbor. Supplies are unloaded from a ship in Naples’ harbor. Women crowd around a water source in Naples (10:23); the film shows Italians waiting in line to fill buckets with water from a newly built water line. Army Engineers work to build a bridge on buoys on the Volturno River. The film shows other types of equipment used by the Army’s Corps of Engineers and the Navy’s Seabees: drills, search lights, mine detectors, pneumatic pontoons, road rollers, cranes, bulldozers, and more. A U.S. shipping convoy sails on the ocean (12:40); footage shows some of the ships on fire (presumably after being hit by Japanese fire). The film then shows a cemetery in the Pacific where American servicemen, including the “Earthmovers,” are laid to rest.
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[@fredravasco5743]

I MADE FOUR TOURS IN VIETNAM WITH NMCB 8 AS HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATOR, 1966, 67 ,68, 69... LOVED EVERY ONE OF THEM. SEABEES CAN DO

[@JamesMcComas-dr2xi]

Thankyou!

[@jerryhammack1318]

Between the seabees and the army combat engineer s they built the forward air bases built bridges and roads! God bless these tough men and thank them, for all that they sacrificed! I entered service as a combat engineer, and finally finished as an aviation structural mechanic on F- 18s in 2005.

[@richardtallent8175]

Thank you. My stepfather was a ww2 navy seabee. He taught me to work.

[@lewiemcneely9143]

They'll do that very thing! And do it right!

[@rickysmith705]

thank all of you for your service that's why we are free much respect to all of you who gave so much

[@m6ney_bag_r9an87]

My great grandfather was a navy sea bee and served in wold war 2 and still alive today

[@alexius23]

Very in WW2 the USN recognized the vital need for Construction Battalions (CB) the Seabees. Japan was constantly stunned how they would plaster an air field & in scant hours the Seabees had rebuilt the damage....

[@jazzlin]

My Dad was stationed in North Africa. Nobody like a Seabee to teach you the work ethic.

[@willkastens5585]

Retired Seabee, NMCB-11 RVN

[@lewiemcneely9143]

THANKS a BUNCH, Periscope!I had an Uncle in the Sea Bees in WW-2 and that's where I got my machine savvy from through the Good Lord but I had a neighbor that his dad was in the Engineers in WW-2 and he was 94 years young and sharp as a tack. We got to do a loot of talking and were still talking about the old p.s.p panels used in roads and runways shown as pieces with holes in them and being welded together. And yes, I was in the Engineers in RVN and ran engineer related equipment wherever I went in the army and kept right on after I got out and before I went in. Mom said I had diesel in my blood. She was right. Still do! Thanks again!

[@margaretgolden42]

My father Francis Thomas Donohue was there at this time, he ran bulldozers and equipment. He told us of putting up bulldozers big scoop to fight bullets. This is an amazing, video thank you so very much for posting it. I wish he was alive to see it!! Thank you ! May God Bless all these seabees!!! I hope they are having a great reunion in heaven!

[@kbalch]

My father-in-law was a Seabee during WWII. He spent much of the war repairing airfields (often under fire), beginning on Guadalcanal and moving around the South Pacific as required after that. He was aboard ship headed for the manned invasion of Japan (with essentially zero expectation of survival) when the war ended. As you can imagine, the trip back to Pearl and then on to California was a much more enjoyable cruise than the outbound leg had been. I was very proud to meet Paul Tibbets years later, shake his hand, and introduce him to my wife, who owes her very existence - at least in part - to his service with Operation Silverplate and the 509th Composite Group.

[@PeriscopeFilm]

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[@jackriley3056]

as a us marine i worked with seabees and i consider them brothers. i slept in the hoochs they built and drove on the roads they built. liberty bridge made a perilous journey to An Hoa a little bit safer.

[@blusnuby2]

AMERICAN C A N D O ! Big Salutes to The Greatest Generation the world has EVER seen !!! Thanks for posting. Telly Savalis narration ?

[@stichter51]

Pretty sure that's the voice of Edmond O'Brien.

[@chrisnewcomb7118]

Thank You for posting this.My grandfather Floyd Clark was a CB in World War 2 in New Guinea.THANK YOU GOD he came home .

[@InOppositiontotheNewWorldOrder]

E.O. NMCB 133 1985-88 CAN DO!

[@billyp333]

Thank you ..........

[@atompunk5575]

I can work a forklift and i can use a gun, but these guys are amazing!

[@paultaylor3517]

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[@alexsmith-ob3lu]

That was an amazing documentary! Thank you posting! Mike Rowe of dirty jobs brought me here!

[@csa6119]

Thanks for the video. I served in the Seabees. NMCB 133 EO3

[@PeriscopeFilm]

Thanks for your service to our great nation.

[@Quique169169]

Get rid of that flag we are all Americans the American flag

[@Quique169169]

And thank you for serving like I did. We both serve under one flag the American flag.

[@Solaniin]

The confederate flag supported slavery as the Nazis supported genocide. Enjoy your contradiction

[@InOppositiontotheNewWorldOrder]

That Confederate battle flag says a lot! NMCB 133 EO 1985-88

[@IHWKR]

Grandfather was a Seabee in the Pacific theater. I wish I knew more about his time in the Navy. All I heard was that he made runways.

[@Buce-ku9vx]

Love the old school narration! Classic. 😅

[@MarkCaso102]

I loved being in the Seabees greatest time of my life.

[@fernandoalbuquerque3992]

😎😃

[@raytorres2685]

Construction 🚧 workers with guns. Allowed to defend themselves.🏗🔨🔫🔧🪚🧰🔩⚒️ 📐 tools of the trade during WW 2