Can Do!
Subtitle: The Story of the Seabees
By: by William Bradford Huie. With an introduction by Vice Admiral Ben Moreell.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: E.P. Dutton
Published: 1944
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: United States. Navy. Seabees.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.
Genres: Personal narratives, American.
Notes: Map on lining-papers.
Table of contents: title: Introduction 9; title: Chapter I. HISTORY'S GREATEST CONSTRUCTION WAR 23; title: Chapter II. MEN AND MUD AT MUNDA 27; title: Chapter III. CAN DO AT GUADALCANAL 39; title: Chapter IV. THE "OTHER STORY" OF WAKE ISLAND 61; title: Chapter V. THE SEABEES ARE BORN 81; title: Chapter VI. BETWEEN PEARL HARBOR AND GUADALCANAL 89; title: Chapter VII. THE MAGIC BOX OF THE SEABEES 109; title: Chapter VIII. SEABEES AT SALERNO AND IN SICILY 123; title: Chapter IX. WE BUILD TWO ATLANTIC ROADS 145; title: Chapter X. "THE NORTHERN HIGHWAY TO VICTORY" 151; title: Chapter XI. THE STEVEDORE BATTALIONS 171; title: Chapter XII. SEABEE HUMOR AND INGENUITY 179; title: Chapter XIII. HOW THE SEABEES BUILT THE "RING AROUND RABAUL" 193; title: Chapter XIV. "OLD FAITHFUL" POINTS FOR TOKYO 203; title: Appendix I. AWARDS TO INDIVIDUALS 207; title: Appendix II. CASUALTIES AND MISSING IN ACTION 217; title: Appendix III. SEABEE POETRY 231; title: Index 243; title: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS (In a supplement at the back of the book); title: PORTRAIT DRAWINGS By Charles R. Chickering; title: I. Foreword; title: II. Vice Admiral Ben Moreell; title: III. Rear Admiral L. B. Combs; title: IV. Capt. John R. Perry; title: V. Capt. Harry A. Bolles, Lts. Irwin W. Lee and Carl M. Olson, and Lt. ( jg) George W. Stephenson; title: VI. Warrant Officer David S. Thomas; title: VII. Machinists Mate J. W. "Hooligan" Maxwell; title: VIII. George R. Wendelken, Fireman first class; title: IX. Carpenters Mate James Whitlow; title: X. Machinist's Mate James Dee McLeod; title: PHOTOGRAPHS; title: XI. Foreword; title: XII. Air strip and Seabee camp at Munda, New Georgia Island; title: XIII. Mud at Rendova; title: XIV. Seabee tractor snakes up Long Tom at Rendova; title: XIV. Seabees get skilled medical and dental care; title: XV. Driving coconut palm piling at Guadalcanal; title: XVI. Moon helps night work on Solomons air strip; title: XVII. Chapel at Guadalcanal, and baptismal ceremony in Lunga River; title: XVIII. Jungle machine shop; title: XIX. After a tropical shower in the Solomons; title: XX. "Pony Chorus" of the Army's 10th Special Service Command, and Seabees' famed Snafu Syncopaters; title: XXI. Malaria control work on Guadalcanal; title: XXII. Forty-ton roller on a Solomons air strip; title: XXIII. Seabee electricians at work; title: XXIV. Sea line installations, Vunda Point, Fiji Islands; title: XXV. Coral pit at Espiritu Santo, and footbridge over a jungle stream; title: XXVI. Pontoon causeways and docks at Kwajalein invasion; title: XXVII. Pontoon dry dock at Funafuti; title: XXVIII. Pontoon causeway section being hoisted into side-cany position on LST; title: XXIX. Seventy-five-ton crane mounted on pontoon barge; title: XXX. Three-chair barbershop in operation at Munda; title: XXXI. Parking areas around an air strip, before and after; title: XXXII. Floating dry dock in construction and Naval Hospital at Trinidad; title: XXXIII. Repairing a floating dry dock and constructing barracks; title: XXXIV. First chow on Kiska; title: XXXV. Seabee anti-aircraft crew on watch in Aleutians; title: XXXVI. Portable machine shop in Aleutians; title: XXXVII. Flume box and pipe line built at Sitka, Alaska; title: XXXVIII. Air strip mat being laid over tundra in Aleutians; title: XXXIX. Tundra revetments built by Japs in Aleutians; title: XL. Improvising a soup bowl on Kiska beach; title: XLL Seabees a few days after landing on Attu; title: XLII. Joe E. Brown, Seabee favorite, performing in the Solomons; title: XLIII. Seabee stevedores unloading cargo at Bougainville; title: XLIV. The Bulldozer: Seabee symbol; title: XLV. A "sheepsfoot" roller; title: XL VI. Seabees teaching native to write; title: XLVIL Marine Drive, Seabee-built highway on Bougainville; title: XL VIII. Marines return Seabees' admiration; title: XLIX. Seabee Christmas, 1943, at Theresiennes Orphanage, Oran, Algeria; title: L. Seabee holds dog owned by twelve Japs who died in pillbox; title: LL Burial of 87th Battalion's first casualty; title: LIL Three views from Kwajalein Atoll; title: LIII. Seabees moving ashore at Cape Gloucester, New Britain; title: LIV. Seabees throwing up bridged Cape Gloucester; title: LV. Seabees working less than mile behind front at Bougainville; title: LVI. Seabees in "sick bay" in the Treasury Islands; title: LVII. Erecting prefabricated huts; title: LVIII. A "Seabee Wave"; title: LIX. Natives teach Seabee to weave palm leaf mats; title: LIIX. Clearing operations on airfield; title: LXI. Removing windrows of earth on airfield; title: LXII. Excavating hardstands on airfield; title: LXIII. Grading and rolling on airfield; title: LXIV. Surfacing on airfield; title: LXV. Bringing in first plane on completed airfield; title: LXVI. After the battle at Kwajalein; title: LXVII. Captain E. J. Spaulding, who recruited the Seabees; title: LXVIII. End of a Japanese twin-engine dive bomber; title: LXIX. Seabees relax after the first shift on Island A; title: LXIX. Shaving is difficult on Island A; title: LXIX. Signpost on Island X; title: LXX. Seabee bingo game; title: LXXX. Huge land crab caught at Camp Williams; title: LXXII. Armistice Day, 1943, at Munda; title: ALL PICTURES ARE UNITED STATES NAVY PHOTOGRAPHS UNLESS OTHERWISE IDENTIFIED; title: Endpaper Maps by Ervine Metzl