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Before the Marines and Army infantrymen had well secured their toehold on Saipan, in the Marianas, TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod, veteran of Attu and Tarawa, was ashore with them. He radioed...
...have no direct word from Bob Sherrod on Saipan. Here's hoping he is not having as tough a time as he did on the beaches of Tarawa...
...Battlefronts Editor Bob Sherrod has just shown me a letter from a Marine Corps friend on Kwajalein telling us how he got his copy of the first Pacific Pony only one day after the date of issue...
...near as you can get, in an armchair, to being in the midst of battle," said The Nation. And Foster Hailey wrote in the New York Times that Tarawa is "a superlative job of reporting, obviously written at white heat while the sounds of Betio still rang in Sherrod's ears and the smell of it still hung in his nostrils...
...course these tributes to the realism of Sherrod's reporting are hardly surprising, for he actually did write large parts of Tarawa while under fire with our Marines on that bloody beachhead-crouching behind the seawall and putting down on paper from minute to minute everything he saw and heard and felt, determined that the least he could do for the men battling around him was to record for all time a true picture of how they dared and died. All through the first day on that "island of 5,000 dead" he expected he too would soon...