But when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7 of that year and the United States was thrust into war, the call went out for skilled tradesmen to join the Navy, so as to become part of the sea ...

David H. Lyman, like a good number of potential draftees in the 1960s, joined the military reserves in a desire to stay out of Vietnam during the war. Ironically, he ended up in Vietnam as a member of ...

In November of 1966, Petty Officer 3rd Class Leroy Henderson and his Seabees platoon, along with a unit of U.S. Marines, were in between a rock and hard place near Phu Bai, South Vietnam. “For the ...

Ledridge: “Of course, a lot of people know the Seabees from the John Wayne movie, ‘The Fighting Seabees.’ We were trained to fight, but we weren’t a fighting unit.” Ledridge was trained to run a ...