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Digital Object Identifier
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363-03853 to 363-03855
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Title
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Seabees news release about a giant popsicle
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Description
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Original title: "Navy Seabees Plus Vietnamese Orphans Equal 100-Pound Popsicle." Seabees news release 1-67 (60), which included a photograph of a 100 pound popsicle near Hue, Vietnam. The release is about the Seabees making a giant popsicle for local Vietnamese orphans.
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Draft transcripts were automatically generated via Google Document AI and are currently under review. Please report significant errors to Archives & Special Collections at archives@unl.edu.
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CIVIL
ENGINEER
CORPS
UNITED
STATES
NAVY
CIVIL ENGINEER CORPS -
100th ANNIVERSARY
MARCH 2, 1967
UNITED STATES NAVY
CONSTRUCTION BATTALIONS
SEABEES IN ACTION
"CONSTRUIMUS, BATUIMUS WE BUILD, WE FIGHT"
"CAN DO!''
JOIN THE SEABEES
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SERVE THE WORLD
SEABEES
SEABEES
25th ANNIVERSARY
MARCH 5, 1967
U. S. NAVAL MOBILE CONSTRUCTION BATTALION SIXTY-TWO
Fleet Post Office
San Francisco, Calif. 96602
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Release No. 1-67
(60)
NAVY SEABEES PLUS VIETNAMESE ORPHANS EQUAL 100-POUND POPSICKLE
Navy Seabees of Mobile Construction Battalion SIXTY-TWO recently
tried their luck with what is becoming a tradition among the Navy's
construction men in Vietnam--they turned out a giant-size popsickle
for the children of a nearby orphanage.
Using one ice plant at Camp Campbell, Seabee stronghold at Phu Bai
near the historic Vietnamese city of Hue, the 100-pound popsickle was
manufactured with typical Seabee ingenuity.
The Seabees flavored a 13 gallon "ice cube tray", normally used
to freeze plain water into ice, with 26 packs of pre-sweetened grape flavoring.
A four foot long, two-by-two-inch "stick" was frozen into the popsickle
to create the final product.
The popsickle survived a three mile truck ride, but perished quickly
under the knife of Seabee Chaplain Carl W. Erickson who served the swarm
of surprised, delighted youngsters.
Although the day was rainy and cool, the popsickle disappeared into the
stomachs of 40 children, three Catholic nuns and four Seabees in short order.
Except, of course, the portion that escaped from wet fingers to disappear
into the sand of the Than Phu Orphanage's courtyard.
This is not the first pop-sized popsickle to come out of Camp Campbell's
ice plant. Mobile Construction Battalion SEVEN, previously based at Phu Bai,
had also manufactured them.
The future--if the popularity of this the current popsickle is any
indication--should bring still more.
1967 marks the 25th anniversary of the U. S. Navy Seabees; the 100th
of the Navy Civil Engineers Corps whose officers lead the Seabees in action;
and the 125th of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (formerly Bureau
of Yards and Docks).
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DEAR EDITOR: We Seabees hope you can use this copy and we would appreciate
a tear sheet mailed to:
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE 09D1
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DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY NAVAL FACILITIES ENGINEERING COMMAND WASHINGTON, D. C. 20390
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Release No. 1-67 (60)
OPERATION 'BIG FREEZE'
Seabees of Mobile Construction Battalion
SIXTY-TWO recently made this 100-pound popsickle for the Than Phu
Orphanage children in South Vietnam.
Here, Chaplain Carl W. Brickson
steadies the popsickle "stick" as a Catholic nun chops portions for
the orphanage youngsters. The Seabees made the popsickle in the ice
plant at Camp Campbell, Seabee stronghold at Phu Bai, near the
historic Vietnamese city of Hue. They then trucked it three miles to
the orphanage.
Dear Editors We Seabees hope you can use this copy and we would
appreciate a tear sheet mailed tos PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE 09D1,
US NAVY SEABEES, Yards and Docks Annex 2B35, Washington, D. C. 20390.
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Date
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1967
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Subject
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United States. Navy. Seabees; United States. Navy; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Press releases; Ice pops; Children; Orphanages; Civilians in war; Propaganda
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Location
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Huế, South Vietnam
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Coordinates
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16.4637; 107.5909
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Container
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B65, F12
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Format
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press releases
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Collection Number
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MS 363
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Collection Title
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Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
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Creator
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United States. Navy. Seabees
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Collector
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Copyright Information
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These images are for educational use only. To inquire about usage or publication, please contact Archives & Special Collections.
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Publisher
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Archives & Special Collections
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Language
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English
