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 - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Pat Browning. The setting is rural Wisconsin, halfway between East Troy and Elkhorn, on Hodunk Road, our nation was at war, and I was 6, 7 and 8 years old. George was our "threshing neighbor." He was the one with the threshing machine, a JI Case on steel wheels, and he pulled it to our farm with a JI Case standard tractor also on steel. In those days, steel wheeled implements were common. The roads were general gravel, so the lugs cutting into them wasn't a problem. George would set up the thresher, s
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