| Part I -- The War Program and Its Direction |
| Chapter |
|
Page |
| 1-- |
Planning the Public Works Program |
1 |
| 2-- |
Financing the War Construction |
25 |
| 3-- |
Wartime Organization and Growth of the Bureau of Yards and Docks and the Civil Engineer Corps |
61 |
| 4-- |
Wartime Contract Construction Problems |
77 |
| 5-- |
Procurement and Logistics for Advance Bases |
115 |
| 6-- |
The Seabees |
133 |
| 7-- |
Advance Base Equipment |
151 |
| Part II -- The Continental Bases |
| 8-- |
Navy Yards and Graving Docks |
169 |
| 9-- |
Floating Drydocks |
209 |
| 10-- |
The Air Stations |
227 |
| 11-- |
The Training Stations |
261 |
| 12-- |
The Supply Depots |
291 |
| 13-- |
The Ammunition Depots |
323 |
| 14-- |
The Hospitals |
355 |
| 15-- |
Defense and Emergency Rental Housing |
371 |
| 16-- |
Civil Works |
383 |
| 17-- |
Minor Programs |
401 |
| Index |
403 |
| |
| Illustrations Photographs |
| Insignia of the Bureau of Yards
and Docks, the Civil Engineer Corps, and the Seabees |
Frontispiece |
| Doors of a Timber LTA Hangar,
South Weymouth, Mass. |
facing 1 |
| Warehouses, Guam |
2 |
| Seaplane Hangars, Alameda, Calif. |
2 |
| Power House, Pearl Harbor |
5 |
| Seaplane Hangars, Corpus Christi, Tex. |
6 |
| Naval Air Station, Kaneohe, T.H. |
9 |
| Dry Dock No. 7, Bayonne Annex to the New York Navy Yard |
10 |
| Battleship in a 10-section Advance Base Sectional Dock |
11 |
| Enlisted Men's Barracks, Jacksonville |
12 |
| Shop Interior, Argentia Naval Operating Base |
14 |
| Camp Hill, 5000-man Unit at Farragut Naval Training Center |
17 |
| Seabee Quarters and Chapel, Rosneath, Scotland |
18 |
| Naval Air Station, Kodiak |
21 |
| Concrete-block Storehouses, Clearfield, Utah |
23 |
| Warehouses and Railroad at Advance Base Depot, Gulfport |
24 |
| General View of Mare Island Navy Yard |
26 |
| Hangars at Alameda Naval Air Station |
28 |
| Six LST's in Terminal Island Dry Dock No. 1 |
31 |
| Quarters at NAS Sitka, March 1941 |
32 |
| Double Hangars at Whitney Field, Pensacola |
35 |
| Shipfitter's Shop, Pearl Harbor Navy Yard |
36 |
| Multi-quonset Warehouse, Guam |
38 |
| Naval Air Station, Kodiak, September 1941 |
41 |
| Low-cost Housing, Marine Corps Base, San Diego |
42 |
| Administration and Supply Building, New York Navy Yard |
45 |
| Enlisted Men's Barracks, Quonset Point (R.I.) Naval Air Station |
46 |
| Inert Storage Area, Hawthorne (Nevada) Naval Ammunition Depot |
47 |
| Hunters Point (Calif.) Drydocks |
48 |
| Timber LTA Hangar, Weeksville, N.C. |
51 |
| Housing Area at Keneohe |
52 |
| Storehouse and Office Building, Bayonne Naval Supply Depot |
54 |
| Entrance to Charleston (S.C.) Naval Hospital |
57 |
| Sewage-disposal Plant, Farragut, Idaho |
60 |
| Pearl Harbor Headquarters of Cincpac |
63 |
| Bureau of Yards and Docks Annex, Washington |
64 |
| Personnel of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, September 1945 |
66 |
| Classroom Buildings in the CEC Officer Training Area, Davisville, R.I. |
68 |
| Military Personnel of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, September 1945 |
