Description William Bradford Huie, joined the U.
He reported on his experiences in the Decemb.
In late 1938, Huie was in Los Angeles and took it upon himself to work as an undercover reporter to gather information on gangster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel.
In 1934, he married his grammar school sweetheart, Ruth Puckett.
from 1932 to 1936, Huie worked for the newspaper The Birmingham Post.
He then attended the University of Alabama, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1930.
He attended Morgan County High School and graduated as class valedictorian.
Born in Hartselle, Alabama, Huie was the son of John Bradford and Margaret Lois Brindley Huie, and was the eldest of three children.
About the author William Bradford "Bill" Huie (November 13, 1910 - November 20, 1986) was an American journalist, editor, publisher, television interviewer, screenwriter, lecturer, and novelist.
He also tells colorful stories of moon-shining, brawling, and carousing along with compassionate stories of the children in the prisoner of war camps.
He provides the details of the creation and testing of various pier-heads, floating steel bridges, and "Rhino" ferries.
Huie also describes the Seabees on D-Day at Omaha Beach, where they manned fifteen hundred vehicles during the first wave of landings at Normandy.
The story begins with Iwo Jima when the Seabees braved concentrated enemy fire to rig floating causeways, blow up wrecked landing craft, and to build the desperately needed airstrips while under enemy fire.
Navy construction battalions.
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This book is a Sequel to "Can Do " and continues the saga of the combat trained civilian plumbers, carpenters, heavy equipment operators, wharf builders, and civil engineers who served in the U.
The following year he published "Can Do ," an account of their landing with the Marines at Guadalcanal and Wake Island, Sicily and Salerno.
He was commission as a public relations officer in the little-known Civil Engineer Corps\' Construction Battalions--the Seabees.
Navy in 1943.
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Description William Bradford Huie, joined the U
