The Seabees On Iwo Jima | Full Documentary

[@richyt5983]

Excellent movie that covered just about everything. I was an EO-2 NMCB133 A co, My Dad was the senior BM-2 on a LSM, my Uncle was a USMC Corporal at Iwo. I was in during the1970's, Dad was in WW2 his ship got blown up at the Leyte invasion so he missed the Iwo invasion which was supposed to be his next stop, my Uncle was in the initial invasion at Iwo, got wounded twice in action and we all made it home. I'm the only one alive now but I remember what they had told me about the war and Iwo and the Pacific in particular and while watching your video it was almost like them talking to me again. I appreciate your efforts with the movie and will be sending the movie information to the Seabee brothers I'm still am in contact with, I know they will appreciate it as much as me. Being in MCB133 we were taught about every detail of that battle and how we needed to honor those that came before us by being the best we could possibly be, just as they did. Many Thanks for a really Great effort at remembering seldom told history.

[@rquest3059]

My father was on Iwo Jima, 133 CB's Headquarters company. He and several of his WW2 brothers told many horrific stories (some humorous) about their time on the island. Brave souls each and every one. 🇺🇸

[@davefellhoelter1343]

Mom's Dad a Seabee, Dad's brothers Navy Pacific, one mighty Mo, one gramps underaged to Canada with a pilots Lic and then Battle of Britain. I grew up in the shade of Great Men, teachers, bosses, friends, buddies! Family.

[@scottthornton9237]

My dad was C Company 133rd SeaBees.

[@rodneyrosecrants8910]

I was a Seabee just out of high school in 1971 , construction equipment mechanic….Midway Island, Diego Garcia, Guam..made a man out of me

[@rafehr1378]

Man, you got the long-distance jobs. D.G. broke a lot of my buddies. NMCB 10. 1971 -- 1974

[@jackriley3056]

as a Marine in Vietnam i benefited every day by what the Seabees built. From where i slept to the roads i drove on. liberty bridge made life better for all that used it. thanks

[@f.k.burnham8491]

My uncle was a corpsman on Iwo. When he came back from there, he was never the same. What had gotten to him was the fact that he couldn't save many of the wounded. May he rest in peace,

[@Allium_369]

May God rest his soul

[@rafehr1378]

There was no one better to give us medical aid when FUBARed. I would tear up if I saw a medic after serving.

[@RobertBelt-x6d]

As a US Army Combat Engineer in the early 70's I had no idea as to what combat truly entailed nor what and how the US Navy Seebes endured in the Pacific theater during WWII. I Salute to the United States Navy Seebees and all my fellow veterans. Thank The Good Lord we endured and over came... May God continue to bless our Great Republic... Amen

[@JayRotz]

As a Marine during Desert Storm, the Seabees did & still do outstanding work in & out of harms way. Damn Proud of my one son being a BU. Definitely befriend these guys, if they don't have it, they'll get it.

[@7mm-08]

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[@theway3058]

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[@JohnRatomski]

This Documentary was my idea. I helped provide some of the Bees interviewed and some that didn't make the film, as well as helped edit the originally script.. My Father was a WW2 Seabee, 27 months in the Pacific. After reading and researching volumes of Seabees history, In my opinion, they never got the credit they deserved. A tough bunch indeed!

[@leddielive]

I know, I've seen John Wayne working with the Construction Battalions at the movies, some marvellous classic war films. 🎭

[@Warszawski_Modernizm]

Amazing work and heritage! Much respect from Poland!

[@nathanielnelson5123]

Where are the Black Seabees?

[@michaelk432]

@@nathanielnelson5123😂

[@dieseldabberdoug8285]

42:38 ​@@nathanielnelson5123

[@sharonwhiteley6510]

"Woody" Williams, from Quiet Dell, WV, was the last Medal of Honor awardee from WW2. He worked with the VA. Also, began the GOLD STAR FOUNDATION. He was a remarkable individual. His last words to his family: Carry on with the mission ". Mr. Williams wanted to ensure the work continued with the GOLD STAR FAMILIES.

