Naval Construction Battalions (Seabees)

Several B29 Super Fortresses were painted to honour the Naval Construction Battalions(known as "The Seabees"), some 325,000 men, who built the airfields, bridges, roads and hospitals across the Pacific. Working alongside the marines, often under fire, they were truly the unsung heroes of the island war. The Seabees emblem was designed by a civilian employee at the Naval Air Station at Quonset Point. Frank Iafrate had a talent for caricature and was approached by an officer early in January 1942 and asked to design a "Disney-style" emblem for the newly formed Construction Battalions. The busy little bee with the sting in its tail was the result and soon adopted for all CB units.

If you have any photos of any of these aircraft or their crews, can add other examples or identify the artists who painted them please share with me.

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“Embellished on the side of "Frenisi"”

Goin Hard

B-25G-10 42-65155

42nd Bomb Group

Naval Construction Battalions (Seabees)

107th Seabees

110th Seabees

112th Seabees

121st Seabees

135th Seabees

13th Seabees

18th Seabees

27th Seabees

27th Seabees

29th Seabees

30th CB Regiment

38th Seabees

49th Regiment (Seabees)

50th Seabees

53rd NCB

67th Seabees

6th CB Brigade

70th Battalion

92nd Seabees

9th Seabees

CBD 1036 Steveadorable

Frenisi 104 Seabees

Goin Hard