70 |
| Dedication of Camp Endicott |
73 |
| Headquarters of the CEC Officers School, Davisville |
74 |
| Regimental Headquarters, Camp Endicott |
75 |
| Administration Building, Corpus Christi |
76 |
| Machine Shop at Mare Island Navy Yard |
78 |
| Supply Department Warehouse, Pearl Harbor Navy Yard |
81 |
| Naval Air Station, Sitka, Alaska |
82 |
| General View of Bainbridge (Md.) Naval Training Center |
83 |
| Sub-assembly Shop and Steel Storage Shed, New York Navy Yard |
86 |
| Material Assembly Building, Norfolk Navy Yard |
89 |
| Pontoon Causeway on a Normandy Beach, June 10, 1944 |
90 |
| Interior of Sub-assembly Shop, Norfolk Navy Yard |
92 |
| Seabees Manning an Anti-aircraft Machine Gun Mounted on Tractor |
95 |
| Structural Assembly Shop, Philadelphia Navy Yard |
96 |
| Barracks for Enlisted Personnel, Kaneohe Naval Air Station |
99 |
| Highway Scene on Guam, November 1945 |
99 |
| Ordnance and Diesel Shop, Charleston Navy Yard |
101 |
| Pontoon Pier at Katchin-Hanto, Okinawa, May 1945 |
102 |
| Naval Hospital, Houston, Tex. |
105 |
| Naval Supply Depot, Mechanicsburg, Pa. |
106 |
| Materials Testing Laboratory, New York Navy Yard |
108 |
| Naval Material Redistribution an Disposal Center, Torrance, Calif. |
110 |
| Interior of Electrical Shop Terminal Island, Calif. |
113 |
| Hangar Used for Shops and Offices, ABD Tacoma |
114 |
| ABD Davisville |
116 |
| Open Storage Area, ABD Port Hueneme, Calif. |
119 |
| Cold-storage and Provisions Warehouses, Pearl Harbor Naval Supply Depot |
121 |
| Pontoon Storage Area, ABD Davisville |
122 |
| Pontoon Assembly Area, ABD Gulfport, Miss. |
125 |
| Waterfront Area, ABD Davisville |
126 |
| Typical Warehouse, ABD Davisville |
127 |
| Open Storage and Warehouse Area, ABD Gulfport |
128 |
| Quonset Warehouses at Guam |
129 |
| Open Storage Area, ABD Port Hueneme |
130 |
| Scene at Lisahally (Londondderry) Base |
132 |
| Presentation of Colors at Davisville Dedication Ceremony |
134 |
| Barracks Area, Camp Endicott |
136 |
| Quonset Chapel, Camp Parks, Calif. |
138 |
| Administration Building, Camp Parks |
139 |
| Exterior of South Drill Hall, Cap Parks |
140 |
| Swimming-pool Building, Camp Parks |
141 |
| Interior of South Drill Hall, Cap Parks |
141 |
| Boiler Room in 40-by-100-foot Quonset Hut, Camp Endicott |
142 |
| Liberty Ship Mock-up, Camp Endicott |
144 |
| Seabees in Training, Camp Peary |
146 |
| Training Schools, Camp Endicott |
149 |
| Weasel Used by the Point Barrow Expedition |
150 |
| Seabee Equipment, Davisville |
152 |
| Trenching Machine at Okinawa |
153 |
| Caterpillar D-8 Tractor with Armored Cab |
153 |
| Asphalt-mixing Plant, Guam |
155 |
| Advance Base Proving Ground, Davisville |
156 |
| Pontoon Stock Pile at Port Hueneme |
158 |
| Pontoon Causeway in Use in the Normandy Invasion |
159 |
| Quonset Warehouse Adapted as Two-story Barracks for WAVES, Oahu |
160 |
| School Hut at the Central Spare Parts Warehouse, Joliet, Ill. |
161 |
| Pontoons Rigged as Sprinkler Tanks on Dump Trucks, Okinawa |
