Brownie: Mascot of the Seventy-Fifth Naval Construction Battalion

When Roy Althouse rescued a little dog at Camp Hueneme in California in 1943, it was the beginning of a wonderful story—one that has finally been told by his daughter. During their enlistment in the Navy Seabees, Althouse and his fellow members of the Seventy-Fifth Naval Construction Battalion all came to love the dog known as “Brownie.” He was smuggled aboard the USS Del Brasil and traveled with his master to nine different islands in the South Pacific. Brownie became the official mascot o...