The U.S. Navy Seabees are a unique combat-ready construction force, trained to build and fight in some of the world's most challenging environments. Originating in World War II, they now serve ...

The carnage on Iwo Jima had cost the Navy Seabees. Hundreds were dead and wounded, the Seabees' highest casualty rate of World War II. Marines killed approached 7,000 with 20,000 wounded.

With the motto "Can Do," Navy Seabees have been seen in some of the world's most troubled hotspots. From the islands of both theaters of World War II to the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan ...

During World War II, the Seabees built over 400 advance bases, 111 major airfields, 441 piers, 2,558 ordnance magazines, hospitals to serve 70,000 patients and housing for 1.5 million service members.

This was how the Navy’s Construction Battalions (Seabees) were founded. Their officers were virtually all degreed engineers, with extensive experience in construction or public works, while the ...

A Veteran WWII Navy Seabee from Flint recently celebrated his 100th birthday. In 1942, Maurice “Bud” Prottengeier, an 18-year-old college student, decided to enlist in the Navy along with his ...

Maurice Dore, was a Seabee who served in the US Navy and took part in D-Day in Normandy, France. Find out his story: ...

The Seabee diving community can trace its roots back to World War II, when specially trained Seabees qualified as Navy divers and participated in underwater demolition of reef obstructions ...

A photograph shows Navy Seabee Anthony Amaral holding a copy of The Providence Journal-Bulletin with two other Rhode Island Seabees and an island native some 9,200 miles away from the Ocean State.

The “Gator Bees” of Amphibious Construction Battalion 2 have embodied the motto of Navy Seabees for nearly ... the U.S. has been engaged since World War II — providing support for ship ...