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(f) 7.3.6 Cable Unit, LCDR QR usce
TS 350, 378
2 LSM
Navy Signal Unit No. One
Boat Pool boats assigned (2 LCM, 1 LCP(L),
1 LCP(R), 2 PPB).
(g) 7.3.7 Boat Pool Unit, CDR
COMSTOCK(LSD 19)
ASKARI (ARL 30)
LCI 549, 1054, 1090
LCT 472, 494, 1194, 1345
1
1
3
4
Boat Pool boats assigned
LSD
ARL
LCI
LCT
(1) On reporting; now temporary duty with Servpac.
* ComdesDiv 52 embarked; TUCKER, ROGERS, PERKINS
are in Desdiv 52.
© Comcortdiv 1 embarked; SPANGLER, GEORGE RABY,
VARSE and CURRIER constitute Cortdiv l.
2.
Major Difficulties Encountered and How Solved.
All the major difficulties encountered in "SANDSTONE" can be
ascribed to a few principal causes: (1), shortness of time between the
commencement of the operation and the target date; (2), location of Naval
Task Group Headquarters in Pearl Harbor, with Main JIF 7 Headquarters in
Washington; (3), extreme secrecy imposed; and (4), personnel difficulties, due to great number of enlistments expiring and to inexperience
of personnel available.
This latter “actor is peculiar to the present
period through which the entire Navy is now passing and will not be
touched on further in this report.
The time available for planning for the operation was comparatively short for an operation as involved as "SANDSTCNE,"
since
the first shot
was scheduled for a time less than six
months after
CTG 725 entered the picture.
Section VII
Consequently, the necessary alterations
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