[@rodneyharouff5739]

i did not know this. i grew up in philippi & went thru quiet dell many times from the '60's thru the '80's. a good man!

[@patricklowder3280]

I was a construction mechanic in SeaBees for 20 years. These were the guys that paved the way for us.

[@kennethhigdon1159]

Mcb40 A co here

[@leddielive]

Quite literally laying paving amongst many many different projects. 🫡

[@davefellhoelter1343]

How do "I GET IN?" it's in my DNA(gramps WWII) I'm a journeyman of about as many trades as fingers, fuel, waste, water treatments, energies, building anything, and retired, do it for free.

[@lawnmanmartinfan7909]

Thank you sir for your service

[@patricklowder3280]

@lawnmanmartinfan7909 It was my honor, I retired in 2011 and miss it every day. Also, I might have had more fun than I should have.

[@167curly]

I am a Bermudian, and as a reverse Lend Lease act, America was allowed to build Fort Bell airfield in 1941/2, later called Kindley Airforce Base and finally Naval Air Station. It became Bermuda's civil airport after WW2 as well as a military facility, and was created by the SeaBees largely from reclaimed land, forming a stop for transport and bomber aircraft between America and Europe.

[@johndaut2838]

I was a Seabee from 1979 till 1992. Helped clean up the Marine Barracks in Lebanon. I was an Engineering Aide 1st class E6.did everything but Engineering.

[@MrDpb119]

My dad was 15 when he signed up. He was in the 4th Marine division most of the war until the occupation of Nagasaki and they reassigned him to the 43’rd Seabees. Little known that there were 40 Marines in Nagasaki when they dropped the bomb. Most died from Cancer. Three, including my dad went through life very healthy. I was an Air Force Civil Engineer and my first unit was the 43rd CES at Andersen AFB Guam. I took a shot up meatball flag back to Saipan for him in 1986. He said that’s where he got it and it should go back. He was stabbed in the foot with a bayonet in that battle. I am fortunate that my dad talked to me about his experiences through the war. Some good and some pretty bad. The stuff those guys went through is unreal…..

[@Allium_369]

Wow what a story your father had. I wonder why the radiation didn’t get him but most of the other guys. were they all in the same area? There is probably not a lot of data on how radiation effects one person to another thanks for sharing

[@phillipallen3259]

I don't know if they were brave or crazy but they got the job done and returned to build a country. Absolutely amazing!

[@CinimodNorton]

A bit of both. I know.

[@gruntengr4197]

They were Marines, they were Corpsmen. They were Seabees, They were Americans, and they got the job done. They are the Greatest Generation.

[@MarlonChang-t9l]

We are a little bit of both, us see bees are a different kind of service members, with respect to others, there is nobody out there that can do, what we do, our saying goes like this, the impossible we already did, miracles will take us a little longer

[@CinimodNorton]

@@MarlonChang-t9l Correction, The difficult we do immediately, the impossible take a little longer. CM2

[@colmhain]

Maybe just crazy brave.

[@colleenmonfross4283]

We can't thank our fighting men enough, truly the greatest generation. There will never be another like them, they made America the greatest nation on earth.

[@BillBird2111]

Outstanding! Thank you Tim Gray and many thanks to your entire production crew. This was well researched and very well done. Loved the last part about how the vets felt when the U.S. gave the island back to Japan. That needed to be there.

[@lukenshazard127]

My Dad was in the 5th Marine Division, 5th Tank Battalion, Company B on Iwo Jima. Great video! I was fortunate that he shared at least some of his experiences. He was driving his 4th tank when they finally left the island.

[@coreychipman]

Thank you for sharing this. He is remembered.

[@Warszawski_Modernizm]

Crazy turnover rate...your Dad was a Hero! Respect and a salute from Poland.

