World War II
On 19 February 1942, McCawley got underway for Iceland with troops embarked. She returned to New York 25 March and then steamed to Norfolk, Virginia en route a new assignment with the Pacific Fleet.
Transiting the Panama Canal 18 April, she discharged marine aviators at Pago Pago 8 May and continued on to Wellington, New Zealand. Joining Amphibious Force, South Pacific, she became the flagship for Rear Adm. R. K. Turner shortly before the first Allied counter invasion of the war, Guadalcanal.
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