and took part in several Caribbean maneuvers. World War II At the beginning of February 1940, Good was sent as major to Marine Barracks Parris Island and tasked with the activation of 4th Defense Battalion. His battalion consisted of the batteries with 5"/51 caliber guns, searchlight and aircraft sound locator and antiaircraft groups with M2 Browning and M1917 Browning machine guns and were ideal for the defense of the islands from the attack from the sea and air. Good was relieved in command of the battalion by Colonel Lloyd L. Leech in April 1940 and reassigned as battalion executive officer. With the activation of the 5th Defense Battalion in December 1940, Colonel Leech – new commanding officer, requested Good as his executive officer. During May 1941, Good was ordered to England and appointed assistant naval attache at U.S. Embassy in London. He was later on a secret mission, along with some navy civil engineers, to tour four base sites, two in Scotland and two in Northern Ireland, and to advise the Marine Corps and the navy as to their security requirements. He rejoined 5th Defense Battalion in late 1941 as operations officer, but the unit had meanwhile been ordered to Iceland for defense of the island against the German Army. Good again served as battalion executive officer and sailed with his unit to the South Pacific in July 1942. Good was stationed in Noumea, New Caledonia and several batteries and platoons were detached from 5th Defense Battalion in August 1942 in order to deploy to Tulagi. Good remained in Noumea and was put in charge of what was left: the battalion headquarters and command echelon with the remainder of the 5th, reinforced by two hastily formed and unorganized companies of infantry from 3rd Marines, a company of Seabees from Samoa, plus some miscellaneous personnel including a tank platoon. This mixed unit then made an unopposed amphibious landing on the atoll of Funafuti, Ellice Islands on October 2, 1942. Good would later remark that the mixed force was "poorly armed" and "stuck out like a sore thumb". His unit was redesignated "Defense Force Funafuti" and Good, who had meanwhile been promoted to the rank of colonel, was tasked with the defense of the atoll against air and land attack and also provided cover for the units constructing the landing field. Funafuti was under repeated aerial attacks of Japanese fighter planes, but