[@wfoybealiii4668]

My son served in the Seabees from 2006-2015, including deployment to Afghanistan as a Reservist in 2013-14. He was a UT and is now the most badass of all commercial construction Superintendents at the large outfit he works for today. Guy shows up 15-30 minutes early for every business or personal/family event on his calendar, and always sober and fit for duty. Can Do, for sure. Not many realize the extent to which some Seabee battalions were merged into USMC regiments in the Pacific. The regiments were referred to as "123rd, reinforced" with the reinforced being a battalion of Seabees which had been issued USMC uniforms and holding temporary pay grade/ratings of USMC counterparts. As mentioned in the documentary, many Seabees were much older than most Marines, and the result was that they enlisted at E-3 to E-6. So when their Seabee battalions were temporarily merged into Marine regiments, the result was a Marine battalion with very few Privates. The Marines hated it because guard duty goes only to junior enlisteds, and the Seabee battalions had next to none, requiring other pure Marine battalions to provide Privates for guard duty. It was not unusual, especially early in 1942-43, for Seabees to land on islands on which their own USMC sons had landed just hours to days before as Marines.

[@TimberworksTables]

US Marine here. We'll make fun of and fight with any member of any other service. But SeaBees and Corpsmen...we'll always have their backs and lay down our lives for them because they fight for us and keep us alive.

[@lewiemcneely9143]

I was in the Engineers and there was a Seabee outfit below us. (Nam) We got along fabously!

[@davehefterich3760]

That was a great documentary. My Dad was in the Sea Bees during WW2. He was one of those older guys they mention. After the war, he was a civilian instructor at Port Hueneme. I live in Ventura CA, just a couple of miles from the base.

[@sharkscrapper]

My dad was a Seabee, Korea and Vietnam. What an amazing group. HONOR

[@paulbergen6574]

My Dad too, MCB3

[@MrWaalkman]

I used to work for Morrison-Knudsen, and they had Wake Island survivors working for MK up into the 80's. I regret not having the opportunity to meet any of them. MK lost around 400 out of their 1,150 workers to the Japanese. I also had the pleasure of taking about a half dozen Seabees on a fishing trip in Okinawa. They weren't supposed to go, given that I was a contractor working on NAVFAC projects. But we had fun anyway. :)

[@WilliamJohnson-g6z]

When I was a kid I saw a movie called The Fighting Seabees with John Wayne. It showed a little of what they did through a Hollywood camera. But it did not really show what these guys were able to do while under fire from a very determined enemy. I'm amazed by the fortitude that these men had. Iwo Jima must have been an intense place to be. God bless all of the veterans of world war II and all of the veterans today. Without them most of us wouldn't even be here.

[@lisak3931]

My Grandfather was a SeeBee. I have a few patches of his. I also have a letter he sent to my grandmother. He could not say where he was, but he wrote of the heat, and that he and his buddies were working hard. He believed in what he was doing.

[@GM8101PHX]

Very well Done video, you earned respect from this veteran for the respect and honor you gave making this video!!! I just subscribed!!

[@gruntengr4197]

The United States Marines and United States Navy Corpsmen that fought in the Pacific are the greatest men that ever walked the earth. On a few of the Pacific islands Seabee's HAD to become the fighting Seabees. The largest concentration of Seabees in the Pacific was at IwoJima. 55000 Seabees. The Battalions were organized into 11 Regiments and 4 Brigades Commanded by a United States Navy Civil Engineer. He also commanded 45000 United States Army Engineers, Aviation Engineers and even a few British Engineers. Iwo Jima was Hell On Earth for the Seabees as they came ashore with the United States Marines in the first wave. I believe sooner or later Seabees made it ashore to every island the Marines took control of.

