# 1944 NAVY SEABEES DOCUMENTARY " THE EARTHMOVERS " CBs In WORLD WAR II CONSTRUCTION 82384

The Earthmovers (W.F. 21) is a 1944 War Department film that shows the heavy equipment used by the Army’s Corps of Engineers and the Navy’s Seabees during military operations in WWII. The film opens with a shot of a construction site: men dig the foundation for a skyscraper. This is followed by footage of building projects in America, including dams and highways. The film then cuts to the use of heavy equipment used in the military. Tractors and bulldozers are used in military settings. A bulldozer is lifted off a ship ( 01:53 ). The film contrasts American machinery with Chinese operations: Chinese men clear land for an airstrip by hand. A Douglas C-47 lands on a rural airstrip ( 03:20 ). A bulldozer is driven off the plane. Footage shows bulldozers moving rubble, moving beached landing craft back into water, and moving earth. A shot from a hilltop shows a construction site in the Pacific theatre where an airstrip is being built ( 04:53 ). Bulldozers move earth and tractors grade the surface of the ground. An aerial shot shows Bougainville, a Japanese-controlled island. Soldiers weld steel pieces for an airstrip. Men place the steel pieces on the ground for the airfield. Troops ride large trucks in a convoy on a road ( 07:30 ). Footage shows Europe’s destroyed bridges and towns. Jeeps cross a recently constructed steel treadway and buoy bridge ( 08:07 ). Soldiers dig earth with shovels and use a jackhammer to break rock. The film then shows Naples in rubble ( 09:28 );…

- Kind: Documentary
- Genres: War, Documentary, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/82384TheEarthmoversVwr)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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