Word: tarawa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...latest U.S. amphibious landing at Angaur was made ten months after the first heavily opposed landing in the Pacific, at Tarawa. This dispatch from TIME Correspondent John Walker shows what Americans have learned, in those ten months, about such ugly jobs...
Morotai. One attack hit Morotai, a 695-sq.mi. mountainous, jungled island north of the larger island of Halmahera. On Morotai MacArthur's Sixth Army troops swarmed ashore under cover of heavy air and sea bombardment. Much as at Tarawa, troops had to leave their landing boats at a reef, wade through waist-deep water before they hit the beach...
...veteran of Tarawa, Saipan and Tinian was on his way home last week, on leave. His name: Siwash. His species: duck (the mascot of a Marine Corps artillery outfit). His combat record...
...Tarawa, where he landed with the early waves, Siwash routed, single-winged, a Jap rooster...
Killed in Action. Marine Sergeant Lee Powell, 35, circus and cinema portrayer of the masked vigilante "The Lone Ranger" after two years' Pacific service including Tarawa and Saipan...