[@karlheinzvonkroemann2217]

I saw that movie too. John Wayne and Susan Hayward - "The Fighting Seabees"

[@rafehr1378]

I joined the SEABEES IN 1970 to end the 'Nam War. Overseas our jobs were 16 hours to 30 hours long. Breakfast was our only main meal. If there was a chow close. That wasn't often. We hunted at all times. Then coming home, attacked, shot at. NMCB 10. "The Banned Battalion".

[@danielhathaway8042]

My Great uncle Lyle Obert was a Sea Bee in the Pacific unfortunately he passed away before I was born. These men were incredible with what they were able to achieve!

[@TheGeezzer]

As a Brit, I think the British equivalent is the Pioneer Corps. They are not thought very highly of, being considered as the lowest arm of the services, yet they have a very important role, without them the Army doesn't go very far, kinda stagnates where it is! As per bloody usual, its always the small man (men) that keeps the show on the road, the unsung hero that wins the day out of the limelight of those on the stage taking the bows, plaudits and credit. Up and at em! Men of honor who keep wheels rolling!

[@davidb2206]

They did one heck of a vital job in Burma under Field Marshal Slim. Unsung, indeed.

[@MatthewWilliams-ws4vm]

Thanks for this my grandfather was a chaplain and heavy equipment he passed when was very young never got to hear much from the family of his wartime services

[@CaseyAEmens]

GREAT documentary! I have been waiting for something like this. They dont seem to get the credit they deserve

[@cruisinguy6024]

This was a PBS documentary, one of many excellent programs they have made

[@oakiesmokie1986]

I meet a sea bee on a amtrack train in 1998 amazing bloke still rember him now. Feel great pride in meeting one of them

[@asdf9890]

Glad to see Peleliu covered. That terrible battle isn’t covered as much as it should be.

[@lawnmanmartinfan7909]

Thank you all for your service and sacrifice for our beautiful country 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸❤️❤️

[@rickcoleman8903]

I was part of the seabees in 83 84 in Scotland at RAF Edzell Scotland and proud to have served.

[@kenseavey9165]

My grandpa was on Iwo Jima and a member of the Seabees. Seavey the Seabee!

[@christopherqueen3194]

My grandfather was also a Seabee on Iwo Jima. Joseph R Blackner.

[@kgeers5773]

Mine was on Tinian to build the runway for the Enola Gay. Thanks to all who sacrificed!

[@icu8128]

One of my scoutmasters was in the first wave; packing his gear including a satchel charge on his back got the million dollar wound of shrapnel in the leg before getting off the beach was evacuated before nightfall took a year of surgeries and required a heavy leg brace forever. Men were men in those days.

[@jefferykeeper9034]

Thanks too all that serviced !!!

[@cruisinguy6024]

What country are you from?

[@jefferykeeper9034]

@cruisinguy6024 US

[@TigerDominic-uh1dv]

Thanks Men and Women for Your Service 😊

[@RonFerguson-z6r]

For every Infantryman 4 Support Service Member were required. There are many many wonderful stories we will never of. Truly The Greatest Generation

[@michaelbuckner5374]

God bless all of you men for your sacrifice and your service to our nation

[@johnathonbrent2242]

My grate grate uncle was a seabee on that dame island from 1945/1946 and i have a great cousin the died in the first wave of on the assault on the airfields of Iwo Jima I just want to say thank you for this documentary so I can learn more about their experience. My great-uncle was in charge of the freshwater Distillery on the island from 1945 to 1946 after the battle was over for the most part he was put on the island as part of the cleanup crew I guess you would say as for my cousin he was on my mother's side of the family part of the 23rd Marines the first landing and he died during the Battle of Iwo Jima he is now buried in the National Cemetery in Honolulu Hawaii the story about my cousin is he was killed by a sniper while on guard Duty over one of the airfields after it was taken.😢 if anyone knows of a good publisher my great uncle did write a book about his experience during World War II and I would love to get it published for the world to read

[@lewiemcneely9143]

Had an Uncle in there. Never said where he was but ran a machine with one hand and held a rifle with his other. Ran everything they had. All they had to do was point. I took after him in that respect. He said so. I about DIED! I was in the Enginneers, the 97th and 34th and theCav .Learned to run a crane in there and paid several light bills with a drag bucket after I got out. Unc ended up being an iron worker after the war and stopped following jobs and came home and started showing me how to do stuff. I did it 50 years. Sure miss that rascal. I was his 'Skinny Nephew'.

