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On 29 Dec 1941 Adm. Ben Moreell submitted a request to the US Navy to recruit and organize men from the construction trades for the purpose of building Naval and Marine bases. Permission was granted...
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Were the age requirements raised to allow older/experienced construction workers to join? Without looking it up, hadn't Wake Island surrendered leaving over 1000 civilian workers in Japanese hands at...
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The chimp is a neat trick, but if you want to impress a Curio and Relic forum you should have shown him loading a musket in eleven steps! TexasEd
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TexasEd62, I was hoping you were replying to my ? about the SeeBees. The 11 step comment has me laughing pretty hard. I think it's because I visualizing(spelling?) it or that I'm pretty sleepy.
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Sorry Zim all I know about the Seebees is from that old John Wayne movie. The visual of a chimp loading a musket also brings to mind Homer Simpsons scheme to train monkeys to reenact civil war battles...
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