The Fighting Seabees

• 6.2 Drama
• 1944-01-27
• 100 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

John Wayne (Lt. Cmdr. Wedge Donovan) Susan Hayward (Constance Chesley) Dennis O'Keefe (Lt. Cmdr. Robert Yarrow) William Frawley (Eddie Powers) Leonid Kinskey (Johnny Novasky) J.M. Kerrigan (Sawyer Collins) Grant Withers (Whanger Spreckles) Paul Fix (Ding Jacobs) Ben Welden (Yump Lumkin) William Forrest (Lt. Tom Kerrick)

Director:

Edward Ludwig

Writer:

Borden Chase Æneas MacKenzie