[CougarGA7]

• "Just after supper four transports were torpedoed in harbor. It was really terrible to see them burn. One...was full of ammunition and air bombs, also 400,000 pounds of frozen beef." - George S. Patton

• Admiral Turner's transports drop off another regiment of the Americal Division under Major General Alexander Patch on Guadalcanal.

[henkster]

It’s amazing to think of American logistical largesse during the war. 400,000 pounds of frozen beef is the spare change of an invasion. Not only that, we keep it frozen and ship it across an ocean. The Germans, Russians and Japanese can only dream of such things.