[@N-Scale]

These were the TRUE Tough Guys !! So pround of all of them.

[@thomasfx3190]

My great uncle Jack was a CB at Dutch Harbor, AK and fought againt the Japanese there and had some great stories.

[@douglasmesina6922]

My boot camp company was called Wizards of the Sea. Our flag had a cross between Merlin and Gandalf wizard and all the elements that a flag required.

[@AlanLegere]

Sledge surely told us all what a meat grinder Peleliu was . His book "with the old breed" shows what Hell they went through.

[@davidb2206]

That book is a masterpiece. Full of drama, too. He explains the truth of what happened, not just a Hollywood version. Remember what happened to the marine who was yelling and making noise at night when they first got to Guadalcanal, endangering the whole unit?

[@jmit5650]

Sad news that Woody Williams passed away June 29 th in Huntington West Virginia. Woody was on our local news channels for years.

[@karlheinzvonkroemann2217]

It will always be Iwo Jima to me.

[@glendapeterson1180]

Love and gratitude to all the WWII Seabees. My husband and I were early boomers (1947) and we grew up hearing the stories from that war. My husband became a CB in 1966; he went to Vietnam in 1967 and was there for over two years. He did one tour for himself and the second for cowards like Bush Jr., Clinton, Trump, etc. His first went to Khe Sahn, originally to do some work on an airfield. He didn't get to do it; he was also the battalion sniper and that was what he mostly did.. "If it's between Point A and B, kill it," he was told. He did, and was almost insane by the time the US military geniuses decided they didn't need that mountain after all. He never recovered psychologically; we had a great marriage but couldn't sleep together. The list of "no's" was long: don't touch him unexpectedly, don't surprise him, always let him sit facing the door, give him alone time when he needed it. I have great respect for all veterans (both our fathers were in WWII), but I've told my young cousins (and several older teens I didn't know) to avoid the military. If the damn politicians want to fight, let THEM do it.

[@NAMCBEO]

Our stepdad was a WW2 Seabee on Tinian and then, two older brothers in Nam 66-68 MCB-3/MCB127, then me 69-70 MCB-3 Okinawa/Nam/Guam.

[@grassmanBoca]

The greatest generation no doubt in my mind!

[@manatmatalan1]

Another day, and another amazing history lesson. Many thanks for posting this.

[@jerryrichards8172]

My father was ww2 seebee the island of Trinidad he was a frogman one of the things he did was under water demolition. He would also put mines on ship they felt was supplying the german uboats. At his funeral we found out from a speaker that part of what he was doing led directly to the formation of the navy seals. Didn't expect to hear that. He was a big man and just as ought as he was big. Little known bit of the war from the island of Trinidad.

[@dotmurphy7279]

No sir, the marines still know what seabees are. My daddy was a seabee on Guam, my brother was a seabee in Viet Nam and my son was a marine in first Gulf War. Marines were glad to see the seabees get there. Marines can't pour concrete worth a damn.

[@Robert-dt2kd]

I enjoy the history and am proud as I to am a cm3 I also went thru Port huneme seabee school there I served proudly from 1997 to 2002.

[@randall39]

I think every man who fought in conditions like IWo Jima, and the places like it for our freedom, deserves the medal of honor 😢. That so many would lay down their lives for their country is a debt that can never be repaid. Let us always remember the sacrifices that were made for our freedom we so easily take for granted. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🏅❤

[@karlheinzvonkroemann2217]

Please, nobody laid their lives down. That's political BS. Their lives were taken from them. So save it!

