Margaret L "Dottie" Barnes

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**ALFRED...EM1: Seabees, US Navy - WWII.

((US Navy Seabees...The first men in the Seabees were not raw recruits, they were recruited by their experience and skills. The first recruits came from men who had helped build Hoover Dam, the national highways, and New York's skyscrapers; who had worked in mines and quarries and dug subway tunnels; who had worked in shipyards and built docks and wharfs and even ocean liners and aircraft carriers. By the end of the war 325,000 had enlisted in the Seabees, with training in more than 60 skilled trades. Almost 11,400 officers would join the Civil Engineer Corps during World War II with 7,960 of them having served with the Seabees))