“The Sixth Battalion arrived 24 days after the initial landings on Guadalcanal together with 1 carryall, 2 bulldozers, 6 dump trucks and a motor patrol grader. To this they added 25 Jap trucks, 1 Jap tractor and a Jap sheeps-foot roller, plus 10,000 barrels of Jap cement, 18,000 feet of Jap soil pipe, plenty of Jap creosoted poles and a supply of Jap lumber. With this equipment and material, they completed famed Henderson Field, an emergency airstrip and other all-important facilities.”
More about the Seabees of W.W. II can be read here.
