§ On 3.06.1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order making 2,100 USCG officers and men available to crew four transports, (USS Leonard Wood, Hunter
Liggett, Joseph T. Dickman, and Wakefield), and to serve in 22 similar ships with naval crews. These crews came from Coast Guard cutters that were given to Britian under
lend lease in mid-1941.
They originally were ARMY vessels turned over to the Navy and at first manned with civilian crews. The civilian crews proved unsatisfactory and the Navy asked the Coast
Guard to man them.
(Information kindly provided by Robert Erwin Johnson)
