as Lt. Cmdr. Robert Yarrow William Frawley as Eddie Powers Leonid Kinskey as Johnny Novasky J.M. Kerrigan as Sawyer Collins Grant Withers as Whanger Spreckles Paul Fix as Ding Jacobs Ben Welden as Yump Lumkin William Forrest as Lt. Tom Kerrick Addison Richards as Capt. Joyce Jay Norris as Joe Brick Duncan Renaldo as Construction worker at party Wally Wales as Lt. Cmdr. Hood Production The Fighting Seabees had the biggest budget in Republic's history, $1.5 million. The film was completed in collaboration with the US Navy and the US Marine Corps, and took place on several bases in California (Camp Hueneme and Camp Pendleton), Virginia (Camp Peary) and Rhode Island (Camp Endicott). Principal photography took place from September 20 to early December 1943. The bulk of the outdoor locations for The Fighting Seabees was filmed on the Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, Calif., widely considered to be the most heavily filmed outdoor filming location in the history of film and television. The production took over virtually the entire 500-acre location ranch for a period of time in 1943, constructing extensive sets on both the Upper Iverson and the Lower Iverson. Palm trees were brought in to transform Iverson's rocky Western landscape into a version of the Pacific islands where the film's action was set. A massive landing strip was constructed on the Upper Iverson to simulate the takeoffs and landings of combat aircraft, as well as enemy bombing raids on the U.S.-built installation. On other parts of the ranch, Quonset huts, observation towers, large fuel tanks and other props were built, with the construction process in many cases filmed and featured as part of the film. Graphic scenes depicting tank battles, sniper attacks and hand-to-hand combat were filmed in the Iverson Gorge, Garden of the Gods and other sections of the movie ranch, in one of the largest productions in the ranch's history. The aircraft in The Fighting Seabees were: Brewster F2A-3 Buffalo Douglas TBD Devastator Douglas SBD Dauntless Mitsubishi Ki-21 Grumman F4F-3 Wildcat Propaganda During World War Two, the enemy in Europe was Nazism, while the enemy in the Pacific was the entire race of Japanese people, according to Dower. Japanese atrocities including the Rape of Nanking, the Bataan Death March, and the kamikaze pilots were partly to blame for these attitudes, but other aspects such as the Attack on Pearl Harbor were also at work. As a