Here are a few photos of the 41st Infantry Division conducting amphibious assault training in Australia in early 1942. The Division was supposed to go to the Philippines in late '41, but there wasn't enough shipping available to get it there. As a result, it was stuck at Ft. Lewis until early '42 when shipping became available. By then, the Philippines were a lost cause and the division was deployed to Australia as one of the first American units to get overseas in WWII. I found these photos in the National Archives US Army Signal Corps collection (Record Group 111-SC) a few years back during a trip to D.C. They show the unit was only partially re-equipped with the standard wartime gear most GI's carried.
John
