Seabees of the Navy, 1942 - 1997: A Bibliography
General History
By Steven C. Karoly
Books
1 Coletta, Paolo E., ed. United
States Navy and Marine Corps Bases, Domestic. Westport, CN:
Greenwood Press, 1985.
Names several Seabee bases operational since 1942. Histories of
the Davisville, RI, Little Creek, VA, Livermore, CA and Port
Hueneme, CA bases are told in detail.
2 Coletta, Paolo E., ed. United
States Navy and Marine Corps Bases, Overseas. Westport, CN:
Greenwood Press, 1985.
Continues his work on the Navy's bases. Many of these bases were
built by the Seabees in World War II, Korea and Vietnam.
3 Kimmel, Jay. U. S. Navy Seabees Since Pearl Harbor. Portland: Curey/Stevens Publishing Inc. 1995.
4 (Transano, Vincent A., ed.) History of the Seabees.
Port Hueneme: Command Historian, Naval Facilities Engineering
Command, 1994. 65p.
Locally published history from Port Hueneme, CA. It is available
from the Civil Engineer Corps/Seabee Museum.
5 United States Navy. Naval
Facilities Engineering Command. 150 Years of Doing It Right: The
Bureau of Yards and Docks, The Naval Facilities Engineering
Command, 1842-1992. Washington: GPO, c. 1992. 12p.
A booklet celebrating the 150 anniversary of BuDocks and NavFac.
Contains brief period histories, including Seabee history
starting with World War II.
Articles
6 Allen, Walter H. "The
Twelfth Regiment (Public Works) at Great Lakes." United
States Naval Institute Proceedings, (March 1921).
The Public Works Department, known as the 12th Regiment (Public
Works), at the Great Lakes Naval Base in World War I grows into
an organization of over 6,000 sailor-artisans. In addition to
building many camps at the base, the regiment supplied skilled
construction workers for service in Europe. It also provided
construction men for the naval railway batteries put into service
late in the war.
7 "Way Back When:
Seabees, WWI Style." All Hands, No. 562 (June 1961),
47.
A sidebar that gives the story of the 12th Regiment of the Great
Lakes Naval Training Station in World War I.
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