Post #349362 by Ojaitimo on Thu, Dec 13, 2007 2:44 PM

When I was a kid in the sixties, we would ride our bikes out here and browse the exibits for hours.

Seabee Museum 1967
Behind the museum is a golf course that once held a VC village made of bamboo and thatch, lots of trees. This was where they trained Seabees for Vietnam. There were two huts about 100 feet apart. We explored the huts one day and discovered a hidden 100 ' tunnel that connected the two and the instructors would ambush the rookies who thought they had cleared the first hut. We met the curator Kim, she said they had over 12,000 relics and will have much more on display in the new building. The quonset hut style of this original museum will be replaced with modern. I think its only open there for the next year so if you want to check it out, do it soon. Here are a few shots of Republic camera crews filming the Fighting Seabees 1943.

Another Seabee film Blood and Steel 1959

[ Edited by: Ojaitimo 2007-12-13 14:56 ]