JF actually the Navy tried to place the blame for the loading on the dock workers in New Zealand but in fact because they had never done any real landings like that EVER they loaded the ships wrong. Part of that was the assumption that it would only take a week or 10 days. The Navy staff officers thought the island would be secure and the ship could unload in safety. So no big worries, right? Gotta remember, we didn't even any landing craft at all on 7 Dec 1941. No one envisioned having to invade off a ship. So they really didn't know how to combat load a ship because all prior planning had been based on being able to tie up to a port facility. Amphibious warfare was a whole new ball game. The Marines that landed at Guadalcanal were the guinea pigs. The Marines and soldiers that made the first landings did an incredible job but they, much like the first paratroopers were in uncharted territory tactically.
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Today's Featured Article - An Old-Time Tractor Demonstration - by Kim Pratt. Sam was born in rural Kansas in 1926. His dad was a hard-working farmer and the children worked hard everyday to help ends meet. In the rural area he grew up in, the highlight of the week was Saturday when many people took a break from their work to go to town. It was on one such Saturday in the early 1940's when Sam was 16 years old that he ended up in Dennison, Kansas to watch a demonstration of a new tractor being put on by a local dealer. It was an Allis-Chalmers tractor dealership,
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