[@cruisinguy6024]

Well this was something I wish I never read

[@nathanielnelson5123]

​@@karlheinzvonkroemann2217Somebody's butthurt?SMH

[@edwardloomis887]

Army combat engineers have had their moments, too. Exhibit A: Vinton Dove on Omaha Beach. Omar Bradley watched him and his bulldozer work to clear the beach exits from offshore and nominated him for a Medal of Honor. Eisenhower allegedly downgraded it because Dove wasn't killed in action.

[@jimcoop5663]

As a kid in the 60s my neighbor Mr Herbert O'Brien was a SeaBee in the Pacific. Tinnian....

[@dougearnest7590]

26:50 "Load up tools. Don't bother with any food or shelter - it'll all be there when you get where you're going." That's when it's time to load up on food, water, and something to use for shelter, and keep it hidden from the guy who said you won't need it.

[@marktinkler6897]

My mother, a Army nurse, took rifle training. She was North Carolina farm girl and a crack shot😂. Dad was in the Navy. My mother called him a 'ninety day wonder' because he was sent to Annapolis for a ninety day course on how to command an LST and was assigned to do just that for D-Day. He delivered tanks and jeeps to the Normandy beaches.

[@Chris-ut6eq]

Did not know when Iwo was returned to Japan, but I'd never thought of before this video and have mixed feelings about it. So many US troops died to take it during the war, definitely mixed feelings.

[@cruisinguy6024]

The way I see it the situation isn’t ant different from returning captured German territory to them after the war ended. They’re now our closest allies and trade partners.

[@davidb2206]

@@cruisinguy6024 Nope, not the same kind of blood price and a fight-to-the-death enemy as Iwo and Okinawa, where even the NAVY had almost 5,000 KIA! Besides, Japan stole Chichi Jima from us, too. Look up who settled it first. An American man.

[@JohnShields-xx1yk]

A Huge part of American military might. God bless all who served and to those who serve today. 🇺🇸🙏

[@alanjameson8664]

My uncle was a master machinist, and served in the SeaBees. I knew better than to ask him about it, and I was too young to know much about WWII, so couldn't ask intelligent questions anyway. I finally figured out that the one battle story he told me was from the Iwo Jima landing. A full-sized CB battalion, if I am not mistaken, was 550 men. He said it was the first time they were caught in a crossfire, and 200 men in his battalion made it across the beach and into the scant shelter of the small trees. The battalion that landed alongside of them had similar casualties. They regrouped and took out the pillboxes commanding the beach. And they were uniformed as and operated as Marines--- for the purpose of unified command. As for Suribachi being inactive, the landing beach is now about sixty feet above the shore.

[@pigpaul]

Greatest generation ❤🇺🇸🫡

[@thecooky7744]

My father was in the construction battalion in the island hopping campaign he didn't take about it , I was 17 before I knew what they went through

[@stevencoffeen6684]

My father was in the Sea Bees and was on Iwo Jima. One story I remember him telling me was as he was operating a bull dozer he accidentally cut the main communication cable on the island. Needless to say he wasn't the most popular Sea Bee on that day. He had also told me about the Typhon that he had experienced.

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

It was an informative and wonderful historical coverage documentary about seabee Batalions of US navel forces.

[@singledijjiti.q.2294]

My grandfather only spoke of his experiences from Iwo Jima once. He told me he was made to pick up soldiers in the water. I didn't get what the big deal was until he said the soldiers were all KIA most floating face down some with crabs already starting to feed on them. He said the men's lifeless faces were always in the back of his mind haunting him. Cant even imagine what that would be like.

[@swseabee7853]

Great video. Former Navy Seabee here 89-94 Steelworker

[@4Him4u2]

These were the days when personal fear and weakness were something to be overcome - not like today.

[@brentforward910]

The Marines still love the Seabees and we can do for them!

