The Color of War

Clearing the Way

WWII's unsung heroes, combat engineers paved the way to victory in every theater of operations. From Navy Seabees who built airfields on remote coral outcroppings in the Pacific, to Army Engineers who cleared minefields in Europe and threw bridges across the Rhine in the teeth of enemy fire, to the men who dammed and drained an entire bay in the Aleutians to make room for a landing strip--these men were essential to the war effort.