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Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Navy to protect them...
 
Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Navy to protect them...
  
== Brewster F2A Buffalo ==
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== [[:Category: Brewster F2A Buffalo | Brewster F2A-3 Buffalo]] ==
  
 
[[Image:Seabees F2A-3 1h16mn56.JPG|thumb|500px|none|F2A-3 of VF-2, based on USS Saratoga mid 1941.]]
 
[[Image:Seabees F2A-3 1h16mn56.JPG|thumb|500px|none|F2A-3 of VF-2, based on USS Saratoga mid 1941.]]
  
== [[:Category:Grumman F4F Wildcat|Grumman F4F Wildcat]] ==
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== [[:Category: Grumman F4F Wildcat|Grumman F4F Wildcat]] ==
  
 
[[Image:Seabees F4F 1h18mn47.JPG|thumb|500px|none|With the roundel of the very first weeks of the Pacific war.]]
 
[[Image:Seabees F4F 1h18mn47.JPG|thumb|500px|none|With the roundel of the very first weeks of the Pacific war.]]
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[[Image:Seabees F4F 1h19mn28.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]]
 
[[Image:Seabees F4F 1h19mn28.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]]
  
== [[:Category:Mitsubishi Ki-21|Mitsubishi Ki-21-II]] ==
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== [[:Category: Mitsubishi Ki-21|Mitsubishi Ki-21-II]] ==
 
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Army Type 97 alias Sally in the allied code.<br>
Army Type 97 alias Sally in the allied code.
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Same aircraft in other movies at [[IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft]].
[[Image:Seabees Ki-21 1h19mn56.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]]
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[[Image:Seabees Ki-21 1h19mn56.JPG|thumb|500px|none|This screenshot could be find again in [[The War#Mitsubishi Ki-21-II|The War]].]]
 
[[Image:Seabees Ki-21 1h20mn05.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]]
 
[[Image:Seabees Ki-21 1h20mn05.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]]
 
[[Image:Seabees japs 1h17mn36.JPG|thumb|500px|none|Crew seconds before the bombing.]]
 
[[Image:Seabees japs 1h17mn36.JPG|thumb|500px|none|Crew seconds before the bombing.]]
 
[[Image:Seabees japs 1h17mn45.JPG|thumb|500px|none|Bombs away !]]
 
[[Image:Seabees japs 1h17mn45.JPG|thumb|500px|none|Bombs away !]]
  
== [[:Category:Douglas SBD Dauntless| Douglas SBD-1 Dauntless]] ==
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== [[:Category: Douglas SBD Dauntless| Douglas SBD-1 Dauntless]] ==
  
 
[[Image:Seabees SBD 1h17mn28.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]]
 
[[Image:Seabees SBD 1h17mn28.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]]
  
== [[:Category:Unidentified Aircraft|Unidentified Aircraft]] ==
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== [[Category:Unidentified Aircraft]] [[:Category:Unidentified Aircraft|Unidentified Aircraft]] ==
  
 
The first attack by the Japanese is made by a single aircraft.
 
The first attack by the Japanese is made by a single aircraft.
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* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036824/ The Fighting Seabees at IMDb]
 
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036824/ The Fighting Seabees at IMDb]
 
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fighting_Seabees The Fighting Seabees at Wikipedia]
 
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fighting_Seabees The Fighting Seabees at Wikipedia]
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* [http://www.imcdb.org/movie_36824-The-Fighting-Seabees.html The Fighting Seabees at IMCDb]
  
[[Category:Unidentified Aircraft]]
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[[Category: Brewster F2A Buffalo]]
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[[Category: Douglas SBD Dauntless]]
[[Category:Grumman F4F Wildcat]]
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[[Category: Grumman F4F Wildcat]]
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[[Category: Mitsubishi Ki-21]]

Revision as of 19:05, 17 May 2018

The Fighting Seabees poster.

Movie (1944)

Starring:
John Wayne (Lt. Cmdr. Wedge Donovan)
Susan Hayward (Constance Chesley)
Dennis O'Keefe (Lt. Cmdr. Robert Yarrow)
William Frawley (Eddie Powers)


Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Navy to protect them...

Brewster F2A-3 Buffalo

F2A-3 of VF-2, based on USS Saratoga mid 1941.

Grumman F4F Wildcat

With the roundel of the very first weeks of the Pacific war.
Seabees F4F 1h19mn00.JPG
Between two bombing by the japanese, a patrol of Wildcats land and is quickly reconditionned.
Seabees F4F 1h19mn28.JPG

Mitsubishi Ki-21-II

Army Type 97 alias Sally in the allied code.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

This screenshot could be find again in The War.
Seabees Ki-21 1h20mn05.JPG
Crew seconds before the bombing.
Bombs away !

Douglas SBD-1 Dauntless

Seabees SBD 1h17mn28.JPG

Unidentified Aircraft

The first attack by the Japanese is made by a single aircraft.

Seems to be a plane with a water cooling engine when Japanese were flying air cooling ones.
Probably a studio mock-up to simulate a A6M but several details are wrong (green house for example).

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