The Fighting Seabees (1944)

Director: Edward Ludwig

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.

Cast

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