Title: Seabees Operating Bulldozer, February, 1944 Description: Seabees operating a bulldozer clear the gutted terrain on Eniwetok Island, following its capture a day earlier, to create a supply base; the Seabees built more than 400 bases throughout the Pacific during the war, all hewn from the jungle or coral, chiefly using the bulldozer and equivalent machinery to accomplish the job' though troops, planes and ships cleared the road to Tokyo, the Seabees paved it; Date: February 22, 1944 Category: World War II Keywords: Battle of Eniwetok, February 17-23, 1944, Construction Battalions (CBs) of the U.S. Navy, construction equipment, construction workers, Second World War, U.S. Navy, World War II, WWII Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 1740 x 2214 (3.85 MPixels) (1.27) Print Size: 14.7 x 18.7 cm; 5.8 x 7.4 inches File Size: 11.04 MB (11,575,018 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000010315 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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