The Fighting Seabees

Movie · 1h 40m

Starring John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Dennis O'Keefe, William Frawley

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. After a series of attacks by the Japanese, something new is tried, Construction Battalions (CBs=Seabees). The new CBs have to both build and be ready to fight.