US Marine Corps - The Black Vault

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Japunese bigb-ievei bombing attacks at Guadalcanai, 7 Aagzat 1942.
and the January 1942 Lynnhaven Roads Training Exercises. Several, includ-
ing the McCawley and Hunter Liggett, were veterans of Fleet Landing
Exercise Number 7 in early 1941.
But, by and large, these amphibious ships did not have enough oflicers and
men to continuously unload over a 72-hour period. It was both good and
bad fortune that the Japanese made three air raids and threatened another
during the first 48 hours of unloading. For these gave many of the boat
crews a breathing spell, and also supplied an urgency to the need to get the
unloading job done.
The second lesson the amphibians learned at Guadalcanal was they just
had to have more people in their ships and craft.
LINE OFFICERS
To indicate the scarcity of seagoing Line officers in the transports at this
period, it is only necessary to record that a dentist, in the President Adams
(AP-38), was Commander Boat Division Seven in that ship. Lieutenant