 The staff , known as the " Remember Pearl Harbor " ( <unk> ) group , selected by the War Department for USAFIA arrived Melbourne 1 February 1942 aboard SS President Coolidge and SS Mariposa in the first large convoy bearing personnel , supplies and munitions intended for transhipment to Java and Philippines as well as Australia . For a brief time , due to the increased isolation of the Philippines and before the fall of Java , <unk> was withdrawn from MacArthur 's command and placed under the ABDA with continued direction to support both Java and the Philippines . 
