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Paperback The Seabees at Port Hueneme Book

ISBN: 0738531200

ISBN13: 9780738531205

The Seabees at Port Hueneme

(Part of the Images of America: California Series)

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In 1942, the navy sought a location for an advance base on the West Coast to ship construction materiel, equipment, and men into World War II's Pacific theater. Port Hueneme's deepwater harbor, rail system, and rural setting made it the ideal site from which to send 20 million measurement tons of war materiel and a quarter of a million men onto island specks that later became headlines: Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and the Philippines...

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