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Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 40 : ウィキペディア英語版 | Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 40
Naval Mobile Construction Battalion FORTY (NMCB 40) was a Navy Seabee Battalion based out of Port Hueneme, California. Nicknamed "Fighting FORTY". Its primary mission is wartime contingency construction as well as peacetime construction and disaster relief. ==History== World War II set the stage for the birth of NMCB FORTY—the ensuing island hopping from one Pacific theater combat zone to another earned the battalion its title, "Fighting FORTY". The battalion’s first campaign in the New Hebrides included among other construction tasks the challenge of building an airstrip through solid coral. "Fighting FORTY" completed this project in 1943 and went on to build additional support facilities. As the pace of the war mounted, an advance party from NMCB FORTY landed with the first beach assault troops at Los Negros Island. During a fierce Japanese counterattack, FORTY Seabees dug in with Army troops on their defensive perimeter. After the fury of the attack subsided, FORTY returned to the job of rehabilitating the airstrip which it soon completed. In 1944, "Fighting FORTY” returned home, regrouped and sailed again into the Pacific in late 1944. Port calls were made at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; Eniwetok Island; and Tanapay Harbor, Saipan. In 1945, the battalion sailed for Okinawa one week after Easter and immediately began the work of rebuilding the island’s main supply routes. The battalion fought enemy forces and endured two major typhoons during its deployment to Okinawa. Following the close of World War II, “Fighting FORTY” joined the ranks of many other Seabee battalions that were decommissioned as part of post-war drawdown. The 40th earned the Presidential unit citation on Los Negros Island. Special mention was made of the bulldozers going into the teeth of the enemies positions on 2 March 1944. Ref. Battle Honors citation dated 5 July 1944 by order of G. C. Marshall and signed by James Alexander Ulio, Major General, Adjutant General.
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