162 |
| Bucket Ditcher on Peleliu |
163 |
| Amphibious Tracked Cargo Carrier, Alaska |
164 |
| Construction Equipment Pool in the Russell Islands |
165 |
| Paint and Oil Storehouse, New York Navy Yard |
170 |
| Machine Shop, Terminal Island |
171 |
| Machine Shop, Puget Sound Navy Yard |
172 |
| Service Building for Drydocks No. 4 and No. 5, Philadelphia Navy Yard |
173 |
| Shipfitter's and Assembly Shop, Norfolk Navy Yard |
174 |
| Sub-assembly Shop, Portsmouth (N.H.) Navy Yard |
176 |
| Waterfront Shops, South Boston Navy Yard Annex |
179 |
| Structural and Machine Shop, Bayonne Annex of the New York Navy Yard |
181 |
| Production Utility Building, New York Navy Yard |
181 |
| Turret and Erection Building, New York Navy Yard |
182 |
| Sub-assembly Shop, New York Navy Yard |
183 |
| Crane, Drydock, and Sheet Metal Shop, Bayonne |
184 |
| Receiving Barracks and Dental Clinic, New York Navy Yard |
185 |
| Structural Assembly Shop, Philadelphia Navy Yard |
186 |
| Pattern Shop and Foundry, Philadelphia Navy Yard |
187 |
| Turret Shop, Philadelphia Navy Yard |
188 |
| Shipping and Receiving Shop, Norfolk Navy Yard |
189 |
| Hammerhead Crane, Norfolk Navy Yard |
190 |
| Machine and Shipfitter's Shops, St. Helena Area of the Norfolk Navy Yard |
191 |
| Layout Shop, Charleston Navy Yard |
192 |
| Shipways at Charleston Navy Yard |
193 |
| Dry Dock No. 4, Puget Sound Navy Yard |
194 |
| Interior of Shipfitter's Shop, Puget Sound Navy Yard |
195 |
| Ordnance Open Storage, Mare Island Navy Yard |
196 |
| Machine Shop, Mare Island Navy Yard |
197 |
| Dry Dock No. 4 at Hunters Point in Use |
198 |
| General View of Hunters Point |
199 |
| Inside Machinist's Shop, Hunters Point |
199 |
| Testing Dry Dock No. 4, Hunters' Point |
200 |
| Waterfront at Terminal Island |
201 |
| Machine Shop, Terminal Island |
202 |
| Electric Shop, Terminal Island |
203 |
| Drydock, San Diego Naval Repair Base |
204 |
| Yard Steel Shop, Terminal island |
205 |
| Transverse Crane Runway, New York Navy Yard |
207 |
| ABSD No. 3 |
208 |
| ABSD in the South Pacific |
210 |
| Cruiser in an ABSD |
211 |
| Unwatering an ABSD |
212 |
| A Section of an ABSD in Tow |
213 |
| Raising the Wingwalls of an ABSD with Hydraulic Jacks |
214 |
| ARD-13 |
216 |
| ARD-14 |
217 |
| ARDC |
218 |
| AFD-10 |
219 |
| Fist Ship in YFD-16, February 1943 |
220 |
| YFD-6 Being Prepared for Passage Through the Panama Canal |
222 |
| YFD-6 Careened at an 85-degree Angle for Passage Through the Panama Canal |
223 |
| Training Center at Paradise Cove, Tiburon, Calif. |
224 |
| Launching the Center Section of YFD-6 |
225 |
| Ten-section Advance Base Sectional Dock in Service |
226 |
| Power House, Corpus Christi |
228 |
| Control Tower, Jacksonville |
230 |
| Hangar and Shops, Norfolk Naval Air Station |
232 |
| Enlisted Men's Barracks, Alameda Naval Air Station |
234 |
| Landplane Hangar, Quonset Point |
235 |
| Acceleration Unit, Pensacola |
236 |
| General View of Memphis Naval Air Station |
238 |
| Bachelor Officers' Quarters, Norfolk Naval Air Station |
