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The U.S. Navy Construction Corps—better known as the Seabees—was an unusual beast.

So I’m reviewing a collection of Pacific War oral histories titled, weirdly enough,  The Pacific War Remembered. It’s a reissue of a book first published during the mid-1980s. It consists of compact testimonials from American protagonists in the greatest of all sea wars. And a sprightly read it is. The book is enlightening in several respects. First, let’s wax philosophical. Transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson maintained that “there is properly no history; only biograph...