[@rickgaston7118]

Marvelous , picture of the first flag .

[@Buck1954]

Dad was a CB and a MP on Guadalcanal.

[@TheGeezzer]

Whether Yamato said it or not, in powerful reminiscence it was true, the attack on Pearl Harbour served only to awaken a sleeping giant, a giant with a terrible resolve. Indeed the giant was pissed to be awoken from his humble slumber and in August 1945 the Japanese felt his angry hot breath as it vaporised buildings, material, vehicles, machinery, flesh and bone!

[@ginamac8136]

Thank you for making this movie ❤️‍🩹🫶🏼

[@garydargan6]

I worked with a guy who was taught surveying by a former Seabee. He said he was really fast and efficient. When he asked him how he got so good he said you learned to work fast when someone was shooting at you

[@robertsolomielke5134]

TY-top respect to the CB's.

[@randyrush637]

My dad was a seabee in WWII. He was in Okinawa and other places.

[@williamnutley5509]

Once a Seabee, always a Seabee! CM 3

[@sharonwhiteley6510]

How many people remember the John Wayne movie about the Fighting Seebees

[@wavydavy9816]

Those little trees can be lethal. Bonsai attacks 😂

[@donrusnak7230]

My great uncle was a seabee. I never knew him only the stories my father told me, I do have the bayonette with blood on the sheath he took off a soldier.

[@davefellhoelter1343]

Gramps was a WWII Seabee, died before my birth.

[@Evanx373]

My great grandpa was in the seabees on Saipan

[@davidb2206]

I agree with my fellow veteran that Iwo should never have been given back after THAT cost in blood. Can you imagine the Soviets ever "giving back" a place that had cost that much blood? It could have been turned into a memorial shrine for the men who sacrificed there and all the way across the Pacific, as well as a place for thousands of units of affordable housing for the families of those who lost that loved one's lifetime of earnings. There were no "reparations" for their loss. 40 years or more of lost income in most cases since it was mostly young husbands and fathers.

[@rgs4x]

My Uncle built runways in VietNam while in the See Bee's.

[@W4114C3]

These men should be more highly/widely known than any tim kennedy or rob o'neill....

[@singledijjiti.q.2294]

My grandfather was on an LHT (I think that was the designation. One of the supply ships that the nose opened up like barn doors & the ramp comes down) at Iwo Jima then found out yrs later that my Stepdad's father whom I never met because he died from the asbestos exposure during his service was a Seabee on Iwo Jima tasked with unloading the supply ships. I've wondered how close they got to each other.

[@michaelsarkisian1047]

SEABEES ARE SAILORS!

[@tonylittle8634]

Nothing much has changed as the fleet fed the Seabee battalions that were deployed with the same level of food as the brig or Marine infantry. We would steal food in the same manner as our WW2 fathers.

[@SteamCrane]

5:46 - NothWest, apparently model 6.

[@ericmuskopf-kl4rf]

My grandfather on my father's side said he was there. But he was a chronic liar. He was part of the 131st Spearhead division of the Seabees

[@evilfingers4302]

Lucky for both the IJA and the USMC, Mount Suribachi is a dormant volcano, but if it suddenly had become active during the battle, Iwo Jima would have been a death trap for both armies.

[@andrewreynolds9371]

Saying Iwo is "dormant" is a bit deceptive. If you look at images from around the invasion, and compare them to modern images, you'll see the beaches are wider now than they were in WWII. That's because magma is starting to build up under the island again, and some time in the future, it could erupt again.

[@jamesomalley4556]

Can Do.

[@johnathonbrent2242]

We miss you woody Williams 😢

[@GM8101PHX]

Everyone in this videos are complete Heroes, I served but not like this!!!

[@paulstieler4468]

Best Construction Workers If All Time USN SeaBees WW2

[@nathanielnelson5123]

Hey @ The War Channel:No more commercial interruptions please.