239 |
| Celestial Navigation Training Building, Whiting Field, Pensacola |
240 |
| Concrete Landplane Hangars, San Diego Naval Air Station |
241 |
| Seaplane Hangars, Corpus Christi |
242 |
| Assembly and Repair Shop, Jacksonville |
243 |
| Enlisted Men's Barracks, Norfolk Naval Air Station |
244 |
| Assembly and Repair Shops, Alameda |
245 |
| Assembly and Repair Shop and Engine Overhaul Shop, Quonset Point |
246 |
| Aviation Supply Warehouse, Norfolk Naval Air Station |
248 |
| Twin Landplane Hangars, Patuxent River, Md. |
249 |
| Half-hangar, Jacksonville |
250 |
| Night Scene at the Steel LTA Hangar, Weeksville, N.C. |
252 |
| Steel LTA Hangar, Weeksville |
253 |
| Two Timber LTA Hangars, Richmond, Fla. |
255 |
| Assembly and Repair Shop Hangar, Cherry Point, N.C. |
258 |
| Engine Test Cells, Cherry Point |
260 |
| Functional Design Expressed in the Columns and Roof Trusses of a Reception Center, Great Lakes, Ill. |
262 |
| Storehouses, San Diego Naval Training Center |
264 |
| Drill Hall Interior, Great Lakes |
267 |
| Torpedo School, Great Lakes |
268 |
| Boat House, Farragut |
270 |
| Barracks Located Along Contour Lines, Bainbridge, Md. |
272 |
| Amphitheatre and Auditorium, Bainbridge |
273 |
| Drill Field and Adjacent Buildings Comprising a Unit, Bainbridge |
274 |
| Chapel at Sampson, N.Y. |
276 |
| Amphibious Training Base, Coronado, Calif. |
278 |
| Chapel at Parris Island, S.C. |
280 |
| Married Officers' Quarters, Camp Lejeune, N.C. |
281 |
| Anti-aircraft Gunnery Training Buildings, Bainbridge |
282 |
| Swimming Pool at Sampson |
283 |
| Temporary Barracks, Camp Pendleton, Calif. |
284 |
| Naval Training Center, Sampson, N.Y. |
285 |
| Interior View of a Farragut Drill Hall |
286 |
| School Buildings at Farragut |
288 |
| Recreation Building, Great Lakes |
290 |
| Naval Supply Depot, Norfolk |
292 |
| General Storehouses, Oakland, Calif. |
294 |
| Interior of a Heavy-materials Warehouse, Spokane |
295 |
| Wharf and Transit Shed, Bayonne (N.J.) Naval Supply Depot |
297 |
| Seven-story Warehouse, San Diego Naval Supply Depot |
298 |
| General Storehouses, Cleafield, Utah, Naval Supply Depot |
301 |
| Heavy-materials Storehouse, Mechanicsburg, Pa. |
302 |
| Interior of a General Storehouse, Scotia, N.Y. |
303 |
| Administration Building, Spokane Naval Supply Depot |
304 |
| Cold-storage Plant, Oakland Naval Supply Depot |
307 |
| Temporary Storehouse, San Diego Naval Supply Depot |
308 |
| Marine Barracks, Clearfield |
309 |
| Supply School, NSD Bayonne |
311 |
| General View of NSD Clearfield |
313 |
| General View of NSD Bayonne |
314 |
| Barrel-arch-roofed Storehouses, NSD Bayonne |
315 |
| Windowless, Concrete-block, General Storehouses, NSD Mechanicsburg |
319 |
| Aviation Storehouse, NSD Oakland |
321 |
| General Storehouse and Administration Building, NSD Oakland |
322 |
| Loading Pier for Ammunition, Mare Island Ammunition Depot |
324 |
| TNT-reclaiming Building, Hawthorne, Nevada |
327 |
| High-explosive Magazine, New Orleans Ammunition Depot |
