My dad was also a SeaBee, but oddly for a Navy man, went in on the first wave at Omaha Beach to start building landing zones for reinforcement and supply craft....He described himself as the fastest foxhole digger in the Navy....After he defeated the Germans, he was sent to the Pacific where he was in three invasions...Mindinao in the Philippines and two in Borneo....In the 1970s oil crisis, I bought a Datsun (now Nissan)....He was irate...."Hell, boy, they shot at me"....I explained the comparative cost between the Japanese import and American domestic cars (and therefore the monthly payments on a teacher's salary), the comparative mpgs....He walked around the car and said, "Got you a nice car, boy"....LOL....