US Marine Corps - The Black Vault

428 Amphibians Came To Cozquer
a 42-plane Japanese air strike occurred at 1150, 12 September, and put the
main radio receivers on Guadalcanal out of commission for 32 hours. The
night of 12 September, Guadalcanal was shelled by a Japanese light cruiser
and three destroyers, and the first probing actions of the Battle of the Ridge
occurred. On the 13th of September, Japanese planes made passes at Henderson
Field just before and after Rear Admiral Turner departed Guadalcanal.
CUB ONE MOVES FORWARD SLOWLY
On 29 August, 357 officers and men of the Sixth Naval Construction
Battalion (part of CUB One) embarked in the cargo ship Be.telgeuse for
Guadalcanal. This meant that two weeks after the initial landings about
480 personnel of CUB One had been started forward.
On 28 September 1942, in a letter to Major General Vandegrift, Rear
Admiral Turner wrote in regard to preparing Guadalcanal as “our Major
invasion base:”
I am not satisfied with the number of men Compton has taken in there. He
should have all of the CUB One and the Sixth Construction personnel, excepc
a very small contingent at BUTTON [Espiritu Sante, New Hebrides] to act
as a forwarding agency.sg
On 30 September 1942, Commander Compton reported that 47 officers
and 878 men of CUB One were still in Espiritu Sante, and he furnished a
list of the tasks they were engaged in.” On 5 August 1942, CUB One had
reported a strength of 139 officers and 1,828 men,
On 24 October 1942, Rear Admiral Turner sent to COMSOPAC an
eight-page letter dealing with the ‘