Training        Banika, Russell Islands,         Nissan, Green Islands        San Antonio-Guiuan, Samar

Memoirs

93rd Naval Construction Battalion: Battalion Roster
Pacific Duty:  Book or CD ROM
93rd Seabees Video/DVD


IN MEMORIAM
MEN WHO DID NOT RETURN


Men included in other documents:
U.S. Archives photos, Conner Diary, Letters, and Illustrations

Beccard, Gregory: A Great-granddaughter remembers
www.ssanpete.k12.ut.us/GVMS/WWII/beccardg/beccardg.htm

Chutz, Wayne J.: Memoirs
www.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/sthelena/military/chutzwj.txt

Collins, Harold (Bud): Oral History: Nimitz Museum of The Pacific War

Conner, Robert W.: Diary, Letters, Photos, Oral History: Nimitz Museum of The Pacific War

Corcoran, Joe R.: profile by the Kansas Post
www.kansaspost70.org/g-b_j-r-corcoran.html


Curtis, Charles Lawrence: Bud Collins remembers his death

Denlocker, Charles A.:
The Battalion artist

Erickson, Earl O.: Obituary
http://www.geocities.com/casscomn/towns/zion.html

Hagar, Guy: Newspaper interview  www.lacrossetribune.com/articles/2002/11/11/news/00lead.txt

Hewitt, Carroll Banks : Obituary
http://wiscassetnewspaper.maine.c...es.title=Carroll.20Banks.20Hewitt


Horrell, Edward Allen
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/BRAUND/2000-11/0974946689

Kriese, Ralph E.: photos: set 1, set 2, set 3

LYNN, COMMANDER HAROLD F. ;  93rd NCB Papers: 1943-1945: 3 boxes 
Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6010


Photographs and memorabilia, relating to the activities of the 93rd U.S. Naval Construction Battalion in the Pacific theater during World War II. Includes a time studies report on construction operations.
 
(Seabees93.net is eager to find someone who can visit and report to us on the contents of these boxes.)

Lindberg, Sam: Rode shot gun on a D-8 caterpillar, and directed trucks to load and unload
Photos: from his son, Gary Lindberg

Marchetti, Marco:
Three interviews with (Bedford, IN) TIMES-MAIL
2004  http://www.tmnews.com/stories/2004/05/14/archive.427400.tms
2005  http://www.tmnews.com/stories/2005/11/07/archive.475983.tms
2007  http://www.tmnews.com/stories/2007/10/26/opinion.nw-418150.tms

Morris, Virgil Wayne: Obituary
http://www.mortuarypro.com/jffh/jfobt.php?id=202&pageselect=obit

Ragsdale, Bill: memoirs and photos

Stevens, Jack:  Photos and section from Conner Diary

Streitmarter, John Peter: Obituary http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050627/NEWS0104/506270339/1060/news01

Thomas, John Scott: Artist  Portfolio of scenes of life in the 93rd
 

Thomas, Richard: stories from his son

Watson, Warren: Photos and memorabilia from his daughters

Wingen, Ernest W.: Memoirs
Oral History given at the Nimitz Museum of the Pacific War
Oral History given for South Dakota WWII project
www.sdwwiimemorial.com/SubPages/stories/story34.htm

Williams, Sam Robert "Sam Bob:" Memoir
www.magazine.tcu.edu/tcumagazine/articles/1999-04-CN-OB.htm

Zorn, Jr., Andrew: Died on Green Island, Grave in Sam Lindberg photos

Ninety-Third Seabees on Nissan Island: US Archives Photos:

The 93rd Seabees on The New York Times Magazine Cover (Close up)

93rd Seabees Map of Nissan (Green) Island link to file describing and then link to Warwick


SHIPS transporting the 93rd Seabees: 

USS Perida
(Hueneme, CA, USA to Banika, Russel Islands)
www.history.navy.mil/danfs/u2/ute.htm
www.hlswilliwaw.com/aleutians/Attu/html/attu-perida.htm
 

LST 220  and others (Banika to Nissan, Green Islands)
http://www.navsource.org/archives/10/16/160220.htm; http://www.historycentral.com/Navy/patrol/15.html

USS Cape Johnson (Nissan to Philippines)
 
http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/22/22172.htm;
http://hazegray.org/danfs/auxil/ap172.htm

USS Middlemas
(93rd Equipment and small contingent of men, (Nissan to Philippines), 

    Return to USA: contingents including

USS Arthur Middleton
(Philippines to Portland, OR; arr 10/21/45) 
http://www.multied.com/Navy/Transport/ArthurMiddleton.html
http://navsource.org/archives/10/03/03025.htm works


USAT Shawnee
(arr 11/14/45)

 

The Chapel-by-The-Sea, Constructed by 93rd Seabees and Filipinos; Guiuan, Samar Philippines

Noumea Explosion (Nov. 1, 1943): viewed from outside the harbor by 93rd Seabees on USS Perida, Dockside view from the USS Cassiopeia.

Mystery of the Officers' Liquor: Cape Johnson

Crime and Punishment in the 93rd

Washing Machine Charlie

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