329 |
| Mine Assembly Building, Hawthorne Ammunition Depot |
330 |
| Major-caliber Bag-loading Plant, McAlester, Okla. |
333 |
| Inert Storage Buildings, McAlester Ammunition Depot |
334 |
| Rocket Motor Loading Assembly Buildings, McAlester |
337 |
| Gun-ammunition Area, Seal Beach, Calif. |
338 |
| Inert Storage Area, Hawthorne |
340 |
| Bomb and Mine Loading Plant, McAlester |
343 |
| Triple-arch Gun-ammunition Magazines, McAlester |
345 |
| Fuse and Detonator Magazines, New Orleans Ammunition Depot |
346 |
| Mine Assembly Building, Mare Island Ammunition Depot |
348 |
| Bag-filling Building, Seal Beach Ammunition Depot |
350 |
| Bag-sewing Building, Seal Beach |
353 |
| Entrance Portico at the Dublin (Ga.) Naval Hospital |
354 |
| Sick Officers' Quarters, Charleston (S.C.) Naval Hospital |
356 |
| U.S. Naval Hospital, Key West, Florida |
359 |
| Nurses' Quarters, New Orleans Naval Hospital |
360 |
| Hospital Corps School, Portsmouth, Va. |
361 |
| Hospital Administration Building, Farragut, Idaho |
362 |
| Typical Wards, U.S. Naval Hospital, Sampson, N.Y. |
363 |
| 1,000-bed Unit, Corona (Calif.) Naval Hospital |
364 |
| U.S. Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Md. |
367 |
| General View of the Naval Hospital at St. Albany, N.Y. |
368 |
| Wards at the Norman (Okla.) Naval Hospital |
370 |
| Housing Project, Charleston, S.C. |
372 |
| Married Enlisted Men's Quarters, Jacksonville |
373 |
| Homoja Village, Annapolis, Md. |
375 |
| Benmoreell Park, Norfolk |
376 |
| Navy Defense Housing, Long Beach, Calif. |
377 |
| Vallejo Low-cost Housing Units, Mare Island Navy Yard |
378 |
| Low-cost Housing at Bellevue, D.C. |
379 |
| Low-cost Housing Development at Hawthorne, Nevada |
381 |
| Two-unit House at Charleston, S.C. |
382 |
| Ships on the Building Ways, Groton, Conn. |
384 |
| Heppenstall-Eddystone Corporation Plant, Eddystone, Pa. |
385 |
| Busch-Sulzer Diesel Engineering Company's Plant at St. Louis, Mo. |
386 |
| Shipways and Craneways, Western Pipe and Steel Company of California |
387 |
| Todd Shipyards Corporation's Hoboken Plant |
388 |
| Machine Shop, Bethlehem Hingham Shipyard |
390 |
| Mesta Machine Company Plant, West Homestead, Pa. |
392 |
| Erie Forge and Steel Company Plant, Erie, Pa. |
393 |
| American Locomotive Company Plant, Auburn, N.Y. |
394 |
| Engineering and Experimental Building, Grumman Bethpage (N.Y.) Plant |
395 |
| Vought-Sikorsky Plant at Stratford, Conn. |
396 |
| Delivery Hangar, Glenn Martin Company's Middle River (Md.) Plant |
397 |
| Building Ways, Los Angeles Shipbuilding and Drydock Corporation Plant, San Pedro, Calif. |
399 |
| U.S. Naval Ordnance Plant, Indianapolis, Indiana |
400 |
| Figures |
| 1. |
Naval Shore Construction Program, July 1, 1940 to January 1, 1946 | |
22 |
| 2. |
Congressional Appropriations for Naval Public Works, July 1, 1940 to April 1, 1946 | |
facing 58 |
| 3. |
Organization Chart of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, June 1, 1944 | |
facing 64 |
| 4. |
Seabee Enlistment Curves | |
148 |