Editing Seabee (section)

===Postwar interlude: Siberia-China===
On V-J-Day CB 114 was in the Aleutians. In September 1945 the battalion sent a detachment to the [[USSR]] to build a Fleet Weather Central.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4nwmm4QfSXQC&dq=Construction+battalion+114+Russia&pg=PA123|title=The 114th U.S. Naval Construction Battalion|first=United States Navy Construction|last=Battalion, 114th|date=May 11, 1945|publisher=U.S. Navy Seabee Museum|accessdate=May 11, 2022|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://seabeemagazine.navylive.dodlive.mil/2018/09/30/this-week-in-seabee-history-september-30-october-6/|title=This Week in Seabee History 30 Sept – 6 Oct, Seabee museum Archives, Port Hueneme, CA|accessdate=May 11, 2022|archive-date=19 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181119010851/http://seabeemagazine.navylive.dodlive.mil/2018/09/30/this-week-in-seabee-history-september-30-october-6/|url-status=dead}}</ref> It was located {{convert|10|mi|km}} outside [[Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky]] on the [[Kamchatka Peninsula]].<ref name="Yanks">{{Cite journal|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/3640708|title=Yanks in Siberia: U.S. Navy Weather Stations in Soviet East Asia, 1945|author=March, G. Patrick|year=1988|journal=Pacific Historical Review|volume=57|issue=3|pages=327–342|accessdate=May 11, 2022|doi=10.2307/3640708|jstor=3640708 }}</ref> The original agreement gave the Seabees 3 weeks to complete the base. Upon arrival the Russians told them they had 10 days and were amazed it was done in 10.<ref name="Yanks"/> It was one of two that [[Stalin]] agreed to.

V-J-Day brought about [[Operation Beleaguer]] and the repatriation of the Japanese Army from [[China]]. Elements of the 33rd CB Regiment were involved: CBs 83, 96, 122 and 32nd Special.<ref name="China">{{Cite web|url=https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/Building_Bases/bases-31.html|title=HyperWar: Building the Navy's Bases in World War II [Chapter 31]|website=www.ibiblio.org|accessdate=May 11, 2022}}</ref> These units landed at [[Qingdao]] and [[Tanggu District|Tanggu]] in November 1945 attached to the 6th Marine Division. CB 42 and A Co. 33rd Special landed at [[Shanghai]] with Naval Advance Base Unit 13.<ref>[https://www.history.navy.mil/content/dam/museums/Seabee/UnitListPages/SPECIALS/33%20SNCB.pdf 33rd Special Naval Construction Battalion file, 1946, Seabee Museum Archives, Port Hueneme, CA.]</ref> With the war over, the ongoing discharge men eligible left only enough for one CB and the two CB Specials. The men were consolidated in the 96th<ref name="China"/> with the other CBs decommissioned. In December the 96th started airfields at Qingdao and [[Qinhuangdao]] in support of III Marine Amphibious Corps operations.<ref name="China"/> May 1946 CB III Marine Amphibious Corps was ordered to inactivate the 96th CB on 1 August. The 96th was transferred to the 4th Marines, 1st Marine Division and deactivated from them.