The first Seabee unit to be attached to the First Marine Air Wing at K3 Korea was CBD-1804. There had been other Seabees on temporary duty there but CBD-1804 was the first unit of Seabees to be attached to the Air Wing. In October of 1951 the inaugural group of CBD-1804 flew into K3 from Atsugi, Japan under the command of LTCDR Cameron Lee. Thanks to Charles Godshall, a part of that first group, for providing pictures of the first Seabees attached to the First Marine Air Wing in Korea. In the Summer of 1952 the name of this group was changed to CBMU-1 and later, in October of 1953 it was changed to CBMU-101.
"In the CBD1804 photos with the crane on its side and the D8 dozer in the background, it was Northwest 25 Crane and I was operating the Dozer that pulled the thing out of the ditch, we hauled the D8 from the strip on a lowboy".......Don McDaniel, April 2000
"The 10th picture with the wrecked Corsair, I saw the plane take off toward the end where the addition to the strip started, he just went into a steep climb then went over and straight in, we had a jeep and drove out into the rice paddy and pulled him out, he was unconcious and we had to cut his seat belts to get him out, then laid him on the ground and waited for the ambulance, the pilot was alive the last time I saw him"......Don McDaniel, April 2000
